The curious case of ‘Edward Mordrake’ — true or not !
Edward Mordrake — this name caught my attention when i saw an facebook post which mentions him as a man with two faces. Yes, an extra face on the back of his head. And unfortunately, it drove him to suicide.
Mordrake was upset for his bizarre condition. Who would have thought for such a possibility, to have an extra face which could neither eat nor speak although it could laugh or cry.
Can this case be included in the series of human deformity? It was never his concern but he committed suicide in his twenty-third year. Mordrake lived in complete seclusion and even refused to meet the members of his own family. Mordrake was a profound scholar, and a musician of rare ability.
To convey more, the face on the back of his head was that of a beautiful girl, ‘lovely as an angel, hideous as a devil.’ The female face was occupying only a small portion of the posterior part of the skull and also exhibiting every sign of intelligence, of a dangerous sort. Mordake witnessed it to smile and sneer while he was weeping. Even when no voice was audible, Mordake stressed that he couldn't rest or sleep at night by the hateful whispers of his ‘devil twin,’ as he called it, ‘which never sleeps, but talks to me forever of such things as they only speak of in hell. No imagination can conceive the dreadful temptations it sets before me. For some unforgiven wickedness of my forefathers I am knit to this satan— for a satan it surely is. I beg and plead you to crush it out of human semblance, even if I fall prey to death.’
In spite of careful watching he managed to procure poison, where of he died, leaving a letter requesting that the ‘demon face’ be destroyed before his burial for the fear he had that the dreadful whispering might continue even in the grave.
There is another angle to the above story that its all fake. Its all imagination, fiction and not to be considered real or worth your attention so much such that what a real topic deserves. What I have put across above can be considered a story — true or not!
If you think that its true — then that’s it. But if you dont think so — and you want to find out the right status of this write-up, I want you to research and reach a conclusion.
As far as I am concerned, I wanted to throw light about a man who has two faces, whether real or unreal is not the question. Think of that possibility when you talk to someone and you are being heard, but there is another face right behind your skull whispering to you without your control. And in your case, you took it as normal or rather ignored it instead of finding layers of your weakness and finding yourself worried or troubled by it.
