The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-08-21

center Of the forehead. During his ten or
twelve years on the sea coast new horns
had put cut from the places from which the
others had been removed and all had be-
come firmly attached to the skull, and were
at the time of his trial rs immovable as those
of a ram, which the two on the sides OF the
head much resembled.
The one on the fore cad pointed nearly
straight out, and was nine and three-quar-
tiers inches in length. The two on the sides
of the head curved downwards and back
wards, forming almost Il circle around the
ears, measuring from the point around the
curve TO the head about eleven inches. One
could hardly imagine the ludcrous APP
pearance he presented. In the tisherman's
town, where he grew up, he was called
ssPiet, the Devil and "Piet, the Ram" At
his trial it was proven to the satisfaction of
all that Pist was very pious young man,
notwithstanding his diabolical look. He
was acquitted with the understanding that
he would leave Lisbon forever Years aft
ssrwards. in the fifteenth century, skull
with three horns, believed to be that of Piet,
was pn exhibition in Rome.
Tho British Museum authorities are the
Iroud pos SCISSORS of two or three specimens
of human horns. The largest of these, one
nearly a foot in length, has been on exhibit
aion in that institution for over a century
and half 1t originally grew on the head
of a lady by the name of Elizabeth French,
who resided near Tenterden. Like the third
horn on the head of the boy Pet, the horn
(which grew from the head Of Mrs. French
was at first nothing but soft fatty tumor.
The horn first madeits appearance when the
lady was forty-eight years of age. In four
years it attained its maximum length and
was removed and placed in the museum.
I'm 1868, according to the history of
Eheshre, Eng, an old lady, whose name is
NOT gwen, became the possessor of two
horns, both of which grew from single
wen which had troubled her for forty years
prior to the appearance of the horns.
The two grew side by side, with only
about half inch of space between them.
Each seemed to repel the other; conse-
qucntly they curved in opposite directions.
When first noticed they were about the di-
zmeter of goose-quill, but soon increased
10 One-half inch in thickness, which, of
course, lessened the space between the two.
AS the lady was seventy-two years of age
at the commencement of her curious Attic
ton, and owing TO the fact that the horns
never attained extraordinary size, like those
of the boy Pet or the woman French, no
attempts were ever made to remove them
People of that time were not given to eu-
phmsm; Therefore the old lady was often
indclicately referred to as the "Herl-Cat"
and the "Mother of Devils
in the year 1916 Bartholine visited wom-
an who had a horn nearly thirteen inches
long growing from the lett temporal mus
-sla Like the other cases mentioned, this
horn first existed in the shape of common
sven or tumor When the horn first pene-
srated the skin the tumor suppurated and
discharged gritty pus much resembling
peWdered isingiass and water. The horn
v1s several years growing the first four or
dive inches Afterward the growth became
Rre rapid; at one time it made four inches
In IS many months. At the length Of ten
inches the attending surgeons believed that
1t would grow no longer. However, if Bac-
thoiine is to be believed, it did grow nearly
three inches more before it finally fixed at