Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-23
ABOUT HORNED PEOPLE.
MEMBERS OF THE HUMAN FAMILY
WITH HORNS LIKE BEASTS,

ing Them-One Thirteen Feet Long.
Human freaks in all imaginable shapes are
well known to frequenters of the dime mu-
: seums. However, not one person in 1000,
| perhaps in 10000, knows that human beings
/ with horns like an OK or unicorn have fire.
| quentiy been exhibited in the cities Of Eng
| land and continental Europe during the past
! 500 years.
| THE FIRST HORNED MAN
The first of these rare specimens Of the
| genus homo of whom an authentic written
| account has been preserved, one Pet Darnelo,
| was up before the town tribunal of Lisbon in
1906 on charge Of being an offspring Of the
| devil When born Pet had two horns grow
| ing from his head, one over his left ear about
| one and one-half inches in length, the other
| almost exactly in the center of his forehead
| nearly three inches long.
at first, both were covered with a soft,
downy fur like that on the new horns of ami
mails of the deer species, but this soon cracked
| and peeled of, leaving horny excrescences
which in the quaint language Of the account
did much resemble the spurs of We male
barne yarde fowie."
The horn near the ear was immovabie
from the first, being firmly attached to the
skull. The larger one on the forsnead seemed
only in the skin and could be pressed down
until the point touched the nose without
causing the owner the least apparent pain.
At the age of years the larger horn was
removed During that short time it had
grown from less than three inches to nearly
seven inches in length, and had given evil
dence of becoming permanently attached to
the frontal bone Within the year following
a soft tumor appeared over the right ear Of
little Pet, conforming in position almost ex-
actly to that of the smaller permanent horn
over the other ear, which had at this time
attained length of near FIVE inches. From
the tumor there sprang a horn which grew
with alarming rapidity for three or four
months. or until it had grown TO be about the
length of the one over the left ear Unlike
its mate, the horn which sprang fromthe tu-
NOR was not fixed, seemingly only attached
TO a fatty substance which had formed be-
tween the root OF the horn and the skull after
the bursting of the tiinor.
Taking encouragement from this fact, the
surgeons again applied the knife and left
Piet for the second time possessed of only
the smaller OF the original excrescences-the
one over the left ear which had ceased to
grow.
From the time of the removal Of the sec
ond horn until he was 10 years of age, Piet's
parents resided in remote fishing village,
which caused the Lisbon surgeons to lose all
trace OF him. At TIE age Of 16, IN the year
1906, he returned to Lisbon and was tried, as
above mentioned, for being an offspring of
or a near relative of his satanic majesty.
At this time Pet had three perfectly de-
veloped horns one over each ear and one in
the center of the forehead During his ten
or twelve years on the sea coast new horns
had put out from the places from which the
Others had been removed and all had become
firmly attached to the skull and were at the
time Of his trial as immovable as those of a
ram, which the two on the sides of the head
much resembled.
The one on the forehead pointed nearly
straight out, and was nine and three-Quarters
inches in length. The two on the sides of
the head curved downward and backwards,
forming almost circle around the ears,
measuring from the point around the curve
TO the head about eleven inches. One could
hardly imagine the ludicrous appearance he
presented. In the fsherman's town where
he grew up he was called ''fiet the Devil"
and "Piet, the Ram" At his trial it was
proven to the satisfaction Of ali that Pet was
a very pious young man, Notwithstanding his
diabolical look. He was acquitted with the
understanding that he would leave Lisbon
forever. Years afterwards in the Fifteenth
century, skull with three horns. believed to
be that Of Pet, was on exhibition in Rome.
HORNED WOMEN.
The British museum authorities are the
proud possessors OF two or three specimens of
human horns The largest of these, one near
ly a foot in length, has been on exhibition in
that institution for over a century and hall.
1t originally grew on the head OF lady by
the name of Elizabeth French, who resided
near TenterGen. 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 made its appearance when the lady was
Is years of age. In four years it attained its
maximum length and was removed and placed !
In the museum.
La ZOOS, according to the history Of Cheshire, |
England, an Old lady, whose name is not !
given, became the posseSSor of two horns both |
of which grew from a single wen which had !
troubled her for forty years prior to the APP |
pearanoe of the horns /
The two grew SIDE by side, with only about |
a half inch of space bctween them Each |
seemed to repel the otiIr, consequently they |
curved in opposite directions When first |
noticed they were about the diameter of a |
goose quill. but soon increased TO one-hsf /
inch IN thickness, which, of course, leSsened /
the space between the two. As the lady was /
- years of age at the commencement of her !
curious affection, and owing 70 the fact that /
no g,--rliD 81
ike those of the boy Pet or the woman
French, no attempts were ever made TO re-
move them. People of that time were not
given TO euphuiSm, therefore the old lady
was often ndelicately referred to as the
Hell Cat and the Mother OF Devils"
In the year 1916 Barthoiine visited wo-
man who had a horn nearly thirteen inches
long growing from the left temporal muscle.
Like the other cases mentioned this horn
first existed in the shape OF a common wen
Dr tumor " hen the horn first penetrated
the skin the tuner suppurated and dis
charged gritty pus much resembling pow
iered isinglass and water. The horn was
several years growing the first four or five
inches Afterwards the growth became more
rapid at one time it made four inches IN as
many months. At the length OF ten inches
the attending surgeons believed that it would
SroS NO longer. However, if Bartholine is
to &c believed, it did grow nearly three
inches more before II finally fixed az l2.S
inches For a fill account of this wonderful
case, this being the longest human horn on
record. the reader is referred to "Bartho-
lines EprieA John W. Wright in St
Louis ReYabhc,
Just Once.