| THE CURIO THE TURTLE AND THE INDESCRIBABLE! |
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| (left) "The so-caled 'Turtle Woman of Demarara' was described in the Lancet of 1867, where she was said to have been given the name for two reasons: because her mother was frightened by a turtle during pregnancy, and because as a child she was thought to resemble a turtle. The thighs were only 6 inches long and the feet grew immediately out of them. When this woman was twenty-two she gave birth to a full-grown chld free of deformity. She died later of syphilis in the Colonial Hospital." |
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| "Nichodemus Sinoj was twenty-three years old, twenty seven inches tall and weighed a hundred pounds. His head and right arm were normal, but his left arm was half the appropriate length and terminated in a horn. Senoj had no legs, and one of his feet was webbed, while the other was hairy and resembled the hoof of a hog." |
| This gentleman was also known as John Dougs (or Doogs) and was billed as "Nicodemus, the Indescribable". All I know of him is that he was born in 1869 and that he appeard at Worth's Museum and also with Barnum & Bailey shows. He always appears in an upbeat mood in his photos and given his condition, seems to have been very well adjusted. |
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| from "Weird and Wonderful" by Andrea Stulman Dennett |
| STRANGE NICODEMUS
The Wonderful Freak Seen by Thousands of the Curious Yesterday Manager Bradenburgh has an enitrely new freak, and thousands of the curious thronged the Ninth and Arch Dime Museum yesterday and last night to see him. He has been dubbed Nicodemus by reason of the name of the mountain on which he was found by a party of Fredericsburg, West Virginia, hunters three weeks ago. He has a perfect human head and the full-sized body of a man. His right arm is perfect, but the left one is half its proper length, having a horn resembling the ox's growing on the side half way to the terminus. The right foot resembles the web-footed turtle, and the left a hog's foot covered with hair, and there are no legs to either extremity. -- 1892 |