Originally published at: Edward Mordrake: the man with an evil little face on the back of his head | Boing Boing
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Tom Waits did a song about him once (I think the accompanying video was a fan project though).
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I used to sing this song to my kid (most of the album, actually) to get them to sleep when they were a baby.
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“Edward Mordrake” → (air wand wiggle) → “Draw Me Dark Doer” (…nah)
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According to the written description the face on the back of his head was female. So it seems likely that the assignment of an evil nature to it is just misogyny, and that the “bad things” that it whispered to him probably included stuff like “women are full persons deserving of respect”
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(flips wand)
Adder Drakeworm
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Eeeeew. Let’s say it’s just a legend please.
But in here you will find something similar, if you are so inclined:
Brrrrrrr.
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Look on the bright side, the evil little face will probably never need glasses because hindsight is 20/20.
I’ll see myself out.
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While this appears to be pure fiction, my first thought was that it might have been a teratoma with lots of exaggeration.
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I was thinking perhaps an underdeveloped conjoined twin.
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Quato?
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Schizophrenia?
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Yeah, I thought first of these twins
though I remember some others that could, to some weak extent, share thoughts.
Imagine being that little evil face! Unable to control the body that you’re on, watching the world go by without you. No wonder she resented Edward.
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Not likely. More likely to be a tumor.
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I have the same problem but you don’t hear me whining about it.
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The back of your head does
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Occam’s Razor seems to indicate a delusion, esp. since it was invisible and inaudible to everyone else! But madhouses at the time weren’t any better than suicide…Just a sad case.
Or a residual twin that wasn’t totally absorbed by the body. I doubt the exaggerated accounts of it having independent thought or functional eyes and mouth but maybe facial muscles and skin were present and people saw what they wanted to see.
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