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The four-legged woman with two uteri

When Josephine Myrtle Corbin was born in Lincoln County, Tennessee, in 1868 it must have come as a shock to her parents. What was born as their only newborn daughter, Nature, was intended to become twin girls. Instead, the two separated children had merged into a four-legged girl with two pelvises. She was a dipygus, that is, a human being with two full bodies from the waist down. Only two of the four legs were under his control to walk, but he could move both sets. Unfortunately, one of his walking legs was deformed with a clubfoot. Even with all those legs, walking was difficult for her.

At 19, she married a doctor and had four daughters and a son. Some say that a couple of their children were born from the “sister’s” smaller pelvis, but these may be understandable rumors. If, on the other hand, they are true, then she also gave birth to the children of her unborn twin sister, as they came from the ovary and uterus of her pelvis. Whatever the truth, by all accounts, the children were healthy and normal. Josephine Myrtle, on the other hand, was neither, but she understood how to make a living from that fact by becoming a “fanatic” of the circus, making a lot of money from the people who watched her.

Regarding the rumors: When Josephine Myrtle was informed by her doctor that she was pregnant, she was surprised that it happened, and that the girl was situated in “that pelvis”. It seems that the other one was the one commonly used for sex, so maybe the rumors were quite accurate after all. If that’s the case, then some of the lovely kids, who pose with Myrtle and her husband in the photos, may in fact not be hers, but nieces or a nephew, born from the sister’s leftover pelvis. However, the truth will never be known as Josephine Myrtle Corbin died on May 6, 1928.

The perspective of the sister pelvis giving birth is that children who come from a dead, unborn or simply not alive pelvis are the descendants of a non-existent woman who did not even take a breath, but still “had a life” and spread her genes. becoming a mother. The thought is both provocative, nauseating, and deeply disturbing. That part of the Josephine Myrtle myth reminds me of comatose women with no brain activity who end up giving birth, for example, after being raped in the hospital.

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