Show GENERAL INTEREST IN QUEER PEOPLE Monstrosities Can Always Command Attention The public interest In la freaks or of nature which makes mates It still profit profit- profitable profitable able to m circus s where here various carious malformed queerly dIstorted unfortunates ar are e to gaping crowds cro ds Is nn an interest or of orIon Ion long standing sass sas sa s the foil following 0 Ing ar tide Ucle from the Cew York lock World It goes back huck not only to the courts or of medieval kings where d dwarfs and andI I s frequently furnIshed cruel amusement to bored nobles and their ladles Indies It Is also to be found e n c tn before the Christian era ern It has recently been demonstrated that this Insatiable curiosity con concerning human beings of ot unusual shape coloring or habits Is of er ancIent origin In the quarterly Jour Jour- Journal nal of or the International School or of Vedic and Allied Research It is revealed re- re re revealed by b nn an expert epert S tint that the ancient Inhabitants of or India re- re referred referred re referred In n one of or their early scrip scrIp- scrIptures scriptures scriptures tures to such monstrosities as three eyed people one-legged one mountain mountaineers mountaineers and wd people Uh ear Clr cirs as large ns as pillows Dr I E fl llop ins Ini rl emri professor of ln and ind corn com paraU c philology g gat at 1 ae ale un sity er- er sity who Is Ie IsIcc rice Ice president of ot thi AmerIcan section of ot the al School of e le anti and Allied Re RN n Research search points out in the article re referred to The The rile S Mow low of lee tint that the stories bout about these queer people sometimes are arc base based on facts while others are tra traveler eer s stales stales stales tales distorted Of The epic referred to the was probably composed about LOO 00 00 B C but is made mide up of storIes that lint had been handed down from en c c en older times time to ta means menns the great war ar of or the mla Blia ratan the people of In India la which took place probably In the Twelfth cen century century tury D ll C hut but the epic contains In Its one hundred thousand thou and stanzas much material which Is not directly connected with wilh the great war ar n mere eIghteen days battle bittie The epic Is really nn an enc din dla of ot Information presenting the social and ethical Ideas dean ot of ancient India The colorful applied to the various tribes de de- descrIbed described described scribed in the course of or the lon long rambling story re reseal repeal eal to lo us the fat ta t that the ancients were Just dust as ns Interested In freaks freals of or nature as ae the average a circus going American Is today One Is reminded of ot the big lipped women omen from Africa featured In tt 1 great circus when Mien hen one reads of or the who ho use theIr ears as ns co cot co ering It might be sup sup- supposed supposed supposed posed tint this Is a n reference to n 11 tribe whose cars cirs were ere naturally ver very large but Professor HopkIns draws our attention to the lie fact tint that hi lur large e eared elred folk mentioned In the old plc pIc lime ha c to our own day lIe Re Ie says sa saS s I I myself saw siw near Madura some me Ind with ears oars so 0 distended by heir hel v v earrings that an nn Inglish of officIal Iclal with me exclaimed c S 'S h the might use their cars cirs as pili pit 10 lows c The three eye eyed people mentioned in the epic might seem to gh gl gl e e a some to the theor theory that lint the so ailed pineal gland In the brain Is the lie remnant of ot what once ins as a n third eye Certain reptiles do have ha the structure of an nn eye In the ineal gland But Dut Professor ProCessor Hop kins su suggests that the third eye ot of these three eyed eyd fo to x s may have hare been beena n a sectarian forehead forehead mark The mark of ot Cain Coin referred to In th Bible DIble has been supposed by some to tan kale ha e been a n tribal mar mark tattooed or burned on the forehead Such uch ucb n a mark marlc on the men mentioned In the epic may easily ha hale hae ha c e been In tha th shape of or a n glaring eye eyo In the lie center of the forehead terror In their enemies just as ag the AmerIcan t Indians painted themselves os gr gre before going Into battle |