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Prosopometamorphopsia (PMO [1]), also known as demon face syndrome, [2] is a visual disorder characterized by altered perceptions of faces. In the perception of a person with the disorder, facial features are distorted in a variety of ways including drooping, swelling, discoloration, and shifts of position.
Peduncular hallucinosis is attributed to a range of various pathologies such as vascular and infectious midbrain, pontine and thalamic lesions, local subarachnoid hemorrhage, compression by tumors, basilar migraine, basilar vascular hypoplasia, and following regional surgical or angiographic interventions. [1]
Mesingw – (Algonquian) Lenape name for the spirit of the forests. Hairy dwarf who wears a wooden mask to hide deformed face and rides on the back of a white stag. Mothman – A winged, legendary man with the features of a moth. Paagak – (Anishinaabeg) skeletal monster. Ghost of human cursed for horrific acts in life.
The Green Man, Charlie No-Face Raymond Theodore Robinson (October 29, 1910 – June 11, 1985) was a disfigured American man whose years of nighttime walks made him into a figure of urban legend in western Pennsylvania .
Eyes Without a Face (French: Les Yeux sans visage) is a 1960 horror film directed by Georges Franju and starring Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel, and Édith Scob. Based on a novel of the same name by French author Jean Redon [ fr ] , it revolves around a plastic surgeon who is determined to perform a face transplant on his ...
Folklore dictates that the fainter the sound, the nearer the manananggal is. This is to confuse the victim. Black cats and crows often signal a tik-tik's presence, and deformed faces or bodies in children are allegedly signs of the aftermath of a tik-tik attack.
It’s your birthday. Your friend brings out your cake. You blow out the candles and — smash! — they shove your face into the cake. It’s all fun and games until you lose an eye — which is ...
He has deformed limbs and has intellectual and communication difficulties related to the abuse he has suffered. [24] 1915 Gregor Samsa: The Metamorphosis: Franz Kafka: Gregor Samsa's transformation and the changes of attitudes towards him, except those in his immediate family, is a metaphor for the lived experience of physical and visible ...