“👀 MADAME DIMANCHE 👀

 “👀 MADAME DIMANCHE 👀

👀 Madame Dimanche, also known as 'Widow Sunday', was a French woman living in Paris, in the early 19th century.

At the age of 76, she began to grow a 24.9cm horn from her forehead.

Fortunately for her, it was successfully removed by a French surgeon.

👀 According to the medical reports, Dimanche’s horn started off as a small wart above her right eyebrow, and then just kept on growing.

Madame Dimanche died seven years, after the horn's removal.

👀 The Mütter Museum, acquired the wax model of Madame Dimanche's face, which was sculpted from life.

It shows the face of an elderly woman, with a large horn protruding from the top of her forehead, and hanging down in front of her face.

👀 'Cornu cutaneum' growths, or 'cutaneuous horns', look similar to animal horns, but they have a different composition.

They are compacted keratin protrusions of lesions, that most often occur on areas of the body commonly exposed to the sun, like the face, hands, and forearms.

Women older than 50, who have had long-term sun exposure and many sunburns, are more likely to have these growths than men.

👀 The earliest well-documented case of a human cutaneous horn, dates to 1588 and was that of Margaret Gryffith, an elderly Welsh woman.

Another famous case is that of 17th-century Englishwoman Mary Davis, an aging widow who had horns on the back of her scalp.

She was exhibited in London as a 'natural wonder'

👀 Humans and horns, share a twisted history.

In mythology and folklore, horned humans represent devils, demons, and other nefarious creatures.

It is quite easy to imagine, that the strange sight of a horn on a human, could frighten anyone into thinking they were Demon's.