Deformity

Deformity

See also Lameness.

Calmady, Sir Richard

born without lower legs. [Br. Lit.: Sir Richard Calmady, Walsh Modern, 84]

Carey, Philip

embittered young man with club foot seeks fulfillment. [Br. Lit.: Of Human Bondage]

Cyclopes

one-eyed monsters. [Gk. Lit.: Odyssey]

Elephant Man, the

Joseph Merrick, whose deformed face was said to resemble an elephant’s. [Br. Cinema: The Elephant Man]

Freaks

1930s macabre movie about sideshow people. [Am. Cinema: Halliwell, 278]

Gwynplaine

his disfigured face had a perpetual horrible grin. [Fr. Lit.: Hugo The Man Who Laughs in Benét, 632]

Mayeux

deformed man, both brave and witty. [Fr. Folklore: Wheeler Dictionary, 237]

Priapus

son of Aphrodite and Dionysus; grotesque man with huge phallus. [Gk. Myth.: Howe, 233]

Quasimodo

hunchbacked bell-ringer. [Fr. Lit.: Hunchback of Notre Dame]

Richard III

crook-back king. [Br. Lit.: Shakespeare Richard III]

Sarn, Prudence

harelipped girl is servant on brother’s farm. [Br. Lit.: Precious Bane, Magill I, 778–780]

thalidomide

supposedly harmless sedative resulted in disfigured babies. [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 582–583]

Thersites

deformed Greek officer at the siege of Troy, famed for his malevolence. [Gk. Lit.: Iliad]

Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de

(1864–1901) crippled and stunted; became great artist. [Fr. Hist.: Wallechinsky, 13]