an abnormal appearance or deviant behavior aroused the curiosity has always been the supposedly "normal" people. In times of high regard for compliant behavior and standardized appearance, the interest in otherness was particularly large. Some performers preferred
profit from them, by exposing "abnormal people", the so-called "Freaks," the curiosity of the audience. Whose interest in striking of such contemporaries persists until today, but no longer satisfied in fair booths, but by the tabloid journalism.
The group with actual or simulated special skills involved, among other "incombustible", "Good and omnivores," "Living sockets," "Human Pincushion" - to "Fart Artist" and people who stand out your eyeballs from their sockets could be
The actual Freaks on the other hand had an abnormal appearance, including albinos, extremely underweight, people with disfiguring bone deformities, skin diseases or missing limbs, including "The woman without a torso".
The display of such hard-hit by the fate of people, from today's perspective, not understandable. For a physically very prominent human exposure to such ostentation was not necessarily a bad lot: Within the separate community of circus or carnival artists they found in general a very extensive treatment to them not to those times in different environments nearly would have enjoyed.
profit from them, by exposing "abnormal people", the so-called "Freaks," the curiosity of the audience. Whose interest in striking of such contemporaries persists until today, but no longer satisfied in fair booths, but by the tabloid journalism.
The group with actual or simulated special skills involved, among other "incombustible", "Good and omnivores," "Living sockets," "Human Pincushion" - to "Fart Artist" and people who stand out your eyeballs from their sockets could be
The actual Freaks on the other hand had an abnormal appearance, including albinos, extremely underweight, people with disfiguring bone deformities, skin diseases or missing limbs, including "The woman without a torso".
The display of such hard-hit by the fate of people, from today's perspective, not understandable. For a physically very prominent human exposure to such ostentation was not necessarily a bad lot: Within the separate community of circus or carnival artists they found in general a very extensive treatment to them not to those times in different environments nearly would have enjoyed.
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(c) 2007 Stefan Nagel
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