![]() We have no data on whether Cap Two had other abnormalities or developmental features, so we will only consider possible reasons for its high growth and the presence of two heads. "The Fiji sea virgin", "Fiji mermaid" or "mermaid of the Fiji Islands" – the common name popular in nineteenth century exhibit all kinds of wandering "exhibitions of curiosities" and street shows.īut could such a giant really exist? To understand this, it is necessary to turn to medical theory. ![]() It is natural to assume that the mummy is a fake, like other exhibits of museums of oddities (such as the Fijian sea maiden, also now on display in the collection of "The Antique Man Ltd"). After several more resales, the mummy ended up in Baltimore, Maryland, in the collection "The Antique Man Ltd", owned by Robert Gerber and Robert Jansen. ![]() In 1914, it fell to Weston Birnbeck and served for the next 45 years as an exhibit at an exhibition in North Somerset, England, before being purchased by Thomas Howard in 1959. He entered Paraguay and stole the body, then brought it with him to Britain, where it also became an exhibit of the show.Īs a result of many twists and turns, the mummy ended up in the Edwardian horror club and went from one showman to another over the years. At some point, the captain of the British schooner George Bickle heard about it. According to this version, the body was found by natives of Paraguay, who mummified it and worshipped it during a kind of religious ceremony. ![]() The second story is that the giant was found already dead on the beach with a spear in his chest. After that, his body was mummified and eventually ended up first in the UK, and then (in the 19th century) in the United States, where it became an exhibit of many shows as evidence of the unknown world. The Patagonian broke free, engaged the sailors, and was killed by a pike that pierced his chest. He was captured and taken to their ship, where he was tied to the mast. There are two conflicting versions of the origin of Cap Two.Īccording to the first of them, the giant was met by Spanish sailors around 1673 on the beach of Patagonia. One such piece of evidence is believed to be the mummy Kap Two (Kap Dwa) – a two-headed giant with a height of 3.66 meters (more than 12 feet). However, references to the possible existence of the Patagonian giants are still found, and there is even material evidence in favor of their reality. Anthropometric studies conducted in the XX century, suggested that the average height of the Tehuelche in the XVI century, when they were met by the expedition of Magellan, was about 180 centimeters, which is much higher than the average height of the Spaniards of those times (about 165 cm), so the Indians really could seem to them "giants". Byron's information was confirmed by the French naturalist Alcide Dessalines D'Orbigny, who wrote that he did not see giants in Patagonia, but only tall and beautiful people. The people Byron met were probably members of the Tehuelches Indian tribe, which was destroyed by the Rocca expedition in 1880. In other words, they were tall, but not 12-foot (3.6 m) giants. This report showed that Byron did meet with a tribe of Patagonians, but the tallest of them was only 6 feet 6 inches (1.9 m) tall. ![]() It is believed that the myth of the Patagonian giants was finally debunked only when an official account of Byron's journey appeared in 1773. Stories about these incredible people were considered real information about the region among Europeans for 250 years. They were allegedly at least twice the normal height of a human: some sources report people as tall as 12 to 15 feet (3.7 to 4.6 meters) or more. The Patagonian giants are a mythical race of people, whose stories first began to appear in early European reports about the then little-known areas on the coast of Patagonia (a huge region in the southern tip of South America, divided between Argentina and Chile on the axis of the Andes). ![]()
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