The Comprachicos: Did Victor Hugo Invent This Monster-Making Cult?

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http://pasttense.kinja.com/the-comprachicos-did-victor-hugo-invent-this-monster-m-1652945487

Audition, The Human Centipede, Tusk ... the forcible transformation of anatomically "normal" people into grotesquely deformed monsters has been a motif in horror movies at least since Tod Browning's classic Freaks first shocked audiences in 1932. But where did this bizarre trope originate?

 

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The Comprachicos: Did Victor Hugo Invent This Monster-Making Cult?

Ancient Greek mythology has quiet a few instances of the gods turning people into hideous monsters.

 

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Who can forget Procrustes, who would make people lie on a bed, and if they were two short for it, he would stretch them, and if they were too long, he'd lop off their limbs!