It is held, I believe, that such an union as is this hinted at can never produce conception; the spermatozoa of beasts being unable to germinate in the human female, and vice versa? She was described as sociable and polite, and, besides being undoubtedly the greatest living curiosity, she is a lady in every respect, with scientific men, ladies and children being highly used by her strange appearance, her dancing and singing. She danced the Highland fling, performed English and Spanish songs and conversed easily with the audience. The most popular story is that she was found living in a cave with her mother and was taken to an orphanage where she was adopted by the governor of the state of Sinaloa who used her as his maid. Julia Pastrana was set to perform at the Regent Gallery, at the Quadrant on Regent Street with its lodgings, homes and shops selling imported and exotic delicacies. Nell Rose (author) from England on April 28, 2014: Thanks so much for reading suzzycue, yes she was an amazing woman, imagine having to face the world, and live with that evil man, but she came through singing, but sadly she had a terrible ending, nell. I had read quite a bit about Julia Pastrana before ina book "Very pecial People" but not as in depth as you provide here. During a tour in Moscow, Pastrana gave birth to a son, with features similar to her own. Julia Pastrana was a talented Mexican singer and dancer of Indigenous background. She was given a Catholic ceremony and buried, free from prying eyes at last. While the mysteries of Pastrana's formative years leave the historians grappling for the truth, these very . From University to museum, from curiosity stands to freak shows, Julia was passed around and around. RELATED: Queen Victorias freaky obsession, RELATED: Crucial find in Elephant Man mystery, RELATED: Killer sweating sickness that terrified a King. Known as the marvellous hybrid or Bear Woman, others called her The Ugliest woman in the World. No one knows what prompted her to commit such a heinous act. In 1864, they were being displayed around Sweden. Of her origin nothing certain was or is known: the story however being that her mother was a Mexican Indian, who was lost for years in a country full of apes & bears. He didnt write about her, though, until 1862 when he returned to another one of her shows, which was very different to the first. Julia Pastrana was born in 1834. [3] Both accounts claim that, at some point, she lived in the home of Pedro Sanchez, the then-governor of Sinaloa, and left the home in 1854. We can still see them at State Fairs, although they do not seem to display the most exotic ones. He probably met Pastrana while she was performing in New York, charming his way into her life and, it would appear, marrying her in Baltimore around 1855. So sad that she was treated so badly. Juliet Christie Murray from Sandy Bay Jamaica on November 25, 2012: Well this is truly amazing.This hub could have made you a millionaire but the content was so spell binding and mind boggling that I get the feeling no one saw the ads. Why would you want to go to a show to stare at someone who is different? Nell Rose (author) from England on July 09, 2012: Hi femme, good morning! Much of the interest in Pastrana stems from what happened after her death. Oh no. I guess i am a few years behind but i am glad i stumbled onto your hubpage. For example, its claimed Julia said Lent Loves me for my own sake. Records are blurry, but she was likely born in 1834 somewhere in Mexico, on the Western slopes of the Sierra Madre:. Julia's mummie disappeared over the next few decades. There are various stories about her early life, and little is known for certain, but some accounts . They looked nothing like the pictures displayed outside their cubicles. Then again, this was never a neat distinction unlike actors today who move between characters, Pastrana played one role which she literally embodied.. log in. I am glad she did get the burial she deserved, but what a horrible time she had poor girl, thanks so much for reading, nell. Many of these recipients became invested in the project. Julia was then moved and the same thing happened again. Thanks midget, yes over a 150 years ago she was treated appallingly its so good to know they have had the decency to bring her back to her village at last, now she can rest in peace, thanks nell. [13] Francis Buckland stated that she was "only a deformed Mexican Indian woman". Humanity is disgraceful. What cemented the marriage? Up until the 1970s, there are records of them exhibited as carnival curiosities in the United States and Europe. Those who ran sideshows often didnt take the time to listen and record the backstories of their performers. It shows how two spectators from similar socio-economic backgrounds could respond in very different ways to the same performance. When will we learn to be kind? Fig. There are no birth, baptism or early records enabling a reconstruction of Julia Pastranas formative years, but she was probably born in 1834 in the Sierra Madre region of Mexico. Used with the permission of the publisher, Pegasus Books. Julia Pastrana was a famous sideshow performer in her day, but her celebrity was marred by racism and bigotry. Much of Pastranas life is still shrouded in mystery. How Did a Moai Statue End Up in a Lagoon? Voted up. Nell Rose (author) from England on April 23, 2017: Hi Deb, I know its not much better these days. She was a human being and such claims would be hurtful to any of us; more so in the Victorian context when people were furiously debating the relationship between ape and man. At last Julia Pastrana has come home. Eventually, Lent got fed up of It and hired her out to the person who would pay the most for the privilege. The musical supergroup Apparatjik released a single titled "Julia" on March 20, 2020, accompanied by a lyric video. She was then transferred to the custody of her uncle, who sold her to the circus. On 2 August 2012, it was reported in Aftenposten that Pastrana would finally be buried in Mexico at an unspecified date. Being kept in a Museum is still showing the height of disrespect for Julia still being treated as an animal. After moving to Cleveland with another new promoter, J.W. Pastrana was one of the worlds most popular freaks at a time when such entertainers were the biggest celebrities of the Victorian era. As such, the life of many sideshow performers, Julia Pastrana included, is marred by sensationalism and exploitation. Wow, Nell Rose. In his alma mater, Trinity College, there are volumes of his diaries, notebooks and photograph albums that document, in minute detail, his fascination with working women, from pit girls to collier girls to acrobats and even women with no noses. Pastranas manager, Theodore Lent, described her as half-woman, half-animal in a bid to increase ticket sales. Nell Rose (author) from England on November 18, 2012: Thanks unknown spy, glad you liked it, nell. thanks so much for reading, and you take care too! After Lent's death, Julia's body would change hands numerous times and be exhibited all over the place by a variety of fairs, circuses, and cabinets of curiosities. A special permit was required to gain access to her remains.[1]. Julia Pastrana's remains were returned to Mexico from Norway An indigenous woman exhibited in 19th-Century Europe as the "world's ugliest woman" has been buried in her native Mexico some 150. One artist said the Mauritshuis Museums decision to displayA Girl With a Pearl Earring made using Midjourney highly unethical.. A new book chronicles how artist Laura Anderson Barbata led the repatriation and burial of Julia Pastrana, a 19th-century indigenous Mexican woman exhibited in life and death for her excessive hair. When she died in 1860 following a difficult childbirth, both she and her infant son were embalmed. Lentseems to have considered her a model freak, a house-trained monster that behaved well in front of audiences, writes Jan Bondeson in a book essay. Follow her on Twitter @LJCharleston, To join the conversation, please I felt that if I did not lobby for her removal from the Schreiner Collection she would remain indefinitely stored in a university collection with an inventory number and an inconclusive existence. . By Charles Wilson Feb. 11, 2013 Her own husband called her a "bear woman." An 1854 advertisement in The New York Times said she was the "link between mankind and the ourang-outang." She became. He noted that she or it was intelligent with a fine voice who could speak three languages. I think Julia was a strong dignified and beautiful woman. Barnums 13 most famous and incredible oddities. Thanks for sharing. The son died a few days later, and Lent then toured with the mother and son's embalmed remains. Lent unbelievably went on to marry another woman who looked liked Julia, and after a while, he then made claim to the fact that his new wife was Julia's sister. What she had experienced is appalling. Looking at the image of Julia she looked like an African cross bread with an Indian. Nell Rose (author) from England on February 13, 2013: Thanks Linda, I have read this story since I was a kid, and she has always fascinated me, so glad you liked it, and thanks! I sometimes wonder: did Lents later insanity derive from some form of guilt? He named her Zenora Pastrana. It is so sad, how people treated her. Poor lady and her child. Because of that, it was exposed as an attraction in various shows. In her world, there is no detritus and everything (everyone) is charged with potential. Used with the permission of the publisher. Perhaps a bit of all three. I had never heard this story before, so thanks for sharing this. His reaction was ultimately one of wonder and he saw Pastrana as simply wonderful. . They were eventually sold, exchanged hands several times, and in 1921, bought by a Norwegian fairground owner who was building a chamber of horrors in Oslo.. A newly identified sculpture in Easter Island found in a dried wetland intrigues researchers studying the Rapa Nui society. Pastrana was not alone in her fate. The latter condition was caused by a rare disease, undiagnosed in her lifetime, gingival hyperplasia, which thickened her lips and gums. She was cruelly labelled the Baboon Lady, The Marvellous Hybrid or Bear Woman. The Root-Diggers lived with animals and couldnt tell them apart from their own kind, a further insinuation of bestial copulation(accusations commonly aimed at Africans onstage). He billed her as -the ugliest woman in the world, half-woman half-ape, bear woman, the misnomered, the female nondescript- among many other sobriquets, they toured . He was covered in hair. Jools Hogg from North-East UK on September 01, 2012: Nell, great hub - fascinating and heartbroken in equal measure. After this look at the tragic life of sideshow performer Julia Pastrana, check out more famous sideshow freaks. Then, meet P.T. Victorian audiences, eager for circuses and freak shows, flocked to her shows, while scientists also marveled over Pastranas condition. . Matthew Manning-Psychic and Healer. Let us never see another woman be turned into an object of commerce.. By this time she had received many marriage proposals, and when asked why she had never married, she replied that they were not rich enough! The newborn would only survive a little over a day after his birth and he had inherited the condition that made his mother famous he too was covered in dark hair. WHOA! Beach, but in 1854, she eloped with Theodore Lent, marrying him in Baltimore, Maryland. It must have been pretty confusing because the animal was capable of singing and speaking in different languages to cook and sew and dance. Some people might act politely as they have been "trained" to do so, but atrocities such as the treatment of this woman and her child are as much prevalent today as they ever were. National Library of MedicineA photograph of Julia Pastrana. Her body was "stuffed",[18] as noted by renowned naturalist and taxidermist Charles Darwin. At one stage she was declared to be a hybrid of human and orangutan and her mother was constantly dehumanised as a Root-Digger Indian who lived among apes. Pastrana was reportedly generous, sensitive, charitable and intelligent, claiming that Lent loves me for my own sake. Perhaps, though, the marriage was really a way for Lent to exact control: when Barnum met Pastrana in 1857, according to the memoirs of another showman, she would not take off the thick veil which covered her face until Mr. Marie and Lent went to Russia, Lent went insane, and in 1888, Marie left Russia for Munich. Marco Ferreri's film The Ape Woman (1964) is based on Pastrana's life story. In this article we document the role of Ivan Matveevich Sokolov, anatomy professor at Moscow University, in the mummification of Julia Pastrana, born Shame that greed played such an important part of her life, she didn't deserve to be treated that way. Pastrana had very few friends, and one, a singer from Vienna, lamented the light fog of sadness that trailed her. LongTimeMother from Australia on May 04, 2014: Nell, it would have been nice had she been buried with her child, but it sounds like that didn't happen. mizjo from New York City, NY on December 15, 2012: It seems that all through our human history, anyone who looked different from ourselves have been treated as freaks, and not always kindly. Pastrana indeed did not share in the everyday joys in a home filled with love. Though she married Theodore Lent, it was not so much out of love as it was business for him. From The Wonders: The Extraordinary Performers Who Transformed the Victorian Age. Her embalmed baby was never found.. From this family was born the idea of werewolves. He succeeded. In this version, so the story goes, a group of Mexican herders then found Pastrana in a mountain cave hiding with her mother. Nell Rose (author) from England on September 04, 2015: Thanks so much m abdullah, glad you liked it, nell. Barbata was pivotal in leading the 2013 repatriation and burial in Mexico of Pastrana. He said she had an exceedingly good figure despite being hideous., Hermann Otto, a circus owner, was even more damning in his descriptions of her. Great ending to a sad story, Nell. Aw thanks epi, you are kinda amazing yourself! What we do know is that she was doomed from birth (around 1834) by her facial hair and strong features. such a darn shame, thanks so much for reading, nell, Hi Suzette, yes DNA has a lot to answer for! It affected her very deeply in her heart with sadness, Otto related. She reportedly belonged to an indigenous tribe called the Root Diggers. Pastrana's body has since been relocated to Sinaloa, and was buried in a cemetery in Sinaloa de Levya in February 2013. [14], Charles Darwin discussed her case after her death, describing her as follows: "Julia Pastrana, a Spanish dancer, was a remarkably fine woman, but she had a thick masculine beard and a hairy forehead; she was photographed, and her stuffed skin was exhibited as a show; but what concerns us is, that she had in both the upper and lower jaw an irregular double set of teeth, one row being placed within the other, of which Dr. Purland took a cast. Theodor Lent became more and more aggressive, and by the time they had toured through Poland and Russia, Julia realized that she was pregnant. She arrived, steeped in mystery, and her life was as strange and sad as her birth. So glad I discovered it ans I find stories with mysterious elements like this one fascinating. Whats more, hirsute women like Pastrana came to signify hypersexuality, primitivism and bestiality. The delivery had also taken its toll on Pastrana and she died, following complications, in the early hours of March 25th, 1860. Her last words were apparently: I die happy; I know I have been loved for myself. But Lents actions suggest otherwise. This was a radical idea that discombobulated mans place in nature. Literature produced by those who managed the freak shows she appeared in described her as belonging to a Native American tribe called "Root Diggers" whose members were similar to apes and lived in caves. As we will see, Lent emerges as a monster. Julia Pastrana was born in 1834 into an Indigenous community in the Sierra Madre in Mexico. I suppose people with severe birth defects have been protected from public exploitation. Buckland was influenced by natural theology which asserted the centrality of God in nature. over here its 20.38, so we are about 5 and a half hours different! It's so sad that she lived in a time when science was so primitive and un-understanding. She then joined the circus, traveling across Germany to Warsaw and, by late 1859, Moscow. Bess Lovejoy explores her story and how it was only in 2013, 153 years after her passing, that she was finally laid to rest. Julia finally went home but without her baby who was also human. The scientists of the day thought that she was a hybrid between human and orangutan, and believed that they had found a missing link. After the adulation in London, Julia began a tour In Berlin Germany, which both changed her appearances from a Freak show to Stage actress. [11] The child survived only three days, and Pastrana died of postpartum complications five days later. On show with her still born son after death. The bill at her early shows claimed that her people resembled apes and lived in caves, and Pastrana was only brought to the sideshow when a woman named Mrs. Espinosa who was captured and held hostage by Pastranas tribe escaped, and took Julia Pastrana with her. Comisin para la Celebracin del Bicentenario de la Independencia y Centenario de la Revolucin. Many freak performers faced lives of destitution or dependency but, in the freak show, they were often celebrated performers who made comfortable livings. On one of these occasions, she was given the honour of dancing with the soldiers, who lined up to have the chance to dance with this unique but strange human being. Freak shows have been common for many centuries. I wonder if she was related to that family of Mexicans who were covered with hair. Nell Rose (author) from England on April 22, 2017: Thanks so much Lauren, glad you liked it. lol! John Hansen from Australia (Gondwana Land) on September 10, 2015: Hi Nell, I am late reading this but I enjoyed this interesting hub. Hi epi, yes so true, people always go by whats on the outside not on the in, its such a shame that Julia Pastrana had to go through this. Darwins On the Origin of Species complicated the relationship between ape and man by suggesting that the two were placed on an evolutionary scale. God made her and she is has a beautiful voice and GOD never made anything that He didn't love. To put it bluntly, by suppressing the truth of Pastranas story, showmen could peddle the claim that she was the product of an unholy union between man and beast: Her Remarkable Formation, and Mysterious Parentage, claimed one piece of publicity, and how she was Discovered in a Cave, suckled by her Indian Mother, Dwelling with Baboons, Bears, and Monkeys., According to the press, the delicate inference is obvious, but this didnt stop Lent hammering home the point. Shortly after, he died. There is so much more to this story, but in a nutshell, Julia and her baby were passed from person to person, country to country, until one day in 1976, the storage facility where Julia was being kept, was broken into and vandalized. Even after death. They were also Mexican Indians. He went on to say ' Julia has been reborn among us, let us never see another woman be turned into an object of commerce'. According to Dr Woolf, the embalmed corpses had a very strange career. So we come to the end. You always find the most interesting people to write about. That poor baby was torn to shreds when he should be laid to rest. Lent sold their corpses to a professor at Moscow University who promised to embalm them, and then he took the preserved bodies of Julia Pastrana and their dad son on tour. In the fifties and sixties, the mummies were displayed, mainly as a curiosity. The show was closed on the grounds of obscenity, but Pastrana continued to perform Spanish dances and popular songs. Nell Rose (author) from England on September 12, 2017: Kari Poulsen from Ohio on September 11, 2017: Another great story! I just noticed some commented two years ago that an effort was being made to bring her to Mexico for burial. N skal Julia Pastrana endelig begraves", "Roll up, roll up, and see the bearded lady", "Julia Pastrana, the 'extraordinary lady', https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Julia_Pastrana&oldid=1140909925, Articles with unsourced statements from September 2018, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Bear Woman, The Apewoman, The Nondescript. Lerma Garay, Antonio. According to spectators and those who knew her, Pastrana was an intelligent Indigenous Mexican woman whose life was shaped by brutal racism and cruelty. She definitely deserved so much more credit, which you have given brilliantly here. After a few months perfecting the process, he put them in the Museum of the university, where they attracted great crowds of people. its half eleven here in good old England! 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