Among mankind albinos occur much more frequently than many people realize. In fact, the word was coined to apply to white Negroes, these abnormalities usually being objects of superstitious veneration on the part of the African tribes. The legend of the "fair god" among the Indians of Middle America is as likely to have arisen because of the accident of an albino as from the visit of a native from the lost continent of Atlantis.
"Cleft lip occurs much more frequently than many people realize. In the time of the savage, witchdoctors shunned those with cleft lips as agents of disease. Science now corroborates this sentiment. The Navajo myth of "Canyon In Face" is as likely to have arisen because of the grotesque, embarrassing incidence of a cleft lip as from a visit by Space Gypsies."
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