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We all know about the magical story of “The Beauty and The Beast” – Of how a young arrogant prince is cursed by a witch and turned to a beast with only the kiss of true love being the way to break the spell and how a young beautiful lady tames this beast of a
prince and in the end, breaks the enchantment and both of them living happily together after. But there is a real story of the beauty and the beast which didn’t involve any magical spell placed on the prince for his arrogance. The real “Beast” was a man known as
Petrus Gonsalvus, who suffered from a genetic condition known as hypertrichosis which is explained as an abnormal amount of hair growth on any part of the body in excess of the regular amount present in people of the same age, race, and .
In the case of Petrus, it affected his whole skin giving him the appearance of a werewolf but he did not have an oversized body with huge muscles like the Beast in the Disney movies. Petrus met his wife, Catherine in 1500’s France and their love story inspired the
French fairy tale Beauty and The Beast. The real beast who was born in 1537 on the Canary Islands of Tenerife was not a prince unlike the fairy tale but he was shipped to King Henry III of France as a give for his coronation in 1547 but fortunately the king
educated and transformed him into a gentleman and allowed him to use his birth name, Pedro González but only if he used it in Latin form of Petrus Gonsalvus.
Even though some members of the royal court still saw him as an animal, his social status rose and many were impressed by him. Petrus met his “Beauty” after the widow of King Henry III decided to experiment and see whether his betrothal to a
beautiful woman would bring beasts like him or beautiful children and thus married him off to one of the palace maidens, Catherine and they had seven children together. Four of these children took the “beastly” form of their father and the three took the beauty of their mother.
The couple were married for forty years until Catherine died in 1623 and Petrus dying in 1618. There was no record of his death as he was not considered human in that period of time. In current research, only fifty people are infected with the hypertrichosis genetic condition.
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