In a 1918 book titled ‘ The Pupula Duplex and Other Tokens of an “Evil Eye” in the Light of Ophthalmology,’ writer Walton Brooks McDaniel considered Double Pupil a Superstition and probably there is no such thing among human beings. The ancient writers in fact referred to it as the “Evil Eye.”
However, the exact eye condition of those rulers is not clear. The Chinese traditional thinking supposed that the Man who has double pupils would be doomed to be ruler or king. Xiang Yu was a tall person who possessed unusual physical strength and was seen as an extraordinary person because his unique double pupil was a mark of a king or sage in Chinese tradition. In some ancient historical records, it is said that some Chinese rulers like Xiang Yu, a military leader during the late Qin Dynasty, as well as Shun and Duke Wen of Jin have suffered from this double pupil condition. Liu Ch’ung Liu Ch’ung Liu Ch’ung In HistoryĪn eye condition called Pupula Duplex does not exist in official medical literature. It is also said that in 1931, Robert Ripley personally met a double-eyed man in Mills, Kentucky. A wax rendition of the man’s unusual eye condition is also included in Louis Tussaud’s Palace of Wax. Pictures and messages about this Pupula Duplex came into limelight after Ripley’s Believe It or Not featured such a picture of Liu Ch’ung, a Chinese Minister of State in 995 A.D., who was supposedly born with double pupils in each eye. It is often referred as Double Iris and also as “Evil Eye.” Let us examine whether this strange eye condition is fact or simply a hoax.
Pupula Duplex is a Latin term which means double pupil, and is thought to be a condition in which a person develops two irises, corneas and retinas on the same eyeball of each eye. Messages about “Pupula Duplex” along with some strange pictures keep circulating now and then, claiming it to be a rare eye condition, where a person has two irises and two pupils in one eye.