At the age of nine they were placed in a convent, where they died almost simultaneously in their twenty-second year.

During their travels all over Europe they were examined by many prominent physiologists, psychologists, and naturalists; Pope and several minor poets have celebrated their existence in verse; Buffon speaks of them in his "Natural History," and all the works on teratology for a century or more have mentioned them.

A description of them can be best given by a quaint translation by Fisher of the Latin lines composed by a Hungarian physician and inscribed on a bronze statuette of them:-- Two sisters wonderful to behold, who have thus grown as one, That naught their bodies can divide, no power beneath the sun.

The town of Szoenii gave them birth, hard by far-famed Komorn, Which noble fort may all the arts of Turkish sultans scorn.

Lucina, woman's gentle friend, did Helen first receive; And Judith, when three hours had passed, her mother's womb did leave.