In her autobiography Maria Rasputin (born Marfa Novyk, daughter of the “Mad Monk” and a professional lion tamer in her own right [yep, really]) claims that her father’s enormous severed penis is a relic in a Paris based cult that worships him. Does anybody know if this is true?
Link to the original article:
What happened to Napoleon’s penis?
While there is some sort of connection between this and Cecil’s column, I think this is really an independent question.
Hence, moved to GQ.
According to this article, the “penis” allegedly worshipped by the Paris cult of female adorers of Rasputin in the 1920s was in fact a desiccated sea cucumber. Not sure how true that is – but the cult, most agree, was in the 1920s.
nothing like a 1920’s style penis cult.