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Ben HawkinsA troubled young man picked up by the carnival in the Oklahoma Dust Bowl, 1934. Since joining the odd troupe, Ben has been plagued by disturbing dreams. |
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Brother Justin CroweA Methodist minister in California's rich Central Valley. Like Ben Hawkins, Justin also experienced manifestation of supernatural powers at a young age. |
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Iris CroweBrother Justin Crowe's older sister, she cared for him after the death of their mother, Plemina Belyakov, in a train crash in the California Sierras.
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SamsonQuick-witted, a consummate con-man, Edgar "Samson" Leonhardt, began his career as a "mighty-mite," dwarf strongman act at Coney Island's Lilliputia in 1904.
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Clayton JonesSamson's right hand man, head of the rousties, or carnival workers. Strong, tough, but bull-headed, Jonesy was once a star pitcher in the major leagues. |
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SofieSophie shares a telepathic link with her catatonic mother, Apollonia, which allows her to lend voice to the once renowned tarot-card reader's predictions. |
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LodzProfessor Ernst Lodz - While searching for his dancing bear, Bruno, Lodz discovered an American expatriate, Henry Scudder, wandering in a Lemberg battlefield. |
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LilaLila Villanueva –The so called "Bearded Lady of Brussels" was born in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, to a circus family in 1890. |
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RuthieA retired snake charmer, Ruthie is the "talker"(what rubes might call a "barker") for her son, Gabriel, who performs a strong man act. |
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Felix (Stumpy) DreifussWith wife, Rita Sue, and daughters, Libby and Dora Mae, the Dreifuss Family's fortunes have steadily declined in the 1930s, as troubled times spawned a slew of competing "cootch family" acts. |
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Rita SueRita Sue (Menninger) Dreifuss left home in 1908, gravitating to vaudeville and meeting her husband, Felix (Stumpy) Dreifuss when she hooked up with the Red Rutherford Traveling Crazy Horse Revue. |
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LibbyBorn in 1914, the eldest child of Felix (Stumpy) and Rita Sue Dreifuss. She joined the Gay Paree Show as a performer in 1928. The Cootch Show is, in fact, a girlie show, nudity required. |
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Henry ScudderHenry "Hack" Scudder - Accounts vary, but it has been alleged that, the night of Henry's birth, his mother went mad and murdered her husband and several of her own children by a previous marriage. |
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Reverend Norman BalthusReverend Norman Balthus is Justin Crowe's mentor and former guardian. The Reverend ran an orphanage in Stockton, taking Justin and Iris in as children. |
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