Twins in India Sure Are Different Than the Ones in Sweet Valley

A couple of years ago Matt showed me this article about a medical mystery in India, where a man had an abdomen tumor that turned out to be....

...the parasitic fetus of his twin brother, which had been absorbed into his body in utero.  The operating doctor described the exploratory surgery as follows:

As he cut deeper into Bhagat's stomach, gallons of fluid spilled out -- and then something extraordinary happened. "To my surprise and horror, I could shake hands with somebody inside," he said. "It was a bit shocking for me."

Today I heard a new story of another parasitic twin sighting in India.  This time, it is a parasitic twin on the outside of the subject's body, which is attached in such a way that the child looks like the eight-armed Hindu goddess Vishnu:

The headless 'twin' is joined to Lakshmi at the pelvis and has its own spinal column and kidney.

These accounts are considerably different than the twin tales I'm used to hearing about, where Jessica is the parasitic one who is always trying to get Elizabeth to do her homework for her while she's off hanging out with Lila and the other Unicorns at Sweet Valley Mall.