Mary Toft Ye Olde Crime

Lindsay and Madison discuss Mary Toft, as well as how to take advantage of the poor and uneducated, that it’s never okay to put foreign biological objects in your hoo-hah, and that profiting off others misfortune makes you a total asshat.
Information pulled from the following sources:

2021 IFL Science article by James Felton

2020 Burials & Beyond article by Kate Cherrell

2020 History Extra article

2019 Atlas Obscura article by Sabrina Imbler

2016 The Paris Review article by Edward White

2015 History Workshop Journal No. 80 article by Karen Harvey

2013 The Public Domain Review article by Niki Russell

2009 Godalming Museum article

2009 University of Glasgow Library Special Collections

Wikipedia

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