In 1726, a poor, illiterate 25-year-old servant named Mary Toft became pregnant, and she tricked doctors into thinking she ...
Mary Toft was a woman from Godalming, who achieved notoriety in 1726 when she purportedly gave birth to a litter of rabbits. In reality, the animal parts Toft “delivered” were being surreptitiously ...
In the autumn of 1726, an extraordinary claim gripped Britain and left even some of the country's most respected physicians ...
EMP Collective is proudly presenting their second theatre piece of 2012: A Brief Narrative of an Extraordinary Birth of Rabbits by playwright C. Denby Swanson, directed by Elissa Goetschius. In 1726, ...
James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...