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masochist · **woman gives birth to rabbits -** 01-29-03

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ALEX BOESE, AUTHOR, "THE MUSEUM OF HOAXES": Hi.

PHILLIPS: All right. Let's go back to these cases. You take me all the way back through your book to 1725. Tell us quickly about Mary Toft.

BOESE: Well, one of the weirdest cases of hoaxes in history. It really hasn't been topped to this day. Mary Toft claimed that she had actually given birth to rabbits, and she provided pretty compelling proof that this had happened, because in front of the king's own surgeon, the king of England, she proceeded to give birth to rabbits. In fact, she gave birth to about 18 or 20 of them, and proceeded to become one of the most famous women in England for a period of a few weeks, as the woman giving birth to rabbits.

PHILLIPS: So how finally was it proven that it was a hoax?

BOESE: What happened was that the king's surgeon said that, Well, this is so incredible, we don't know how this is happening, that we really need to do some surgical procedure to, you know, to investigate and find how how Mary Toft is giving birth to rabbits. And of course, surgery and in 1725 or 1726 was a death sentence, so Mary Toft quickly confessed that she was just hoaxing.

a weird story. just thought i'd share. although she confessed, she did so only because of the threat of surgery.

tis strange even if it was a hoax. that's a lot of rabbits to put up there.

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