In 1726, a poor, illiterate 25-year-old servant named Mary Toft became pregnant, and she tricked doctors into thinking she could give birth to rabbits. News of her miraculous births spread throughout ...

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 ...

What it’s about: One of the most bizarre stories we’ve yet come across. In 1726, a 25-year-old woman from Surrey convinced several doctors she had given birth to disembodied animal parts, and in one ...

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In 1726, an English woman named Mary Toft gave birth to rabbits. Dexter Palmer’s new novel spins a tale from this historical event, but it’s less concerned with how Mary deceived all of England than ...

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Mary Toft, Mother of Rabbits! First of her name and executioner to the medical community who was obsessed with the Maternal Impression Theory. It's true that pregnancy was a mystery to modern-day ...

This book about a true-life scientific enigma might be just the thing formystery lovers. Author Clifford Pickover, Ph.D., an associate editor of Odyssey magazine, details the strange case of Mary Toft ...