June 18, 2025
The Origin of Weird: Mary Toft and Her Rabbit Babies
How far would someone go to escape poverty? In 1726, Mary Toft, a destitute servant and mother of three who had recently suffered a miscarriage, concocted an outrageous scheme that would captivate England and eventually reach King George I himself. Her claim? She was giving birth to rabbits.
Drawing on the period's belief in "maternal impression" – the notion that a pregnant woman's experiences could physically shape her unborn child – Mary convinced local surgeon John Howard that after chasing and dreaming about rabbits, she began delivering animal parts from her body. What began as a desperate grab for attention transformed into a national sensation when Howard alerted England's medical establishment about this apparent miracle.
The rabbit births became London's hottest attraction. The King's own surgeon Nathaniel St. André rushed to validate Mary's case, publishing a detailed pamphlet about her extraordinary deliveries. But skepticism grew when physician Cyriacus Ahlers examined the rabbit remains and found hay, straw and corn in their digestive tracts – substances that couldn't possibly exist in a human womb. The hoax finally collapsed when a porter was caught smuggling a fresh rabbit to Mary's quarters.
Mary's confession revealed her elaborate deception – inserting dead animal parts into her body and dramatically "delivering" them while screaming in fake labor. While she spent only four months in prison before returning to her village, the physicians who validated her claims weren't so lucky. St. André in particular became London's laughingstock, his medical career left in ruins. Yet Mary lived quietly until 1763, even having another child years later.
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Mary Toft and Her Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbits
By Niki Russell
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00:00 - Introduction to Mary Toft's Strange Tale
08:30 - The Rabbit Birth Phenomenon Begins
14:07 - Royal Investigators Get Involved
16:35 - The Hoax Exposed
19:47 - Aftermath and Legacy
24:20 - Closing Thoughts on Human Credulity
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this story's so weird.
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Well, it is the origin of weird.
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Oh hey there.
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Oh hey there.
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It is the origin of weird, oh hey there.
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Oh, hey, there, this is the origin of weird, and I'm Kate.
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And I'm Bradley.
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Welcome to the History.
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Buffoons Origin of Weird.
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Yes.
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And apparently this one is supposed to be really weird.
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Are you enjoying the Origin of Weird series?
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I am because I like weird shit.
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Yeah, and it's.
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I think we're on a quest to find the origin of weird, but I don't think we'll ever get there because there's so much weird shit in this world.
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People are weird people are strange, just like the doors used to say and I'm gonna tell you about one of these people okay I'm gonna start with a quote.
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All right, it is from the British Mists Weekly Journal.
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Mists Weekly Journal.
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Okay, and this was published in the United States.
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It was published on November 19th 1726.
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So a couple of years ago?
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Yeah, almost 300 years ago, holy fuck.
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All right, you ready.
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Yeah.
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Quote from Guilford comes a strange but well-attested piece of news.
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Okay.
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That a poor woman who lives at Godelman, near that town, was about a month past, delivered by Mr John Howard, an eminent surgeon and man-midwife, of a creature resembling a rabbit but whose heart and lungs grew without its belly.
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About 14 days since she was delivered by the same person of a perfect rabbit, and a few days after of four more it, and in a few days after of four more, and on friday, saturday, sunday, the fourth, fifth and sixth instant of one in each day, in all nine they died all in bringing into the world end.
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quote that is a weird wild quote.
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I can't make heads or tails of that I see what you did there thank you this poor woman is 24 year old mary toft mary toft.
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Like t-o-f-t, yes, and she tricked doctor into into believing that she had given birth to rabbits she's took him up, her who huh?
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Oh yes.
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Seriously, oh yes, what the fuck.
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Mary Toft was in fact an illiterate servant and mother to three scraping by on very little.
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Okay.
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Earlier in 1726, she had been pregnant, but she suffered a miscarriage.
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A miscarriage and, according to mary's later account, the whole bunny business started after an encounter with a rabbit in the fields.
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They had a conversation, I mean one day she was weeding and mary spotted a rabbit and ran after it.
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But of course they're quick little buggers yeah, they're fast as she didn't catch it, but that night she dreamt of rabbits, who doesn't.
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Ever since then, she claimed she had an intense craving to stick them up, her hoo-ha to eat rabbit meat hassan pepper.
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But she was broke, oh right, because she was a poor, poor old servant with three kids at this time.
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He said right and illiterate and illiterate.
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Yeah, she couldn't even read the recipe so, because she couldn't catch or buy them, she apparently began growing her own rabbits in utero.
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What, okay?
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There was an explanation rooted in that era's like medical lore.
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Yeah, the theory of maternal impression, which says that a pregnant woman's intense desires or frightful experiences could physically shape her unborn child.
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Jesus fuck, as strange as it sounds, many at the time believed that if an expectant mother longed for a certain food or was startled by an animal, so she'd pop out a cake out of her cooch.
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I mean, what the fuck is this?
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her baby might bear some resemblance to it.
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Why do you got?
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sprinkles all over your head.
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Jacob, mama wanted a piece of cake why do you have sprinkles on your head, jacob, jacob mama wanted cake when she's pregnant with me so when mary began experiencing severe uh pains a month after her miscarriage, she wondered if something particular was still inside of her like a rabbit that's when the rabbits, or parts of rabbits, allegedly started coming out so she what she did, she lie about the parts.
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Did she finally catch a rabbit and stick them up?
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Oh, I'll tell you.
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Oh, Jesus fuck.
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Neighbors and family were stunned, as Mary.
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Can you blame them?
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In fits of quote unquote, labor expelled what looked like animal parts.
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A piece of mystery flesh here.
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A rabbit foot without the chain here I say so, it wasn't lucky, was it all?
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Right I think?
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I think we've talked about, did you?
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ever have one.
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Oh fuck, yeah, I had a hot pink one, yeah that's right, we did talk about I had a white one, yeah and it's not a race thing jesus.
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One witness describes seeing, quote three legs of a cat of a tabby collar and one leg of a rabbit spelled et rabbit delivered from mary yeah, so enter john howard, he is.
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He is a respected surgeon.
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Sure is.
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A man midwife from a nearby town.
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Okay, Initially Howard dismissed the rumors that Mary had given birth to non-human bits and bobs.
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Rightly so, as he should have.
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But curiosity got the better of him.
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Did it kill the rabbit?
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When Mary went into her labor again whatever you want to call this howard was present and soon found himself delivering assorted animal parts from her body.
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Over the next few days, mary produced a litter of dismembered animal bits, oh my God.
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And at least nine dead baby rabbits, one after another.
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So first of all, poor rabbits.
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Yeah.
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Second of all, where did she find a litter of rabbits that she could basically kill and then shove up her hoo-ha?
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They are not in a metropolis.
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No, they're in the fields.
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I get that.
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I have a family of rabbits outside right now.
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Okay, so maybe there's nine of them.
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No, there's four.
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Actually, I haven't seen a lot of the babies recently, so they're either.
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They're grown and gone.
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It's possible, but there's two little ones that like to hang out by my car.
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I'm sorry.
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No, no, my battery's low Okay.
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I told you to plug it, the fuck in Howard preserved these specimens and sent work to other prominent doctors.
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Okay.
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After all medical marvel of the century.
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If it's real Well, this is 300 years ago.
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You have to.
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What do they say?
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Trust the science at the time, At the time.
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So at the f to uh, what do they say?
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Trust the science at the time, at the time.
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So yes, howard was in a bit of a tough spot.
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Either he had stumbled on this miraculous phenomenon or he was made, been made, a fool of right okay, and who wouldn't want to believe that they discovered something extraordinary?
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so he kind of doubled down.
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People like fame because it brings fortune, typically.
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Um so sometimes people will latch on to something as ridiculous as a lady shitting out rabbits of her hooch and being like I'm gonna be rich by late october of 1726, howard had notified england's medical community and even the royal court of mary toff's births.
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Okay, right, given the uproar.
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It wasn't long before higher authorities got involved, starting with king george's the george the first right own royal household.
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Oh boy, the king, likely imagining either a divine miracle or an outrageous fraud, he didn't know which dispatched two men to investigate mary's claims.
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Okay, the first, nathaniel saint andre.
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Okay, he was swiss-born, a surgeon to the king and eager to make a scientific name for himself.
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Sure, the second was samuel molly new molly mu molly neo with an n oh okay, secretary to the prince of wales and assumingly along to keep things honest, like he was, he was the, the level-headed, yeah, kind of like the spotter, yeah, like hey, let's, let's dial this back a minute so okay, saint andre and molly knew arrived november 15th 1726, and they were astounded with huh mary is in labor again weird this time with her 15th rabbit and and no one thought to ask like who are you mating with?
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the moment these men walked in, mary promptly delivered several more dead baby rabbits right before their very eyes.
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Mary is probably like oh, they're here, okay, cue later push and no one thought it was weird that they all were dead.
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I mean, I don't know because they were dead when they went up there.
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I hope she died of some weird disease that she got because she shoved dead animals in her hooch.
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So the investigators got to work examining the specimens.
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Of course.
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St Andre scrutinized the rabbits' lungs and organs, and what he found was somewhat puzzling to him.
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The anatomy didn't add up for creatures supposedly gestated inside a human womb.
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Right the rabbits seem perfectly normal, which should have been a red flag.
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But St Andre, perhaps blinded by the allure of having discovered this medical marvel, leaned a little bit more into the mythical explanation, which is just stupid People can't have rabbits.
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He declared Mary's case genuine.
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Oh, what a fucking idiot.
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People can fuck like rabbits, just can't have rabbits like rabbits so saint andre hurried back to london to present the evidence to the king and the prince of wales fucking moron.
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So not everyone was easily convinced.
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Even king george decided to send a man for a second opinion I hope so and that is syriacus aylers I believe you, a german-born surgeon from his own court, okay allers, arrived in november and observed mary himself.
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Sure enough, she produced even more rabbit bits in his presence weird but aylers noticed things that he was.
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He was, he did something wasn't right, something's awesome yeah he wasn't right.
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Mary seemed to fake contractions whenever she thought no one was watching closely.
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Yeah, he also saw that john howard, the man midwife, guarded mary like a hawk and was oddly reluctant to let others assist in delivering, and suspicious ailers quietly pocketed some of the animal.
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Remains to study later.
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Yeah, so he could look at them without other prying eyes and be like Exactly.
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So back in London he performed a straightforward analysis that should have ended the whole charade.
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He examined the contents and dissected the rabbit's guts.
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Okay, lo and behold, the stomach and intestines can be bits of straw, hay and corn.
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Those who might nibble in a barnyard, yep, not certainly found in human womb in a human womb correct, because they wouldn't have had access to that yet.
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Yeah, so so, unless mary's belly came with an all-you-can-eat fucking salad bar and I think it did this was hard proof that the rabbits weren't developed inside her body no so aylers reported to the king that once he suspected of a hoax it likely penetrated.
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I can't even say the word.
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We're just gonna move on from no, you have to say no penetration.
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Why can't you say that word?
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I'm just going to move on.
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All right, let's penetrate to the next topic.
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This put St Andre, the Swiss surgeon, and Howard, the surgeon man midwife, into an awkward position.
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Well, right, because they had gone all in.
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They bought into this nonsense and they're like oh wait, this isn't real, mm-hmm.
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Fuck, st Andre sprang into damage control mode.
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Sure, he convinced the eminent London physician, sir Richard Manningham, a fashionable high society doctor, to come examine Mary as well.
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Manningham did so.
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He immediately found the whole thing fishy Fishy.
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On one occasion he watched Mary deliver something that looked like a hog's bladder.
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Okay, that was not normal obstetrics nope manningham privately voiced his doubts, but howard and andre urged him to stay quiet until they had definitive proof of fraud right perhaps, perhaps hoping to save their reputations in return.
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Right Excuse me.
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Right by late November 1726, mary Toft had been brought to London, specifically to a bathhouse repurposed as her own personal maternity ward.
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Oh God, and her bunny births became the biggest show in town.
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So how did?
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Okay.
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Londoners flocked to see this miraculous rabbit lady, I feel like you should have said they hopped to see anyways under saint andre's proud supervision.
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The woman was prodded and monitored around the clock.
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Every creature in town, both men and women, wanted to see her.
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Blah blah, blah, blah blah.
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She was a one-woman carnival, correct and, of course, freak show and of course, the media was involved pamphlets, newsletters, right, all about mary's condition of course, because they wanted to sell their shit early december yes all of a sudden, no new rabbits.
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Weird, it seemed to.
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It seemed that the supply of rabbits ran out, ran out.
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Yeah, I wonder why?
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Because she wasn't in her rabbit fertile area anymore she, her health was deteriorating I hope so.
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She's a fucking idiot she developed a nasty infection she spiked a fever.
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She had intimate fits where she would convulse and even lose consciousness.
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Right and a breaking point came on December 4th 1726.
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A porter employed at the bathhouse a man named Thomas Howard no relation to John Howard the man-midwife was caught red-handed trying to sneak a fucking small rabbit into Mary Toph's quarters.
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So she had a.
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What's the word?
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I'm looking for A helper Fuck.
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Why can't I remember the word I'm looking for A helper Fuck.
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Why can't I remember the word I'm looking for?
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God damn it.
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Yeah, we'll go with helper, because that's an elegant word.
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The porter confessed that Mary's sister-in-law had bribed him to smuggle the tiniest rabbit he could find into her room.
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The physicians assembled, avengers assemble.
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They summoned Sir Thomas Clarks Clarks, a justice of the peace, to come immediately Right.
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Clarks interrogated Mary on the spot, okay, and Mary was like nope, this is true how could she still fucking stand by that?
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for two days.
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Mary toughed it out, refusing to confess.
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But sir richard manningham had a trick up his sleeve.
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On december 7th, in front of mary, he ominously threatened to perform a surgical examination of her uterus to see if she was somehow built differently, because m Mary couldn't produce any more rabbits and there was a scalpel coming for her uterus.
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It was a little bit too much for Mary and she confessed.
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Rightly so, because it was all a fucking lie.
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She wanted attention, she wanted to try and make a name for herself and or money or whatever, because she was a poor single mother with three kids.
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Yes, what happened to dad?
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I don't know.
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Me either.
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Mary admitted that since her miscarriage months earlier, she had some helpers.
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Sure Planting animal parts in her body.
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Her poor kids weren't involved in this.
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Were they?
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I don't know?
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I hope not, because that'd be fucking weird I'm hoping it was just the adults I, I'm hoping so too, but but we're talking dead baby rabbit, rabbits, bits of chicken guts, pig splatter too, and even some cat legs.
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Then she'd fake labor did they not know that the cat legs don't look like rabbits?
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then she'd fake labor scream a bit and dramatically deliver them like she was the world's weirdest magician.
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Mary's confession was messy all over the place.
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One version she blamed a mysterious traveling woman who told her that the stunt would make her rich, and another she dragged her mother-in-law and poor dr howard, the man midwife, into the mess.
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She bounced between being a victim, the mastermind, and the just doing what I was told kind of a little woman.
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She was a dumb shit mary toft was desperate, she lost.
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Desperate, she lost a pregnancy, was trapped in, saw a bizarre, disgusting way to possibly earn some money blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, yep, yep, but it worked.
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She fooled top doctors For a while and royal doctors For a while.
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For a while.
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Yeah, yes.
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So did she actually make any money off of this?
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No, see exactly.
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On December 9th 1726, mary was charged under an ancient statute, under Edward III, as a quote, vile cheat and imposter.
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End quote Okay and thrown into Bridewell Prison in Westminster.
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Nice.
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And even in jail she was still a sideshow.
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It was rumored that the guards let curious Londoners like pay to see her as, like an exhibit she's the infamous rabbit woman.
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So but once he, once that all calmed down, the joke wasn't honestly, entirely, entirely on the medical establishment yeah, for sure no one suffered more than nathaniel saint andre, the king surgeon, who has so enthusiastically validated this hoax.
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Just four days before mary confessed, saint andre had proudly published a 40-page pamphlet titled a short narrative of an extraordinary deliver of rad bets detailing detailing mary's case.
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Saint andre had taken stories mary's story at face value, bend over backwards to justify.
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He included mary's explanations about the rabbit dreams and and the cravings and in complete, full detail did she really want carrots while she was pregnant?
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oh jesus, how, how could you buy so hard into that?
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You know, I understand, this is 300 years ago, but holy fuck, seriously saint andre instantly became the butt of countless jokes as he is rightly so yeah, and he, his career took a nosedive and by the next year he resigned in disgrace.
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About four months in prison, uh, and a couple of court appearances.
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Mary was ultimate released in april 1727, without formal trial or punishment, really.
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Mary went back to her hometown where, remarkably, she lived out the rest of her days quietly, until 1763 oh wow, she even had another real human child.
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Did she really?
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And a few years later, as if to prove that her reproductive system was done, the rabbit business was for good.
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That is the story of Mary Toft and her rabbit delivery sensation.
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Did she name that next kid Peter?
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I really hope she did.
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Maybe cottontail and then netzo.
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What a fucking psychopath.
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Yeah, why are people so dumb?
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so I remember last weekend when we were kind of working on our computers at the same time and I said to myself oh, that's an origin of weird story.
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If I ever heard one, that's what this one was wow, that is great, because, yeah, what a psychopath what a psycho like how could you think you could get away with that?
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to be like, honestly, you're basically just pissing out bunny parts.
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Yeah, that's all you're really doing.
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You're shoving it up in your hoo-ha being like push it out.
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It sounds so gnarly it's because it's gross as fuck.
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Yes, you're shoving dead animal up your hoo-ha.
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Wow, how did she think she was gonna get away with that?
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I wonder what influencers these days would go to what?
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What lengths would they go to to be viral?
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