The Welsh Fasting Girl

Archive: Psychics & Other Frauds

Hailed as a mystic, decried as a fraud, did Sarah Jacob die of an eating disorder? Sian Busby gets to the heart of a 19th-century battle between science and faith in A Wonderful Little Girl: The True Story of the Welsh Fasting Girl

The link between a whole range of wasting conditions in young girls and stimulation of the genitals was widely accepted

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