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 England. Eventually, she was exposed as a fraud. Mary Toft was born Mary Denyer in 1703 in Godalming, Surrey, which is about 40 miles […]
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