Miss Neas’s Bones of Contention Doctors and other witnesses reported seeing hundreds of bones working their way through Sarah Neas’s skin
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Chris Woodyard
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March 11, 2017
in Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , Interesting People , medical oddities , News , Scientific Oddities , Strange Bodies , Strange Lives , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged apports , bone disease , bone infection , Dr Benjamin F. Bell , Dr. Charles M. Drake , exfoliation , fairy blast , Fairy Flick , hoaxes , Mary Toft , medical frauds , Miss Neas's Bones of Contention , mystery diseases , Sallie Neas , Sarah Neas , Tennessee forteana
What is a fairy blast? A comparison between a Limerick servant girl struck by a “fairy blast” that turned her into her American-accented sister and the Watseka Wonder case.
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Chris Woodyard
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September 20, 2016
in Death , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , medical oddities , News , Psychic Research , Spiritualism , Strange Lives , Victorian
and tagged fairy blast , Irish fairy belief , Limerick , Lurancy Vennum , Mary Roff , The Fairy Blast , The Watseka Wonder , What is a Fairy Blast?
