| Description Of Item | Small cutting from newspaper or journal (publication unknown) titled ‘Demonomania in Women’. Details the case of an unnamed woman admitted to hospital believing that she was being pursued by ‘spirits’, and that she had been impregnated by the devil. The woman was diagnosed with ovarian dropsy (swelling caused by fluid build-up) and gave birth to a child which she had to be prevented from strangling.
From the collection of Thomas Laycock. |