{"id":6711,"date":"2017-07-19T18:24:51","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T23:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=6711"},"modified":"2023-12-10T20:15:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T02:15:56","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-july-19-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=6711","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For July 19, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Most Unnatural Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/h3>\n

Joan Petersen, a healer, was suspected of being a witch. She was “searched again in a most unnatural and barbarous manner by four women” supplied by her accusers, who found “a teat of flesh in her secret parts more than other women usually had.” After bribed witnesses testified against her, she was executed.<\/p>\n

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Searching an accused women’s body for the devil’s teat was one of the chief proofs of witchcraft. Though the investigation was normally done by women (and not done gently, as Joan Peterson’s\u00a0case demonstrates), the sessions were often witnessed by male court officials. When the constable of Salisbury, New Hampshire, undressed Eunice Cole to be whipped for witchcraft, he saw “under one of her breasts… a Blew thing like unto a teat\u00a0hanging downward about three quarters of an inche longe not very thick.” Men standing by saw him “rip her shift down”; moving in closer, they affirmed that Eunice “violently scratched it away,” implying that she tried to remove the evidence from her body. When women were appointed to examine her further, they found instead “a place in her leg which was proveable wher she Had bin sucktt by Imps.”<\/p>\n

Culled from:\u00a0Witchcraze: A New History of the European Witch Hunts<\/a><\/p>\n

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Corpse Du Jour!<\/h3>\n

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\nMiss Elizabeth Cooper in Coffin
\nAnonymous, Geneva, New York
\n2 3\/4″ x 3 1\/4″ Daguerrerotype
\ncirca 1843<\/p>\n

Culled from:\u00a0\u00a0Sleeping Beauty: Memorial Photography in America<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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