The Magic Circle & Hoaxes in History
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The Silver Tongued Hoaxers
I like to think of as hoaxs being relatively benign, at least in in principle anyway. Although that often doesn't work out in fact. So i admire most of the people who perpetrated the hoaxes unless it was very revengeful which a couple certainly were. I mean, a couple of them almost resulted in people being hanged as a result of the hoax. But a mary toff, this wonderful woman who claimed that she was giving birth to rabbits. You know, she was a poor peasant woman, and i think the reason she perpetrated the hoax was probably one of the very few ones which was financially motivated. She hoped that maybe she would become a bit of a minni celebrity
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