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Her spine was injured, and her nervous system completely deranged. She was able to be about, though ill, until February 3rd, 1866. On the morning of that day … she suddenly shrieked, stood on her toes, and spun around like a top. Then she bent forward, clasped her feet in both hands, and began rolling about the kitchen floor like a hoop. She was carried to her bed, and didn’t leave it for fifty years and eight days, until she died, on February 11, 1916.
Details about the day-to-day lives of fasting girls such as Mollie Fancher are, perhaps unsurprisingly, quite difficult to come by. There are accounts of Fancher going into “trances” lasting weeks, months or even years—the previously quoted Herbert Asbury claimed she spent nine years in a psychic trance in, while other accounts of Fancher mention nothing of the sort.
Self-starvation wasn’t only being promoted in this period by religious fundamentalists and spiritualist charlatans, however. Doctors with legitimate medical licenses were also pushing dangerous starvation treatments, while new, pseudoscientific movements were cropping up that blended fasting with New Age-style hucksterism.
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