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Thursday, December 31, 2009

Bad News From the Past / We're Old Like a Natural Woman

Posted by Cliff Doerksen on 12.31.09 at 09:30 AM

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The Chicago Inter-Ocean, July 17, 1888. Rural "wild woman" items like this were a nationwide perennial feature in late-19th century newspapers.

This item is pretty typical, except that it doesn't specify whether she was naked (usually the case) or clad in some impressively primitive costume of skins, furs, or rags. But the standard functions of the sorority are to A) scare the hell out of the women and children and B) elude capture by a posse of menfolk. I've got oodles more of these in the "Wild women" thread over at The Hope Chest.

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It's a truly ancient tradition:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maenad

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Posted by Thomas Westgard on 12/31/2009 at 2:36 PM

Betcha Joseph Smith could have told us when and how they reached America.

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Posted by Cliff Doerksen on 12/31/2009 at 4:28 PM
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