Famous Impostors

Bram Stoker spent his last years collecting history's great frauds: pretenders to thrones, alchemists and witch-finders, the Tichborne Claimant — and the strange Cotswold legend that Queen Elizabeth was really a boy.

Mother Damnable

4 cases in this part of Famous Impostors.

Mother Damnable

OWING to a want of accord among historians, the searcher after historic truth in our own day can hardly be quite sure of the identity of…

Mother Damnable: Town

Before the railways were organised the great wheeled and horse-traffic between London and the North-especially Yorkshire which was one of…

Mother Damnable: Jinny

Jinny was tried for murder, but escaped on the plea that the man often took refuge in the oven when he wished to get beyond reach of the…

Mother Damnable: Devil

Willing hands administered some of this to the black cat, whose hair, within a very short time, fell off. The cat forthwith died. Then the…

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