Seen only at midnight

October 17, 2009 – 6:34 am
Posted in Lusus naturae, Wild women

half Atlanta Constitution, October 13, 1886. Turns out these rural wild-woman items were perennial and ubiquitous in the late 19th century, when monster-gals apparently lurked behind every other corncrib. I now have more of these stories than I ever could ever hope to use in this lifetime (and that’s even if we do all survive the Mayan apocalypse in 2012). I cannot use them all because they mostly describe the very same feral gal: naked, prodigiously athletic, indiscriminately carnivorous and terrifying to the local menfolk.

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- Jackie
- Posted October 17, 2009 at 2:25 pm
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This article seems to make it clear that this woman only appears at/after midnight. What kind of church does Mr. Hays attend if he’s coming home from church at midnight? Or did they have a different definition of midnight back in 1886?

Also, this one kind of sounds like a cross between a vivid imagination and a cougar (and not the type that goes after younger men, although we can’t be sure of her age from the facts here).
- - mrparallel
  - Posted October 18, 2009 at 12:42 am
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  Midnight is midnight, but we don’t know how long his commute home from church was. And churchy people used to spend a lot more time in church back when church wasn’t obliged to compete with other forms of showbiz.
- quincy
- Posted November 3, 2009 at 6:15 pm
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I’m not convinced that death at the hands , or hooves , of this critter would come by “crushing”.
- mrparallel
- Posted November 3, 2009 at 10:23 pm
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Something closer to “agitation” maybe?

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