The Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: a bird’s-eye view of the courtyard.
The lie:
Engraving by T. Bowles after L. P. Boitard, 1753.
The truth:
Pieces of the world's brick construction that survived the destruction.
Used after the destruction as a foundling hospital.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, "foundling hospitals" operated across Europe and North America.
Their stated purpose was to receive infants anonymously, usually through a device known as the foundling wheel, a rotating wooden hatch that allowed babies to be left and found on it.
The foundling wheel may have offered a simple explanation for what was never meant to be questioned.
These institutions were seen as "charitable" ...
The "children" were recorded without names, without witnesses, and without any effort to trace their origin.
In some regions, the number of infants taken in remained very very high.
There was no external verification, no way to know if the children had truly come from outside ...
The lie:
Engraving by T. Bowles after L. P. Boitard, 1753.
The truth:
Pieces of the world's brick construction that survived the destruction.
Used after the destruction as a foundling hospital.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, "foundling hospitals" operated across Europe and North America.
Their stated purpose was to receive infants anonymously, usually through a device known as the foundling wheel, a rotating wooden hatch that allowed babies to be left and found on it.
The foundling wheel may have offered a simple explanation for what was never meant to be questioned.
These institutions were seen as "charitable" ...
The "children" were recorded without names, without witnesses, and without any effort to trace their origin.
In some regions, the number of infants taken in remained very very high.
There was no external verification, no way to know if the children had truly come from outside ...
Aren't cabbage kids stories just lies hinting that children arrive through hidden means, wrapped in stories rather than lineage and no need to question it too deeply?
Aren't changelings and cabbage kids just stories to hide the fabrication process of entities?
A changeling was supposed to be a changed child: a child stolen by spirits and replaced with something that only looked human which cried incessantly, left in its cradle wrapped in moss or leaves.
Or the convenient stories of boys who came from cabbage patches and girls from rose bushes, a fantasy which turned secrecy into magic.
A changeling was supposed to be a changed child: a child stolen by spirits and replaced with something that only looked human which cried incessantly, left in its cradle wrapped in moss or leaves.
Or the convenient stories of boys who came from cabbage patches and girls from rose bushes, a fantasy which turned secrecy into magic.
World’s fairs and amusement parks were the remains of the previous burnt down brick world.
There, in the late 1890s, supposedly "premature infants" were placed on display in glass incubators for visitors to observe, supposedly "abandoned babies" from the evill mankind ...
These were babies with no names ...
Presented not as kin, but as curiosities ...
The baby in the machine had no past and no one seemed troubled by that.
There, in the late 1890s, supposedly "premature infants" were placed on display in glass incubators for visitors to observe, supposedly "abandoned babies" from the evill mankind ...
These were babies with no names ...
Presented not as kin, but as curiosities ...
The baby in the machine had no past and no one seemed troubled by that.