Episode 22: Black Bread, Water and Horses

LiveScience: The Mystery of Kasper Hauser

mental_floss: The Mysterious Life and Death of Kasper Hauser

feral children

The British Psychological Society: Mirror writing
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov: Mirror writing: neurological reflections on an unusual phenomenon by G. D. Schott

Philip Henry, 4th Earl of Stanhope

Wilhelmina Powlett, Duchess of Cleveland, neé Stanhope

Referenced and quoted

• Lost Prince: The Unsolved Mystery of Kaspar Hauser by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
• Mysteries of the Unexplained, ed. Carroll C. Calkins
• Caspar Hauser: An Account of an Individual Kept in a Dungeon…Drawn Up From Legal Documents by Anselm von Feuerbach (1832)
• Tracts Relating to Casper Hauser by Philip Henry Stanhope (1836)
• The True History of Kasper Hauser From Official Documents by Wilhemina Stanhope Powlett, Duchess of Cleveland
• The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog and Other Stories From a Child Psychiatrist’s Notebook by Bruce D. Perry
• Historical Mysteries by Andrew Lang
• Velocity by Dean Koontz
• Audible suggestion for this episode: a true crime book about another young person who was suddenly, briefly famous…then not, and it also did not go well: One Breath Away: The Hiccup Girl–From Media Darling To Convicted Killer by M. William Phelps (audio version, Kindle, paperback)

Books listed in episode that reference Kasper Hauser, or have Hauser as a character

• Billy Budd by Herman Melville
• Pierre: or, The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
• The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville
• “Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind” or “Beautiful” by Hans Christian Andersen
• Sinister Barrier by Eric Frank Russell
• “Come and Go Mad” by Frederic Brown
• “The Portal in the Picture” by Henry Kuttner
• Glory Road by Robert Heinlein
• “The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World” by Harlan Ellison
• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
• Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornsby

All books have been added to the podcast’s Goodreads bookshelf.

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