Episode 22: Black Bread, Water and Horses
LiveScience: The Mystery of Kasper Hauser
mental_floss: The Mysterious Life and Death of Kasper Hauser
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
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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