An egg's worth of education

[msmcknittington]

Sixteenth century friends: I'm trying to remember something about the persecutions of Protestants and Anglicans under Mary Tudor in the 1550s. I seem to recall an, uh, anecdote about a pregnant woman being burned for heresy who gave birth to a son in the flames, and the baby was then flung back onto the fire.

Ring any bells? Is that even the right time and place? It might have been a French witch burning, too. And the baby might have been rescued from the fire.

I bet ciorstan would know.

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[msmcknittington.livejournal.com]

That's it! I knew I wasn't hallucinating. I'm glad somebody's brain was more reliable than mine.

Mary Tudor was all sorts of messed up. Even if you forget the religious madness, you still had the baby-on-the-brain crazy, too. Of course, considering how messed up her family life was, it's probably understandable that she'd be a little nuts.