Half-Hanged
Rime: Stories About Poetry
English - March 30, 2022 19:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsHistory poetry poems rhyme poets storytelling weird strange history tales rime Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In 1724 Margaret Dickson was sentenced to death for alleged infanticide, hanged from a gibbet in the Grassmarket in Edinburgh, pronounced dead—and then woke up a few hours later complaining of a sore neck. She was scorned in street ballads and cheap printed broadsides, only to be celebrated in verse in our own time. She was known as “Half-Hanged Maggie.”