This week Abby and Alan talk through the history of the belief in full moon madness and "lunatics."
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Sources
Pagan Grimoire article by Rebecca Swanner: Moon Gods and Goddesses: Deities of Lunar Magic and Mysticism
Etymonline article on the history of the word Lunatic
NASA article on Moon Phases
History.com article by Melinda Beck on European Wolf Trials
PubMed Studies:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1454923/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25756232/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8924138/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17256692/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31012946/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26498230/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33571126/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10363673/
Fred Sebastian, "Bad Moon Rising: The Persistent Belief in Lunar Connections to Madness," CMAJ (2005). This is particularly useful because it covers Paracelsus, Blackstone, Bethlem, John Haslam, and Benjamin Rush.
Nigel Walker, "The Insanity Defense before 1800," The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (1985), for the history of insanity and criminal responsibility in English law.
TIME, "Miscellany: Lunatic," March 7, 1932, for the Else Flothmeier case.
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