A woman who claimed the ability to live without eating. According to Moore\u2019s own account, in 1807 she decided that she could not stand to eat any more.<\/p>\n
Moore became the subject of some curiosity. Pamphlets written about her speculated that she had learned to live off air. A few suggested that she was eating secretly when no one was looking. In September 1809, a group of neighbors decided to test her. They watched Moore for 16 days, changing shifts hourly. At the end, they all testified that she had received no food. Moore gained a set of loyal supporters and her fame spread. In 1813 further tests revealed Moore as a fraud. She finally confessed the hoax she had been living, describing all the means she and her family had devised in order to pass food to her. The observations of Moore called claims of extended fasting into question and also help account for the lack of such claims in the last century.<\/p>\n
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A woman who claimed the ability to live without eating. According to Moore\u2019s own account, in 1807 she decided that she could not stand to eat any more. Moore became the subject of some curiosity. Pamphlets written about her speculated that she had learned to live off air. A few suggested that she was eating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a"],"yoast_head":"\n