Marzia Mascolino
Svetlana Lavrova
Martha Nasch (1890-1970), from Belle Plaine, Minnesota, was a first-generation German-American who claimed to have gone without food or drink for extended periods of time and was subsequently called “insane,” “derided,” and later, a “hoax.”
After surviving six and a half years of unwanted treatment at an asylum, including attempts to force feed her, three eyewitness accounts given after her release affirmed her statements.
As a result, Martha became a media sensation, but she knew the world would not believe her.
Unfortunately, common terms about Breatharian practices were not in use during Martha’s time of outspokenness, nor was sufficient medical knowledge about her strange condition available for her to consult.
Email: Janelle.Molony@yahoo.com
Web: www.JanelleMolony.com
After surviving six and a half years of unwanted treatment at an asylum, including attempts to force feed her, three eyewitness accounts given after her release affirmed her statements.
As a result, Martha became a media sensation, but she knew the world would not believe her.
Unfortunately, common terms about Breatharian practices were not in use during Martha’s time of outspokenness, nor was sufficient medical knowledge about her strange condition available for her to consult.
Speaker:
Janelle Molony, M.S.L., a family historian and award-winning author, recently published her great-grandmother Martha Nasch’s poetry, written from an American insane asylum of the 1920s.Email: Janelle.Molony@yahoo.com
Web: www.JanelleMolony.com
