Talk:Fasting girl

original research tag
I tagged a section of this article as "original research" because it goes off on a couple of tangents, first talking about fasting girls in the 1980s (without any examples), and then a paragraph of original research with no citations about annorexia in victorian society which, if anything, should be its own article. -- Luvcraft (talk) 21:50, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Mollie Fancher
It says currently "as a result of the accidents," she lost her sense of sight, etc. What accidents? We need elaboration or a cite (or preferably both) here. Potential source: http://mentalfloss.com/article/51477/true-stories-4-victorian-fasting-girls LegalTech (talk) 15:20, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

Not sure how to insert this, but the Lore podcast has an episode featuring Mollie Fancher, https://www.lorepodcast.com/episodes/92 --David Breakey (talk) 15:12, 18 August 2018 (UTC)

correctness of dates
"A tragic case was that of Sarah Jacob (May 12, 1857-December 17, 1869), the "Welsh fasting girl", who claimed not to have eaten any food at all after the age of twelve." This sentence is confusing, after all, she died at age 12, too. These sources (http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/wales/posts/sarah_jacobs_the_fasting_girl, http://www.welshlegalhistory.org/research-jacob-trial-report.php) speaks about her stopping to eat at age 10. Might this be the correct version? Also, there seems to be contradictory data on the lenght of her final supervised fast. According to (http://www.welshlegalhistory.org/research-jacob-trial-report.php) she died after one week. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.193.192.178 (talk) 12:32, 25 August 2013 (UTC)

Contradictory time frame?
The definition of fasting girls limits them to the Victorian era (1837-1901), but this article includes Therese Neumann (1898–1962), who stopped eating in 1927, as a fasting girl. This seems contradictory, with either one claim or the other being wrong, unless it's based on the technicality that she was born just before the era ended. The definition in the first sentence does not list a citation, and I didn't find a formal one in a casual search, but most texts on the topic of "fasting girls" describe it as a phenomenon of the late 19th century. Agyle (talk) 01:59, 2 June 2014 (UTC)


 * I'm removing the paragraph on Therese Neumann. I found one of the cited sources, and it did not describe her as a fasting girl. The other source is available on Google Books only in "snippet view", and from what snippets I could call up, I also could not find her described as a fasting girl. Agyle (talk) 18:49, 12 June 2014 (UTC)


 * There is no logical reason to limit the definition to Victorian times. No doubt these events were more common then, but there could be cases either side of the Victorian era.101.98.136.126 (talk) 05:24, 20 November 2014 (UTC)