
CLASSIC: When People Thought They Were Made of Glass
Ridiculous History
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The Glass Delusion
There are quite a few cases of glass delusion up into the 1800s, 1880s in the footnotes of a Cervantes' tomb called the Glass Graduate. Peter Ilyich Chikovsky has some of his actions that led people to think that he was suffering something similar to the glass delusion at least in terms of his perception of his fragility. He had this deep set, dead certain belief that if he did not hold his chin while he was conducting, that his head would fall off physically, just fall off. In fact, he had said himself that he felt his headWould fall sideways unless he constantly fought to keep it upright,. So he was scared to conduct. And he also
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