Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1902 — FASTS FOR FIFTY-THREE DAYS [ARTICLE]

FASTS FOR FIFTY-THREE DAYS

Aged Woman Spiritualist Is Unable to Partake of Food. Muncie, Ind., d.spatch: After a fiftythree days’ fast Mrs. Wanda George, who at 81 claims to be the oldest Spiritualist medium, although still alive, is reduced to a skeleton. When she started she was a healthy woman weighing 210 pounds. While living in Chicago five years ago she prophesied she would soon be stricken blind| Now she is the victim of a strange disease which has baffled the skill of all available specialists. She fasts not because she wants to, but because she is physically incapable of taking any'Tood.