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STIGMATA BLOOD CURIO EXHIBIT
STIGMATA is a type of religious frenzy or deep emotions that might have
been the indirect cause of a number of bleeding zealots.
One particular story revolved around a young girl, age 23. On each Thursday morning an
oval surface about one inch in length on the back of each hand became pink in color and
smooth, whilst a similar oval surface on the palm of each hand became the same hue.
Examined under a magnifying glass, the epidermis appeared at first without solution
of continuity and delicate. About noon Thursday a vesicle formed on the pink surfaces
containing clear serum.
In the night between Thursday and Friday, usually between midnight and one o'clock, the
flow of blood lost during the stigmata varied, and some observers estimated it at about
one and three quarter pints.
The blood itself was of a reddish color inclining to violet, about the hue, therefore, of
capillary blood, coagulating in the usual way, and the white and red corpuscles being
normal in character and relative in proportion.
The flow ceased on Saturdays. During the flow of blood the patient wore a pair of white
gloves to hopefully quell the flow of blood, and was in a rapt, ecstatic condition. The
facial expression was of deep absorption and far-off contemplation, changing often to
melancholy, terror, to an attitude of prayer or contrition.
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This beautiful framed exhibit is 14 and 1/4 inches wide by 18 and 1/4 inches tall.
The image area is 9 and 1/2 inches wide by 13 and 1/2 inches tall.
The placard which reads Stigmata is all hand-illustrated using pen-and-ink on vintage paper.
Centered in the middle is a vintage pair of kid gloves trimmed in a type of lace
that was sewn into the design of the gloves.
All of this is sewn onto vintage black velvet, the gloves drenched in real human
blood, all framed in a beautiful brown carved wood frame and is ready to hang in your own
personal dime museum or sideshow.
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