131. Bizarre Victorian Deaths

This week we take a look at a few bizarre deaths from the Victorian Era. From fits of laughter, to alarm clock mishaps. Our oddity is Tight-Lacing.CONNECT WITH US:https://linktr.ee/mortalmusingspodcastBONUS CONTENT:https://www.patreon.com/MortalMusingsPodcastOFFICIAL MERCH:https://mortalmusingspodcast.com/SUPPORT THE PODCAST:https://buymeacoffee.com/mortalmusingshttps://www.paypal.me/mortalmusingspodcast10% OFF DEAD INSIDE DESIGNhttps://deadinsidedesign.com/?ref=MORTALSources:Newspapers.com:Evening Sentinel:-          31 Dec 1875The Nevada Journal:-          20 Jan 1854The Spirit of Democracy:-          27 Jun 1871The Indianapolis News:-          28 Nov 1893Pontypool Free Press:-          04 Sep 1891The Independent:-          09 Jan 1886https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004102/18930429/068/0004https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0006130/18700807/172/0008https://royalcentral.co.uk/features/the-cigarette-tragedy-that-killed-an-18-year-old-austrian-archduchess-145036/ https://frankensteindiaries.com/assassination-of-empress-sisi-in-geneva/#:~:text=Lucheni%20declared%20at%20his%20trail,was%20whom%20I%20should%20kill.https://www.nytimes.com/1986/08/31/world/relic-of-an-1898-crime-goes-home-to-vienna.htmlhttps://caasbrey.com/obscure-and-mysterious-victoriana/strange-and-unusual-deaths-in-the-19th-century/https://historycollection.com/10-historical-deaths-weirder-than-the-movies/https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-25340525https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20150624-when-fashion-kills#:~:text=In%20her%20book%2C%20Strevens%20says,forced%20to%20shift%20from%20theirhttps://www.charlestonmuseum.org/news-events/killer-fashion-the-consequences-of-corsetry/https://www.geriwalton.com/death-by-corset-and-tight-lacings-in-the-1800s/#_ftn1 https://london-overlooked.com/tyrrell/#:~:text=Her%20origins%20are%20rather%20mysterious,the%20Irish%20ballad%20Kitty%20Tyrrell.https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/smallest-waist-living-personhttps://www.rcseng.ac.uk/library-and-publications/library/blog/effects-of-the-corset/