Episode 16: Folie a Deux, Part One - The Papin Sisters

Christine and Lea Papin were ordinary, underpaid French maids, right up until the day they brained their employers with a pewter jug and plucked out their eyes with their bare hands. The sisters have gone down in history as one of the most dramatic examples of 'folie a deux', a poorly-understood phenomenon where madness becomes contagious. Tune in this week for discussion of folie a deux, an explanation of why cannibalism is better than eating rabbits, and the invention of the worst children's breakfast cereal ever made.