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# Episode 22: Black Bread, Water and Horses
- URL: https://there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast.ghost.io/episode-22-black-bread-water-horses/
- Published: 2017-11-02T20:35:44.000Z
- Updated: 2025-02-03T15:55:42.000Z
- Author: Carla Pettigrew
- Tags: Newsletter, #Migrated-1738597973835, #Import 2025-02-03 15:53

[LiveScience: The Mystery of Kasper Hauser](https://www.livescience.com/44375-the-mystery-of-kaspar-hauser.html)

[mental\_floss: The Mysterious Life and Death of Kasper Hauser](http://mentalfloss.com/article/63898/mysterious-life-and-death-kaspar-hauser)

[feral children](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral%5Fchild)

[The British Psychological Society: Mirror writing](https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-25/edition-10/mirror-writing)  
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov: [Mirror writing: neurological reflections on an unusual phenomenon](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2117809/) by G. D. Schott

[Philip Henry, 4th Earl of Stanhope](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%5FHenry%5FStanhope,%5F4th%5FEarl%5FStanhope)

[Wilhelmina Powlett, Duchess of Cleveland, neé Stanhope](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelmina%5FPowlett,%5FDuchess%5Fof%5FCleveland)

#### Referenced and quoted

- [Lost Prince: The Unsolved Mystery of Kaspar Hauser](http://amzn.to/2Aa44Fj) by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
- [Mysteries of the Unexplained](https://amzn.to/33Dklna), ed. Carroll C. Calkins
- [Caspar Hauser: An Account of an Individual Kept in a Dungeon…Drawn Up From Legal Documents](https://books.google.com/books?id=sYkPAAAAYAAJ&printsec=titlepage#v=onepage&q&f=false) by Anselm von Feuerbach (1832)
- [Tracts Relating to Casper Hauser](https://amzn.to/3slusq2) by Philip Henry Stanhope (1836)
- [The True History of Kasper Hauser From Official Documents](https://archive.org/details/truestoryofkaspa00clevrich) by Wilhemina Stanhope Powlett, Duchess of Cleveland
- [The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog and Other Stories From a Child Psychiatrist’s Notebook](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780465094455) by Bruce D. Perry
- [Historical Mysteries](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781514899946) by Andrew Lang
- [Velocity](http://amzn.to/2z8wf7p) by Dean Koontz
- [Audible](http://audibletrial.com/mightbecupcakes) suggestion for this episode: a true crime book about another young person who was suddenly, briefly famous…then not, and it also did not go well: One Breath Away: The Hiccup Girl–From Media Darling To Convicted Killer by M. William Phelps ([audio version](http://amzn.to/2ze6owJ), [Kindle](https://amzn.to/2NWBWR7), [paperback](http://amzn.to/2ztdY7T))

#### Books listed in episode that reference Kasper Hauser, or have Hauser as a character

- [Billy Budd](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780451530813) by Herman Melville
- [Pierre: or, The Ambiguities](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780140434842) by Herman Melville
- [The Confidence-Man](http://amzn.to/2xS6CGu) by Herman Melville
- “Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind” or “Beautiful” by [Hans Christian Andersen](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780393060812)
- [Sinister Barrier](https://amzn.to/3kpfRXt) by Eric Frank Russell
- [“Come and Go Mad” by Frederic Brown](http://amzn.to/2z8Ley5)
- [“The Portal in the Picture” by Henry Kuttner](https://amzn.to/3slGaAN)
- [Glory Road](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780765312228) by Robert Heinlein
- “The Prowler in the City at the Edge of the World” by [Harlan Ellison](http://amzn.to/2zfdqSc)
- [Middlesex](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780312427733) by Jeffrey Eugenides
- [Juliet, Naked](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781594484773) by Nick Hornsby

All books have been added to [the podcast’s Goodreads bookshelf.](https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/2800966-carla?shelf=there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast)

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