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This list is curated from 1 mentions and sorted by most mentioned, then by date of most recent mention. The more a book is mentioned, the more likely it's recommended and a favorite!
In the US, one of the bestselling books of the 1830s was an anti-Catholic hoax called Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, which claimed that so-called "black nuns" were forcing initiates to have debauched sex with local priests, and that the resulting babies were baptized, strangled, and buried in secret tombs beneath the convent.View source
