When People Thought They Were Made of Glass
The Glass Delusion
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8 min readMar 6, 2023
Today’s article goes over a very strange phenomenon in European history. In 1422, King Charles the Sixth died after ruling France for over four decades. He had a couple of different nicknames. One of them was ‘Charles the Mad’.
He may have been the first person to exhibit what is known as the glass delusion.
