Husband’s infidelity, death sentence for hiding pregnancy! Story of that woman who came alive after hanging

Be it the men and women of today’s era or 300 years ago, the feeling of deceit has remained the same in their mind. This is the reason why cases of adultery were heard not only in today’s society, but also in 300-400 years old society, however, they could not be recorded in the pages of history, probably because we do not know about them. But in the history of Scotland (Maggie Dickson Scotland), such a case of adultery is recorded, about which people talk till today, while it is an incident of the 1700s. This is the story of a woman, who during that time was unfaithful to her husband, became the mother of another man’s child and hid her pregnancy (Woman Hanged for Concealing Pregnancy) for fear of being detected. Not telling about being pregnant became so heavy for her that she was sentenced to death, but death could not even turn her hair!

According to the report of the Medium website, there is a bar in Edinburgh, Scotland, where people drink heavily, but hardly today’s youth would know the name of that bar, after which woman. The name of the bar is ‘Maggie Dickson’s Pub’. Actually, Maggie Dixon was a woman from Scotland who is known to have come alive after dying.

was born in scotland
Margaret ‘Maggie’ Dickson was born in Musselburgh, Scotland in the 1700s. In the period in which she was born, the life of women was full of tortures. They had to live under their husbands, their only job was to serve them, give birth to children and bring them up. It was the same in Maggie’s house. The father used to beat the mother and was an alcoholic. Maggi was also married to a fisherman in a similar environment and gave birth to two children. But Maggie did not want to live such a life. Husband was poor, there was no money in the house and Maggie liked freedom, liked luxury. Just for this reason, she planned to trap men with her beauty and collect money from them. The husband was often at sea and Maggie used to go to the nearby area of ​​Edinburgh to sell fish.

Had an affair with other men to earn money
In those days, adultery, affair with other man and abortion were big crimes. In such a period Maggie was earning money by having affair with other men. When her husband got a job in the Navy and he went to sea for a long time, then Maggie had the opportunity to strike a big hand in one go and get married to a rich person. With this thought, she made a plan to go to Newcastle, England and left her two children with a friend. The road from Musselburgh to Newcastle was very difficult. So Maggie stopped once in a while in the middle of the way. The landlady there gave her a job as a waitress, in return she offered to stay and eat. Maggie started living there, everything was going well. While there, she fell in love with the bar owner’s son, whose name was William Bell. That young man knew that Maggi was married, but he also started loving her and the closeness between the two increased a lot.

became the mother of a stranger man’s child
Maggie became pregnant from this relationship. When she came to know about it, she got scared because it was a big crime at that time. She hid her pregnancy from everyone and secretly gave birth to a premature baby. She claimed that her child was born dead, but people believe that she killed the child. Maggi threw the child on the bank of the river but a fisherman saw him doing so. Magee was immediately arrested and imprisoned in Edinburgh. Some people believe that she was arrested under the Concealment of Birth Act, while some say that she was arrested for child murder. During that time, hiding pregnancy was a big crime, because it was considered a method of abortion and it was punishable by death. The case went on Maggi and she was found guilty.

After hanging, when Maggie was being taken for burial, she suddenly sat up from her coffin. (Photo: Twitter/@ChadOConnellArt)

Maggie alive after hanging
He was taken to the Grassmarket, where today Maggi’s bar is named after him. He was hanged there. When criminals were hanged, their bodies were given to the medical school for research, but Maggie’s body was taken by the family for burial. Putting it in the coffin, they were taking it to Musselburgh when suddenly there was a sound of knocking from the coffin. Suddenly Maggie came out of it and everyone was shocked to see her. Actually the hanging was not given properly, due to which he did not die. When this matter reached the court, the judge said that it was Maggie’s luck that she survived. But he has been hanged once, now he cannot be hanged again. Because of this Maggi was left free. People believe that Maggie returned to Musselburgh after being freed, the husband adopted her and then both had many more children. After this incident, she lived for almost 50 years. Because of this strange story of her, people also call her ‘Half-Hangit Maggie Dickson’!

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