Eve Flegen, the Maiden of Meurs, Dutch woman who fasted for 14 years from age 22 to 36, from 1597 to 1611. Eve Fleigen, who lived on the smell of flowers. Hevavllegen tot Meurs. After a portrait in The Protestants and Iesuites up in Armes in Gulicke-land, London, 1611. Lithograph after a stipple engraving by Robert Cooper from Henry Wilson and James Caulfields Book of Wonderful Characters, Memoirs and Anecdotes, of Remarkable and Eccentric Persons in all ages and countries, John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, London, 1869.
Eve Flegen, the Maiden of Meurs, Dutch woman who fasted for 14 years from age 22 to 36, from 1597 to 1611. Eve Fleigen, who lived on the smell of flowers. Hevavllegen tot Meurs. After a portrait in The Protestants and Iesuites up in Armes in Gulicke-land, London, 1611. Lithograph after a stipple engraving by Robert Cooper from Henry Wilson and James Caulfields Book of Wonderful Characters, Memoirs and Anecdotes, of Remarkable and Eccentric Persons in all ages and countries, John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, London, 1869.