Insanity
Examples of insanity show delusions that distort reality in humorous and tragic ways.
Examples of. A Bourbon prince thought himself dead, and refused to eat until his friends invited him to dine with Turenne and other French heroes long since departed. There was a tradesman who thought he was a seven-shilling piece; and advertised himself thus, — "If my wife presents me for payment, don't change me." Bishop Warburton tells of a man who thought himself a goosepie; and Dr. Farriday of Manchester had a patient who thought he had swallowed the Devil. In Paris, there lived a man who thought he had, with others, been guillotined, and, when Napoleon was emperor, their heads were all restored; but, in the scramble, he got the wrong one. Dr. Haven.