Explore: Trials (impostors And Imposture)

imposture. Several years after Martin Guerre had left his wife, child and village, a man claiming to be him appeared. He lived with Guerre's wife and

1927. In the trial, the court ruled that his imposture had been harmless and he was acquitted of the charges. Domela's book sold well, and soon he had

sheer improbability that anyone could conceive such an imposture from scratch, at such a distance, and then implement it: "[I]t was carrying effrontery beyond

film directed by Daniel Vigne [fr], and starring Gérard Depardieu and Nathalie Baye. It was based on a case of imposture in 16th century France, involving

commonly issued in cases of imposture). The False Olaf tells us the names of his parents (Wolf and, ironically, Margrete) and that he was an immigrant to

the fate of the family allowed impostors to make spurious claims that they were a surviving Romanov. Most of the impostors were dismissed, but Anna Anderson's

Tichborne fortunes by imposture. The verdict of the jury in Regina versus Castro (1873–74) was that Castro was not Roger Tichborne, and that he was Arthur

state court in Leipzig sentenced him to four years in jail for repeated imposture and forgery of documents. He has said he was diagnosed with narcissistic

Bibhabati Devi later regarded this as a divinely ordained punishment for imposture. She later refused the inheritance (Rs. 800000) coming from the estate

then Parsons was in an extremely difficult—and serious—situation. Keen to prove the ghost was not an imposture he allowed his daughter to be examined at