But she too is in hiding from a criminal past; her real name is Beate Pappenheim, a sham Bavarian stigmatic who, using her menstrual blood to simulate Christ's wounds on the cross .
As recently as 1959 a newspaper expos showed that Georgia's only mental hospital, saddled with the stigmatic name of State Hospital for the Insane at Milledgeville, was a .
She is a natural creature of obedience, stoic when the time comes to pin on the stigmatic yellow badge.