 Manningham examined Toft and thought something remained in the cavity of her uterus , and so he successfully persuaded <unk> to allow her to remain at the bagnio . Douglas , who had by then visited Toft , questioned her on three or four occasions , each time for several hours . After several days of this Manningham threatened to perform a painful operation on her , and on 7 December , in the presence of Manningham , Douglas , John Montagu and Frederick Calvert , Toft finally confessed . Following her miscarriage and while her cervix permitted access , an accomplice had inserted into her womb the claws and body of a cat , and the head of a rabbit . They had also invented a story in which Toft claimed that during her pregnancy and while working in a field , she had been startled by a rabbit , and had since become obsessed with rabbits . For later <unk> , animal parts had been inserted into her vagina . 
