anatomicdeadspace:North America’s first female professional bullfighter Patricia McCormick gored b
anatomicdeadspace: North America’s first female professional bullfighter Patricia McCormick gored by a bull, September 1954, Ciudad Acuña, Mexico. She was gored six times in her career, once so seriously that the last rites were administered by a priest. She described the event to the Los Angeles Times in 1989: “The horn went right up my stomach, the bull carried me around the ring for a minute, impaled on his horns. They gave me the last rites there. The doctor said, ‘Carry her across the border and let her die in her own country.’ ” McCormick survived her career as a bullfighter and retired to take up painting. She would die in 2013 at the age of 83. -- source link