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  • Beachcombed 67 January 1, 2016

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    men on beach december

    Dear Reader, thanks as always for all the emails and communications. This month, for the first time in six years, started a book, very excited. Perhaps a cycle is drawing to an end. Christmas was good with friends visiting and a trip to the cinema for the first time in a decade: Star Wars…

    This month includes posts on a rabbit monster from Lancashire, a naked dancing thief and, the post that has followed me into dreams, love-suicide pacts.

    Thanks, as always, to the multiple linkers: Amanda, Invisible, Chris S, Joan, Ricardo, Wade and others. I’ve put the very best contributions below to the posts from this month: the cream follow here.

    Have a brilliant 2016!

    B

    A Romani Mystery in Eleventh-Century England: Dennis L looks for a Roman era explanation…

    Black Rock Ghost Knocks: KMH on knockings in the contemporary US…

    Eating Fido: LTM on the jungle and Bruce on cat meat…

    Folklore Snake Exaggerations from the US: Bruce T with a brilliant garter snake story from church, Chris from Haunted Ohio Books with the reference and JEC with more stories…

    ‘God, I Hate That Field’: Tacitus and Neil H with some classic examples…

    History, Ignorance and American University Students: Norm K on ‘getting history’ and Christopher Col…

    How to Get Rid of a Poltergeist: we have witchcraft, psychology and the Mirror (thanks to Bruce T, KMH and Chris from Haunted Ohio Books)

    Ilse Koch: KMH on a homosexual husband…

    Morris Dancers from Hell: Bruce T traces the Tongo Dancers to their origins…

    Pennsylvania Church Witch Tests a Member:

    Shipwreck Coming: Lanark with an important correction and a baby in a lifeboat…

    Snowball Fight Princeton: Bruce T argues for snowballs against boxing…

    The Army That Was Defeated By A River: Diana Brooks with a striking WW2 example of a bloody ‘unopposed’ landing…

    The Christmas Truce: Invisible, Jim and SM on Hamlet and Christmas hostilities…

    The Wesley Ghost #1: Barry E. on tulpas!!!

    The Word Poltergeist in English: Bruce T. on German migrants (interesting)…

    Two Centuries of Historical Memory? John Mc on a late American Revolutionary Pension, Mike L on Trafalgar memories, LTM on three centuries, and David O on Civil War brides…

    Urban Legend: The Hunger Trick: Mike L brings out Stone Soup…

    White Woman of Bell Island: Michel with a South African parallel…

    Witty Gravestones: JT writes in with a bullet hole gravestone…