Beachcombed 70 April 1, 2016
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Dear Reader, Last month of uni work makes April the worst month and the next week will be the worst week of the worst month. Up at 4 and sleep on the train… 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.
This coming month an English fairy tree and Foch’s peace, the Republic of Seven Islands and General Winter…
Creepy Scythian Graves: Chris from Haunted Ohio Books with beautiful Scythian horse trappings and Ruth snorts (she has a point)…
Dead Hands, Live Wens: Chris from Haunted Ohio Books with parallels and Diana B on witching off warts
Earliest Cargo Cult: Alan L with an inspired alien/cargo cult parallel…
Ergot Madness in Historians: Bruce T, Richard and some twitter friends on everything from why quakers quake to homebrewed beer…
From the Mahogany Ship to Mons Badonicus: Lanark on the real site of Mons Badonicus…
Greeks in Buddhist India? Mauro C brings in Greek influence on Buddhism and JK asks a question…
Hitler and Hindenburg: I missed a golden story from within the church, thanks to Dennis and LTM…
Horror and Gore in Children’s Histories: Clive on some other ghastly pictures, the stuff of childhood nightmares…
Irish Colony in Medieval Spain: LC with other evidence of Irish Galician links…
Killer Cameras: Chris S with a video and Bruce T on Amerindians and cameras…
Moro Seance: Bruce T. on Patty Hearst…
Rainbow Enema: Bruce T. on choice of drug…
Real Magic Ring: An American Reader discusses modern pagan rings, and KMH looks back and Invisible with parallels…
Richard and Saladin’s Swords: Chris S with another story…
Romans in Nineteenth Century Wales?! Chris S has some fun with philology and LTM with a gold mine…
Searching for the Author of ‘Do Not Stand at My Grave’: Patty writes in and knocks down a couple of theories…
Sister Trouble: Bast with some unusual Welsh sisters…
The Clock Trick: Ruth on the size of cherry trees…
The Honey Baby: Lehmansterms with some lovely examples of ancient food being eaten in modern times and Chris from Haunted Ohio Books with an amazing Victorian parallel…
The Missing Autobiography of Mario Esposito: An Italian Classics professor reports his failure to track the book down…
The Vanishing Car: Ruth with a modern video, Bruce T on the depression and James H with an appalling song…
Thoughts on Poltergeists from Harry Price: Barry, Bruce and Alan all take issues with HP in different ways…
Total Eclipse: Lanark points out that Enid Blyton did the eclipse thing too…
Turkish in Cambodia? Bruce T with the most convincing answer yet…
Witch Bone Breaking? Linda from the Anomalist with the date and original text, Bruce T with wider folklore…
