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  • Beachcombed 71 May 1, 2016

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Beachcombed , trackback

    washed up on beach

    Dear Reader, Exhausted after yesterday finishing the last exams. Will drift back into consciousness over the next week, for now sitting out in the garden with the tortoises. 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, about 10,000 words worth. Next month includes a uniquely fascinating transvestite vicar and a battle between some royal marines and a seal clan…

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    18Cent Knitting Stick: Red face as GL and Invisible correct Beach’s ignorance…

    Anglo-Saxon Church Eaves: Chris from Haunted Ohio Books with a possible Greek example…

    Boggart Stones: David O with the email of the month on the Scottish use of quartz and Ruth with some home experiments…

    Buried Six Times: Chris from Haunted Ohio Books with a non-celebrity example…

    Cargo Cult: Alan with more on extraterrestrial cargo cults…

    Dawn Chorus of Clogs: Louis on the Dutch experience…

    Fairy Tree: Chris from Haunted Ohio Books defends the honour of Wales…

    Forgetting General Winter: KMH on the June date….

    Francis’ Horn: Invisible on ivory DNA…

    Ghost Rabbit: Bruce T with his own family’s ghostly rabbit…

    Hare Horror: Typhon with British parallels and Ruth B with a REMARKABLE film…

    Holden Rag: Chris from Haunted Ohio Books on textiles and ghosts….

    Mysterious American Indian Ceremony: Bruce T on sheet bouncing and Ruth S on Amerindian sacrifices generally…

    Perugian Witch: Chris from Haunted Ohio Books with some Italian parallels…

    Raising the Dead: Chris from Haunted Ohio Books and Nathaniel with competing sources…

    Richard and Saladin’s Swords: Gary with an example from Lessing! (Didn’t see that one coming)

    Rudest Diplomatic Letter: Farkhad on Macedonian mechanics…

    Telephone Call from the Dead: Bast with a new source…

    The Ghost of Coalville: Chris from Haunted Ohio Books with electric parallels…

    The Greek Who Met a God: Bruce T on exhaustion and illusion in sport…

    The Real Romeo and Juliet: Chris S on the classical sources…

    The Spaw Monster: Southern Man with a second source…

    Thunderstones: Several emails here on meteorites, philology of Thor, and geology…

    Word Geography: Various thoughts from readers on dialect…