Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

…no priority save in as much as it is ours: it is just another turn of the kaleidoscope that humanity has been staring into since they came down from the…

…Offaly, Larry Corley noticed something solid sticking out of the cleaned drain. Jumping out of his cab, and bending down, he was shocked to find it was a human arm,…

…immortality of soul through marriage to a man. So mermaids like marrying humans. Fourth, mermaid-human children are human and have souls, so you can relax on that count. Fifth, ‘If…

…not eight miles from Hereford. He spoke with sadness and, yes, some occasional indignation as human bones had been uncovered there. This was, he suggested, movingly the only evidence to…

…a minority opinion that global warming is only partly related to human activity; while even if climate warning is entirely related to human activities the choice about whether to try…

…system and a few other crimes against humanity (‘hydrogen’, the elementary table…). The facts of Lavoisier’s death are, meanwhile, suitably enough, a mix of brutal fact and legend sympathique. Let’s…

…the surface of the human soup on the island, the ‘Simon’ of Lord of the Flies.* What would they base their experiences on? Memories of church on Sunday, glimpses of…

…Julien Alleau and John D. C. Linnell ‘The Story of a Man Eating Beast’, in A Fairytale in Question: Historical interactions Between Humans and Wolves (White Horse Press 2015): a…

…press. 1964. From the introduction. ‘A belief in the existence of a class of beings, not human but belonging to the world of man, seems to be universal. But the…

…lid, by a piece of tanned scalp, which still adhered. The interior cavities had also been stuffed with moss and lined with clay, kneaded with blood from human veins; and…

…in fine fettle with some fascinating points: Very interested to read todays article as well – especially the Spanish child stealers who made such unpleasant use of human fat. There…

…inevitable. There were the general depressing flaws in human nature: many on the island did not protest at appalling things, including allowing the murder and rape of family members; others…

…human communities: see this post for an in depth look of the mirror fairy. Human and fairy communities were symbiotic. Humans depended on the fey for the fertility of their…

…open (iv) Take the small humanoid found within and binding it in warm horse manure feed it daily with some human blood for forty weeks. (v) remove the small child…

…fairies? Well, this is new… Humans have, in terms of their living spaces, two relations with fairies. In the first, fairies attempt to force their way into the human space…