Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

…Solved D) How Iceman Died E) History of Criminal Body Display F) Human and Cat Sacrifice in Iceland G) Pochahontas’ Wedding Site H) Celestial Procession at Stonehenge I) Anglo-Saxon graves…

…Desert Solved K) How Iceman Died L) Published Three Hundred Years Late M) Human and Cat Sacrifice in Iceland N) Prehistoric Body Piercing O) The Minds Behind Cave Painting P)…

…6000 years. Now that is wonderful but there needs for there to be at least a little human involvement and Burning Mountain might as well be on Venus. So rephrase…

…there are so many differences between human societies, as to be almost embarrassing. However, there are a series of important and trivial facts that bind us together. We are men…

…nineteenth-century Irish sources. There is the notion, first, that many stolen humans only appeared to be dead. However, when buried their ‘bodies’ turned into stocks (brooms, spades and the like):…

…he was a kind of human chastity belt imposed on Agnes Sorel who Fouquet seems to believe never had the audacity to get her to put him on. Thanks Invisible…

…Samples (paraphrased): Improve your memory: bury pumpkin seeds in a man’s skull smeared with human brain. Let the seeds germinate and grow there. Eat the pumpkins. It could almost be…

…and the like. In fact, Beach would not like to be Lemonnier… He’d probably have a couple of very unlikely erotic experiences and then be sacrificed to the dark gods….

…you want human motives for human actions they were there in this case, but at sea not on land where the lights were alleged to be. Other thoughts: drbeachcombing AT…

…more than five minutes at over ten feet of height. It was, one newspaper put it, a ‘striking exhibition of the folly and vanity human wishes and aspirations when allowed…

…David O explains terms that had eluded me. Human Drum: Lehmansterms gives detail of Yakusa trade in this field. Pope and Tanks: Southern Man blames Napoleon. Vikings and Disease in…

Year in year out birds follow migratory routes from north to south and from south to north. These travelling birds have long intrigued humans who have looked amazed as waves…

…of the humanities has a longstanding love affair with pseudo-statistics. But there was certainly a human population and occasionally human bones and objects have been dredged up off the Doggerbank….

…Not to belabor this story excessively [KMH had exchanged emails], but the substitution of animals for humans is a well known, universal literary device. It is even found in the…

…this leads us to Boria Sax’s latest book: Imaginary Animals: The Monstrous, the Wondrous and the Human (Reaktion Books). What do you expect from a book entitled Imaginary Animals? Beach,…