Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

***Thanks to Tokyobling for putting me onto this story and too many others like it*** Had a pretty disturbing week looking at the use of human skins in witchcraft and…

…we don’t usually proves utterly catastrophic namely we have to at some stage see through our parents and recognise their limitations and flaws as human beings then at a later…

…But this is not the first time in human experience that progress has led to health problems. Beachcombing is not referring here to the industrial revolution when a spike in…

…of a conscious moral agency’. So Grendel is human-ish, a soul-bearer, who has been cast out of the human community and is thus non-human in a profound way. Whew! I…

…we do have Josephus’s reply. This is one of the most curious passages from Josephus’ work. Apion had accused the Jews of stealing Greeks for human sacrifice and this ‘fact’…

…DOT com *** 31 August 2012: Pineybelt writes, ‘Many examples of vestiges of human sacrifice at sun festivals in Europe in the 17th,18th and 19th centuries are described in Sir…

…an extensive sacrifice is required; this sacrifice is to consist, according to some authorities, of three small barrels full of human eyes; according to others of three hundred human heads….

…to the locals – he tried to reduce human sacrifice – and, above all, to welcome European visitors: who, one senses, came to be disgusted – the dirty frisson of…

…on the basis of emails received, was on human sacrifice and then dried cats. Beach’s personal favourite was taxis in the mid Atlantic and death diaries. The single most embarrassing…

The Romans, as is well known, had a particular genius for killing and for all their precious disgust at human sacrifice (the Empire banned human sacrifice wherever they found it)…

…is then also a broader female association with domesticated cats in all cultures. But how do we get from this simple fact to explaining an act of cat/human sacrifice in…

…of human bone and drums made with human skin. I assume the Aztecs did also. Apparently people are still using human bone instruments today, either in a ‘magickal’ way. Or…

…these reflections on Lappish breeches (extraordinary and horrific picture at the foot of this post) after my post on a human drum. Here we return to an old theme often…

…that he was engaged in this kind of sport when he lost his life. The mystery of the human face in the tree is beyond all human solution, but the…

…witchcraft and spontaneous human combustion. The following narrative will probably amuse some of your readers: though many may think it is a falsehood, it is an absolute fact and there…