Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

…sanitized version of a foundation animal sacrifice? Here is a bit of folklore about grave-soil followed by an impossible spelled-out spell. It is thought unlucky on the Borders to tread…

…rest of the crew and that the local Mayans began to sacrifice their guests. Gonzalo escaped, was enslaved by other Mayans and then went native. We are told that he…

…Doria who ordered him to be either torn asunder by four galleys, or sewed up in a sack and cast into the sea! Perhaps both: it was a sacrifice not…

…blame should fall on Fredendall or Allied Supreme Commander in Tunisia, General Eisenhower: latter eventually sacrificed former, if promotion and recall to USA to command Second Army counts as sacrifice….

…Irish still born burials and for one long-suffering Anglo-Saxon baby follow the links. 19 May 2015: Invisible with an important point: I don’t think anyone has suggested foundation sacrifices and…

…which had been ‘allowed to drop for a score of years’, Chelt Chron, 29 Sep 1906, 7; he also believed that the church clipping had begun with the sacrifice of…

…possibility of accidents in all cases. Yet there is no mention of cat sacrifice in writing prior to the Victorian period. We have, in other words, the unusual experience of…

…unfortunate man. DM argued in his book that Walton had been killed as a witchcraft sacrifice. DM was not, it should be noted, original in this. Robert Fabian had investigated…

…two medicine men decide to sacrifice themselves for the good of the people. On that cliff stood the angry Chief of the Below World. There the medicine men paused for…

…attempt to replicate ancient Mayan sacrifice using a corpse and I can’t help wondering whether other historians have played around with dead bodies: drbeachcombing AT yahoo DOT com There is…

…hope of an united Europe? I would gladly sacrifice a bunch of cultural differences in the name of peace and well being. On the other hand we can argue that’s…

…mother and sisters be sacrificed? CO: I would sacrifice my own life. Board Member: Supposing a man tried to rob you of your watch to-night, what would you do? If…

…of the animal should be from a newly killed animal (the visionary was presumably wrapped in blood): there was, then, a sacrifice perhaps originally? Or/and was the visionary pretending to…

…year the privileges of conducting or superintending a sacrifice, of teaching and of giving or receiving gifts, as shall others having dealings with these.” [V.K. Gupta: Kautliyan Jurisprudence p. 25….

…a sacrifice to absolve himself and the his people from guilt in the German attack upon Yugoslavia. It clears his name before history. It could not stop the march of…