Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

Perhaps next to Forgotten Kingdoms Beachcombing should set up a tag on Invisible Kingdoms: realms that very likely only ever existed in the imagination of ancient and medieval writers. There…

…days, the ten thousand most important words added to the blog in November. Look out for such highlights as CCBC on the British sasquatch, Invisible on marriage advice (the Irish…

…Battuta was spiritually inclined and he frequently understood the world around him in terms of the invisible universe. For example, he came to believe that he was rescued by a…

…the silence was broken by the same pitiful sobbing, but the mourners were invisible. I went from room to room [in the Whitehouse]; no living person was in sight, but…

…had the power of making themselves invisible, and could get through any enclosure. Good gracious! She had a fine baby at home, and perhaps they were gone to steal it,…

…Indiarum partibus fecum in patriam abducere non definant: neque hodierna die ullus reperitur, qui similem pygmaeum cubitalem in iis partibus se uidisse asseuerare audeat. *** 31 August 2011: Invisible writes…

…As he was so busy Beach didn’t do much exploring online. But enjoy this death site: if you are in the mood (thanks to Invisible). CAL sent in ancientlives where…

…heart attack over the currency borrowing of the western democracies here is a trillion dollars ‘in the real’. And the quote of the month courtesy of the great Invisible from…

…to Dianne Purkiss and Invisible on fairy eggs and mermaids. Gratitude and kudos to correspondents! These are the ten thousand most important words from the blog in October. Maggie Walls:…

…wonderful documentaries about elves on DVD: a French one ‘Enquête sur le Monde Invisible’, English subtitles, about elfin matters in Iceland (and monsters too), and an American one by John…

…into these holes, together with their baboon-like adroitness in making themselves invisible in squatting immobility – a faculty remarkably present in the existing Dwarfs of the Congo Forest – they…

…a haiku. Now for the sonnet. Make an invisible sword: buy a blade in the hour of Mars. Guard forged on Tuesday, the day of Mars. Get some wood struck…

…Budapest was willing to harbour the dangerous tenant who seemed unconsciously to bring invisible and unwelcome guests. John is now in the house of a prominent Hungarian spiritualist who hopes…

***Thanks to Invisible for this tip*** Norman Lewis’s The Tomb in Seville had, to say the very least, a bit of an unusual publication history. It is a back-looking account…

…at the very edge of the pond: His conclusion, and one he shared broadly? At some time, perhaps even then, enormous, perhaps invisible at times, water bulls spontaneously generate[d] from…