Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

…journey through the forest. We have read that these invisible creatures (or animals, as the Italian monk I have quoted at such length called them, are supposed to dwell in…

…on Niccolò’s part. Crudely speaking there are three schools of thought. First, Niccolò decided to write a sixteenth-century version of Invisible Cities and pulled that old chestnut out of the…

***Thanks to Invisible for the gem below*** 7 August 1871 this appeared in the Brooklyn Eagle, having apparently been excerpted from the Richmond Dispatch. The story’s title was Saved by…

…tree where they fold up their skins, hiding them away and thus rendering themselves invisible. The negroes further declare that the Loogaroos flash through the sky in the form of…

…a single consciousness expressed through visible things; as she wrote ‘Also through myriads of invisible entities which form the inner life of the wild… I know that I have brushed…

…to be shaken in his belief in the existence of the ‘little people’. A Daily Telegraph article (thanks to Invisible for this) claims that B.B. ‘always swore that he actually…

…the word “(Spirit)” to the complete heading for the person.[e.g.] Parker, Theodore, 1810-1860 (Spirit) Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827 (Spirit)” (Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, rule 22.14). Thanks KMH, Invisible, Ozzie and S&B…

…them to the authorities: hardly Adam Smith’s invisible hand. Still at least Nauru has survived its colonial masters and the passing of the guano. Here’s to a brighter future for…

…had a run-in with ‘the likes of’ if you’ve ever had any dreams about being trained to operate as a ‘spaceman’ aboard a huge invisible Earth orbiting ‘spaceship’] and those…

…a magical world for themselves that takes on a permanent form: perhaps a more (or less?) elaborate version of the invisible friend? These are often shared with brothers or sisters,…

…As I have previously remarked to you, the Gentry are the sociopaths of the Invisible World. Perhaps the author of the Dexter series needs to take on the pixies. BTW,…

…and then rifles in defence of their homelands. Zulus, Mohicans, Maoris would run out of cover and be brought down by invisible arms. Understandably their leaders and their religious mentors…

…contenders had dissolved becoming invisible. The ground was strewn with corpses, objects and the carcasses of animals. Ginzburg tries to fit this account into his pattern of witch fighting from…

***With thanks to Invisible and Wade*** Consider a curious thing. Australian prehistory is far easier to rewrite than American prehistory. If you begin to question the route by which the…

…in the dark: slowly the different strands light up and the invisible structures which explains the fire-flies’ death dance become visible. Note that most continental practisioners of micro-history – particularly…