Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

…always loaded with blanks, so that should the executioners feel bad about taking a human life, they can console themselves with the thought that maybe they didn’t.) Sometimes an animal…

…all human societies in similar forms because they are part of human hardwiring. The most common example given is the ‘remarkable’ uniformity of near death experiences in different cultures: bright…

…humanity. For example: Superman = Optimism as a humanitarian Zeus analogue. Superman is analogous to Moses, having been sent to Earth by his doomed parents. The Flash finds a parallel…

…sacrifice. Although slaughter for sacrifice contradicts a basic belief of Christianity, it is practiced by local Catholics, Greek Orthodox and other Christians at the ruined Byzantine church of Saint George…

…Auden! You can read whatever you want into R3’s face – because it is merely a sketch of a human being.’ Next up is TB who writes: First , the…

…nothing human ever came up to it. The horse was no less sensible of the harmony than himself, and kept in an immoveable posture all the time it lasted; which,…

Humanity began its long escape from the seasons about 10000 years ago when the Neolithic Revolution saw a nomadic primate named homo sapiens start to settle, grow plants, drink beer…

…human drums look for an earlier post of ours on a French revolutionary (or more likely victim) from Nantes who had drum ambitions and more dispiritingly the complete lack of…

…theatres were informed against for trafficking in human fat. They were watched by the police, and detected in the fact. A communication was made to the Minister of Police, and…

We are digital human beings living in caveman’s body. This, at least, is the perspective of a growing number of nutritionists and their followers: who explain problems in human health…

…appeared to her in the night, and had asked her to sacrifice her [Marie] as proof of her devotion. Marie Oilagnier saw nothing strange in this, and consented to be…

Given Beach’s almost constant obsession with death – we’ve done capital punishment, human sacrifice, wills and last words in the past year… – the funeral had, sooner or later, to…

…to imagine a pit per clan: the human skulls found towards the base might have been ancestral figures or an original sacrifice? Fish were not eaten to judge by the…

…related to your March 16th “Honey Baby” post: Mellified man, or human mummy confection, was a legendary medicinal substance created by steeping a human cadaver in honey. The concoction is…

…true species of human being, since no nation can be found, even if one combs the entire earth, with any knowledge of humans of this kind, let alone where such…