Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

…Society.’ Invisible also puts us onto the annual Fairy and Human Relations Congress. Then just for good measure a fake fairy discovered in Derbyshire. Thanks Invisible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There was an FIB…

…human. Soon after, this pestilent and wicked Genius taking a Human Shape, gave Answers, discover’d Thefts, accused many of Crimes, and set a Mark of Infamy on them, stirr’d up…

…the victim is punished for a precise crime and is only released when the ‘wizard’ chooses. Can anyone else give human pixy-leading of this kind? drbeachcoming AT yahoo DOT com…

…had run into grievous problems and with lots of soldiers but few weapons began to use ‘human wave’ attacks to clear the way for professional soldiers. The Iranians deliberately employed…

…intriguing example of this is child-bearing. What is the natural number of children for a woman to have in a lifetime? Human societies have given lots of different answers to…

…human forms. As to the moment that HIV crossed from a chimp to a human the hunter with a machete is an intelligent guess: HIV is, of course, the murderer…

…human sacrifices round about. The money must have been offerings. Other human failings on the part of missionaries : drbeachcombing AT yahoo DOT com *** WJ writes: ‘If Odoric was…

Ilse Koch, ‘the bitch of Buchenwald’, seems to have been an unpleasant human being. She was a sadist, and she was, as a matter of record, – something almost as…

Sorry but a busy day today and still fighting the good fight against dishonest architects so just a strange report from 1858. Beach has not the slightest idea what to…

…and was then almost over-matched by the demoniac spirit!!! Where is the schoolmaster? 28 Feb 2015: KMH writes in, ‘Breaking a so-called “witchcraft” curse with a sacrifice could be traditional…

…me.’ Thanks JH! Italian Child Sacrifice: The Count writes, ‘Although I don’t speak Italian and therefore haven’t wasted my time attempting to search Italian newspapers, it would appear that the…

…actually be able to discuss not just what happens in human society but what happens in the human brain. We might even get to the point where we find that…

…a human-sized female fairy appears; iv) she is luminous with billowing skirt and long hair; v) both people, or the dog and the sister in the first account, see the…

…a prophet, but (reports from his own followers are confused as to exactly what happened next) either sacrificed his own child to Jehovah, or broke the poor kid’s leg and…

‘The case in Illinois was lab-associated….’…