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…have fancied themselves beaten by invisible or visible fiends, and felt considerable pain from it. The present writer can remember in his own ghostly experience but one delusion of the…

…Still the high road, hey? Thanks, as always, to the multiple linkers: Amanda, Invisible, Chris S, Joan, Ricardo, Wade and others. I’ve put the very best contributions below to the…

…always, to the multiple linkers: Amanda, Invisible, Chris S, Joan, Ricardo, Wade and others. I’ve put the very best contributions below to the posts from this month: the cream follow…

…Mormon post-mortem baptism. This custom is based – thanks to Invisible here for clarification – on I Corinthians 15:29 and includes the very reasonable idea that you can splash a…

…bone was infected…. Pain is such a humbling and interesting experience. Thanks, as always, to the multiple linkers: Amanda, Invisible, Chris S, Joan, Ricardo, Wade and others. I’ve put the…

…RS on redheads, Tacitus on jaundice and anemia and Loes M and Frank on Tibetan tradition! Green Children of Woolpit 5: Invisible invokes Edam…. Forgot the Damn Suicide Pills: LTM…

…58. [4] The Atlantic. Why So Many Icelanders Still Believe in Invisible Elves? Ryan Jacobs. 29 oct 2013. accessed 9 December 2014. http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/10/why-so-many-icelanders-still-believe-in-invisible-elves/280783/#disqus_thread [5] Christiansen, Reidar. Folktales of Norway. University…

…around ripe stilton. Huge thanks to those who sent in emails below and also to Invisible, Chris S, Ricardo, Wade and Amanda for sending in links. For the first time…

…nappy rash. It should be disregarded!! The date is definitely 1940/1941. Presumably CH confused 41 with 47 in her handwritten notes. 11 Oct 2014: Invisible starts with the point that…

…den! den! den! doooorn! Huge thanks to those who sent in emails below and also to Borky, Invisible, Chris S, Ricardo, Wade and Amanda for sending in links. Well done…

…implyin’ the blind unreasonin’ panic boggarts induced in the likes o’ Manny Hird was also conceived as bein’ brought about by the launch of invisible projectiles?’ thanks, Invisible and Borky!…

…with my father in law and I get a couple of weeks to write. Special thanks not only to the emailers (represented below) but also to Wade, Invisible, Chris S,…

…never saw?) thanks to Richard Epilepsy Cure: Even better cure involving silence and a ferret from Invisible Late Finns: Chris with some great examples and Leif with a sobering discussion…

…They were ‘ordinary men’. Thanks Chris and CS! Magpie Parliament: Invisible writes in: Blackbirds at Prayer. Here is the latest form the Parkhurst correspondent: “For the last ten years millions…

***With thanks to Invisible*** Beach usually limits his cryptozoology to historical sightings and is a little uneasy at reporting an event from his own lifetime. But this particularly rumpus in…