Mermaid Monday: the Watra Mama January 15, 2018
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern![Mermaid Monday: the Watra Mama](http://www.strangehistory.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/manati-150x150.jpg)
Apologies for the absence of Mermaid Monday over Christmas. Here we are back with an account from Captain Stedman: seen previously in this blog tangling with a fairy. Stedman has been talking about tapirs. He, then, gives some interesting opinions from his peers about mermaids (II, 182-3). A Mr. Selefelder, of the Society service, at […]
In Praise of the Hindoestanen February 29, 2012
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary, Modern![In Praise of the Hindoestanen](http://www.strangehistory.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/modern-hindoestaenen-150x150.png)
Beachcombing has run, over the months, a series of forgotten kingdom posts: lands and peoples that time forgot. Sometimes he has stretched this definition to its elastic limit by including forgotten communities: a personal favourite, for example, were the Confederates who fled from Lincoln’s peace and came to settle in Brazil. Another group that he […]