Beachcombed 66 December 1, 2015
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Dear Reader, thanks as always for all the emails and communications. Everything great at chez Beachcombing. In fact, only five or six ulcers on the tongue are distracting from the pleasure of life.
This month was supposed to be dedicated to Bella in the Wych Elm, but new data is still dripping in: witchcraft spy, my foot. Instead, we have such splendors as the Noontide Hag (in Luton), the skin harvester of Buchenwald, and the nineteenth-century African Morris dancers who killed criminals. We live in a horribly various world.
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 posts from this month: the cream follow here.
I should also say that after months of mechanized Facebook I’ve finally had a look and found that there are many comments there. Now I more or less understand the system I’ll try and bring some of the best of those under the relevant posts. Sorry for my social media phobia.
B
A Fourteen-Year Second World War? Seb remembers WW1…
Blood and Judges: Chris from Haunted Ohio Books brings in the American examples…
Clearing Minefields with Human Beings: Louis K with a Dutch instance and KMH on bullets…
Eisenhower and His Men: Anon X with the origins of the photo
Fried Mice and Urine Mouth Rinses: Chris from Haunted Ohio Books with a nail cure…. [cringe]
Improving the Twentieth Century: Open Sesame on Israel, Nathan on an early Marshall Plan..
Lips That Touch Liquor: Diana, Nathaniel and Bruce giving some background to this apparently satirical picture
Man Hits Woman (Medieval Style): Typhon on a pagan princess…
Mine Disaster Premonitions at Morfa: Anon X and Chris from Haunted Ohio Books including the red dog…
Ophelia, Shards and Suicides: Leif with some early modern references…
Pearl Harbor: Nathaniel with source for the photo…
Rat Catcher: Anon X changes city on us…
Snowball Fight Princeton: Anon X questions the snowball thesis…
The Earthquake Ghost: Matt cracks the code (email of the month)…
The Hunger Trick: LTM with a WW2 parallel…
The Longest Modern War: Tacitus from Detritus and Stephen D with better examples…
The Schist Disc: Simon G with explanations…
The Snake Tree: Bruce T on Malagasy…
The Wesley Ghost #1: Chris from Haunted Ohio Books on Gef comparisons (many emails brought Gef up); MC on smashing things that don’t smash; ANL on scientific explanations…
Waldensian Cats: Southern Man with a the obscene kiss and the cat; and MC on dates for pictures; and Bruce T on cat turns…
What Do Demons Look Like? MC, Gishzida and KMH explain demons and demon names…
