Beachcombed 67 January 1, 2016
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Dear Reader, thanks as always for all the emails and communications. This month, for the first time in six years, started a book, very excited. Perhaps a cycle is drawing to an end. Christmas was good with friends visiting and a trip to the cinema for the first time in a decade: Star Wars…
This month includes posts on a rabbit monster from Lancashire, a naked dancing thief and, the post that has followed me into dreams, love-suicide pacts.
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.
Have a brilliant 2016!
B
A Romani Mystery in Eleventh-Century England: Dennis L looks for a Roman era explanation…
Black Rock Ghost Knocks: KMH on knockings in the contemporary US…
Eating Fido: LTM on the jungle and Bruce on cat meat…
Folklore Snake Exaggerations from the US: Bruce T with a brilliant garter snake story from church, Chris from Haunted Ohio Books with the reference and JEC with more stories…
‘God, I Hate That Field’: Tacitus and Neil H with some classic examples…
History, Ignorance and American University Students: Norm K on ‘getting history’ and Christopher Col…
How to Get Rid of a Poltergeist: we have witchcraft, psychology and the Mirror (thanks to Bruce T, KMH and Chris from Haunted Ohio Books)
Ilse Koch: KMH on a homosexual husband…
Morris Dancers from Hell: Bruce T traces the Tongo Dancers to their origins…
Pennsylvania Church Witch Tests a Member:
Shipwreck Coming: Lanark with an important correction and a baby in a lifeboat…
Snowball Fight Princeton: Bruce T argues for snowballs against boxing…
The Army That Was Defeated By A River: Diana Brooks with a striking WW2 example of a bloody ‘unopposed’ landing…
The Christmas Truce: Invisible, Jim and SM on Hamlet and Christmas hostilities…
The Wesley Ghost #1: Barry E. on tulpas!!!
The Word Poltergeist in English: Bruce T. on German migrants (interesting)…
Two Centuries of Historical Memory? John Mc on a late American Revolutionary Pension, Mike L on Trafalgar memories, LTM on three centuries, and David O on Civil War brides…
Urban Legend: The Hunger Trick: Mike L brings out Stone Soup…
White Woman of Bell Island: Michel with a South African parallel…
Witty Gravestones: JT writes in with a bullet hole gravestone…
