Beachcombed 72 June 1, 2016
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Dear Reader, Two weeks of relative rest and two weeks of maps, nineteenth-century manuscripts and joy with a very small teaching load. 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, about 10,000 words worth. Next month includes the origin of the sword in the lake and the underground pig and the myth of the bloody hand (and the poor fool who fell for it)…
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Africa Town: Bruce T and Sword&Beast on other slave kingdoms…
Baby Eating Eagles: Dickinson wrote in with some weight problems using kangaroo (I found them convincing)
Bourbon at Surrender: Bruce T. on pigs and Nathaniel on Sherman’s constitutional position…
Epilepsy Ring: June with another instance from Devon 1867…
Grow a Tree Trick: Brian with a striking parallel…
Irish Horse Whispering: Chris from Haunted Ohio Books on the twitch and Bruce T. on ear biting…
Irish Phoenix: Bruce T. and NYC…
Lee’s Luck: Stephen D on other last minute reinforcements, and Bruce T on Lincoln’s bad luck.
Lost Yorkshire Folk Collection: Randy on ‘instinct’
Mysterious Balaclavas on South Georgia: Bruce T on bayonets…
Neither Ghosts, Nor Bogeys: Chris from Haunted Ohio Books with more haunted postmen…
Peasant Killing Knight: Got tons of emails pointing out the real story here…
Preferring Heaven to Hell: EC with a Polish comic…
Problems with the Paleo Diet: James on getting what comes, Bruce on family lines and LTM on Walt Whitman…
Silly Crests: Bruce T. on the dangers of officers being identified and Karl and Invisible turn towards Japan, JCE on practicalities…
Sleeping with the Devil: Ken on aliens and Chris from Haunted Ohio Books with some recent examples…
Surrender, Secret Weapons and the Nazis: Leif, Bruce, James and Southern Man on why the Germans didn’t surrender…
The Honey Baby: Enion goes deeper…
The Tower Monster: Southern Man on an unlikely appearance in a comic…
The Wrong Bed: Chris from Haunted Ohio Books with a nice Masonic version of this legend…
Transvestite Vicar Ghost: Chris from Haunted Ohio Books with one of the emails of the month on transvestites and mourning clothes…
Watcher of the Sky: Chris S on optimism, Ruththeunstoppablycurious on Magonia et alia, KMH and Bruce T on things to come…
What Language is Closest to English: Louis on personal experience, Ken with a question and Michel with an amusing video…
Witch Blood Scratching: Bob S. with some remarkable hag-ridden, witch blood combinations…
