Beachcombed 80 February 1, 2017
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Dear Reader, A good if terrifying couple of weeks teaching in a new university. Thanks for your interest and support. There follow the most interesting words sent in to StrangeHistory. Thanks to all contributors and linkers… Have a warm February
Beach
A Very Old Carp: Gary finds the fount of the legend…
All the Fun of the Fair: Southern Man with a horrific cat game…
Best Irish Fairy Books, 19 Century: Leif strikes back in defence of ‘There was once a king’ tales…
Blood and Judges: Numpy plays the Irish card and gets us to the early 19C…
Blood, Ankles and Calculations: AL on slipping and KMH corrects the numbers…
Breaking the Ampoule: Bruce T on medieval homeopathy (love this); KMH on Biblical precedents…
Burning Bluecoat Memories: Neil H. with a useful negative…
Cockney Wandering Jew: Invisible with some intense fictional examples and KMH on a Biblical phrase…
Decades and Apostrophes: Several emails here, broadly in agreement…
Ergot Madness: James on witches and ergot…
Fairy Armies: Lots of very good responses to this…
Fairy Vampires: Laura C with a brilliant and comprehensive answer…
Japanese Dragon Hunt: Chris from Haunted Ohio Books with an earlier version
In Defence of Fakelore: Ron J. and Bruce T. pointing out limits with my argument…
Making Fairy Wings: Chris from Haunted Ohio Books with fairy wing adverts…
Paleo Tines: Invisible pointing out that the tines are realistic…
Searching for the Author of ‘Do Not Stand at My Grave’: Robin speaks up for Chief Joseph…
Sherlock Holmes’ Publications: Nathaniel on ash…
Telephony: Telephony is alive, well and growing according to Bruce T…
The Cheese Thief: Bruce T. with variants…
Wandering Jew in Tunis: KMH, LTM, Loes and Leif with other stories….
