Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog

…for academic libraries (in fact Beach’s copy had been removed from a Michigan university library, after just two years!) But, this being JHB, it is written in such a spritely…

…and later revisions. By this time you have spent hundreds of hours in libraries and hunched over the computer. The dream would be to go even further and produce the…

An entry in the burning libraries catalogue… In 1536 Anne Boleyn was executed for sexual betrayal and for plotting the murder of the king, her husband Henry VIII. Beach has…

…titles here are from Arab, Chinese and Persian libraries: medieval Europe was a bit of a disappointment too. Many of these works no longer exist, they are, in other words,…

…placed in school libraries or, unsupervised, in the hands of children e.g. Tintin in the Congo. But there are other books – Tintin and the Picaros, Tintin in Tibet (Beach’s…

Beach has sometimes in the past celebrated burning libraries, books (and for the multimedia age films) which we know once existed but that have long since disappeared into the dusty…

…a non physical psychic “punch”. Both of these examples were from the angry, unconscious flashing off of this invisible energy of others. There is a lot more going on here…

…new affliction; but so little is known of the invisible world that I, at least, am not able to judge whether it be a friendly or an evil spirit. Emilia…

…returning to the surface felt himself to be accompanied by some invisible presence, which, although not seen by him, was perceived by the banksman to land on the bank, and…

…(another saying)”at deaths door.” Interesting how common old expressions might still reference old ways of believing. Thanks KR and PJ!! 31 Oct 2012: Invisible writes in over the Church Porch:…

…the fairies is often found in the seventeenth century onwards. John G and Invisible point out that a late reflex of this is from Kipling’s Puck of Puck Hill: ‘An’…

…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…

…Neo-Pagan crowd, too? Good luck on finding out what the source of the older rings were. Invisible writes, 25 Mar 2016, On magic rings. The configuration of this ring reminds…

…com 23 Jan 2016: Invisible writes The Japanese have turned the love suicide into an art form. This is the basics of “double suicides,” although they are not all love…

…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….