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  • Green Children of Woolpit 5: Parallels January 26, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Medieval
    Green Children of Woolpit 5: Parallels

    …not green. Can anyone add others? drbeachcombing AT yahoo DOT com Other green children posts… 26 Jan 2015: Invisible plays the mermaid card, more specifically the mermaid of Edam.  …

    Piper at the Gates of Dawn: Pan, Kenneth Grahame and Wind in the Willows April 6, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary
    Piper at the Gates of Dawn: Pan, Kenneth Grahame and Wind in the Willows

    …as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered. All images relate to the Piper episode. Look out for baby otter. 30 April 2015: Invisible notes the…

    London Polt October 21, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
    London Polt

    …the cause of all, however extraordinary it may seem of one of her age; but up to the present time it continues a mystery, and the modus operandi is invisible….

    Anglo-Saxon Church Eaves and Baby Burials May 11, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Medieval
    Anglo-Saxon Church Eaves and Baby Burials

    …Irish still born burials and for one long-suffering Anglo-Saxon baby follow the links. 19 May 2015: Invisible with an important point: I don’t think anyone has suggested foundation sacrifices and…

    The Fewston Witches 1621-1623: A Yorkshire Coven October 1, 2022

    Author: Beach Combing | in :
    The Fewston Witches 1621-1623: A Yorkshire Coven

    …from within a suffering family. As his daughters spoke to spectral witches, invisible familiars and demons Edward was there with his quill. Here a Victorian edition of Edward’s witchcraft diary,…

    Where Are the Gods of the Modern World? July 10, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Ancient, Contemporary, Medieval, Modern, Prehistoric
    Where Are the Gods of the Modern World?

    …Fantastic Four represent the four elements, Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic is water, Sue Richards/Invisible Woman is air, Johnny Storm/Human Torch is fire, and The Thing is earth. Spider-Man is a humanistic…

    Beachcombed 62 August 1, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Beachcombed
    Beachcombed 62

    …The posts, though, will keep coming…. 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…

    Immortal Meals #30: Chair Jumping at Court June 27, 2016

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
    Immortal Meals #30: Chair Jumping at Court

    …AT yahoo DOT com Source: Mid Sussex Times (12 July 1892), 6 Invisible writes, 30 Jun 2016, ‘Well, Lennox looks a devil of a chap! The account of his chair-jumping…

    Victorian Urban Legend: the Clever Pickpocket September 18, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
    Victorian Urban Legend: the Clever Pickpocket

    …is this or is it not an urban legend in the making: drbeachcombing AT yahoo DOT com 19 Sept 2015: Invisible writes in ‘A long time ago, when money had…

    Fat Virgin Mary in the Lost Provinces September 26, 2015

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
    Fat Virgin Mary in the Lost Provinces

    …flag might suggest that he was always seen at a distance until he strayed into the range of a German soldier. 30 Sep 2015: Invisible writes ‘You can’t do much…

    Alabama Treasure Ghosts September 26, 2016

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
    Alabama Treasure Ghosts

    …a white cow, wine, and honey — inveigling the invisible ones and tempting them by food to give up the secret of the buried treasure. At the end of the…

    Prostitutes’ Symbols October 9, 2016

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Medieval
    Prostitutes' Symbols

    Invisible writes, 31 Oct 2016: Besides being a symbol of lepers, bells of a very different sort were a fashionable accessory: the so-called folly bells seen on Renaissance jester costumes….

    The Kaiser and the Crowned Prince June 20, 2016

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
    The Kaiser and the Crowned Prince

    …suddenly disappeared. Wells Journal (10 Dec 1896), 8 Other German stories: drbeachcombing AT yahoo DOT com Invisible writes in, 30 Jun 2016, with more Germans: A sentry having failed to…

    Dwarfknapped! July 23, 2017

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Medieval
    Dwarfknapped!

    …steininn; en steinninn laukst þegar aptr, ok kom Svegðir eigi aptr. Those invisible doors… If you pass the great rock you can certainly still hear the Swedish king banging, hoping…

    Science, Neurology and Being Misled by Fairies May 23, 2014

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary, Modern
    Science, Neurology and Being Misled by Fairies

    …account for. As I head south to Blanchester from where I live, it is almost as if there is a certain invisible line you cross into what I think of,…