The Monster of Ryde October 14, 2017
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
Some weeks ago Beach had some fun running through twentieth-century British monster stories. Here was one of his favourites. It has everything: a lion’s head, big tracks, a creepy cry and became part of a war-time propaganda campaign. We are at Ryde on the Isle of Wight off the coast of southern England: it is […]
The Monger-Goss Theory of Dragons and ABCs June 2, 2012
Author: Beach Combing | in : Actualite, Contemporary, Medieval, Modern
Just last week Beach was looking into dragon accounts from seventeenth century England. And in searching for dragon-related material he stumbled on an article that he feels deserves to be better known and perhaps celebrated. The article in question is George Monger’s ‘Dragons and Big Cats’ published in the illustrious journal of British myth and […]
