Victorian Urban Legends: Missionary Tales December 15, 2017
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
This story appeared in Table Talk in 1870. Not having easy access it is taken here from the British press. Was it true or wasn’t it? When in India with my regiment, we were, at one time, quartered at a place where there was a missionary station. Some of the officers (as was frequently the […]
Crowds #4: Religion July 20, 2012
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary, Modern
Beach has so far offered up three crowd photo collections: August 1914, Speaking to Crowds and Crowds as Art. Today he thought he’d move in a little deeper with religious crowds from a small file he’s been building up over the last couple of years. The picture that head’s this post is one of his […]
Pulling Things Out of Rivers March 13, 2012
Author: Beach Combing | in : Ancient, Contemporary, Medieval, Modern
Rivers are useful guardians of the past: often thousands of years roll by (and millions of tonnes of water) before things that have been thrown in are fished out (sometimes literally) several hundred or thousands of years later. Here are Beachcombing’s favourite they-were-found-in-river things. Others would be welcome: drbeachcombing AT yahoo DOT com 1) Claudius’ […]
What Religion did Fairies Follow? January 22, 2012
Author: Beach Combing | in : Ancient, Modern
Beach’s endless reading in the literature of fairies has led him to a couple of unusual passages. He honestly doesn’t know that to make of them. In truth, they frighten him. The first is from a south-western fairy tale where a man is reunited with his ‘dead’ fiancé who is actually trapped in fairy land. […]
