A Manx Wizard in Victorian Liverpool June 30, 2020
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
Introducing the Magic Mersey Between 9 March 1857 and 22 June of the same year the Liverpool Mercury ran a series of thirteen articles on ‘fortune-tellers and their dupes’. I’ve just published these articles (about 30,000 words) in a pamphlet entitled: The Wizards, Astrologers, Fairy Seers and Witches of Victorian Liverpool.* Taken together they are […]
Ghost or Fairy on the Road from Wilden to Ravensden? June 25, 2020
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
1873, 2 women see a weird humanoid on the road between 2 Bedfordshire villages. Was it a ghost, a fairy, death or an itinerant tramp?
Ghosts and Fairies Attacking Railways June 17, 2020
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
In nineteenth century Britain we have several references to ghosts and fairies attacking newly constructed railways…
Beachcombing’s Back June 2, 2020
Author: Beach Combing | in : Actualite
I have had a couple of years off from the Beachcombing Blog and thought that it was time that I got to work again. When I started this blog ten years ago I was at a crossroads in my life. I’d just had a ‘bothersome’ medical diagnosis and I realised that I could no longer […]
