Sham Virigins, Trainee Shamans, Phantom Storms and Medieval Conversion October 24, 2014
Author: Beach Combing | in : Contemporary, Medieval
We are in the Middle Ages beyond the banks of the Rhine in the pagan communities there. A young man has had a great disappointment, he has married a woman only to discover that she is not a virgin. There follows a wretched series of illnesses that lead the young man towards death. In all […]
Peter, Abraham and Muhammad on the Wrong Side of the Urals June 16, 2013
Author: Beach Combing | in : Ancient, Medieval
Here’s a bizarre scenario (with no basis in the historical record…). c.c.c.1000 a Jewish, a Muslim and a Christian missionary find themselves on the wrong side of the Ural Mountains among a horse-killing, horse-worshipping pagan people (and before anyone writes in there is some ancient and medieval evidence for Jewish ‘evangelism’). The Christian missionary, Peter, […]
