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This week's Link Dump is hosting the Strange Company HQ Christmas party!
The "Welsh Roswell."
The weird, weird world of medieval bestiaries.
How the Early Modern era coped with winter.
It's an Angora Cat Christmas!
An Indian family's very weird end.
On the road with George Eliot.
Was Santa Claus a shaman?
The mystery of the Sailing Stones.
A brief history of the Halifax Gibbet.
Irish wedding traditions.
Shorter version: the human body is weird.
The execution of two infamous kidnappers.
A poltergeist in Birmingham.
The fight against "milk sickness."
A female drunkard's terrible revenge.
The last of England's wolves.
Why it might all end not with a whimper, but with a meteor hurricane.
More stage versions of "A Christmas Carol" than you can shake a stick at, plus the stick.
This week in Russian Weird looks at the Mad Meteorite. And the Soviet Santa.
Perry Mason and the paranormal. (Confession time: I have the entire run of that series on DVD. It's a cheesy show, but I love it.)
There are parts that aren't? (I kid, Scotland, I kid.)
A kidnapping and a Christmas miracle.
Chewing gum and Neolithic DNA.
The diaries of Lady Charlotte Canning.
It somehow makes sense that 2019 was a big year for aliens.
I think all animals understand a lot more than we think.
It seems a bit odd (not to mention egocentric) to link to myself, but ICYMI, here is my post about the unsolved murder of Olive Peany.
The man they couldn't hang. (But probably should have, IMO.)
Some Christmas superstitions.
The charlatan and the haunted hotel.
City streets in the 18th century.
Christmas will be the death of you.
The man executed in front of his own inn.
In search of the hollow Earth.
Scientists now believe humans were talking a whole lot earlier than they thought.
A tale of tavern rats.
There's a reason why Peter Pan always gave me the creeps.
The execution of Susanna One-Ear.
What the well-dressed 19th century ice skater was wearing.
Trade cards of Old London.
Florida's haunted highway.
Scunthorpe's dapper ghost.
"Probably."
Iceland's elf school.
High Strangeness in a psychiatric hospital.
High Strangeness in ancient cave art.
That's all for this week! See you on Monday, when we'll look at a real-life Christmas Eve ghost story. In the meantime, Handel wishes you a merry Christmas!
I've read before about the Thames River feezing over and ice-fairs being held on it, but I've never come up against a 'fuddling tent' before... And I like that London's streets were egalitarian - this despite the fact that I am a snob and all in favour of aristocratic privilege. Just as gentlemen's clubs were, in fact, tiny democracies in which a duke had only as much power as a clerk, so long as they were both members, street-equality seems right, even for olden times.
ReplyDelete(And the Strange Company office party looks better than most these days...)