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| "The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn |
This week's Link Dump is hosted by the last of our Halloween Cats 2022!
An "illicit infatuation" that did not end at all well.
This week in Russian Weird: Want to be buried alive? It'll cost you.
A famed "living skeleton."
Winston Churchill's secret voyage.
The last of the East Anglia walnut farmers.
The paranormal researcher and Shirley Jackson.
Letters to the East India Company.
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel like cooking.
An ancient baby who might have died from lack of sunlight.
Grandma finds a way to greet mourners at her own funeral.
A chilly encounter with a UFO.
The time when London partied on the frozen Thames.
Etienne Bottineau and the mystery of nauscopy.
A coven of witches in Yorkshire.
The world's earliest known named author.
Svalbard and the frozen coffins.
Chartism and the spirit of Wat Tyler.
Some old cat superstitions.
Katherine Swynford's influence on British royalty.
Some ancient Scottish Halloween customs.
The black cats of Poe Cottage.
Women on 18th century warships.
The eccentric old lady of Stamford Street.
Geomagnetic fields and Biblical narratives.
The UK's oldest known human DNA. No, it's not called "King Charles III." Stop that.
That time the rock band KISS had a line of coffins. To be fair, hearing their music on the radio back in the day often made me wish that I were dead.
Bring on the Banshees!
Bobbie the Wonder Dog.
A rather silly myth about Vlad Dracula.
Some vanished American Halloween traditions.
Some odd little news items from the past.
Ireland's notorious "changeling murder."
Cats often don't care if you're talking to them. Thanks so much for the info, Scientific Captain Obvious.
A new look at Tutankhamun.
Britain's 1919 race riots.
That's it for this week! See you on Halloween Monday, when we'll look at a--for lack of a better word--"ghost" that you would definitely not want anywhere near your cat. In the meantime, here's an unusual musical collaboration.
Cider & donuts are still part of my Halloween though I'll have to make it Thanksgiving this year as I'll still be in the hospital that day.
ReplyDeleteBobbie was indeed a wondrous dog. I'm glad he made it back to his family, but the trip probably shortened his life. Never mind, he likely cared only that he was home. And it was sad - and informative - about the baby dying of a deficiency of sunlight. I knew it was good for you, but not that it's deprivation was bad.
ReplyDeleteAnd it was a delightful story about the Suffolk - not Norfolk - walnut farmers.
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