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Witch of Eye was burned at the stake. Fire and witch (Public Domain) — 03 Jul 2017

Witch of Eye Burned Alive at the Stake: Did She Use Black Magic to Bewitch a King in a Game of Thrones-Style Plot?

By Charles Christian

History & Tradition

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For over 900 years, people have been telling stories of wicked witches who have used Black Magic to overthrow kings. Morgan Le Fay in Arthurian legends of the early 12th century is thought to have inspired Melisandre in George R.R. Martin’s Game...
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Witch of Eye was burned at the stake. Fire and witch (Public Domain) — 03 Jul 2017

Witch of Eye Burned Alive at the Stake: Did She Use Black Magic to Bewitch a King in a Game of Thrones-Style Plot?

By Charles Christian

History & Tradition

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For over 900 years, people have been telling stories of wicked witches who have used Black Magic to overthrow kings. Morgan Le Fay in Arthurian legends of the early 12th century is thought to have inspired Melisandre in George R.R. Martin’s Game...
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Yorkshire Photo Walks (Tom Marsh/CC BY 2.0), and Grey Lady. (CC BY 2.0); Deriv. — 19 May 2017

Staked Through the Heart and Buried at the Crossroads – The Profane Burial of Suicides

By Charles Christian

History & Tradition

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I uncovered a curious tale about a scrubby patch of land while writing a book on the folklore and history of East Anglia. Marked on modern maps as Lushbush, you pass it heading eastwards out of the South Norfolk town of Harleston, England.A Stake...
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Yorkshire Photo Walks (Tom Marsh/CC BY 2.0), and Grey Lady. (CC BY 2.0); Deriv. — 19 May 2017

Staked Through the Heart and Buried at the Crossroads – The Profane Burial of Suicides

By Charles Christian

History & Tradition

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I uncovered a curious tale about a scrubby patch of land while writing a book on the folklore and history of East Anglia. Marked on modern maps as Lushbush, you pass it heading eastwards out of the South Norfolk town of Harleston, England.A Stake...
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Skeletons in the Attic and Babes in the Wood: Surprising and Spooky Yuletide Traditions — 04 Jan 2017

Skeletons in the Attic and Babes in the Wood: Surprising and Spooky Yuletide Traditions

By Charles Christian

History & Tradition

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Although we nowadays associate ‘Happy Holidays’ with celebrations during Advent and the run-up to Christmas Day and then on to New Year’s Eve (or Hogmanay in Scotland) not that many years ago the ‘Festive Season’ extended beyond the end...
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Skeletons in the Attic and Babes in the Wood: Surprising and Spooky Yuletide Traditions — 04 Jan 2017

Skeletons in the Attic and Babes in the Wood: Surprising and Spooky Yuletide Traditions

By Charles Christian

History & Tradition

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Although we nowadays associate ‘Happy Holidays’ with celebrations during Advent and the run-up to Christmas Day and then on to New Year’s Eve (or Hogmanay in Scotland) not that many years ago the ‘Festive Season’ extended beyond the end...
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Deriv; Painting of a meteor, 1860 and an illuminated man — 19 Dec 2016

The Wold Newton Meteorite: An Extraordinary Stone and the Birth of a Superhero

By Charles Christian

Mythology & Mystery

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In a remote part of North-East England called the Yorkshire Wolds, an incident took place on Sunday 13th December 1795 that not only became talking point of late 18th century London society but also gave birth to a modern literary legend. However,...
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Deriv; Painting of a meteor, 1860 and an illuminated man — 19 Dec 2016

The Wold Newton Meteorite: An Extraordinary Stone and the Birth of a Superhero

By Charles Christian

Mythology & Mystery

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In a remote part of North-East England called the Yorkshire Wolds, an incident took place on Sunday 13th December 1795 that not only became talking point of late 18th century London society but also gave birth to a modern literary legend. However,...
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Features The Return of the Crusader by Karl Friedrich Lessing (Public Domain), and an illustration from Jack the Giant Killer (Public Domain) — 09 Nov 2016

Tom Hickathrift - the Crusader who became Jack the Giant Killer

By Charles Christian

Mythology & Mystery

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Many of you will be familiar with the legend or fairy-tale of Jack the Giant Killer and, in England, the popular Christmas pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk. But, Jack is a relatively recent invention, first recorded in pamphlets and chapbooks in...
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Features The Return of the Crusader by Karl Friedrich Lessing (Public Domain), and an illustration from Jack the Giant Killer (Public Domain) — 09 Nov 2016

Tom Hickathrift - the Crusader who became Jack the Giant Killer

By Charles Christian

Mythology & Mystery

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Many of you will be familiar with the legend or fairy-tale of Jack the Giant Killer and, in England, the popular Christmas pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk. But, Jack is a relatively recent invention, first recorded in pamphlets and chapbooks in...
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Detail of the Wenhaston Doom — 31 Aug 2016

The Wenhaston Doom: A Surprising Medieval Relic, Doomsday Message—and a Reminder of Pre-Christian Traditions

By Charles Christian

History & Tradition

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A ‘Doom’ is a remarkable survival of a type of church decoration once common in the Middle Ages but largely destroyed during the iconoclastic excesses of the English Protestant Reformation during the reign of Edward VI (1547-1553) in the...
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Detail of the Wenhaston Doom — 31 Aug 2016

The Wenhaston Doom: A Surprising Medieval Relic, Doomsday Message—and a Reminder of Pre-Christian Traditions

By Charles Christian

History & Tradition

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A ‘Doom’ is a remarkable survival of a type of church decoration once common in the Middle Ages but largely destroyed during the iconoclastic excesses of the English Protestant Reformation during the reign of Edward VI (1547-1553) in the...
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Werewolf costume and natural landscape — 13 Jul 2016

Werewolf Hunting #101 – In Search of Legends, and Busting Folklore Myths

By Charles Christian

Mythology & Mystery

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Imagine you have been invited to meet in an abandoned cemetery to go on a werewolf hunt on the night of the next full Moon but you don’t know what to pack?It may sound like something out of a cheesy horror movie but, as I recounted in my Ancient...
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Werewolf costume and natural landscape — 13 Jul 2016

Werewolf Hunting #101 – In Search of Legends, and Busting Folklore Myths

By Charles Christian

Mythology & Mystery

0

Imagine you have been invited to meet in an abandoned cemetery to go on a werewolf hunt on the night of the next full Moon but you don’t know what to pack?It may sound like something out of a cheesy horror movie but, as I recounted in my Ancient...
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Detail, The ferocious and deadly werewolf. — 07 Jun 2016

Searching for Old Stinker: Medieval Legends meet 21st Century Werewolf Hunters

By Charles Christian

Mythology & Mystery

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It all began a couple of weeks ago when a journalist on an English national newspaper phoned me up out of the blue and asked “You’ve written a book about the history and legends of East Yorkshire and the Yorkshire Wolds, what do you think about...
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Detail, The ferocious and deadly werewolf. — 07 Jun 2016

Searching for Old Stinker: Medieval Legends meet 21st Century Werewolf Hunters

By Charles Christian

Mythology & Mystery

2

It all began a couple of weeks ago when a journalist on an English national newspaper phoned me up out of the blue and asked “You’ve written a book about the history and legends of East Yorkshire and the Yorkshire Wolds, what do you think about...
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Eadric Streona: One of the Worst Britons Ever? — 19 May 2016

Eadric Streona: One of the Worst Britons Ever?

By Charles Christian

History & Tradition

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– or how one greedy, treacherous Saxon earl weakened the English monarchy and paved the way for the Norman Conquest.According to an article that appeared in the BBC History Magazine in 2005, a relatively obscure Saxon nobleman called Eadric...
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Eadric Streona: One of the Worst Britons Ever? — 19 May 2016

Eadric Streona: One of the Worst Britons Ever?

By Charles Christian

History & Tradition

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– or how one greedy, treacherous Saxon earl weakened the English monarchy and paved the way for the Norman Conquest.According to an article that appeared in the BBC History Magazine in 2005, a relatively obscure Saxon nobleman called Eadric...
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Medieval depiction of “royal justice” and the ruthless approach to dealing with dissent — 29 Mar 2016

The Violent Life and Times of Roger Bigod – A Medieval Player of the Game of Thrones?

By Charles Christian

History & Tradition

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For almost 250 years, from the time of the Norman Conquest of England in AD 1066, one of the most important families in the Eastern Counties were the Bigods. In later years they would become the Earls of Norfolk and so powerful they could defy the...
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Medieval depiction of “royal justice” and the ruthless approach to dealing with dissent — 29 Mar 2016

The Violent Life and Times of Roger Bigod – A Medieval Player of the Game of Thrones?

By Charles Christian

History & Tradition

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For almost 250 years, from the time of the Norman Conquest of England in AD 1066, one of the most important families in the Eastern Counties were the Bigods. In later years they would become the Earls of Norfolk and so powerful they could defy the...
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