“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
A wicker man was a large wicker statue reportedly used by the ancient Druids (priests of Celtic paganism) for sacrifice by burning it in effigy. The main evidence for this practice is one sentence in Julius Caesar’s Commentary on the Gallic war, which modern scholarship has linked to an earlier writer, Poseidonius. Modern archaeological research has not yielded much evidence of human sacrifice among the Celts, […]
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There are many people more qualified than me to quote the chapter and verse here but…. So the soldiers did these things, 25 but standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. In my own research I completely agree with the four women. But […]
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Hey. I can dumb down too :o) BTW : Katherine Swynford (buried in Lincoln Cathedral) had a sister called Philippa. Philippa married a man called Geoffrey Chaucer, who wrote something insubstantial and unimportant called The Canterbury Tales.
Read MoreI learn each and every day. P.S. I’m quite familiar with this accent…took a while. This vid has words. No worries :o) OVER SOUL ? Have I just gone Way way way far beyond the 3/4/5/6/7D? How very dare I?
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Based on decades of deep research. There are far too many coincidences and parallels here that defy logic. Self Quote : July 2019 Who Wrote the Sibylline Oracles? Read the above- at the risk of cancer LMFAO And then compare it to something that FEB told me PUBLICLY that he was far too busy (aka […]
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And y’all hate on me? It was soooo bloody obvious to me even then that certain people knew much more than they were revealing. I challenged Scottish Restorian and she admitted. See above. And this happened WAY before the Ultimate Unveiling of him. It was said by someone who KNEW and was intimate with that […]
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Since when did Killarney become a National Park? I’ve read the Annals of Innisfallen. Brian Boru and his grandson Muirchertach Ua Briain must be turning in their graves. Muirchertach Ua Briain had a bit of a tiff with Magnus Barelegs, King of Norway about the title of High King of Ireland. Enter the Ravens of […]
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D’y’all know this song? Maybe not. It’s a “traditional” UK song called A Mother’s Lament. David sings it at the end of Taken at the Flood. See below. Your Baby Has Gone Down the Plughole(A Mother’s Lament) Traditional Song A mother was bathing her baby one nightThe youngest of ten and a delicate miteThe mother […]
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I was looking for a “business” partner to share a new venture with and have received – out of the blue – an offer from a fellow historian who has followed my work for a long time. Way back since my Weave a Garland days in the early 2000’s. Woohoo. Time for a partner-in-historical-crime, methinks […]
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As always…certain countries downgrade certain things. FACT! A full Roast Dinner reduced to KFC (13 secret ingredients?) Big Mac – SuperSizeMe And a submarine and/or complete Tube System reduced to meatballs in bread roll. Noice. Not! patsy/ˈpatsi/nounINFORMAL•NORTH AMERICAN a person who is easily taken advantage of, especially by being cheated or blamed for something. Patsy […]
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I was 12 years old when my Mum lent me her copy of the novel Katherine by Anya Seton. We were living here then, and it ignited my interest in local history. From Bolingbroke Castle to Lincoln Cathedral which are about 26 or so miles apart. And it also helped me with the English Royal […]
Read MoreBarlings is just down the road from me. En route to Lincoln. The year after something happened in NY one September, I went to Lincoln to meet, in real life, a friend that I’d “met” online. She was a fellow writer and also (with her husband) the new owner of a publishing company in the […]
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