Disney Vault : Maleficent – Mistress of Evil

Oui? Time to care for her own? Malleus Maleficarum : HAMMER OF THE WITCHES aka Which Witch is Which, Doug? CopyCAT or REAL DEAL? The Die Have Been Cast…live with IT !

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Roman Mummies

Watching the Titus Lector Hannibal Andronicus 1999 film recently got my one & only little grey cell vibrating with questions. Why does T.A. enter Rome as a Roman Warrior carrying the mummified bodies of his 25 sons? Rome? Mummies? How many mummies have been found in Rome then? So far, the computer is telling me […]

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Toilet Facts : Pee & Poop

My Grandad, Sam, was a tanner by trade. I have dyed wool and cotton using natural materials (tea, coffee, nettles, onion skins, walnuts, ink etc) after researching the history of dyeing right back to the Egyptians of one hundred thousand B.C. (!) Both trades used urine. Poop is dung is manure is compost. Our old […]

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Agatha Raisin/Mrs Lovett/Titus Andronicus

What is the connection? Read M.C. Beaton’s Blood of an Englishman. Watch Sweeney Todd. Read/watch Titus Andronicus (Andronicus Comnenus?) For the flaky filum fans …

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POETS DAY : Chaucer

Mmmn. Not a fave of mine even though we did this for my EngLit exam. I prefer the HISTORY behind Chaucer. He married a girl called Philippa de Roet, who had a sister called Katherine, who had a lover called John of Gaunt, who was a patron of Geoffrey Chaucer and the third son of […]

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Château de Vincennes

I know a little bit about this place through research into Weave a Garland of My Vows. Marie de Rohan was a great friend of César and his brother Alexandre, the bastard sons of Henri Quatre. All three of them hated Richelieu. Marie wrote : I think I am destined to be the object of […]

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Well Done, Static in the Attic

And thank you for bringing this to light. I can’t reply on yt. I’d NEVER bring down on your head the absolute hatred that I’ve endured for the past two and a half years. We both went “public” around the same time and we were both treated like dirt. I’ve been banned from most “truther” […]

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Tartarus : It Takes 9 Days for the Bronze Anvil To Drop.

A bit like Odin hanging for 9 days. Cats have 9 lives. Dante has 9 circles of Hell. 3,6,9 the goose drank wine, the MONKEY chewed tobacco on the street car line. The line broke. The MONKEY got choked. And we all went to Heaven in a little row boat. ClapClap. Row, Row, Row that […]

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Took The Story. Took The Character. Changed The Name.

Now THAT is a Hidden History FACT that repeats and repeats and repeats and……..! Bram Stoker got rich and famous by doing this in 1897. Many others do the same BS right up until this day, hour, minute :o) I’ve a feeling that the Basarab family are Very Pissed Off right now. Charles I of […]

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You&Me Against the World

I think y’all know by now that I am NOT a fan of Ian Fleming or Bond (Who Always to me is the TRUE representation of the King of Wands in the Tarot…King Dangalang displaying his wand) For the meelyonth time : I’ve written about Fleming and his close friend Dorothy Dunnett. The both started […]

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Night After Night

From the author Phil Rickman : The publishers wanted a stand-alone ghost story. Which it is. It totally stands alone, just like the earliest novels.  Except they didn’t, quite, did they? Characters from previous novels floated in, although it didn’t really matter if you hadn’t read those previous novels. I became a bit superstitious about […]

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Marlowe/Nashe & Dido of Carthage

And You wonder why Dido was pissed off? Look what the Romans did to Carthage…after Aeneas founded Italy as the centre of everything. Ever. Historical. Salting the Earth so that NO food grows is just plain NASTY, IMHO. That Venus was (maybe) a bit of a Trickster in disguise? By the way : much as […]

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