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Post by Michael Connolly on Apr 16, 2018 12:41:41 GMT
Don't all women have detachable heads?
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Post by Swampirella on Apr 16, 2018 13:04:14 GMT
This one doesn't, although I can still hope
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Post by Michael Connolly on Apr 16, 2018 14:12:39 GMT
This one doesn't, although I can still hope Your detached head is winking!
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Apr 16, 2018 17:53:27 GMT
I wonder whether one could assemble a theme anthology of stories about women with detachable heads, such as Washington Irving's "The Adventure of the German Student" and Gaston Leroux's "The Woman with the Velvet Collar" (which are essentially the same story, but still).
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Post by dem bones on Apr 21, 2018 18:26:07 GMT
I wonder whether one could assemble a theme anthology of stories about women with detachable heads, such as Washington Irving's "The Adventure of the German Student" and Gaston Leroux's "The Woman with the Velvet Collar" (which are essentially the same story, but still). No bonnets, but they all get in on the act in Michael Avallone's 'Tale of the Frightened,' Don't Lose your Head.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Mar 29, 2021 10:18:55 GMT
What have I started this time? To get back to "Count Magnus" (and sanity), when I skimmed over August Derleth's introduction to it in Sleep No More, he referred to the correspondence that he had had with M.R. James. This was the subject of an article by Rosemary in Ghost & Scholars M.R. James Newsletter 17. This is further evidence that the letter MRJ received from "a native of Wisconsin" was from Derleth. About Rosemary's reference to The Lore of the Land: A Guide to England's Legends, from Spring-heeled Jack to the Witches of Warboys (2005) by Jacqueline Simpson and Jennifer Westwood, I am currently re-reading Westwood's Albion: A Guide to Legendary Britain (1985), essentially an earlier version of the hugely-expanded and heavily-illustrated later book. Both are strongly recommended if you want to read folklore about deals with the devil, death-portents and shape-changing horrors etc. MRJ is cited in both books. Albion states that St. Walstan "was firmly believed to restore the lost genitals of both men and animals". Now, that would be a miracle! How did he find out? And did it involve the laying on of hands?
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Post by Michael Connolly on Apr 3, 2021 11:07:19 GMT
What have I started this time? To get back to "Count Magnus" (and sanity), when I skimmed over August Derleth's introduction to it in Sleep No More, he referred to the correspondence that he had had with M.R. James. This was the subject of an article by Rosemary in Ghost & Scholars M.R. James Newsletter 17. This is further evidence that the letter MRJ received from "a native of Wisconsin" was from Derleth. About Rosemary's reference to The Lore of the Land: A Guide to England's Legends, from Spring-heeled Jack to the Witches of Warboys (2005) by Jacqueline Simpson and Jennifer Westwood, I am currently re-reading Westwood's Albion: A Guide to Legendary Britain (1985), essentially an earlier version of the hugely-expanded and heavily-illustrated later book. Both are strongly recommended if you want to read folklore about deals with the devil, death-portents and shape-changing horrors etc. MRJ is cited in both books. Albion states that St. Walstan "was firmly believed to restore the lost genitals of both men and animals". Now, that would be a miracle! How did he find out? And did it involve the laying on of hands? Albion also cites the case of the Radiant Boy who was once seen by, among others, Old John Mealy-Face. From Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events by Sabine Baring-Gould, Old John who "had sharp features, an eagle nose, and a prominent chin" was also "a close-fisted old man, who stinted himself, and his wife above all, in every possible way, for he dearly loved money. He did not allow his wife enough food, and she, poor thing, was wont, when he was out for the day at market or at fair, to bake herself a loaf from which she could cut a hunch when hungry. Her husband found this out, and was very wroth. When he went to market he pressed his face down in the flour at the top of the bin, and on his return put his face back in the depressions, to make sure that the flour had not been disturbed".
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