Britons and Celts
A Weather Witch in Action
“I knok this ragg upon this stane / To raise the wind, in the DIVELLIS name / It shall not lie until I please again!” […]
Britons and Celts
Britons and Celts
Saxons Take What They Want
“And when the leaders of the Saxon army saw that the land was broad and fertile, and that the hands of the natives were slow to draw the sword, whereas they themselves and the greater part of the Saxons were without secure homes, they sent for an even larger army.” […]
Britons and Celts
A Poison-Proof Isle
“They found toads brought in by chance in the bottom of the holds. They threw them out still living on to the land; but immediately they turned their bellies up, burst in the middle, and died, while everybody saw and wondered.” […]
Britons and Celts
A Silver-Tongued Devil
“Upon the morne early, in came the DIVELL and lay doun with her and had carnall copulatioun with her, his nature being cold.” […]
Britons and Celts
Billions of Blistering Blue Birds
“Accordingly in some parts of Ireland bishops and religious men eat barnacles without sin during a fasting time, regarding them as not being flesh, since they were not born of flesh.” […]
Britons and Celts
Intimate as the Devil
He marked me in the shoulder, and sucked out my blood at that mark, and spouted it in his hand, and, sprinkling it on my head, said, “I baptize thee, Janet, in my own name!” […]
Britons and Celts
A Dead Man’s Riposte
“The severed head, speaking with its own lips, at once replied.” […]
Britons and Celts
Natural Predators Make Tough Parents
“Bird of this kind “that live by prey, throw their weak young offspring out of their nests, lest they should accustom themselves to soft living.” […]
Britons and Celts
Ever Dance with the Devil in the Pale Moonlight?
“And constantly, for three days thereafter, there was a great bee come to her. And upon one morning, when she was changing her shirt, it did sit down upon her shoulder (she being naked) where she had one of the marks.” […]
Britons and Celts
The War For Scotland
“Meanwhile the cities, having been stripped of their defenders in this way and abandoned except for a few simpletons who were devoid of all skill in defence, were surrounded by the Romans.” […]