Echoes of Dead Worlds

The Death of Walter Raleigh

September 20, 2022 Saxo

“He took a pipe of tobacco a little before he went to the scaffold, which some formal persons were scandalized at, but I think ‘twas well and properly done, to settle his spirits.” […]

Shakespeare’s Dramatic Youth

August 21, 2022 Saxo

“When he was a boy he exercised his father’s trade, but when he killed a calf he would do it in a high style, and make a speech.” […]

“We were all upon our knees, and out hair about our eyes, and our hands lifted up to THE DIVELL, and our eyes steadfast looking upon him, praying, and saying words which he learned us, thrice over, for destroying of this Laird’s children, and to make his house heirless.” […]

Details Regarding the Devil’s Schlong

October 31, 2020 Saxo

“The youngest and lustiest women will have very great pleasure in their carnal cowpulatioun with him, yea much more than with their own husbands, and they will have an exceeding great desire of it with him, as much as he can have to them, and more, and never think shame of it.” […]

A Weather Witch in Action

October 1, 2020 Saxo

“I knok this ragg upon this stane / To raise the wind, in the DIVELLIS name / It shall not lie until I please again!” […]

A Silver-Tongued Devil

September 1, 2020 Saxo

“Upon the morne early, in came the DIVELL and lay doun with her and had carnall copulatioun with her, his nature being cold.” […]

Intimate as the Devil

August 1, 2020 Saxo

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!” […]

Ever Dance with the Devil in the Pale Moonlight?

July 2, 2020 Saxo

“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.” […]