Britons and Celts
The Fate of the Dog-Monkeys
“Again in our time a bitch near here had a litter by a monkey and produced puppies which were ape-like in front but more like a dog behind.” […]
Gerald of Wales
Britons and Celts
Opening Arthur’s Tomb
“Beneath it there was a stone slab, with a leaden cross attached to its underside. I have seen this cross myself and I have traced the lettering which read as follows: HERE IN THE ISLE OF AVALON LIES BURIED THE RENOWNED KING ARTHUR, WITH GUINERERE, HIS SECOND WIFE.” […]
Britons and Celts
Demonic Efficiency
“When he left they questioned him closely and asked him who he really was. He said that he had been born to some rustic bedlam in the same parish, fathered on her by an incubus who had appeared in the shape of her husband.” […]
Britons and Celts
Hygene of a Briton
“Of all the people I have seen the Welsh are the most particular in shaving the lower parts of the body.” […]
Britons and Celts
Some Medieval Welsh Jokes
“I have only one thing to hold against her,” he said. “She puts too little butter in her salt.” […]
Britons and Celts
Salvation Through Suffering
“They say that if a person once undergoes these torments because of a penance imposed on him, he will not have to endure the pains of hell – unless he commit some very serious sin.” […]
Britons and Celts
Born of An Unholy Union
“From this you may believe that once again a man that was half an ox, and an ox that was half a man was produced.” […]
Britons and Celts
Ancient Magicks
“This is certainly a barbarous rite, without rime or reason.” […]
Britons and Celts
My Boyfriend is a Lion
“Soothing him with a woman’s tricks, she led him wherever he wanted and changed all his fury immediately into love.” […]
Britons and Celts
A Beloved Bird of Prey
“For what place was left to the poor little birds, when men held the land and the waters, and a hostile and terrible tyrant of a bird endangered the air?” […]