Viking
A Regretful Do-Gooder
“He tied their dead bodies to planks and stretched them upright in such a way that they seemed to be standing.” […]
Peoples
Greek and Roman
The Origin of the Amazons
“They appointed a day for meeting once in every year, so that when they should return to the same place on that day in the following year each mother might give over to the father whatever male child she had borne, but should herself keep and train for warfare whatever children of the female sex were born.” […]
Greek and Roman
The Trouble With Cannibals
“It is said to be their custom that when anyone of their fellows, whether man or woman, is sick, a man’s closest friends kill him, saying that if wasted by disease he will be lost to them as meat.” […]
Greek and Roman
Even Herodotus Has His Limits
“The bald men say, but it does not seem to me credible, that the people who live in these mountains have feet like goats.” […]
Greek and Roman
A Legend in Love and War
“The found in a cave a strange being, between a maiden and a serpent, whose form from the waist upwards was like that of a woman, while all below was like a snake.” […]
Human Affairs
Many Marriages Means Many Mongols
“All the idolaters, and likewise the Saracens, take six, eight, or ten wives apiece, and as many as they can afford to keep, and beget innumerable children.” […]