Sir Bedivere… Alias “Peter the Fang”
THE WOLF OF ANSBACH:
In a reported werewolf attack of the late seventeenth century, the Wolf of Ansbach slaughtered a number of people, beginning with livestock, and progressing to children. The late, unlamented leader of Ansbach had recently died, and the citizens believed the animal was actually a reincarnated version of him in werewolf form.
So, the townspeople held a wolf hunt. Replete with hounds and hoes and spears and pitchforks and all the usual accoutrements.
Driving the wolf from the woods, they chased it down with dogs. It leapt into an uncovered well. And after that, well, it was a turkey shoot…
Were the Picts Weirdos, or Just… Special?
Hello, everyone, and welcome to Camelot Chat! I’m your hostess, Shannon Watson; and today, we will be discussing whether the Picts were “Weirdos, or Just… Special?”
The Picts had a quantity of weird practices. Or at least, practices that appear strange in retrospect and to the modern eye.
Some of these customs were, frankly, pretty neat, like the straight-out-of-a-faerie-tale-looking Pictish brochs: high, stone round towers of which Rapunzel would have been proud. The Pictish broch was the skyscraper of its Dark Age day. Brochs are scattered throughout the Scottish landscape, and the Arthurian villain, Meleagant, built just such a tower in which to imprison Lancelot, whom he had ambushed in a most un-chivalric manner…