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  • Death by Molasses: The Great Boston Flood of 1919 and the Disaster a City Chose to Forget

    by E L Hunter ...
    It sounds like a joke. It killed twenty-one people.Just after noon on an unseasonably warm day in January 1919, a storage tank the height of a five-storey building burst on Boston's crowded waterfront and loosed 2.3 million gallons of molasses across the North End. The wave stood twenty-five feet high and moved at thirty-five miles an hour. It flung a firehouse toward the harbour, buckled the ... Read more

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  • Japanese Yokai: The Supernatural Creatures and Spirits of Japan

    by E L Hunter ...
    For most of Japan's history, the dark was crowded. A fox on the road might be a woman by morning. The water in the dish on a kappa's head held its life. A neglected tool, a hundred years old, could open an eye and bear a grudge. These are the yōkai: the demons, ghosts, and spirits that Japan set at the edge of every mountain, every river, and every lonely house.They were how a people explained ... Read more

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  • Berengaria of Navarre: The Absent Queen

    by E L Hunter ...
    She was Richard the Lionheart's queen for eight years, and never once set foot in England.In 1191, in the middle of the Third Crusade, Berengaria of Navarre married the most celebrated soldier of the age. She had crossed the Alps in winter and half the Mediterranean to reach him, and was crowned Queen of England on the island of Cyprus, a thousand miles from the kingdom she would never see. Within ... Read more

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  • Blodeuwedd: The Woman Made of Flowers

    by E L Hunter ...
    She was made from flowers to love a man she never chose. When she chose another, they turned her into an owl.In the medieval Welsh Mabinogi, two magicians gather the blossom of oak, broom and meadowsweet and conjure a woman: the loveliest bride ever seen, made for a hero his own mother had cursed to have no earthly wife. They give her no kin, no childhood, no choice. And when she loves a man of ... Read more

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  • Ériu: Ireland's Divine Namesake

    by E L Hunter ...
    A woman waits on a hill at the centre of an island, watching an army come to take her country. She will lose, and she knows it. She asks the invaders for one thing only: that whatever else they do, the land will keep her name.They give their word. The island is called Éire to this day, after the goddess Ériu who bargained for it, and her name is written into its constitution and printed inside ... Read more

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  • Enchanted Britain and Ireland: A Complete History of Magic in the British Isles

    by E L Hunter ...
    A Bronze Age sword is dropped into the Thames as an offering to powers beneath the water. A Roman citizen scratches a curse onto lead and casts it into a sacred spring. A medieval monk copies a spell for summoning angels into the margins of a psalter. A seventeenth-century farmer buries a bottle of nails and urine beneath his hearth to break a witch's curse. A modern Druid raises her arms to greet ... Read more

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  • Amaterasu: Light of the Heavens

    by E L Hunter ...
    Almost every sun god in human history has been male. Japan's is a woman.Amaterasu Ōmikami, the sun goddess at the heart of Shinto, is one of the very few female suns in world mythology, and the one whose worship still endures today. For more than a thousand years she has been honored as the divine ancestress of the Japanese imperial line, the world's oldest continuous monarchy.Her story runs from ... Read more

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  • Roman Wales and the End of Roman Britain (43 - 410 CE)

    by E L Hunter ...
    Why did Wales stay Welsh?Rome conquered the region in brutal campaigns that lasted decades. Rome occupied it with more soldiers per square mile than almost anywhere else in the empire. Rome ruled it for more than three hundred years.And yet Wales never became Roman.No villas. No towns. No Latin. Just forts, roads, and a population that outlasted the empire by staying exactly who they'd always been ... Read more

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  • Borderlands and Bloodlines: Marcher Lords, Welsh Lords, and the Making of the Medieval Frontier (c. 1066–1300)

    by E L Hunter ...
    In 1210, King John had Maud de St Valéry and her eldest son walled up in a royal castle and left to starve. Offered the chance to buy her family's peace by surrendering her son as a hostage, she had refused, sending word that she would not entrust her child to a king who had murdered his own nephew. Her husband William de Braose — once the most powerful Marcher lord in Wales — died in exile in ... Read more

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  • Coyolxauhqui: The Dismembered Moon

    by E L Hunter ...
    In February 1978, electrical workers digging beneath downtown Mexico City struck a stone disk three meters across, carved with the dismembered body of a Mexica goddess. The stone had lain face-up under the colonial plaza for four and a half centuries.Her name was Coyolxauhqui, "Bells-Her-Cheeks." She was the daughter of the earth mother Coatlicue, the sister of the war god Huitzilopochtli, and the ... Read more

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  • Kuan Yin: The Eternal Goddess of Compassion

    by E L Hunter ...
    How a god became a goddess.She is called upon in storms at sea and in the silence of grief, in temples from Hangzhou to Los Angeles. Kuan Yin, the goddess of mercy, is one of the most worshipped figures on earth. Few of her devotees know that she began as a man: Avalokiteśvara, a male bodhisattva from India, whose transformation into a Chinese goddess has puzzled scholars for centuries.Kuan Yin: ... Read more

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  • Holes in the Head: Medicine, Violence, and Survival in Early Medieval Britain and Brittany

    by E L Hunter ...
    When archaeologists opened an early Anglo-Saxon grave at Oxborough in Norfolk, one skull stopped them. It belonged to a woman who had reached old age, and someone had cut a clean opening into the left side of her head. The bone had healed around it. She lived for years with a hole in her skull, and no one wrote down why it was made.Holes in the Head is about wounds like hers, found across early ... Read more

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