America

Henry Tudor Sailed the Oceans Blue?

Dec 20, 2017

art, travel

“Perkin”, America, Bartholomew Columbus, Canada, Carry On Columbus, Christopher Columbus, explorers, Ferdinand of Aragon, Henry VII, Isabel of Castile, Jim Dale, John Cabot, Louis XII, Native Americans, parsimony, pensions, portraits, rewards

In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Henry Tudor Sailed the Oceans Blue? No, no, we all know that’s NOT the way the rhyme goes…however, apparently, some publishers do not know the difference between the English king and the explorer Christopher Columbus. A picture of Henry VII, labelled as Columbus, recently appeared in a child’s history textbook…
Witchcraft (4): Witchcraft American Style

Aug 20, 2017

anniversaries, archaeology

Abigail Williams, America, Arthur Miller, Betty Parris, candlesticks, Danvers, executions, John Proctor, Massachusets, molasses, Native Americans, Puritans, Rebecca Nurse, Rev. Samuel Parris, rum, Salem, slavery, The Crucible, Tituba, trading colonies, Triangle Trade, witch trials, witchcraft

Why do the Salem Witch Trials continue to fascinate after three hundred and twenty five years? Why do tourists and locals, wiccans, witches, warlocks and wizards continue to walk the crowded streets of this pretty little seaside city in Massachusetts in search of magic and mayhem? What propels them to stroll the narrow streets, licking…
Witchcraft (3): Matthew Hopkins

Aug 19, 2017

anniversaries

America, Charles I, Civil War, Connecticut, East Anglia, Essex, Framlingham, Great Wenham, James VI, John Stearne, Lancaster, Macbeth, Manningtree, Matthew Hopkins, North Berwick trials, Parliament, Pendle trials, religion, Suffolk, The Discovery of Witches, witchcraft, Witchfinder-General

If the witchcraft trials at North Berwick in the 1590s and later in England, of which Pendle in 1610 is an example, happened because James VI/I fervently believed in witchcraft, as shown by the three characters in Macbeth, it can be argued that the subsequent decline in such cases came because judges and Charles I…

America

Henry Tudor Sailed the Oceans Blue?

Witchcraft (4): Witchcraft American Style

Witchcraft (3): Matthew Hopkins