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Friday, January 15, 2010

OLL LEWIS: Yesterday’s News Today

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On this day in 588BC the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II started his siege of Jerusalem. Nebuchadnezzar can perhaps lay claim to being the world leader to witness the most paranormal events in his lifetime. If legends told about him by both his own people and the exiled Jews are true, then his only real competition for that title would be the Welsh man known as King Arthur (if indeed the folklore of his exploits were true, but that’s not a can of worms I want to open at this time). Among the tales told of Nebuchadnezzar are: witnessing 3 Hebrews being saved from being burned alive in his furnace by ‘a son of the gods’, the Jewish prophet Daniel emerging unscathed from a den of hungry lions, a disembodied hand writing on a wall, two prophetic dreams and a seven-year bout of clinical lycanthropy. The lycanthropy legend is backed up by a clay tablet from Babylon in the British Museum (which first opened on this day in 1759, as coincidence would have it), but some modern scholars interpret Nebuchadnezzar’s madness as being related to porphyria or syphilis.

Anyway, enough talk of madness and STDs; here is the news on our nice, newly restored news-blog, brought to us by Gavin Ll. Wilson:

Tourist killed by 'dinosaur-sized' shark off South African beach
West Country pagans tie horses in knots
Shipworm threatens archaeological treasures
Child snake charmer
Rats Face Poison Blitz On Pacific Island
The couple who share their bed with a deer
Horse mane weaving incidents 'caused by Pagans', police believe
Fresh sighting of UFOs and Werewolves on Cannock Chase

If it’s distressing the horses that’s seriously ‘knot’ something any religious person should be doing.

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