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I can't say that I had heard of this fracas before, but I guess it shows one swift kick trumps magic: https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/william-butler-yeats-aleister-crowley-magic-duel https://loopline.com/wb-yeats-the-battle-of-blythe-road/

For a few years in my childhood in the late 1960s, I lived in a rented flat above the coach garages in the stable block of Letton Hall. Letton Hall was a minor stately home in mid Norfolk (UK). It was formerly occupied by landed gentry, [edit, I originally wrote Lord] Baron and Lady Cranworth...

This is one of my favourite weird tales! It's like a 'Mary Celeste', but happened on the remote islands west of the Hebrides at the beginning of the last century. 'Strange Islands. The Flannan Islands have long been the focal point of many superstitions by the local people. Indeed there...

This is an old interest of mine, although it doesn't seem to have been mentioned on this MB before. New ideas on old Greek mechanism. Begins: WHEN a Greek sponge diver called Elias Stadiatos discovered the wreck of a cargo ship off the tiny island of Antikythera in 1900, it was the...