monks

Mealtime peace is well known concept in many Norwegian homes: You should sit still at the table and enjoy the food you are served. Monks back in the day, took this to a new level. Speaking during meals was forbidden, and so a new sign language was born. Marianne Vedeler is a professor of...

From 1932

Hi guys, I was camping alone some years ago near Spalding (England) and had a dream in which i was out of the tent and following a monk-like figure across the field to a clump of trees containing some sort of craft, and there the dream ended. Next morning I woke up back in the tent and noticed...

Can anyone avail me of the tale of an Irishman (possibly a monk) who was so astonished by the fact that he'd written a book so perfect, that he threw it into the sea, fearing that after reading it, no-one would ever bother to write a book again because it could never compare? I think I...

I wonder why so many people see menacing monks as an apparition? Some see them when they get sleep paralysis, some see them as they are out walking in an isolated area, etc. Why the monk specifically? Is it because their faces are hidden? Or do they represent something ancient and...