Strange Pages from Family Papers
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Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer
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“Among other qualities which have been supposed to belong to a dead man’s hand, are its medicinal virtues, in connection with which may be mentioned the famous ‘dead hand,’ which was, in years past, kept at Bryn Hall, Lancashire… Thus the case is related of a woman who, attacked with the smallpox, had this dead hand in bed with her every night for six weeks, and of a poor lad living near Manchester who was touched with it for the cure of scrofulous sores.”
Though not all chapters have such gruesome subjects as The Dead Hand, all are full of a curious mixture of superstition and local history that will delight and amuse the modern listener. (Summary by David Barnes).
Read by Annika Feilbach, Carl Manchester, Claire Goget, Cori Samuel, David Barnes, Graham Redman, Hugh McGuire, Jennie Hughes, Lizzie Driver, Peter Yearsley, Philippa, Sarah McIntrye, Sarah O'Connor and Stuart Pyle. (7 hr 33 min)
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Very nice surprise
CaptnCoolTheCosmicFool
(5 Sterne)
Like Vivia, I too feel as if I am back in my grandpa's shop discovering a trunk full of wonderful oddities...thanks again.
Wonderful ephemera!
Vivia
(5 Sterne)
Reading these is like finding an old chest in the attic of an abandoned house filled with strange things. Thanks wonderful librivox!
INTERESTING
dsd
(5 Sterne)
Way better than it sounds . interesting real life stories, in small 5 minute chunks. V Good readers, too.
Geraldine Rourke
(4 Sterne)
All readers did a great job.Really good stories.Took a star off because stories run into each other
super
Lauren Ashby
(4,5 Sterne)
much more interesting than I thought it would be