The Sun [UK]
11 March 2019
BODY FEAR Bodies of dead chimney sweep boys as young as four
could still be in Parliament, expert warns
THE bodies of dead chimney sweep
boys could still be lying in Parliament, an MP has warned. Experts examining
the crumbling Palace of Westminster told MPs there is “a possibility” that some
of the ‘climbing boys’ who were deployed to go up the chimneys in the 19th
century could have died up there. […]
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Walt Kelly, Pogo, 18 December 1950. Pogo:
The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips, Volume 1 (Seattle: Fantagraphics,
2011), 182. See also the strip for 8 November 1952 for another reference to the folk belief that snakes can be generated from hair.
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The Sun [UK]
28 March 2019
RISEN FROM THE BREAD
Face of ‘Jesus Christ’ found in Margate woman’s halloumi wrap
A WOMAN feared the wrapture was
coming when she claims to have spotted the face of Jesus Christ in a tortilla. Lucy,
from Margate, Kent, says she had the distinct feeling she was being watched by
the guaca-holy presence as she made herself a halloumi wrap. […]
