This collection presents 24 essays, each of them based on historical evidence, about different events, strange and sometimes unbelievable:
The Disappearance of Bathurst
The Duchess of Kingston
General Mallet
Schweinichen's Memoirs
The Locksmith Gamain
Abram the Usurer
Sophie Apitzsch
Peter Nielsen
The Wonder-Working Prince Hohenlohe
The Snail-Telegraph
The Countess Goerlitz
A Wax-and-Honey Moon
The Electress's Plot
Suess Oppenheim
Ignatius Fessler
A Swiss Passion Play
A Northern Raphael
The Poisoned Parsnips
The Murder of Father Thomas in Damascus
Some Accusations Against Jews
The Coburg Mausoleum
Jean Aymon
The Patarines of Milan
The Anabaptists of Münster
Sabine Baring-Gould of Lew Trenchard in Devon, England, was an Anglican priest, hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist, folk song collector and eclectic scholar. His bibliography consists of more than 1,240 publications, though this list continues to grow. His family home, the manor house of Lew Trenchard, near Okehampton, Devon, has been preserved as he had it rebuilt and is now a hotel. He is remembered particularly as a writer of hymns, the best-known being "Onward, Christian Soldiers", "Sing Lullaby", and "Now the Day Is Over". He also translated the carol "Gabriel's Message" from the Basque language to English.
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