Dead Fish Stories
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Christmas Careels: A New Holiday Tradition
This year, my Twitter-friend @grenouille781 created a series of eel-themes Christ [...]
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Death By Eels: Murderous Gluttony and Stone-Cold Murder
There are many stories of people dying after eating a plate of eels. Sometimes their deaths were an accident, and sometimes the r [...]
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Raw Eels May Kill Your Hangover. And the Rest of You, Too.
Have you ever woken up with a hangover after a hard night of partying, and thought to yourself, "What I really want right now is [...]
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Bede’s Account of Wilfrid and the South Saxons
The eighth-century monk Bede gives us some of the first evidence of eels as a part of English life in post-Roman Britain. Scatter [...]
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Getting Used to It: Churchill’s Eel Metaphor
In 1931 Winston Churchill wrote an essay for The Strand in which he defended poli [...]
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Feaguing Before Ginger: A Lively Horse Discussion
Eels show up in a lot of ways in the illegal economies of medieval and Early Modern England. They were poached from creeks, stole [...]
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