Wednesday, December 08, 2010

Sauna Sunday - December 12, 2010

December 12th is a dark day in history. It is the day, back in 1098 that First Crusade went bezerk. In the town of Massacre of Ma'arrat al-Numan Crusaders breach the town's walls and massacre about 20,000 inhabitants. After finding themselves with insufficient food, they resort to cannibalism.




A chronicler, Radulph of Caen, wrote: "Some people said that, constrained by the lack of food, they boiled pagan adults in cooking-pots, impaled children on spits and devoured them grilled."
These events were also chronicled by Fulcher of Chartres, who wrote: "I shudder to tell that many of our people, harassed by the madness of excessive hunger, cut pieces from the buttocks of the Saracens already dead there, which they cooked, but when it was not yet roasted enough by the fire, they devoured it with savage mouth." - Nice.


Lucy and Dan discuss the unconvincing joys of cannibalism

The Coven: Mirri, Zany, Samir, Mac Nan Alba, (Is Oh My Ploems on this list??), Baggage, The Kat among the pigeons, Sister Sam, Bec & Donald, Kali


The mains: Zany will do something with chicken. (Delicious and not at all gory!)


The sides  Mac Nan Alba will do luscious greens


The puddings: Sam


The drinks: Bec & Donald


The kitchen slaves: Samir and...


Those not attending: Primrose Goddess, and Rastas (get better soon) Cloudy Types, Doctor Dee, Leo Tolstoy, Pope Benedict, Ghengis Khan's Aunty Dot,  Wayne and Puggsie (away in Mongolia), Fruitbat...


Angela, Roberta and Bryan at last week's sauna

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