Showing posts with label Great Britain - Myths and Legends. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Great Britain - Myths and Legends. Show all posts

03 June 2014

GHOSTS IN PRINCE GEORGE'S NURSERY AND IN YOUR FAMILY STEAD?

With the summer ahead - finally - it might not be the spookiest time of year to be talking about GHOSTS but a recent article on the internet suggested that Great Britain's baby Prince George is in a remodeled nursery that has been the scene of several sightings of ghosts - ancestral spirits.

Here is one of many articles quoting biographer Andrew Morton, famous or infamous for writing about Princess Diana.

IS PRINCE GEORGE OF CAMBRIDGE'S NURSERY HAUNTED? : O CANADA

EXCERPT " Andrew Morton, the famous biographer of Prince William’s late mother, Princess Diana, is quoted in England’s Mirror explaining that “Prince George’s nursery is in Apartment 1A of Kensington Palace, which has been a notorious spot for ghost sightings...The Mirror reports that apparitions of George II, Caroline of Brunswick and Princess Sophia have all been reported in the palace, with ghostly visions in “Regency dress” disappearing through walls.”

Another author mentioned in the article says there are ghosts OUTSIDE THE PALACE as well!

It's one thing to honor your ancestors (by, say, doing genealogy) and another to be visited by them as ghosts.

I believe ghosts exist though I don't claim to totally understand their technology.  Some say they are souls who do not know they are dead and haven't moved on to a higher spiritual plane, others say that they are haunted because there is unfinished business.  I don't know enough about the named ghosts to know how they died or when at this point.  I think ghosts need to be cleared out though because this time on earth is for the living.

DO YOU HAVE GHOSTS IN YOUR FAMILY STEAD?

05 May 2012

SAXONS VIKINGS AND CELTS by BRYAN SYKES

Were the first inhabitants of Britain a race of Giants under Albion, a son of the sea-god Poseidon, who had a band of fifty women, who had all killed their husbands?

What is myth and legend but doesn't hold up when science pays its part in recreating the human story? Bryan Sykes's SAXONS, VIKINGS, and CELTS, is the result of DNA testing over 10,000 people living in the British Isles. Here you will learn that:

The blue tattooed Picts were Celtic too.

The LeTene style, now most strongly associated with Celtic Art, began not on the Atlantic ocean costs but in view of the Alps, and when there was a mass migration it was not by land but by sea, following the Mediterranean, around the Iberian peninsula and north.

That the evidence for the Viking's plundering is there, but also there is the evidence that the Vikings brought along some Viking women to procreate with.

The Genghis Khan effect is that 8 percent of men in Mongolia have inherited this gene because Genghis style was to kill all the men and inseminate all the women. But the term is also used when scientists find that a man or clan or group of men dominated the women. (Some fertile men never got to mate.)


That a few surnames show that all men in the clan show a DNA signature; you could find this signature elsewhere and know without a doubt what CLAN. Are you a Macdonald, McDougall, or Macalister? 200,000 men carry these genes, originated with a man named Somerled, a Celtic hero who helped drive away the Vikings.

Your blood type is associated with your DNA. The cause is very slight changes in the DNA of the blood group itself.

As with the Seven Daughters of Eve, the book he published years earlier, as a writer Sykes will warm you up before he delivers the information, so that the myths and legends are understood first. This book was published by Norton in 2006... so it also stands as the state of the art book on DNA use for genealogy at that time.

Now I want to ask Sykes if there is any way he can get DNA from the lone woman who was found in Los Angeles' LaBrea Tar Pits, where thousands of animal bones have been found!