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Episode 127: Tipping the Scales
🕑 Added 2019-10-21 07:01:00 +0000 UTCIf you flip through the pages of history long enough, you’ll eventually run into stories about life out of balance, and how something—fate or chance or something otherworldly—has stepped in to make it right. In fact, some of those stories have become a part of our modern popular culture—all despite the deadly stories at their center.
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Further Reading
- E. Sidney Hartland, “Robberies from Fairyland. Elidorus: The Luck of Edenhall,” The Archeological Review 3.1 (March 1889), pp. 39–52.
- Glyn Davies, “New Light on the Luck of Edenhall,” The Burlington Magazine 152.1282 (January 2010), pp. 4–7.
- “The Luck of Edenhall,” Victoria & Albert Museum, http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O3311/the-luck-of-edenhall-beaker-and-case-unknown.
- Roger Luckhurst, The Mummy’s Curse: The True History of a Dark Fantasy (Oxford: OUP 2012).
- Bob Brier, Egyptomania: Our Three Thousand Year Obsession with the Land of the Pharoahs (St. Martin’s Press 2013).
- Ronald H. Fritze, Egyptomania: A History of Fascination, Obsession, and Fantasy (Reaktion Books 2016).
- Eleanor Dobson, “Gods and Ghost-Light: Ancient Egypt, Electricity, and X-Rays,” Victorian Literature and Culture 45.1 (2017), pp. 119–135.
- Jasmine Day, The Mummy’s Curse: Mummymania in the English-speaking World (London: Routledge, 2006).
- Herbert Dingle, "Lockyer, Joseph Norman,” Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography, vol. 8 (Detroit, MI: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2008) pp. 440-443.
- Jasmine Day, “The Maid and the Mummy,” Egypt: Ancient Histories, Modern Archaeologies edited by Rachel J. Dann and Karen Exell (Amherst, NY: Cambria Press 2013).
- William G. FitzGerald, ”Illustrated Interviews: No. XLVIII. -- Lord Charles Beresford, C.B., R.N.,” The Strand Magazine, Vol. XII, (July to December 1896), pp. 15-26.
- Paul Harrison, The Curse of the Pharaoh’s Tombs: Tales of the Unexpected since the Days of Tutankhamun (South Yorkshire, UK: Pen & Sword Books 2017).
- Nicolas Van De Walle, review of Three Empires on the Nile: The Victorian Jihad, 1869–1899 by Dominic Green, Foreign Affairs 86.5 (Sep-Oct 2007), p. 186
- Afaf Lutfi Al-Sayyid Marsot, A History of Egypt: From the Arab Conquest to the Present, Second Edition (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press 2007).
- Zeinab Abul-Magd, Imagined Empires: A History of Revolt in Egypt (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press 2013).
- Hasan Qasim Murad, “British Involvement in the Sudan,” Pakistan Horizon 31.4 (Fourth Quarter 1978), pp. 60–81.
- David Motadel, “Islam and the European Empires,” The Historical Journal 55.3 (September 2012), pp. 831–856.
- Eve Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism: Egypt, Great Britain, and the Mastery of the Sudan (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press 2003).
- Sally MacDonald and Michael Rice, “Introduction—Tea with a Mummy: the Consumer’s View of Egypt’s Immemorial Appeal,” in Consuming Ancient Egypt (University College of London Press 2003).
- Carter Lupton, “‘Mummymania for the Masses—Is Egyptology Cursed by the Mummy’s Curse?” in Consuming Ancient Egypt, edited by Sally MacDonald and Michael Rice (University College of London Press 2003).
- “Henry Bruce Meux, 1857–1900,” James McNeill Whistler: The Etchings, a catalogue raisonné edited by Margaret F. MacDonald, Grischka Petri, Meg Hausberg, and Joanna Meacock (University of Glasgow, 2012).
- Daniel E. Sutherland, Whistler: A Life for Art’s Sake (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2014).
- Garth Haslam, “1888, April 6: Curses of the Ingram Mummy,” anomalyinfo, anomalyinfo.com/Stories/curse-ingram-mummy.
- E.A. Wallis Budge, Babylonian Life and History (The Religious Tract Society, 1884), pp. 46-48.
- "Obituaries - April 1888," The Annual Register for the Year 1888 (London 1889), p. 146.
- E.A. Wallis Budge, Some Account of the Collection of Egyptian Antiquities in the Possession of Lady Meux of Theobold's Park, Waltham Cross, 1893 (London: 1893), pp. v-vii; 28-60.
- "Murray, Margaret A(lice) (1863-1963),” Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology, edited by J. Gordon Melton, 5th ed., vol. 2 (Detroit, MI: Gale, 2001), p. 1072.
- Margaret Alice Murray, My First Hundred Years (London: W. Kimber, 1963)
- Nick Rennison, The Book of Lists London (Edinburgh, UK: Cannongate Books 2006)
- Ben Johnson, “The London Beer Flood of 1814,” Historic UK, https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/The-London-Beer-Flood-of-1814.
- Ian Spencer Hornsey, A History of Beer and Brewing (Cambridge, UK: Royal Society of Chemistry, 2003).
- Martyn Cornell, “SO WHAT REALLY HAPPENED ON OCTOBER 17 1814?” Zythophile, 17 October 2010, http://zythophile.co.uk/2010/10/17/so-what-really-happened-on-october-17-1814.
Comments
Shalea Rhodes
This came up in my Twitter feed today: https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/1191033068674600960?s=19
