Contents

Acknowledgements 7

Foreword by Magnus Magnusson 9

Introduction: Arnall Bloxham II

I He saw the execution of Charles I 19

2 A colleague in Ancient Greece 24

3 Jane Evans has seven lives 27

4 A twelfth-century Jewess 30

5 A church with a crypt 41

6 The Roman wife 47 60

7 A servant in Medieval France 76

8 Search for a golden apple

courtesan 84

9 The sewing girl and the

TO The American nun 93

11 The fight of HMS Aggie 107

12 The spy on the cliff 121

13 The mystery of hypnotism 134

14 Between my hat and my boots -the ancient belief in reincarnation

15 A light in the darkness 143

Selected Bibliography 156

Illustrations between pages 80

and 81

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