St Anthony’s Fire The tragic events at Wattisham in 1762 might have been extreme but they were far from unusual. Reports can be found throughout mediaeval European literature of mysterious outbreaks which left thous…

Rotten #rye #ergotism #StAnthonysFire #Wattisham
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The Tragedy Of Judgement Farm On one of the walls of the now redundant church of St Nicholas in the Suffolk village of Wattisham is a tablet with a haunting and intriguing inscription which reads “This inscription serves to aut…

The perils lurking in rotten #rye #ergot #StAnthonysfire #Wattisham
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