Today by coincidence I ran into an old text about some spooky events during the American Civil War which took place in a few southern towns where I spent time as a child.

[tarnport@mastodon.green]

Today by coincidence I ran into an old text about some spooky events during the American Civil War which took place in a few southern towns where I spent time as a child. It was strange to see those familiar names in such old stories. Almost immediately I realized that every town around me now in Europe appears in texts for the last 800-2000 years, and I wonder if people who grew up here have any reaction at all to seeing their hometown mentioned far beyond their own personal experience of it.

[roknrol@beige.party]

@Tarnport My European friends think it's funny when I refer to a house in the US as being "old" when it's right around a century.

Hell, my house in France is only about a century old and that's considered "new" in my area.

[yngmar@social.tchncs.de]

@Tarnport No, instead we have crazy stories about local history, like the Irish monks who brought religion to town about 13 centuries ago, got beheaded by an angry wife who had just been informed that her marriage was invalid under the new rules and now we have their actual skulls plus some jewels and gold in a glass box in the local cathedral and carry them around town every year in a procession.

Also the last witch in the area was burnt in my village. In 1749.

Yup, lots of creepy shit.

[virginicus@universeodon.com]

@roknrol @Tarnport As the saying goes, an American thinks 100 years is a long time; a European thinks 100 kilometers is a long way.