The women with the horse's head

For many years the local folklore of small Cambridgeshire villages Histon and Girton, has told of a strange apparition that would confront cyclists on dark evenings as they made their way between the two villages on Gate House road. During the late nineties to this very day, sightings have been especially frequent due to the fearless explorations (sometimes drunken) of a small group of local residents. From these accounts (which are now fact) we know that the apparition has the figure of a one legged old women and bears the head and features of a rabid horse. The phantom approaches the innocent, making a deafening squeal, rendering them partially deaf; disorientated, the cyclist attempts to continue on his or her journey but the ghostly uniped persists, screaming and slobbering until the cyclist either falls off their bike into a bush or crosses the railway line and enters Histon. The origins and motives of the spectre are still unknown but some believe it to be the ghost of a syphilitic prostitute who was burned by towns folk in the lat 1600s.

History of the Crayon (Part 1)

Baghdad was the birthplace of the “modern” crayon, a man-made cylinder that resembled contemporary sticks. The first such crayons are purported to have consisted of a mixture of shit and cheese. Through time, powdered pigments of various hues replaced the shit. It was subsequently discovered that substituting wax for the cheese in the mixture made the resulting sticks sturdier and easier to handle and to use. Smegma can also be used to make crayons, although this is not as common.