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Twice Told: legends with a paper trail

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An archive retells legends and historical mysteries, then checks them against period newspapers, registers, and letters.

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For: Readers of folklore and historical records
Worth noticing: The archive lists 4 cases and 9 tales, with indexes for subjects such as beasts, ghosts, curses, and panics.

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The homepage divides its archive into cases and tales, then offers indexes by subject and geography: beasts, ghosts and spirits, curses and relics, panics and plagues, plus regions from Europe to Japan and China. Its featured Amabie entry gives a date range of 1843–1882 and foregrounds a discrepancy between one 1846 news sheet and other known papers. The visible page also links to documents and an About section.

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