Excerpt from On Some Ancient Battle-Fields in Lancashire and Their Historical, Legendary, and Aesthetic Associations The anglo-saxon Chronicle records that, in the year 685, it rained blood in Britain, and milk and butter were turned into blood. Of course, educated persons do not believe this now; but our conventionally educated predecessors did, and their conduct was sensibly influenced by such belief. The Chinese think them selves much superior personages, in very many respects, to the barbarian European, yet the following para graph went the round of the papers during May, in the present year: The Kaiping coal mines have been closed in deference to the opinion expressed by the Censor, that the continued working of them would release the earth dragon, disturb the manes of the empress, and bring trouble upon the imperial family. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.