The search for the mythical relic unites the two strongest currents of European spirituality: Christianity and the legends of Arthur and his knights

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This week’s dream: wonder and melancholy in eastern Turkey ...

Reading Laura Mauro’s “Japanese Toilet Ghosts” [FT459:30-35], reminded me of a less well known fear in the Western world, which –according to the modern rabbinical Internet resource site TheTorah.com