Famous Impostors

Bram Stoker spent his last years collecting history's great frauds: pretenders to thrones, alchemists and witch-finders, the Tichborne Claimant — and the strange Cotswold legend that Queen Elizabeth was really a boy.

The Wandering Jew

4 cases in this part of Famous Impostors.

The Wandering Jew

THE legend of the Wandering Jew has its roots in a belief in the possibility of human longevity beyond what is natural and normal. It is…

The Wandering Jew: Paris

Thus unless there be something of an authoritative character to upset the theory, Matthew Paris must be taken as the first European…

The Wandering Jew: Christ

It is strange that in an age of religious domination many of the legends of Our Saviour seem to have been based on just such intolerant…

The Wandering Jew: Abbot

The Abbot of St. Albans, the Archbishop of Armenia, the interpreter, the Archbishop's servant, the monks or laybrothers who singly or in…

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