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This is the inaugural entry in what I hope will be a long series I’m calling Medieval Death Trip, a collection of miscellaneous grotesque, peculiar, or curious episodes from medieval texts. It is inspired by Michael Lesy’s cult-sensation doctoral thesis Wisconsin Death Trip. The following little narrative is from Thomas of Monmoth’s Life and Miracles of St. William of Norwich.

Here’s a lovely little episode of giant-killing from Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur which is so straightforwardly Freudian it almost defeats actual analysis.