Drinking Gods, Myths & Fairytales
Maximón, the Liquor-Drinking Saint Maximón or San Simón is a folk saint in the highlands of Guatemala who is said to have both positive (healing and protective) and negative (ominous and cursing) powers. Maximón is worshiped in the Maya Culture across tribes in about...Drinking Gods, Myths & Fairytales
Skaldenmet The Skaldenmet (Mead of Poetry, Mead of Suttungr) is a myth from Norse mythology. It is a honey wine that if consumed enables everyone to sing beautiful and write poetry. The most complete information about Skaldenmet is found in the works of Snorri...Drinking Gods, Myths & Fairytales
Mbaba Mwana Waresa The Zulu people of Southern Africa worship a goddess called Mbaba Mwana Waresa. The goddesss lives in the rain clouds, in a round hut made of rainbow arches. She is the goddess of the rainbow, rain, harvest, agriculture, and she gave the Zulus the...Drinking Gods, Myths & Fairytales
The Story Of The Drunken Bakerman The Story of the Drunken Bakerman is about Charles Joughin, an English-American chef and the head baker on board of the Titanic. He was born in England in 1878 and went to sea for the first time at the age of 11. According to his...Drinking Gods, Myths & Fairytales
Pickled in Brandy The Battle of Trafalgar on October 21, 1805 was a naval battle at Cape Trafalgar between the British and the allied French and Spanish as part of the Third Coalition War. It marks the beginning of more than a century of British supremacy at...