Date (happened)
c. 1905 (probable)
"when I was a child", told in The Potter's House (nid 1752)
Told / reported
  • 1957 (refuted)
    The Potter's House (nid 1752), telling 1752-5, told 1957
  • 1957 (refuted)
    The Potter's House (nid 1752), telling 1752-5, told 1957
  • 25 October 1971 (probable)
    nid 1752 surviving delivery claim after refutation. All claims: 1957-??-?? refuted; 1971-10-25 probable (preferred)
Persons
As a child in a Christian home he was beaten bloody in a Bible class by a sadistic headmaster for being unable to produce a Bible to verify the correctly quoted 'Take up thy bed and walk' (the master's Bible said 'couch'); his father had to be restrained by neighbours from killing the man and took him out of the school next day; the headmaster shot himself that year.