War Piglet The Art of Warfare and of Roasting

In the following 2 minutes you will be shown the basics in hurling incendiary bombs in the style recorded by our ancestors. Pig fat is noted as being used to create intense fires when underground mines were opened up below besieged positions and the mines and counter mines were set on fire, or fired to bring down the defences above, or to cave in the mines below. The pig fire below, in the mines, could be complemented as seen here with a flying, a flying fiery piglet. If you can then do go along and see Andrew Spratt at His Man at Arms demonstrations they are superb living history in action.

If you are able do get to see Andrew Spratt. His Man at Arms demonstrations are superb. The history and story telling is filled with entertaining sections for all ages as he brings the past to life and enacts the grim and glorious deeds set down in plain and illuminated pages. Quite literally items are shown clearly inked in manuscripts and then a replica is produced so that our perceptions of humanity are brought out of the past to the present giving us a chance to appreciate the journey we have travelled. There is a great section on bread and piglets. There is the chance to see someone that lives the role delivering the insight with humour of the life and times of the Man at Arms.

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