It is with the great sadness that we have to take leave of one of our most appreciated Ancient Origins authors and Ancient Origins Magazine columnist, Charles Christian, who unexpectantly passed away on September 23, 2022.
His personal profile describes him as:
An English barrister and Reuters correspondent turned editor, author, blogger, podcaster, award-winning tech journalist, storyteller, and sometime werewolf hunter, Charles Christian. He writes, he drinks tea, he knows things.
Descended from a motley crew of smugglers and rogues, Christian was born a chime-child with a caul and grew up in a haunted medieval house by the harbourside in the Yorkshire seaside town of Scarborough. He now lives in a barn on a ley-line in rural East Anglia.
According to folklore a caul-shrouded chime-child can’t drown at sea but can see and talk to faerie folk and also has protection against spells cast by malevolent sorcerers. And yes, he was once commissioned to go on a werewolf hunt on the night of a full moon by a newspaper. Spoiler alert: he didn’t find one. (Or it didn’t find him.)
Charles Christian
In the five years that I have worked with Charles I was always excited to find his articles in my inbox. Editing his work and corresponding with him had me in stitches most of the time, and as I had interviewed him – and he interviewed me, I could hear his voice telling his stories behind his written words.
Charles was a barrister and attended to historical fact with such precision as he would…
