W'oN...

That Blackbeard's skull as a punchbowl story is a new one to me. Amazing. Who would want to drink punch out of a skull--grisly concept! His ship was the Queen Anne's Revenge. You wrote that Teach's skull was put on the bowsprit of the British ship and wwh wrote that it was put on the bowsprit of Blackbeard's ship. Wonder which one of you is correct here? I don't know--just have read that it was placed on a bowsprit. Modern sensibility would never allow for such a practice.

But back to skulls: Lord Byron kept a human skull. I wonder what other odd stories are out there about skulls? The Blackbeard skull as a punchbowl is the oddest I've ever read about!