Charles Ogier is a male peculiar and author. He was a time traveler of seventeenth century Europe, after which he wrote Touring in 1600: A Peculiar Traveler's Complaints.[1]
Miss Peregrine's Museum of Wonders[]
His account of his experiences, originally written in Latin, was translated by E. S. Bates. One excerpt regarding seventeenth century inns was included in Miss Peregrine's Museum of Wonders.[2]
In it, he writes how in Italy, innkeepers do not provide clean sheets and it is desirable for one to bring his or her own bedding due to the nation being afflicted with "the itch," likely scabies. The beds are dirty and infested with vermin, causing peculiar travelers to sleep on a table in many cases instead. Bed sharing customs are opposites in Spain and Germany: in Spain, the tourist sleeps alone because there is a penalty of burning alive for canoodling, while in Germany the host will choose a companion (who will be drunk on coming to bed) for the tourist if they do not have one. In Saxony, one sleeps in the straw among the cows.
He also mentions the murdering innkeeper: one had been detected at Poitiers shortly before the arrival of one of his friends, and another tale goes that eight hundred people disappeared at one inn in Stralsund and reappeared pickled.
References[]
- ↑ Miss Peregrine's Museum of Wonders (Important Books by Peculiar Writers)
- ↑ Miss Peregrine's Museum of Wonders (Time Loops)