Neville and schoolboys sabotage the master's canes

The boys, knowing a beating was coming, would secretly loosen the schoolmaster's canes with penknives so the first blow would shatter them.
Date (happened)
before 1922
unresolved
  1. before 1922 bound · probable
    Source False Gods ¶15
    Why M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 047)
    Reasoning This incident belongs to his Barbados childhood (frame residence 1905-1922), regardless of when it was retold (c. 1972, node 1963).
Place
Barbados
Persons
Neville Goddard
Told / reported
  1. c. 1972 estimated · possible
    Source False Gods ¶15passage 550219 (lecture nid 1963 'False Gods'), delivery claim d0 circa 1972/possible (chrome hedge 'Date unknown (1972)')
    Reasoning Passage 550219 is Neville narrating the boys secretly weakening the schoolmaster's canes with penknives directly ('When he was out of sight, we would go in with our little penknives... so that the first blow would spatter the whole thing'). The lecture containing this passage, nid 1963, has only one, weakly hedged delivery claim (circa 1972, possible, from a site chrome note explicitly reading 'Date unknown (1972)'). The telling inherits that same year-only precision and possible confidence -- not upgraded to a firmer claim the delivery evidence does not support.
Sources

Source

  • False Gods ¶15 (When he was out of sight, we would go in with our little penknives and screw these little things and simply got them all so that the first blow would spatter the whole thing all over the place.)