Lord of the Fliers Three stories of medieval flight aided by the Devil
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Chris Woodyard
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April 25, 2017
in Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , religion , Sky Mysteries
and tagged aerial devil , Caesarius of Heisterbach , Compendium Maleficarum , flying devil , folklore , levitation , Lord of the Fliers , Montague Summers , Peter of Cluny , the Devil carries off his victims
Weeping Willow The life of the Weeping Willow went out with the life of its owner.
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Chris Woodyard
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April 22, 2017
in Death , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Prophecies , Scientific Oddities , Strange Deaths , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged prophecy , tree dies when owner does , trees as omens of death , Weeping Willow , willow tree death
Mrs Stone and the Headless Ghost A headless ghost is seen by a woman in a Wiltshire lane.
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Chris Woodyard
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April 18, 2017
in Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Interesting People , News , Victorian , Witches
and tagged headless ghosts , Mrs Stone and the Headless Ghost , Pamela Tennant , Wiltshire folklore , Wiltshire ghost stories , Wiltshire ghosts
A Sinister Easter Rabbit and an Accordion I have no idea….
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Chris Woodyard
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April 15, 2017
in Animal Tales , Ephemera , News , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged A Sinister Easter Rabbit and an Accordion , accordion , Easter , Easter bunny , Easter chick , Easter eggs , Easter greetings , Easter Hell--A Sinister Rabbit and an Accordion , Easter wishes , Happy Easter
Lincoln’s Haunted Death Mask The haunted Lincoln’s death mask, which hung in the Indiana State Library.
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Chris Woodyard
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April 11, 2017
in Death , Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Social History , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Abraham Lincoln , assassination of Abraham Lincoln , death mask , haunted library , Indiana artists , Indiana State Library , Lincoln death mask , Lincoln's Haunted Death Mask , Louis H. Reed , Louis Henri Reed , National Library Week , State Library of Indiana
A Color Doctor Dr. William Hotchkiss of St. Louis believed that different colors could heal illnesses. He was known as The Color Doctor.
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Chris Woodyard
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April 8, 2017
in Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , medical oddities , News , Occultism/Magic , Strange Lives , Victorian
and tagged A Color Doctor , A Colour Doctor , Dr Hotchkiss , Emma Hardinge Britten , Hotchkissonian Institute , magnetic healing , magnetism , Mr. Miltenberger , snapping doctor , Spiritualism , St. Louis forteana , The Color Doctor
Wild Men of North Wales On holiday in North Wales, a clairvoyant sees a vision of wild men.
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Chris Woodyard
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April 4, 2017
in Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Psychic Research , Spiritualism , Victorian
and tagged ape men , bigfoot , hairy men , missing link , North Wales , spirit guides , Wales , Welsh elementals , Welsh fairies , Welsh folklore , wild men , Wild Men of North Wales , woodwose
Aloysius John Williamson Leggepul’s Wonderplane A Wonderplane specially designed in the spirit of April Fool’s Day to avoid head-on collisions.
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Chris Woodyard
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April 1, 2017
in Ephemera , News , Social History , War , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Aloysius John Williamson Leggepul's Wonderplane , April Fool's Day , April Fool's hoax , April Fool's joke , John Van Valkenburg and his mysterious 1917 Wonderplane , Wonderplane
Crystal-Seers in Lancashire Lancashire folk gazed into glass eggs and crystals to spy on their friends and scry the future.
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March 28, 2017
in Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Occultism/Magic , Prophecies , Psychic Research , Social History , Spiritualism , Victorian , Witches , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged clairvoyance , crystal ball , crystal gazing , crystal-seeing , Crystal-seeing in Lancashire , Crystal-Seers in Lancashire , glass eggs , Lancashire , Lancashire witches , psychic powers , scrying , Spiritualism
The Woman in Black – Victorian Mourning as Criminal Disguise A look at the rogues’ gallery of crimes committed in the United States from about 1860 to 1929 under the cover of crape by The Women in Black.
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Chris Woodyard
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March 25, 2017
in Costume History , Crime , Ephemera , Folklore , Ghosts , Mourning Customs and History , News , Panics , Social History , Victorian
and tagged criminal disguises , The Woman in Black , The Woman in Black - Victorian Mourning as Criminal Disguise , Victorian mourning , Victorian widows , widows weeds