Fairy Crowns of Scandinavia Stories of fairy crowns taken from the huldre-folk of Scandinavia.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
May 18, 2018
in Costume History , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , News , religion , Social History , Strange Lives , Victorian
and tagged brudekrone , brudekroner , Fairy Crowns of Scandinavia , fairy gifts , hulder , hulder-folk , huldre-folk , huldrekall , Melbostad , Norway , Norwegian wedding crowns , Numedal , Royal Wedding , Scandinavian wedding crowns , Swedish wedding crowns , wedding crowns
May Queen Crowned in Coffin A May Queen dies, but May Day still goes on and she is crowned in her coffin.
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Chris Woodyard
on
May 1, 2018
in Death , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Mourning Customs and History , News , Social History , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged Alfred Lord Tennyson , dead May Queen , May Day , May Queen , May Queen Crowned in Coffin
The Road to Perdition – Hell Located Various Hell locations around the world; New Jersey leads the pack.
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Chris Woodyard
on
April 25, 2018
in Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , News , religion , Social History , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged damnation , Darvasa Gas Crater , devil , geography , Hell , Mount Etna , Mount Heckla , New Jersey , Perdition , purgatory , St Patrick's Purgatory , The Rev. Caesar Andrew Augustus Taylor , The Road to Perdition: Hell Located , William Whiston
Death in the Mango Tree A woman encounters a death-urging creature in an Assam mango tree.
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Chris Woodyard
on
April 21, 2018
in Death , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , News , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged Assam , Death in the Mango Tree , Death in the Tree , Devil Tree , Earth Day , Elliott O'Donnell , forest elementals , Indian ghost stories , sylvan horrors , The Devil is in the Mango , Trees of Ghostly Dread , vagrarians
Easter Greetings – with evil rabbit.
A Corpse on Eggs A mysterious infant corpse found on a layer of eggs in a chimney.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
March 27, 2018
in Death , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , News , Occultism/Magic , Social History , Strange Bodies , Strange Deaths , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged A Corpse On Eggs , chimney burial , corpse on eggs , Easter , Easter eggs , egg magic , hidden charms , hidden objects , mummified infant , mysteries , Paris , witchcraft
The Dark Man Remember the Dark Man, the changeling… A story for St Patrick’s Day.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
March 17, 2018
in Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , News , Short Story , Social History , Strange Lives , Victorian
and tagged abducted by the fairies , blind man , changeling , changelings , fairy fiddler , Ireland , Irish changeling , Irish fiddler , Liscannor , Moher , St Patrick's Day , The Dark Man
The Expenses of Necromancy Sandwiched in a savage review of The Occult Sciences by Arthur Edward Waite is this cutting analysis of the expenses of necromancy.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
March 10, 2018
in Fairies and Elemental Spirits , News , Occultism/Magic , religion , Social History , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Arthur Edward Waite , Histoire de la Magie , necromancy , occult rituals , raising the dead , The Expenses of Necromancy , The Occult Sciences
White Dogs of Death Celebrating the Chinese Year of the Dog with white dogs of death.
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Chris Woodyard
on
February 17, 2018
in Animal Tales , Death , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , News , Prophecies , Strange Deaths , Victorian , War
and tagged banshee in the shape of a dog , death omen , dog apparition , dog as death omen , family banshee , tokens of death , white dog banshee , White Dogs of Death
The Bijli of the Flaming Torch A deadly spirit with a flaming torch is encountered by a British Colonel in India.
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Chris Woodyard
on
February 10, 2018
in Death , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Social History , Victorian
and tagged Bijli , evil spirits , ghosts in India , India ghosts , Olympic torch , skeletal spirits , The Bijli of the Flaming Torch , the Rev. H. Mayne Young , Winter Olympics