Occultism/Magic

Weekend Compendium: 20 February 2016 brings you the week’s posts: the Witch of Leadville, eye-lash history, the ghost of a living woman, a discontented and destructive daemon, as well as creepy crawlies in hair and jungle.

The Witch of Leadville A tailor’s wife in a prosperous Colorado mining town finds herself on trial for witchcraft in 1899.

The Medium’s Valentine: A verse for Valentine’s Day to make your medium happy.

The Lizard Cure A gypsy cures a sick Canadian farmer by purging him of lizards.

Superstitions held by motormen–street-car drivers–from 1900. Red hair, swerving wagons, hearses, churches, scratched paint–all were either good or bad omens for the 1900 motorman.

The Death Curse of the Great Hunter. A hunter with a mania for slaughtering wild animals is marked for a terrible revenge.

Professor Muenter’s Metaphysical Murder In the wake of talk about German occultists after the head of F.W. Murnau was stolen from his tomb, today we examine another Interesting Person, the learned Professor Erich Muenter, polyglot, German instructor at Harvard University, metaphysician, mad bomber, and murderer.

President Theodore Roosevelt’s home, Sagamore Hill, has just reopened after a $10 million renovation. So what better time than to share a tale of blood-drinking orgies on the grounds?

Meet that Interesting Person: Mrs. Hattie Freeman, cat philanthropist or animal hoarder, with a special empathy for cats because she used to be one.