Removing the Impediment A Hungarian magician removes an impediment to a young woman’s marriage.
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Chris Woodyard
on
May 15, 2018
in Death , Folklore , News , Occultism/Magic , Prophecies , Strange Deaths , Victorian , Witches
and tagged Arad Hungary , Čedomilj Mijatović , Chedo Miyatovich , Hungarian magic , Hungarian magician , Hungarian witch , love magic , love spell , prophecies , Removing the Impediment
Racing Tips from the Astral Plane The author describes the racing tips he received from the Astral Plane via luminous letters and images.
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Chris Woodyard
on
May 5, 2018
in Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , News , Occultism/Magic , Prophecies , Psychic Research , Victorian
and tagged Hermis , mental impressions , mental vision , occult science , predicting horse race winners , Preen , prophecy , prophetic visions , psychic phenomena , psychic research , Racing Tips from the Astral Plane , Savable , Sheepshead Bay Race Track , Suburban , Suburban horse race , visions
Predicting Lincoln’s Death by Horoscope, Trance, and Manual Alphabet Lincoln’s death predicted by a variety of seers including an astrologer who cast a horoscope, a trance medium, and a student using the manual alphabet
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Chris Woodyard
on
April 14, 2018
in Crime , Death , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Prophecies , Psychic Research , Social History , Spiritualism , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged Abraham Lincoln , D D Home , Lincoln's assassination , omens of death , predicting Lincoln's assassination , Predicting Lincoln's Death by Horoscope Trance and Manual Alphabet , Profssor Thomas Lister , prophecy , prophetic dreams , tokens of death , trance
White Dogs of Death Celebrating the Chinese Year of the Dog with white dogs of death.
Posted by
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
Sad Stories of the Deaths of Kings Sad stories of the death omens of King Charles I.
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Chris Woodyard
on
January 30, 2018
in Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Grim and Grewsome , News , Occultism/Magic , Prophecies , Social History
and tagged Bernini , death of King Charles I , death omens , execution of King Charles , King Charles I , portents of royal death , prophecy , Sad Stories of the Death of Kings , Sortes Virgilianae , The White King , tokens of death , Van Dyck
Prophetic Spiders There was a thread of prophetic spider messages written in webs in the 19th and early-20th centuries.
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Chris Woodyard
on
January 9, 2018
in Animal Tales , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Prophecies , Social History , Victorian , War
and tagged educated spiders , First World War , Great War , New Orleans , orb weavers , prophetic spiders , spiders predictions , William McKinley , words in spider webs , World War I , writing in spider webs
Holiday Horrors A medley of holiday hits.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
December 20, 2017
in Christmas , Death , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Poltergeists , Prophecies , Victorian
and tagged Abby Warner , bad Santas , Christmas Eve ghosts , English ghosts , Holiday Horrors , killer Christmas trees , Mary Queen of Scots , Ohio poltergeists , Strange Christmas presents , Tower of London
Green Jean Seen The legendary Green Jean of Wemyss Castle puts in an appearance.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
October 21, 2017
in Death , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Prophecies , Victorian
and tagged Countess of Munster , fae , fairies , green as a fairy color , green ghosts , Green Jean , Green Jean Seen , Green Ladies , Green Lady , Scottish ghosts , The Gentry , Wemyss Castle
The Quick and the Red. Ghostly visions of old women in red cloaks–what do they mean?
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Chris Woodyard
on
October 10, 2017
in Death , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , medical oddities , News , Prophecies , Psychic Research , Scientific Oddities , Victorian
and tagged banshee , epilepsy , ghost in red cloak , haunted jails , illusions , Irish banshee , Irish ghosts , Margaret Kearney , New Orleans ghost , The Quick and the Red
The Old Lady with the Nails An old lady with a hammer and nails menaces a dormitory of schoolboys in a nightmarish vision.
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Chris Woodyard
on
September 12, 2017
in Death , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , News , Prophecies , Strange Deaths , Victorian , Witches
and tagged Augustus Hare , banshee , murder by nail , old woman spirit , omen of death , phantom carpenter , spectral carpenter , Stewart Mackenzie , The Old Lady with the Nails , token of death , witchcraft