When the Flame Leans Over When the flame leans over, it points to the next to die.
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Chris Woodyard
on
September 5, 2017
in Death , Folklore , News , Prophecies , Social History , Spook Lights , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged corpse candles , death in the mines , miner superstitions , miner's lantern , Savage Mine , spook lights , tokens of death , warning of death , When the Flame Leans Over
Cholera Curiosities Fortean curiosities of cholera including blue fog, sulfurous stenches, vanishing birds. and Women in Black.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
August 1, 2017
in Animal Tales , Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , News , Panics , Prophecies , Scientific Oddities , Sky Mysteries , Spook Lights , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged avian cholera , Carbondale Pennsylvania , Cholera Curiosities , cholera epidemic , Cholera Forteana , cholera in India , cholera in Italy , cholera in Russia , death omens , disappearing birds , fortean mysteries , Queen Theresa of Bavaria , strange cholera phenomenon , The Woman in Black , The Women in Black
The Phantom Carriage at the Eddy House The Spiritualist Eddy Brothers and their family see a phantom carriage sent as an omen of a death in the family.
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Chris Woodyard
on
July 15, 2017
in Death , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Prophecies , Psychic Research , Spiritualism , Strange Lives , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged death coach , Eddy brothers , Henry Steel Olcott , Horatio Eddy , materialization mediums , mediums , People from the Other World , phantom coach , Spiritualism , spiritualist mediums , The Phantom Carriage at the Eddy House , Vermont , William Eddy
The Fortean Bride Fortean tales of brides and wedding weirdness
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Chris Woodyard
on
June 27, 2017
in Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , Interesting People , Mourning Customs and History , News , Prophecies , Social History , Spiritualism , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged bridal forteana , cursed brides , ghosts who stopped a wedding , hoodoo weddings , spirit bride , The Fortean Bride , wedding forteana , wedding weirdness
Silas Told and the Devil-Fish A giant devil-fish ominously follows a sailing ship as a token of death for the Captain.
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Chris Woodyard
on
June 24, 2017
in Animal Tales , Cryptozoology , Death , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , News , Prophecies , religion , Strange Deaths
and tagged cryptozoology , deateh omens , giant manta , giant ray , manta ray , poisoning , psychopomp , sailors' superstitions , Silas Told , Silas Told and the Devil-Fish , slave trade
Joan of Arc Returns And she’s brought her friends…. Children in a small French village see visions of Joan of Arc and the Virgin Mary.
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Chris Woodyard
on
May 30, 2017
in Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Panics , Prophecies , religion , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Alzonne , apparition of Joan of Arc , Cecile Lamillot , First World War , Henriette Jambert , Jeanne d'Arc , Jeanne Marie Claret , Joan of Arc , Joan of Arc Returns , La Pucelle , Maid of Orleans , Marian apparitions , Marie Louise Flouret , religious apparitions , The Maid of France Returns
Weeping Willow The life of the Weeping Willow went out with the life of its owner.
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Chris Woodyard
on
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
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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Chris Woodyard
on
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
Queen Victoria’s Funeral Foreseen Queen Victoria’s funeral procession, seen in a vision by a medium four months before her death.
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Chris Woodyard
on
January 21, 2017
in Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Mourning Customs and History , News , Prophecies , Social History , Spiritualism
and tagged J.J. Vango , prophecy , Queen Victoria , Queen Victoria's funeral , Queen Victoria's Funeral Foreseen , Spiritualist medium
Death Angel in Lancashire The Death Angel visits medium Ellen Green to warn of her other’s impending death.
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Chris Woodyard
on
January 17, 2017
in Death , Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , Mourning Customs and History , News , Prophecies , Spiritualism , Victorian
and tagged angel of death , death angel , Death Angel in Lancashire , medium , Mrs Ellen Green , spirit photography , Spiritualism