Louisville’s Hoodoo Dog The Hoodoo Dog of Louisville, Kentucky was said to doom any man he befriended.
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Chris Woodyard
on
November 18, 2017
in Animal Tales , Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , medical oddities , News , Panics , Social History , Strange Deaths
and tagged ghost dog , hoodoo dog , Kentucky forteana , Kentucky ghost dog , Kentucky ghost stories , killer dog , Louisville ghost dog , Louisville Kentucky , Louisville's Hoodoo Dog , panics , Rosenbaum
Death Masks Death and injury caused by Halloween masks and false-face pranks.
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Chris Woodyard
on
October 31, 2017
in Death , Ephemera , Grim and Grewsome , lethal clothing , medical oddities , News , Social History , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged death by mask , death masks , Edwardian Halloween , false faces , Halloween , Halloween deaths , Halloween masks , Halloween pranks , lethal masks , poisonous masks , Victorian Halloween
A Bit of the Old Ultra Violet Violet and purple ghosts, spook lights, and visions.
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Chris Woodyard
on
October 28, 2017
in Death , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , medical oddities , News , Occultism/Magic , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged A Bit of the Old Ultra Violet , Carl Carmer , color therapy , half mourning , heliotrope , King Edward VII , lavender , mauveine , mourning , purple ghosts , purple spook light , Spontaneous Human Combustion , spook lights , The Lavender Evening Dress , violet , violet ghosts , violet visions
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
A Spot of Bother: Jack the Ink-Slinger Jack the Ink-Slinger had a fetish for spraying purple ink on ladies’ dresses.
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Chris Woodyard
on
September 23, 2017
in Crime , Ephemera , medical oddities , News , Panics , Social History , Strange Lives , Victorian
and tagged A Spot of Bother: Jack the Ink-Slinger , Jack the Ripper , New York , panics , salirophilia , sexual fetishes , spoiling women's dresses with ink , Victorian crime
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
Eating Holy Clay A disturbing ritual from Ireland where clay from graves is eaten to protect against disease and sin. Unfortunately more was ingested than just clay.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
September 9, 2017
in Animal Tales , Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , Mourning Customs and History , News , Occultism/Magic , religion , Social History , Strange Lives , Victorian
and tagged Carolina clay-eaters , clay , eating clay , eating grave dirt , Eating Holy Clay , geophagy , grave dirt , holy clay , Ireland , magic charms , pica
Cholera Curiosities Fortean curiosities of cholera including blue fog, sulfurous stenches, vanishing birds. and Women in Black.
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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 Voluntary Lunatic A Spiritualist tells lady mediums how to avoid involuntary commitment to lunatic asylums.
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Chris Woodyard
on
July 29, 2017
in medical oddities , News , Psychic Research , religion , Social History , Spiritualism , Victorian
and tagged George Boole , involuntary committal , Mary Everest Boole , Mrs George Boole , Spiritualism and lunacy laws , The Voluntary Lunatic , Victorian insane asylums , Victorian spiritualism
Kiss the Corpse and Then You Die The custom of kissing the corpse often led to death from infectious disease.
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Chris Woodyard
on
June 20, 2017
in Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , Mourning Customs and History , News , Social History , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged diphtheria , indirect poisoning , infectious disease , Kiss the Corpse and Then You Die , kissing the corpse , meningitis , perils of kissing the corpse , poisoning , smallpox , The Perils of Kissing the Corpse , Victorian funerals , Victorian mourning , Victorian mourning customs