A Flap of Angels – More Seraphic Sightings A flap over angels sightings in heaven and on earth.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
December 21, 2018
in Christmas , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , religion , Sky Mysteries , Social History , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged A Flap of Angels: More Seraphic Sightings , angel visions , angelic visitation , angels , apparitions , aurora borealis , Christmas angels , Greensburg Kansas , heavenly hosts , Ripley Ohio , seraphic sightings , seraphs , thunderbird
The Rector’s Ghost The ghost of a long-serving rector appears in his old church at Christmas.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
December 1, 2018
in Christmas , Ephemera , Ghosts , News , religion , Victorian
and tagged Ambrose Hunt , Christmas ghost stories , Christmastide ghosts , Dorset ghosts , English ghost stories , ghostly clergyman , Rectors of St Peter's Church , St Peter's Church Dorchester , The Rector's Ghost , The Rev. Henry John Richman , The Rev. Nathaniel Templeman , Thomas Hardy
Falling Angel Witnesses saw an angel fluttering to the ground and shot at it.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
August 21, 2018
in Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , religion , Sky Mysteries , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged angel , angel in the sky , bad omen , falling angel , Levi Vining , Louisiana angel , pelican , Ponchatoula , prophetic bird , shooting an angel , shooting down an angel
The Silver Coffin of Genghis Khan Where is the Silver Coffin of Genghis Khan?
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
August 18, 2018
in Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Mourning Customs and History , News , religion , Scientific Oddities , Social History , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Genghis Khan , Gobi Desert , Khara-Khoto , Mausoleum of Genghis Khan , Mongolia , Mongolian archaeology , Pyotr Kozlov , The Silver Coffin of Genghis Khan , Tomb of Genghis Khan
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
The Road to Perdition – Hell Located Various Hell locations around the world; New Jersey leads the pack.
Posted by
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
The Little Stone Book A miniature stone book is found in Wyandotte County, Kansas, by local antiquarian George U.S. Hovey.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
April 17, 2018
in Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , religion , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged carved stone book , George U.S. Hovey , Kansas missionaries , Kansas wonders and curiosities , miniature stone book , Mormon , Native American artifacts , pipestone clay , Quindaro township , The Little Stone Book , White Church Kansas , Wyandotte County Kansas
Easter Greetings – with evil rabbit.
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
The Singing None The Catholic family who visited Jumièges Abbey in the summer of 1913 were surprised and delighted at the plain chant they heard in the bare, ruined choir, sung by a chorus of — none.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
December 5, 2017
in Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , religion
and tagged anglo-Catholic families , Benedictine monks , Divine Office , Edith Anne , Edward Anne , Ernest Anne , Ernestine Anne , ghostly music , Jumieges Abbey , plain chant , plainchant , recusants , The Singing None , Venerable John Anne
