Weekend Compendium: 27 February 2016 Clubwomen behaving badly, Ghosts that smell like death, Leap Year Proposals, A Munich morgue, and more!
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Chris Woodyard
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February 27, 2016
in Death , Folklore , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Social History , Victorian , Weekend Compendium
and tagged Dead house at Munich , Edwardian motoring , Frederik Ruysch , ghosts , Lady Washington Tea , Leap Year , Leap Year proposals , Little Visits to the Great Morgues of Europe , morgue , mortuary , Munich dead house , Pocahontas , Weekend Compendium: 27 February 2016
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.
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Chris Woodyard
on
February 20, 2016
in Animal Tales , Costume History , Crime , Death , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , lethal clothing , medical oddities , News , Occultism/Magic , Panics , religion , Scientific Oddities , Social History , Victorian , Weekend Compendium , Witches
and tagged astral projection , Colorado , demons , false eyelashes , false hair , ghosts of the living , giant spiders , gregarines , Leadville , M.R. James , poltergeists , Spiritualism , Valentines , Victorian hairpieces , Victorian humor , Weekend Compendium: 20 February 2016 , witchcraft , witchcraft trials
Weekend Compendium: 13 January 2016 Valentine Edition Featuring an 18th century “Missed Connection” ad, 19th century hints for photographic sitters. The Angel of Lourdes, monkey ghosts, Valentines for Undertakers and Spiritualist Mediums.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
February 13, 2016
in 18th century , Animal Tales , Death , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Mourning Customs and History , News , religion , Sky Mysteries , Spiritualism , Victorian , Weekend Compendium , Witches
and tagged angels , Lourdes , missed connections ad , monkey ghosts , undertakers , Valentine's Day , Vauxhall , Victorian photography , Victorian valentines , Vinegar Valentines , Violet Tweedale , Weekend Compendium: 13 January 2016 Valentine Edition
Weekend Compendium: 30 January 2016 including levitating chicken-creature.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
January 30, 2016
in Crime , Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , News , Social History , Victorian , Weekend Compendium
and tagged barber's ghost , dissection room , DIY surgery , ghost hoax , hospital ghosts , Irish ghost , lady detective , Mrs Daffodil , post-mortem room ghost , scrofula , tattoos , theatrical special effects , Weekend Compendium: 30 January 2016
Weekend Compendium: 23 January 2016 with a fashion editor out of his depth, spook lights in New Zealand get up close and personal with a traveler, flappers and their corsets, and the ghosts of two murder victims.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
January 23, 2016
in Costume History , Crime , Death , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Scientific Oddities , Victorian , Weekend Compendium , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged corsets , executions , fashion magazines , flappers , ghostly murder victim , hanging ropes , hangman , Haunted Ohio , Mary Seneff , New Zealand , Ohio ghosts , spook lights , Victorian fashions , weekend compendium , Weekend Compendium: 23 January 2016
Weekend Compendium: 16 January 2016
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
January 16, 2016
in Costume History , Death , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , Interesting People , lethal clothing , medical oddities , Mourning Customs and History , News , Social History , Spiritualism , Strange Bodies , Strange Lives , Victorian , Weekend Compendium
and tagged Dr. Henry Slade , extravagant funerals , French couture , French models , frozen ghosts , frozen to death , funeral jobs , funeral service , mannequins , Minnesota ghosts , mourning customs , mourning professions , poisoned stockings , Spiritualism , weekend compendium
Weekend Compendium of this week’s posts on Mrs Daffodil and Haunted Ohio, plus extras!
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
January 9, 2016
in Death , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , News , Psychic Research , Scientific Oddities , Spiritualism , Strange Lives , Victorian , Weekend Compendium , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged adultery , alcoholism , bosom serpent , brownies , Charles Fort , DTs , forteana , Haunted Ohio , ice carnival , Mrs Daffodil , psychic research , skrats , weekend compenium
