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
The Ghost of Mary, Queen of Scots Wails of Death on Christmas Eve A Christmas ghost story from the Tower of London with an omen of death for Queen Victoria.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
December 22, 2016
in Christmas , Death , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Prophecies , Social History , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged banshee , Christmas ghost stories , Christmas ghosts , death omen , Queen of Scots Wails of Death on Christmas Eve , Queen Victoria , The Ghost of Mary , Tower of London , Victorian Christmas , Victorian Christmas ghost stories
The crews of a British steamship and of its pilot boat see a giant fiery serpent in the sky, accompanied by an earthquake.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
October 13, 2015
in Creature Feature , Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Sky Mysteries , Victorian
and tagged death omen , earthquake at sea , giant snake , H.M.S. Serpent , shipwreck , snake in the sky , snake vision , Trinacria
