Cairo’s Devil in Clogs A devilish ghost wearing clogs haunts a family in Cairo until shot by a servant.
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Chris Woodyard
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February 4, 2017
in Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Poltergeists , Victorian
and tagged afrit , bathing clogs , Cairo , Cairo's Devil in Clogs , demons , efreet , haunted house in Cairo , Middle Eastern ghosts , The Clog-Wearing Devil of Cairo , Turkish clogs
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
We open a new October series–Creature Feature, with a lurid goblin orgy.
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Chris Woodyard
on
October 1, 2015
in Creature Feature , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , News , Poltergeists , Spiritualism , Victorian , Witches
and tagged Creature Feature , demons , devils , elementals , evil spirits , goblin orgy , goblins , green demons , green devils , Massachusetts folklore , pararnormal Massachusetts , poltergeists
The notion that ghosts are demons is not a new one. Here a noted spiritual leader, Wilbur Glenn Voliva and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, go head-to-head about the nature of ghosts, demons, and Spiritualism.
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Chris Woodyard
on
September 14, 2013
in Ghosts , News , Prophecies , Psychic Research , religion , Social History , Spiritualism
and tagged Bob Larson , demons , mediums , religion , seances , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Spiritualism , teen exorcists , the devil , Wilbur Glenn Voliva , Zion City
The Blood Elemental: An Occult Tale A chilling story of two occultists using a bowl of blood to summon a blood elemental and the ghost of a dead torturer.
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Chris Woodyard
on
March 16, 2013
in Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Fortean Mysteries , News , Occultism/Magic , Psychic Research
and tagged black magic , blood ritual , demons , elementals , occultism , oliver bland , ritual magic , SBC Pollard , summoning spirits , The Blood Elemental: An Occult Tale
Who Hears a Horton? Froissart’s Helpful Spirit The classic story from Froissart about “Orton” or “Orthon,” a helpful spirit or demon who brought news from afar to the Lord de Corasse.
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Chris Woodyard
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February 28, 2013
in Animal Tales , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Occultism/Magic , Poltergeists , Poltergeists , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Bell Witch , demons , Froissart , Gef the talking mongoose , medieval ghosts , medieval supernatural , Orthon , talking spirits , Who Hears a Horton? Froissart's Helpful Spirit