Death in the Mango Tree A woman encounters a death-urging creature in an Assam mango tree.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
April 21, 2018
in Death , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , News , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged Assam , Death in the Mango Tree , Death in the Tree , Devil Tree , Earth Day , Elliott O'Donnell , forest elementals , Indian ghost stories , sylvan horrors , The Devil is in the Mango , Trees of Ghostly Dread , vagrarians
Wicker Man: Victorian Basket-work Coffins The graveyards of Victorian London were swollen with bones, stenches, and half-rotted corpses. In 1875, a macabre garden-party was held at the Duke of Sutherland’s London mansion to do something about it.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
February 26, 2013
in Death , Ephemera , Mourning Customs and History , News , Social History , Victorian
and tagged basketwork coffins , burial reform , Coffin Reception , Earth Day , earth-to-earth burial , green burial , Seymour Haden , The Duke of Sutherland , Victorian burial customs , wicker coffins , Wicker Man: Victorian Basket-work Coffins
