A New Year’s Parade of the Damned
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Chris Woodyard
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December 31, 2017
in Animal Tales , Death , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , Interesting People , medical oddities , Mourning Customs and History , News , Social History , Spiritualism , Spook Lights , Strange Deaths , Victorian , Witches , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged A New Year's Parade of the Damned , Black Country , Civil War ghosts , devil , Devil's footprints , dragon's ghost , Eating Holy Clay , flagellation , funeral flowers , kissing corpses , spanking machines , Spiritualism , spook lights , Victorian mourning , Victorian tear bottles , Wales , wild men , witch's curse , witchcraft
Eating Holy Clay A disturbing ritual from Ireland where clay from graves is eaten to protect against disease and sin. Unfortunately more was ingested than just clay.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
September 9, 2017
in Animal Tales , Death , Ephemera , Folklore , Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , Mourning Customs and History , News , Occultism/Magic , religion , Social History , Strange Lives , Victorian
and tagged Carolina clay-eaters , clay , eating clay , eating grave dirt , Eating Holy Clay , geophagy , grave dirt , holy clay , Ireland , magic charms , pica
Eating Holy Clay A disturbing ritual from Ireland where clay from graves is eaten to protect against disease and sin. Unfortunately more was ingested than just clay.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
August 23, 2014
in Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , News , religion , Scientific Oddities , Social History , Strange Lives , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged beetles , Carolina clay-eaters , clay eating , Eating Holy Clay , geophagy , grave dirt , holy clay , Ireland
