The Quick and the Red. Ghostly visions of old women in red cloaks–what do they mean?
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
October 10, 2017
in Death , Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , medical oddities , News , Prophecies , Psychic Research , Scientific Oddities , Victorian
and tagged banshee , epilepsy , ghost in red cloak , haunted jails , illusions , Irish banshee , Irish ghosts , Margaret Kearney , New Orleans ghost , The Quick and the Red
A Benares Lady Magnet A visitor to India finds a “Devil Woman” with the power to levitate and magnetically attract man and beast.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
April 9, 2016
in Ephemera , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , medical oddities , News , Occultism/Magic , Scientific Oddities , Strange Bodies , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged A Benares Lady Magnet , Benares India , conjuring , conjuring tricks , fakirs , illusions , Indian magic , Indian subcontinent , interesting people , lady magnet , levitation , magnetic women
Drawing the Dead: How to Make Spirit-Paintings Six methods proposed as explanations for spirit paintings, which were found, freshly painted by spirits, in the seance room.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
April 10, 2014
in Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , News , Psychic Research , Spiritualism , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged conjuring , Drawing the Dead: How to Make Spirit-Paintings , hoaxes , illusions , magic , spirit painting , spirit portraits , Spiritualism , spiritualist fraud
