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
A shocking catalog of deaths by hair: mustache murder, dis-tress-ing suicides, hair-ball fatalities, cats and rats and poisonous hair dyes.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
June 6, 2015
in Death , Folklore , Grim and Grewsome , lethal clothing , medical oddities , News , Social History , Strange Deaths , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged bizarre deaths , dead by hair , hair eating , hair snake , Hair Today; Gone Tomorrow: Death by Hair , murder by hair , pica , poisonous hair dye , strange deaths , The Victorian Book of the Dead , Victorian death
