The Twelve Deaths of Christmas Twelve Christmas-themed deaths because it’s the hap-hapless-est time of the year!
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
December 18, 2018
in Christmas , Death , Grim and Grewsome , lethal clothing , News , Social History , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged Christmas deaths , dangerous Christmas gifts , dangerous Christmas toys , dreadful deaths , Father Christmas , poisoned fruitcake , poisoned stockings , Santa Claus , shoot your eye out , The Twelve Deaths of Christmas
Weekend Compendium: 16 January 2016
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
January 16, 2016
in Costume History , Death , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , Grim and Grewsome , Interesting People , lethal clothing , medical oddities , Mourning Customs and History , News , Social History , Spiritualism , Strange Bodies , Strange Lives , Victorian , Weekend Compendium
and tagged Dr. Henry Slade , extravagant funerals , French couture , French models , frozen ghosts , frozen to death , funeral jobs , funeral service , mannequins , Minnesota ghosts , mourning customs , mourning professions , poisoned stockings , Spiritualism , weekend compendium
Poisoned Stockings Something strange was happening in the 1870s: fashionable people were being poisoned by their stockings. What went wrong and who was responsible?
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
October 25, 2012
in Costume History , Death , lethal clothing , medical oddities , News , Social History , Strange Deaths , Victorian
and tagged arsenic , costume history , deadly clothing , Death Becomes Her , lethal clothing , poison , poisoned stockings , product poisoning , stockings , Victorian
