The cliché spook is, or course, clad in a white sheet or appears as a vaguely-human-shaped white mist. Yet in reality (or as much reality as these things have) ghosts, monsters, and paranormal entities come in a surprisingly variegated palette. Paranormal researchers have tried to account for this variety in terms of auras, psychology, synaesthesia, and Jungian symbolism. And while I’ve […]
Occult Science and Oats: A Canadian Witch Trial In 1920 Canada, a young woman is sentenced to jail for being a practicing witch when she helped to solve a theft with the aid of the “spirits.”
