Mantismancy A spirited defense of a pet praying mantis and its amazing ability to tell the future.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
July 5, 2016
in Animal Tales , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Prophecies , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged entomancy , insects , Mantismancy , Mantismantia , praying mantis , prediction by insect , prophecy
Dr. Sinclair and the Fourth Dimension A respectable physician terrifies himself with his esoteric studies –and receives some visitors from the Fourth Dimension with a plan to end the First World War.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
June 21, 2016
in Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , News , Prophecies , Scientific Oddities , Sky Mysteries , Social History , War
and tagged alien visitation , Carl Ramus , Dr. A.N. Sinclair , Dr. Sinclair and the Fourth Dimension , fourth dimension , Great War , Hawai'i , people from space , people from the fourth dimension , prophecy , Tesseract
The Devil is a Tenor A sorceress conjures up a musical Prince of Darkness to sing the destinies of her clients.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
June 11, 2016
in Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Interesting People , News , Occultism/Magic , Prophecies , Social History , Witches , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged devil , divination , Duisburg , fortune telling , prophecy , Prussian witch , The Devil is a Tenor , witchcraft
A Vision of the Flood. Two women see a mysterious vision of a house sitting in the middle of their street, prophetic of the Great Dayton Flood of 1913
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
March 29, 2016
in Fortean Mysteries , News , Prophecies , Social History
and tagged A Vision of the Flood , Curt Dalton , Dayton history , Dayton History Books Online , Great Dayton Flood of 1913 , premonitions , prophecy , prophetic vision
Predictions for January 1839 Startlingly accurate!
Burying His Toes in the Sand: A Strange Funeral A complicated tale of premonitions of death, amputation, uncanny prophecy–and a cure for corns.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
June 2, 2015
in Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , medical oddities , News , Occultism/Magic , Prophecies , Scientific Oddities , Victorian
and tagged amputation , banshee , Burying His Toes in the Sand: A Strange Funeral , corns , Island of Jersey , miniature coffin , paring corns , phantom limb , premonition , prophecy , prophetic dreams , St Brelade , St. Aubin's , toes
Butterflies of Doom For all its reputation as a symbol of the soul, the butterfly is not often found as a death omen. Perhaps it is more a conductor of souls.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
September 23, 2014
in Animal Tales , Death , Folklore , News , Prophecies , Psychic Research , Strange Deaths , Victorian , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged Brazilian folklore , butterflies , butterflies as death omens , Butterflies of Doom , death omens , premonitions of death , prophecy , tokens of death
Portents of the Great War A collection of some of the signs and portents of the coming of the Great War.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
August 2, 2014
in Death , Fortean Mysteries , Grim and Grewsome , News , Prophecies , Psychic Research , War , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged First World War , Great War , omens , portents , Portents of the Great War , predicting World War I , prophecy , WWI
Encore: The Battle of Gettysburg Foretold by a Clairvoyant and a Quakeress June 30, 1863, a clairvoyant medium in Brooklyn told a reporter for a New York newspaper that the Battle of Gettysburg would begin the next day. Her other statements about the Battle proved correct. All were written out, but the reporter’s newspaper refused to publish the prophecies. And in 1832 a Quaker clairvoyant saw bloodshed in the hills of Gettysburg.
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Chris Woodyard
on
July 3, 2014
in Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , News , Prophecies , religion , Social History , Spiritualism , Victorian
and tagged Battle of Gettysburg , Civil War , clairvoyant , Encore: The Battle of Gettysburg Foretold by a Clairvoyant and a Quakeress , Hicksites , Priscilla Coffin Hunt Cadwallader , prophecy , Quakers , Spiritualism , Spiritualist medium
Ernest Case was visited by angels, went into deep trances in which he could find missing items, and foretold his own death on the 27th of an unknown month and year. What happened to this Toledo Wonder?
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Chris Woodyard
on
May 20, 2014
in Ephemera , Fortean Mysteries , Interesting People , medical oddities , News , Prophecies , Psychic Research , religion , Scientific Oddities , Strange Lives , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged angels , Ernest Case , number 27 , prophecy , psychics , Toledo , visions