Category: Culture

December 6th is the day of Saint Nicholas, and I felt the need to share with my readers a gruesome bedtime story involving chopped up,…

Here are a bunch of old Christmas superstitions and omen that were adopted by the Christian religion. They are a fascinating look at what Christians…

Superstitions about appearances of shadow people in photographs, mirrors, and windows are rampant. A majority of shadow superstitions center on the belief that seeing a…

Hair has long been held in the highest esteem when it comes to superstitions and lore. It is even used in magic. In fact: In…

One might never suspect that superstitions were associated with one’s armpits, yet here we are. People will stick things wherever they can fit them. 1….

There are numerous superstitions about the night. Why? Man, Myth and Magic (Vol. 15) describes it best: “Fear of the dark is one of the…

There are numerous old reports of Flying Dutchman sightings, with the most eery of them being logged in 1881 by the captain of the H.M.S….

In sea lore, phantom ship sightings foretold of some disaster. In the following report from 1922, crew on the Reliance spotted a phantom ship before…

In 1864, zoologist Philip Sclater proposed a theory on the origins of humankind. He believed that there was a lost continent, Lemuria, where human life…

What happens when a married couple or two friends decide to never speak to each other again? In 1898 an article was published on this…