Category: Culture

From the time I was little, I’ve heard people say that marriages lasted in the “old days.” And, “People made their marriages work.” After spending…

Published in 1962, this short list of low cost beauty tips is a glimpse into the life of a teenager during the sixties. Low Cost…

This article, published in 1900, explores the Navajo superstition that states it is very unlucky to make a fire out of wood that has been…

There are so many stories about people adopting pets and discovering that they adopted a wild animal. This particular story was published in 1955: “About…

This article, originally published in 1905, discusses Medieval superstitions about the mandrake root and how it is still to this day kept as a doll….

According to a newspaper article published in 1905, deaths by crocodiles happened after curtains were washed in rivers was a common superstition. It makes sense,…

Called the “greatest healing invention of the age,” the electric belt made for men was a popular devise in the late 1800s and early 1900s….

The adder is only native poisonous snake in Britain. It was feared as an omen of misfortune and it was believed that if an adder…

In folklore, red gardenias are the flowers of choice when it comes to seduction and love magic. In Sexual Bewitchery (Dolnick et al., 1998), the…

We, the people, are a ridiculous species on the planet Earth. We point and make fun of the strange rituals and habits of other animals…