Category: Culture
10 Superstitions About Wednesday or the Day of Woden
Wednesday is ruled by Woden, also known as Odin, and is also the day of Mercury. Traditionally, this was a day for business, communications, and,…
How to Use Eggs to Predict the Future
Are you looking for a way to use eggs in fortunetelling? Who isn’t, right? The article below on how to use eggs to predict the…
10 Superstitions About Thursday or the Day of Thor
Thursday is named after the Norse god Thor, the Germanic god Donar. It is known as the day of Jupiter and is associated with thunder….
7 Facts That Prove Ancient Romans Were Obsessed With Sex
You cannot study ancient Roman culture without running into all of their sexual beliefs and practices. In fact, sex was always on the Roman mind…
14 Rude Epitaphs That Will Make You Giggle and Groan
One of the amusements of the past was to write funny, rude, and shocking epitaphs for real and imaginary people. The following epitaphs were published…
What Cats, Women, And The Moon Have In Common
Cats, women, and the moon are symbolically linked together. In the following article, originally published in 1914, the writer connects these three magical symbols together,…
Hobo Secret Code
In the early 1900s, newspapers were publishing the “secret” hobo code for people to recognize and understand whenever they saw the strange “Cabalistic” drawings. Here…
7 Odd Cat Stories From The Past
The people who lived in the early 1900s loved their cats just as much as we do today. And instead of reading cat memes, they…
11 Popular Kitchen Superstitions From The 1920s
Kitchen superstitions were surprisingly popular in the 1920s. Not only did mothers pass these superstitions down to their children, they also published these superstitions in…
21 Free Ebooks About Ghosts and Ghost Stories
There is nothing more wonderful than relaxing to a ghost story at the end of a long day. Personally, I try to keep myself to…
