Category: Culture

How about those parents who deny their children a few Halloween frolics. As the author of this article wrote in 1912, Halloween is the time…

There were once a bunch of different Halloween divinations that people would try out for fun once a year. Not all of them are covered…

Midsummer Eve, also called the Summer Solstice, and St. John’s Eve, can take place anytime between June 19th and June 25th. It is the longest…

This old 1914 article found in a newspaper includes some interesting games that used to be played at Halloween parties. Some of the activities can…

Are you ready to get trashed and party this New Year’s? Do you even know why you are doing it, despite the fact that Frank…

Everyone has their research on the origins of Halloween (Samhain). Here is one brief look at origins that was published in 1914. What surprised me…

I have catmint growing out in the garden and I chew on the leaves all the time. I swear it has never made me ferocious,…

By the 1920s, people interested in the world’s great mysteries and psychic sciences were creating machines and gadgets to try and understand psychic energies, ghosts,…

Often mysterious figures in Medieval Japan, ninjas were the assassins and secret agents of the time. They could almost be considered the special forces of…

You hear very few references to the Man on the Moon these days, at least compared to when I was a kid in the 1970s….