Category: Culture
A Heathen Rite in Russia 1903
Russian Pagan past, its magic and folklore, is a fascinating subject. Most of us are familiar with Russia’s fairy tales, but not so much about…
A Laxative Diet From 1895
Dieting is nothing new and people still believe that pooping everything out helps them loose real weight. Only thing laxative diets do are eliminate the…
10 Ways to Protect Yourself From the Evil Eye
Our ancestors feared the evil eye, believing that just one glance could bring about bad luck, poverty, or even death. Anyone could cast the evil…
7 Historical Alarmist Beliefs About Absinthe
Absinthe, commonly called the green damnation is one of life’s guilty little pleasures. Real absinthe is expensive these days, but so worth the extra money…
Human Hair Gathered From The Sick And Dead
I have an aversion to human hair to begin with, but learning about the conditions in which human hair used to be harvested makes me…
10 Weird Superstitions Involving Your Shoes
We all love our shoes, whether we buy and wear them for comfort or for fashion. Shoes are also weirdly steeped in numerous superstitions. A…
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Spirit Radio
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, was deep into the spirit world. What he tried to do might seem kind of silly…
15 Incredibles Ways Urine Is Being Used For Beauty
You are flushing gold down that toilet, and I am not talking about dropped earrings and wedding rings. I’m talking about your pee: that stuff…
New Mexico Mummy And The Cliff Dwellers
This one newspaper article from 1903 about a mummy discovery in cliff dweller territory hits upon several sensitive topics: the raiding of artifacts that belong…
Old Advice for Perfect Shoulders
I would love to be able to poke fun of this 1911 beauty article on how to get perfect shoulders, but I just read up…
