Category: Culture

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….

Spiders have long been considered lucky in parts of Europe and in the United States. In Japan, the opposite is true and spiders are often…

In the United States, Halloween marks off the start of the holiday season as, after trick-or-treating, we slide right into Thanksgiving and then the Christmas…

Here is yet another case of a curse mummy. What I find most interesting about these early accounts of evil mummies is that the majority…

The robin redbreast is probably the most recognized of all wild birds. Its friendly, humble nature is beloved by all and it is held in…

While growing up, small shops everywhere in the United States had a bin or two of rabbit’s feet for sale. There were the “natural” rabbit’s…