Category: Culture

How can you make a pumpkin keep for the winter? I found this little gem in a 1914 newspaper. I have honestly never tried to…

Is there a trick to winning the lottery? Well, according to some people, winning involves a touch of superstition to up the luck. Granted, there…

What people are willing to believe is just incredible. That is what makes cults so interesting, scary, and even entertaining. This newspaper entry is about…

Since they could not make kissing illegal, doctors recommended sucking on a lemon after kissing your sweetheart. It was meant to kill off any yucky…

Love divinations were a very prominent obsession with young women in old Europe because a woman’s fortune or misfortune was tied in with the man…

I don’t feel that it is my right to criticize the traditions and customs of other cultures, but I am certainly glad that foot binding…

Cosmetic baths from over 100 years ago were not so different from the all natural herb baths we take today. Sure, we won’t use rain…

It is amazing how languages and words can get mixed up over the years, decades, and centuries. The Celtic (pronounced Keltic) languages, for example, are…

It is 1922 and psychic investigators say they have the latest scientific tools to catch or discover ghosts. Granted, these tools include bells, pendulums, and…

Pantaloons? Psychic love affair? What the hum am I reading? Oh wait, it’s a newspaper article from 1906. That explains everything. The article reads like…