Category: Culture

While I absolutely love the smell of oranges, I have never taken an orange bath. While the article below was published in 1915, a quick…

Sluggard wakers used to be those people who would wake up the sleepers in church. While I can’t imagine much sleeping going on inside a…

Published in 1914, these Halloween games are not the safe games children sometimes play today during the Halloween season. I do not recommend playing any…

In superstition and folklore, all mirrors are magical. They can be mirrors of water, metal, stone, or glass. Any reflective surface is a mirror. It…

Don’t know what all to do with the mint you have growing in your garden? How about making some mint juleps on a hot, summer…

Laudanum was a medical concoction of ten percent opium and ninety percent alcohol. It was flavored with saffron, cinnamon, and cloves or other spices. Extremely…

Visions of the Virgin Mary were popular in days gone by. Whether people believe or not, the circumstances of and reactions to the visions are…

Phone calls from the dead are a fairly common occurrence even though incidents are almost never reported in newspapers these days. When they first started…

This piece comes from a time when food science was relatively new, so please don’t use it in place of the latest discoveries regarding spices…

While this article, published in 1912, treats witchcraft as trickery and hallucinations, some of the historical facts are interesting and valid. When Witches Were Not…