Category: Culture

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…

Here is an interesting article published in 1909 that does not deny the reality of psychic powers or the sixth sense, but likens them to…

Your eyes, your skin complexion, and even the shape of your eyebrows can tell a lot about you according to folk beliefs and superstitions. It…

Bread, long a symbol of plenty, was an important part of people’s diets for well over 2,000 years (long before the gluten free diets of…