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After someone made his appointment with the National Razor (guillotine), he was whisked away from the scene and taken to a burial ground where family…

Books have been written on the origin of Easter and all of its symbolism. The article below was originally published in 1899, and it is…

It is not so much that a woman was crushed by a train in 1871, but the headline of the article that detailed the gruesome…

I have written about decapitated heads that bite, but I have not touched on the eyes of decapitated heads moving. There is a lot of…

I find doll heads to be rather disturbing, so why were craft projects, such as this safety pin holder, so popular in the past? The…

Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotine waged a verbal war against the barbaric use of axes and swords to execute criminals, but he had very little else…

How did countries execute criminals in 1895? Surprisingly (or not), a Michigan newspaper published the following statistics that year: Modes of Execution Spain – garrote…

Do human heads remain “alive” after being decapitated? And if so, what do these heads do that make us believe there is still consciousness within…

Buttons and the superstitions surrounding them are fascinating. While we tend to think very little about these ancient fasteners, our recent ancestors had a lot…

The amethyst is the birthstone for those who are born in February, and there are plenty of old superstitions and folk beliefs about this semiprecious…