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Post by Kate on Jul 25, 2023 8:19:50 GMT -5
The Amityville Horror has been on TV 3 or 4 times lately and I watched it again over the weekend. I can't understand why so many people believe all that nonsense really happened. But then, a lot of people believe that Ouija boards are dangerous. Every time I see something -- usually written by some idiot ghost-hunter -- about the dangers of Ouija boards, demons and other foolishness, I'm reminded of the Thought for the Day from a few days ago:
Stupid people share several identifying traits: they are abundant, they are irrational, and they cause problems for others without apparent benefit to themselves, thereby lowering society’s total well-being. There are no defenses against stupidity. The only way a society can avoid being crushed by the burden of its idiots is if the non-stupid work even harder to offset the losses of their stupid brethren. – Professor Carlo M. Cipolla.
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Post by Kate on Jul 16, 2023 20:35:36 GMT -5
I read somewhere that men (and women) with wide faces are more likely to be unfaithful than those with narrow faces and this goon has a wide, incredibly ugly face. I've heard that, too. I think there was even a discussion about it, either a long time ago in this group, or in the old yahoo group.
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Post by Kate on Jul 9, 2023 12:10:47 GMT -5
Add me to the list, I hate them, too, and they're shown on numerous channels. I think they're inappropriate for ION Mystery because they're more police procedurals than mysteries. BTW, Maddie, I feel the same way about the man who plays Monk, I can't stand the sight of him. He used to be on Wings and I couldn't stand him on that show either.
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Post by Kate on Jul 8, 2023 3:36:31 GMT -5
I would love to visit some of these ancient stone circles. The moon definitely has an effect people, but it also has an effect on the imagination. However, I'd like to believe there's some kind of psychic energy at sites like this.
I've read a lot about witchcraft and demonic possession in England, but didn't know about the case of John Darrell and William Somers, so it must not be a well-known case, which is strange, since the head-turning was used in The Exorcist.
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Post by Kate on Jul 5, 2023 7:52:20 GMT -5
The Celts also made what was called Black Bread in which they added animal blood to flour, which gave it a very dark color. But unless they were butchering the animal for food, they would cut a vein in a cow, sheep, or whatever, and let it bleed enough for the bread, then cauterize the wound so that it wouldn't get infected.
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Post by Kate on Jul 1, 2023 23:22:22 GMT -5
Usually when something like this happens, people think it's teenagers, but I just don't see teenagers getting five animal hearts -- from the photo they look like sheep hearts -- and performing some ritual on the top of a remote hill after midnight. I think this was the work of a group of people who really consider themselves Satanists, or maybe Druids, or someone who just wants to stir up something in the community. I say they might be Druids because the Druids used the entrails of animals, and sometimes men, as a form of divination.
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Post by Kate on Jul 1, 2023 8:37:40 GMT -5
When I was a kid, we used to spend most of our summers in the Adirondacks, so I've been to Big Moose Lake, but I don't think I was ever at Punky Bay on the 11th of July when the scream is heard. We stayed a few days at Big Moose Lake during our 2016 Dark Shadows trip, but we weren't there on July 11th. We visited some of the "Grace Brown" sites, such as the old skirt factory building in Cortland, NY, and we went rowing on Big Moose Lake. It was all very interesting because it's such a sad story of a naive young country woman being taken advantage of by a worldly young man, who used and then discarded her by killing her. Chester Gillette was the kind of man mothers warn their daughters about.
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Post by Kate on Jun 25, 2023 7:30:05 GMT -5
Does anyone have any experience with Powwow? I've found that systems of magic and healing all have a lot in common, they're just called different things in different cultures, and some are more Biblical than others. The spells, etc. in Southern Voodoo/Hoodoo are similar to those in Powwow, or what people call "Mountain Magic" in Appalachia, or even Egyptian Magic, which some modern-day witches claim to practice.
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Post by Kate on Jun 20, 2023 8:11:57 GMT -5
I wish people still had celebrations like this, but even if they did, everyone would be looking at their cellphones instead of actually taking part in what was going on.
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Post by Kate on Jun 15, 2023 2:09:24 GMT -5
It isn't just those with little education in remote Eastern European villages, there are young people right here in the US who believe vampires are real. Not long ago, there was one on Reddit who thought Dracula was nonfiction and the journals and letters were written by actual people. A few people tried to tell him Jonathan, Lucy and the others were fictitious character and it was published as a work of fiction, but he said Bram Stoker wouldn't have used real names and no one would have published it if he said it was real. There are also people, again on Reddit, who ask how they can become a vampire and they're serious.
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Post by Kate on Jun 10, 2023 10:47:39 GMT -5
The "Thought for the Day" reminded me of Bridge Bishop's hanging, which is now the 331st anniversary. In the old Yahoo group, we had a series of day-by-day events at Salem, which I very much enjoyed, but they might not be as popular today as they were then.
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Post by Kate on Jun 7, 2023 1:41:28 GMT -5
Midsummer Night’s Dream CocktailT his quick, easy and tasty cocktail can be made in five minutes.
Ingredients: 2 oz. vodka 1 oz. Kirschwasser fruit brandy 1 tsp. strawberry liqueur 5 fresh strawberries Schweppes water
Instructions: In a blender, mix strawberries until smooth. Fill a shaker with ice and combine blended strawberries, vodka, Kirschwasser brandy and strawberry liqueur. Shake well, pour into a highball glass, top with Schweppes water and garnish with a fresh strawberry.
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Post by Kate on Jun 3, 2023 2:48:49 GMT -5
Some phantom Black Dogs are said to haunt locations on desolate moorland, and criminals were often hanged outside of villages at a crossroads. I've read that phantom Black Dogs predate Christianity, which would mean they aren't "demonic" in the Christian sense. Most of the Black Dog tales depict them as evil, and even before Christians invented the devil, there was good and evil. I think Black Dogs must be some king of evil manifestation, but not necessarily demonic. That's what I've always thought. They aren't the spirits of any one individual, but some sort of manifestation of accumulated evil.
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Post by Kate on May 23, 2023 23:02:47 GMT -5
I don't remember seeing this when it was posted years ago, but now that I have seen it, does anyone know why anyone thought wearing pants of human skin would bring good luck? Unless the pants were made from the skin of a sorcerer who was thought to be extra lucky, I don't see how anyone, even uneducated peasants, could believe wearing them would bring luck.
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Post by Kate on May 22, 2023 2:24:22 GMT -5
My state's capitol is by no means the prettiest in the country, but it's still an impressive building. It stands on a hill in Nashville, and it was much more imposing before all those ugly highrises that ruin the skyline were built. The statue is Andrew Jackson on his horse.
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