Filmmaker Seeking Esoteric Texts For Vast Collection on the Occult – he boasts an extensive collection of rare texts related to the occult in his extensive personal library.
Tag: History
Lithuania’s Hauntingly Beautiful Kryžių Kalnas, or the Hill of Crosses
This all started with a single post by my lovely friend: This hauntingly beautiful photo evoked a somber mood. It’s a sea of wooden, stone, and metal crosses, some piled one upon another. Why are there so many crosses there and what inspired people to put so many crosses in this very place? I needed…
Exploring an Abandoned Grade II Listed Mansion – Abandoned Places UK | The Ghost Trail
Exploring an Abandoned Grade II Listed Mansion – Abandoned Places UK | The Ghost Trail. I can only dream of finding places like this! #UrbEx #Abandoned #Horror
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Explore the Macabre History of Anthropodermic Bibliopeg: Books Bound in Human Skin (trigger warning)
Explore the Macabre History of Anthropodermic Bibliopeg: #Books Bound in Human Skin (trigger warning) #Horror stuff for sure! READ MORE >>
King-eating Colossus of Revolutionary France and its Connection to Frankenstein’s Monster
As the French Revolution entered its most radical years, there emerged in print a recurring figure, the collective power of the people expressed as a single gigantic body — a king-eating Colossus. Samantha Wesner traces the lineage of this nouveau Hercules, from Erasmus Darwin’s Bastille-breaking giant to a latter incarnation in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. —…
Antique Memento Mori Ring Skull
Memento Mori jewelry is the name given to sixteenth through eighteenth-century jewelry that was created as a reminder of the inevitability of death and the need to live piously. Read More >>
Salem Witch Museum Online Exhibit
Salem Witch Museum Exhibits Witch trials began in Europe in the early fifteenth century and continued well into the eighteenth century. Over time, fear spread to the colonies, resulting in witch panics, such as the Salem witch trials. While it is challenging to assess the total number of executions that took place throughout this period,…
