by Maledicta | Apr 22, 2019 | Halloween 365
Throughout history, witch hunters have relied upon a number of bizarre and often astonishingly cruel ways of identifying witches and testing them to make absolutely sure (more or less) that they were dealing with an actual minion of Satan. One of the main...
by Maledicta | Apr 7, 2019 | Halloween 365, In the News
There’s been a lot of buzz in the news lately about using DNA matching to solve cold murder cases. So it definitely made headlines when it was recently announced that the Jack the Ripper case, one of history’s great unsolved mysteries, has been solved once and...
by Maledicta | Mar 15, 2019 | Halloween 365
In Ireland, St. Patrick’s Day is an actual religious holiday. But many here in the States, St. Patrick’s Day is basically an excuse to dress in green, drink green beer, and maybe an evening of Darby O’Gill and the Little People and chill. There’s...
by Maledicta | Mar 11, 2019 | Halloween 365
If you think this is about “The Ripper,” you don’t know Jack… When you think of a scary dude named Jack from Victorian England, “Jack the Ripper” is probably the first one who comes to mind. Of course, the Ripper may have been the most notorious...
by Maledicta | Feb 21, 2019 | Halloween 365
Whether they’re in London or Paris, New York or New Zealand, other than mausoleums and drafty old castles, theaters seem to be more prone to paranormal activity than other types of buildings. Considering the level of drama, superstition, and ego...
by Maledicta | Feb 21, 2019 | Halloween 365
Once upon a time, when you died, your simple pine coffin was carried to the graveyard on a basic no-frills horse-drawn cart. But as the American funeral industry evolved, so did the art of corpse transportation. Changing attitudes toward death in the Victorian...
