by Maledicta | Oct 29, 2018 | Oddities and Curiosities, Weird Tourism
If you ever happen to visit central Mexico, don’t forget to plan an outing to the small mining town of Guanajuato, home to one of Mexico’s most popular tourist attractions – a museum that displays the mummified corpses of over 100 of its deceased...
by Maledicta | Jun 24, 2018 | Books, Weird Tourism
Back in October 2017, we featured an article about the phenomenon of Dark Tourism, AKA Black Tourism, Grief Tourism, or “thanatourism.” As tourists seem to be increasingly drawn to places linked to death, disaster, atrocity, or ongoing...
by Maledicta | May 13, 2018 | Halloween 365, Oddities and Curiosities
Mummification is obviously most closely linked with ancient Egypt, but it is a varied and culturally broad burial trend. Here are some examples of its more modern manifestations—from self-mummification, a brutal practice that only came to light in Japan in the...
by Maledicta | Apr 29, 2018 | Halloween 365, Oddities and Curiosities
DIY Mummy recipe, circa 1600s: “Take the fresh, unspotted cadaver of a redhaired man…” In 17th century England, at the age of 23, Richard Baxter, writer of Protestant Christian works, was generally having a bad time. Every day he...
