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You’re Toast! Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Getting Burned at the Stake

by Maledicta | May 5, 2019 | Halloween 365

  Hey Torquemada, whaddaya say? I just got back from the auto-da-fé! Auto-da-fé, what’s an auto-da-fé? It’s what you oughtn’t to do but you do anyway!        –  Mel Brooks, History of the World Part I “The Inquisition”   The...
Salem, Massachusetts – Home of Witch Kitsch

Salem, Massachusetts – Home of Witch Kitsch

by Maledicta | Mar 18, 2018 | Halloween 365, Weird Tourism

  How Salem went from executing witches to marketing them In 1692, 185 people were accused of witchcraft in Salem. Over the course of nine paranoid months, 19 of them were executed. Today, especially during Halloween season, Salem is filled once again with...
Sex Magicks, World War I, and Murder: 11 Strange But True Facts About Aleister Crowley

Sex Magicks, World War I, and Murder: 11 Strange But True Facts About Aleister Crowley

by Maledicta | Jan 29, 2018 | Halloween 365, Interesting People

  Aleister Crowley, one of the most controversial figures of the 20th century, never missed an opportunity to be a provocateur. He either impassioned those around him with a sense of freedom or enraged his more conservative contemporaries, who called him “The...
Necropants and More:  The Success Secrets of 17th Century Icelandic Witches

Necropants and More: The Success Secrets of 17th Century Icelandic Witches

by Maledicta | Nov 27, 2017 | Halloween 365, Oddities and Curiosities

  Unlimited wealth can soon be yours… if you don’t mind wearing the Necropants!   Iceland in the 17th century wasn’t the greatest time or place to be alive. Faced with natural disasters, constant coastal pirate raids, and a crushing class system that left...
Fright Night #23 – The Witch: A New England Folktale (2015)

Fright Night #23 – The Witch: A New England Folktale (2015)

by Maledicta | Oct 24, 2017 | Macabre Amusements, Maledicta's Movie Corner, Video

  Director:  Robert Eggers Stars:  Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie Snack Report:  Macadamia/White Chocolate Chunk Cookies     Making a mediocre horror movie can’t be all that hard. Take a scary story with zombies, vampires, or monsters and...
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