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Shared Hysteria – Folie à Deux & The Swedish Twins
Folie à deux is French for “a madness shared by two”, or shared psychosis and is a psychiatric syndrome. Symptoms include delusional beliefs and are often accompanied by hallucinations which are passed from one individual to another. This particular disorder was first conceptualized … Continue reading
The Whispering Witches of Poland
January 17, 1775 – Kalisk, Poland – 6 women said to be witches were burnt at the stake. Some sources claim 9 women while others say 14, yet others state the women may never have been executed at all. Not … Continue reading
Posted in Crime & Punishment, Mythology, Taboos
Tagged burning, January 17 1775, Kalisk, Poland, spells, stake, whispering witches, witch, witch-hunt, witchcraft
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Something to Chew On – Giant Ancient Camel Remains Discovered in Canadian Arctic
“It was a really different world then,” says Rybczynski. Continue reading
Posted in Relics & Artifacts
Tagged Alaska, ancient, bones, Bonnechere Museum, Boreal Forest, camel, Canada, Canadian Museum of Nature, climate change, Dalhousie University, fossils, Fyles Lead Bed sit, Geological Survey of Canada, High Arctic, Milankovitch Cycles, Northwest Passage, Province of Ontario, Strathcona Fiord, The Ellesmere camel, tropical, tropics, University of Manchester, Yukon
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After the Ball – World’s 1st Adult Film
Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, (Paris: December 8, 1861 – January 21, 1938) was an illusionist and filmmaker famous for creating special effects such as dissolves, multiple exposure, hand-painted colour and time-lapse photography. Marie, is also know for the stop-trick, where he claimed he accidentally achieved … Continue reading
Posted in Adults, Entertainment, Taboos, Technology
Tagged A Trip to the Moon, After the Ball, Cabinet Fantastique of the Grévin Wax Museum, cinema, cinematography, Egypt Hall, Eugène Robert-Houdin, film, Hypnotist at Work, illusionist, John Nevil Maskelyne, London, magic, Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, New York, Paris, Peeping Tom at the Seaside, pornography, stag, stage acting, Star Film Company, The Impossible Voyage
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Record of a Sneeze – An Edison Kinetoscopic Film
The video you’re about to watch is the first movie to be copyrighted in the United States by The Edison Manufacturing Company – a company organized in 1889 by inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Edison. Record Of A Sneeze, was filmed … Continue reading
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Our Fancy – Aspects of Collective Behavior: Fads, Mass Hysteria, and Riots
What is the difference between collective behavior and group behavior?Learn this and the idea behind the terms: fads, mass hysteria, and riots. – By Jeffrey Walsh -altered by Hystoria
Posted in Our Fancies
Tagged anxiety, chaos, cinnamon challenge, collective behavior, crazed, crowd behaviour, deindividuation, delusions, deviance, dynamics, epidemic hysteria, fads, fear, group behavior, groups, influence, irrational, mass psychogenic illness, memberships, negative news, norms, popularity, race, riots, rumours, threat, vandalism, violence
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The Woman Who Would Not Hang
Lucky No.7 wins it for this two-armed, delicate bandit. Continue reading
New Year’s – Are We’re Doing It Wrong!?
The Babylonians were the first to celebrate New Year’s festivities known as Akitu. This Spring Equinox festival began on the first days of the Babylonian year being in the months of March, or April – when soil was ready for … Continue reading
Posted in Calendars & Time, Mythology
Tagged Akitu, Ancient Babylon, Elagabal, Emessa, Esaglia, Heliogabalus, Marduk, Palmyra, rêš šattim, Spring Equinox, Syria
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Star Man: Prehistoric Figurine
The name for this darling prehistoric figurine is quite suiting – Star Man. He was uncovered by archaeologists excavating the site at Fort Albany, Ontario. Star Man, was cut from a sheet of lead and is 2.0cm thick. … Continue reading
Posted in Mythology, Relics & Artifacts
Tagged 2300 B.C., alignment, archa, archaeology, asgtronomical, Atlanta, burial mounds, Cochrane District, Cree, earthen, earthwork, Egypt, excavation, First Nations, Fort Albany Ontario, Georgia, mound builders, Ojibway, political, prehistoric, pyramids, Royal Ontario Museum, site, Star Man, The History of James Bay, USA, Waskaganish First Nation
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Speakeasy: Medicinal Alcohol & Prohibition Prescriptions
During Prohibition, the U.S. Treasury Department authorized physicians to write prescriptions for medicinal alcohol. Licensed doctors, with pads of government-issued prescription forms printed on treasury paper, advised their patients to take regular doses of hooch to stave off a number of … Continue reading
Posted in Adults, Entertainment, Medical Arts & Science, Wartime
Tagged 18th Amendment, Al Capone, booze, clubs, dance hall, doctors, Empire Distillery, home parties, hooch, Man Cave, Medical Cannabis, medicinal alcohol, nurses, pharmacy, prescription, private, Prohibition, quackery, Roaring 20s, Sleeman Brewery, speakeasy, The National Prohibition Act, U.S. Treasury Department, whiskey, wine
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