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[alonerarebel]

[briefbestiary]

Vicious, flesh-consuming pests that supposedly dwell on an island near British Columbia.

[vintageeurope]

Toledo, Spain 19th Century

[japaneseaesthetics]

A large number of youkai who suddenly appeared in Minamoto no Yorimitsu (19th c). Each one has a humorous face, so please enlarge and look at them. From Kuniyoshi Utagawa’s Minamoto no Yoryokan Douzaku Yokaizu. It is on display until August 23 at “The UKIYO-E 2020” exhibition at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art [text by Ota Memorial Museum of Art]

[alonerarebel]

In loving memory of Dee Dee

18 de septiembre de 1951 - 5 de junio de 2002

[conradscrime]

The Murder of Charles Walton: Witchcraft, Folklore, and a Village That Refused to Speak

May 19, 2026

On Valentine’s Day 1945, in the quiet English village of Lower Quinton, 74‑year‑old farm laborer Charles Walton was found dead in a field on Meon Hill, a place steeped in centuries of folklore. His throat had been slashed. His chest had been pierced with his own pitchfork. His walking stick lay nearby, broken.

The brutality of the scene was shocking, but it was the symbolism that unsettled investigators. The pitchfork pinned him to the ground like a ritual sacrifice. A cross‑shaped wound marked his chest. Rumors spread instantly: witchcraft, curses, ancient rites.

Walton was a reclusive man, rumored to have “the evil eye.” Locals claimed he could stop machinery with a glance, that animals died in his presence, that he was touched by something uncanny. Whether these stories were superstition or scapegoating, they shaped the investigation.

Scotland Yard sent Detective Robert Fabian, who quickly realized the villagers would not talk. Doors closed. Eyes averted. Every question was met with silence or evasions. Fabian later wrote that he had never encountered a community so determined to hide something.

No suspect was ever charged.

The Walton murder remains one of Britain’s most unsettling unsolved cases, a collision of rural folklore, wartime anxiety, and a community that chose secrecy over justice.

[dappermouth]

And then you had that dream again.

[deathandmysticism]

Spring-heel'd Jack, the Terror of London, 1867

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

For the 100th time: Ukraine is not Palestine

By Anastasia Lebedenko - A Personal War

I wish I said this phrase to a man who was screaming at me last Sunday, comparing me, Ukrainian, to a Palestinian. It took me a week to cry this situation out, and then another few days to try and put it into words. So, here’s a story of how an apartment viewing turned into a political fight and (sort of) a harassment case.

Ukraine is in a funny spot. It’s abandoned by the people on the left because they see the West as inherently bad, and refuse to see russia for the imperial hellhole that it is, sticking to its romanticised communist-dream past. Ukraine-russia war is not viewed through an imperial lens, because people cannot fathom the idea that imperialist agenda does not have a skin colour. It’s abandoned by the right because why should anyone get involved in a war that’s not theirs? Ukraine is seen as an altogether separate entity from the so-called West — what happens there has no real bearing on life of an average American or European, so it should be none of their business.

Ukrainians are even in a funnier spot — seen as too white to be suffering the consequences of imperialism, too Christian to be suffering from a religious persecution, too similar to the neighbours who attack them to be differentiated from them. We’re all the same, the Slavs, right? A vast and empty steppe full of Russian-speaking people (oh wait, do you have your own language?) Can’t you just divide up a territory, if you’re one of the same?

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[vintageeurope]

Cork, Ireland 19th century

[whencyclopedia]

Ereshkigal: Mesopotamian Queen of the Dead

Ereshkigal, the Mesopotamian Queen of the Dead who rules the underworld, was responsible for both keeping the dead within her realm and preventing the living from entering and learning the truth of the afterlife. She was the most feared deity in the Mesopotamian pantheon because she represented one’s final destination from which there was no returning. Ereshkigal is always represented in prayers and rituals as a formidable goddess of great power, but often in stories as one who forgives an injustice or a wrong in the interests of the greater good. In this role, she encouraged piety in the people who should follow her example in their own lives. If Ereshkigal could suffer injustice and continue to perform her tasks in accordance with the will of the gods, then human beings should do no less.

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⇒ Ereshkigal: Mesopotamian Queen of the Dead

[punkrockhistory]

46 years ago today

In memory of Ian Curtis, who suffered from both epilepsy and depression, took his life on May 18, 1980, on the eve of Joy Division's first North American tour, and just before the release of their second album

📸 Anton Corbijn

[nemfrog]

Wing and skeleton of the bat. The biology of birds. 1923.

Internet Archive

[thecollectibles]

Succubi by Aleksandra Wojcik

[thekimonogallery]

“Utsurobune”: A UFO Legend from Nineteenth-Century Japan.  A mysterious event in Japan at the beginning of the nineteenth century shows surprising similarities with stories of UFOs.

In 1803, a round vessel drifted ashore on the Japanese coast and a beautiful woman emerged, wearing strange clothing and carrying a box. She was unable to communicate with the locals, and her craft was marked with mysterious writing. This story of an utsurobune, or “hollow ship,” in the province of Hitachi (now Ibaraki Prefecture) is found in many records of the Edo period (1603–1868), and Tanaka Kazuo, professor emeritus at Gifu University, has studied the topic for many years. The first image is from the early 19th century; the second image is ftom Ōshuku zakki (Ōshuku Notes; around 1815) by Komai Norimura, a vassal of the powerful daimyō Matsudaira Sadanobu. (Courtesy National Diet Library); while the last image is from Hirokata zuihitsu (Essays by Hirokata; 1825) by shogunate retainer and calligrapher Yashiro Hirokata, who was also a member of the Toenkai circle. (Courtesy National Archives of Japan). [all text directly from article in nippon.con]

[charnel-grounds]

Laszlo Kubinyi, “The Bitang”

illustration from “Ghosts, Vampires, and Werewolves: Eerie Tales from Transylvania” by Mihai I. Spariosu and Dezső Benedek, 1994

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[lascitasdelashoras]

Charles Baudelaire, 29 ans, daguerréotype, 1850