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Blog postForewarned is forearmed! So be careful out there! Today, April 1st, is the one day of the year when people have free rein and permission to pull pranks, tell lies and cause general mischief, all in the name of fools.
In the Tarot card deck, the Fool is card zero. The Fool is the very beginning. He is optimistic, open to all possibilities, and ready for adventure. He is too happy and unaware to have any inhibitions or sense of danger. I like to think of April Fool’s Day as
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Blog postAll about the Ides of March! Have a great day.
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So warned the soothsayer to Julius Caesar in Shakespeare’s famous play. Alas poor Julius — he did not heed the advice and was stabbed to death in the senate. The bloody, infamous event occurred on March 15, 44 B.C.
Have you ever wondered what the ‘Ides’ of March actually means?
It was a designation for the middle of a month. Apparently, the ancient Romans did not number days of a month sequentially -
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The celebration of Imbolc is always a bit of a puzzle. Here in the Midwest, at the beginning of February we are still in winter’s deep freeze, with plenty more snow on the way.
And yet. There has to be some hope of spring. Enter Imbolc, the cross quarter fire festival that should help motivate us. This festival is often underplayed and really shouldn’t be. We all need a pick me up from winter doldrums. And besides, it is also a help to anyone s -
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With a New Year right on the horizon, we hope to conjure up the luckiest, healthiest, most prosperous one ever! Fortunately, there are plenty of superstitions to help us along the way. If you’d like to know more about the weird stuff people all over the world do, read on!
Want to get rich in the coming new year? Try eating some pickled herring at midnight on New Year’s Eve. This practice comes from Poland, Germany and Scandinavia. It is believed that the silver -
Blog postThe longest night when light returns
The candles flicker, spirits yearn
Crisp moon, ice breath and silver stars
That shine through light years from afar
On this dark night all things renew
But visions eclipse, none in view
The winter’s lessons, hard and bleak
Are only for the strong to seek.
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Blog postAnne Rice, the Mother of Vampires, Dark Queen of modern Gothic literature, has left this earthly realm. My favorite living author is no longer living. Here is a piece I wrote a few years ago, thought I’d reblog it in honor of her.
RIP (wRite In Peace) Sweet Queen.
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She is the mistress of the macabre, the weaver of witch tales, a native New Orleanian who may never have made her mark in the world if it weren’t for her near blood thirsty curiosity about what it w -
Blog postShe was one of the most powerful and influential women of nineteenth century New Orleans, rumored to be a great priestess of Voodoo, as well as a practicing Catholic. She was a healer, a midwife, possibly a hairdresser and mother of at least nine children. To this day, her ghost is said to haunt the streets of the French Quarter, and people come from all over the world to pay tribute to her at her grave.
I am speaking of course, of the famous Marie Laveau.
A great deal o -
Blog post“Stop that lollygagging! We don’t have all day.”
If you’d grown up in my house, you would have heard phrases like this quite often. The word “lollygag” was as common as “Be home before dark,” or “Money doesn’t grow on trees.” I think lollygag was one of my parents’ favorites. But it’s a strange word.
Think about it. If we break it apart, we get loll and gag. What the heck kind of word is this? It’s either comical, cruel, or very obscene…
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Blog post“I stuck around Saint Petersburg
When I saw it was time for a change
Killed the Tsar and his ministers
Anastasia screamed in vain.”
Rolling Stones fans will recognize the song as “Sympathy for the Devil”, Mick Jagger’s lopsided tribute to the Prince of Darkness. The event in question was the slaughter of Tsar Nicholas II and his entire family, an execution so horrendous that it could only have been orchestrated by Satan himself. (Or Vladimir Lenin.)
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Blog postShe Came in Thru the Bathroom Window
Clad in all black with a pixie haircut and a camera in tow, she was probably the coolest chick ever to walk in to the Kaiserkeller in 1960’s Hamburg. She was a German photographer, the first to do a formal shoot with the Beatles, and largely responsible for what later became their world-wide “image.” She was a practitioner of Sartre’s Existentialism, an art student, and as it turned out, a great cook. She lured Lennon, mesmeriz
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Wings & Fire: A horror anthology with 23 stories from 15 authors (The Box Under The Bed Book 5)
Jan 15, 2021
by
Dan Alatorre,
Roberta Eaton Cheadle,
MD Walker,
Frank Parker,
Dabney Farmer,
Allison Maruska,
Jessica Bakkers,
Heather Kindt,
Susan Lamb,
Geoff LePard,
Marjorie Mallon,
Adele Marie Park,
Alana Turner,
Betty Valentine,
Christine Valentor
$4.99
Spellbound: A horror anthology with 27 stories from 16 authors (The Box Under The Bed Book 4)
Oct 14, 2020
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Dan Alatorre,
Robbie Cheadle,
Ellen Best,
Kaye Booth,
Alana Turner,
Christine Valentor,
Nick Vossen,
AM Andrus,
Adele Marie Park,
Daniel Alatorre,
Alana Turner,
Victoria Clapton,
MD Walker,
Dabney Farmer,
M J Mallon,
Frank Parker,
Joanne Larner,
Maribel Pagan
$4.99
