Superstition
Bees told of Queen Elizabeth’s Death
Royal housekeeper John Chapple has carried out the duty of telling the bees kept at Buckingham Palace and Clarence House that Queen Elizabeth has died, and that King Charles is their new master."You knock on each hive and say, 'The mistress is dead, but don't you go. Your master will be a good master to you.'"
This was in accordance with the ancient British custom of "telling the bees," which we described in a post back in 2012.
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Posted By: Alex - Sun Sep 11, 2022 -
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Category: Animals, Customs, Death, Royalty, Superstition
Horrific Halloween 2020!
Posted By: Paul - Sat Oct 31, 2020 -
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Category: Holidays, Horror, Music, Supernatural, Occult, Paranormal, Superstition, 1930s, Fictional Monsters
Modern Witches
Posted By: Paul - Fri Oct 09, 2020 -
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Category: Holidays, Superstition, 1960s, Women
The Paul Lynde Halloween Special
Posted By: Paul - Mon Oct 28, 2019 -
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Category: Annoying Things, Antiques, Anachronisms and Throwbacks, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Celebrities, Confusion, Misunderstanding, and Incomprehension, Eccentrics, Entertainment, Geeks, Nerds and Pointdexters, Humor, Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Innuendo, Double Entendres, Symbolism, Nudge-Nudge-Wink-Wink and Subliminal Messages, Superstition, Television, Avant Garde, Surrealism, 1970s, LGBT, Halloween, Nausea, Revulsion and Disgust, Nostalgia
Clairvoyant Fishing (1956)
Posted By: Paul - Sat Aug 03, 2019 -
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Category: Superstition, Fish, 1950s
Cornwall Superstitions
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jun 02, 2019 -
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Category: Superstition, United Kingdom
Swat the Jinx Girl
Continuing our series of "Strange Beauty Queens.""Rose Cade, who has also been nominated Southern California's 'Swat the Jinx' girl, dressed in model of large lemon pointing to calendar dated Friday, February 13, 1920."
Original photo here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jan 28, 2019 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, Superstition, 1920s
Dinner With Drac
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 16, 2018 -
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Category: Music, Superstition, 1950s, Fictional Monsters
Follies of the Madmen #328
As you can see, this ad appeared in the April issue of EBONY magazine, thus rendering any possible connection to Halloween, the time of ghosts, utterly irrelevant. What is the excuse for the pun, then? Because Herb-Ox represents the ghost of a cow? It's utterly arbitrary and unseductive and not germane to the product. Yet some ad guy obviously thought it was genius.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Oct 11, 2017 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Food, Superstition, 1960s
Helpful Dead Wife
Original article here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jun 02, 2017 -
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Category: Crime, Death, Superstition, Marriage, 1900s
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