To some extent we English speakers are raised on Aristotelian – Greek – thinking. Our whole conceptual system is based on absolutes and zero-sum games. (“Indeed, you have persuaded me, Socrates, that if a thing is of this quality it cannot also be of that…”) For the Native Americans it was different, and the Western […]
Traditions about races of magical, more-or-less human beings – fairies, leprechauns, Little People – exist in the folklore of many parts of the world. If the average person has an impression of their cultural origins, he or she probably thinks most often of Ireland. The Irish certainly stand out for their reverence and even pride […]
Every single spot of air or earth at Lily Dale is potentially haunted, at least according to its residents and devotees. Almost no reports of psychic phenomena are considered either unlikely or even too far out of the ordinary at this Spiritualist community nestled into the three lakes of Cassadaga, NY, about eight miles south […]
[The grandmothers were the ultimate keepers of much of the supernatural tradition, it seems, among the Allegany Seneca. In his childhood the late author and storyteller DuWayne “Duce” Bowen (1946-2006) used to overhear his own grandmother talk with the grandmother of the girl who’d become his wife Janis, and he remembered many of the tales […]
[Author’s Note: The small country burying-ground in the Town of Wales, Erie County, NY, known as Goodleberg is one of New York State’s most mythologized “haunted” cemeteries. It is also one of the most devastated. Toppled stones, plundered graves, and late-night rootin’ tootin’ are only some of the outrages that offend both living and dead. […]
But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry… By heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs. Romeo, Act V, Romeo and Juliet Yes, it’s that time of year again. The summer months are on us and it’s sure to get hot at the peak of that […]
Yes, it’s that time of year again. The summer months are on us and here come the ghost-hunters. It’s sure to get hot at the top of that hill holding the most prominent outdoor haunt on the Niagara Frontier and surely one of the most notorious, devastated, scandalous burying-grounds in New York State. Hold onto […]
Yes, it’s that time of year again. The summer months are on us and here come the ghost-hunters. It’s sure to get hot at the top of that hill holding the most prominent outdoor haunt on the Niagara Frontier and surely one of the most notorious, devastated, scandalous burying-grounds in New York State. Hold onto […]
Yes, it’s that time of year again. The summer months are on us and it’s sure to get hot at the top of that hill holding the most prominent outdoor haunt on the Niagara Frontier and surely one of the most notorious, devastated, scandalous burying-grounds in New York State. Hold onto your hats, it’s Goodleberg… […]
An enormous supernatural tradition has built up around the ancient earthworks. In England, they say Merlin built Stonehenge with his spells. A formation of standing stones – Long Meg and her Daughters – were a coven of witches turned into stones by Scottish wizard Michael Scot. The Cerne Abbas hill figure (a gigantic chalk carving) […]