Showing posts with label Holidays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holidays. Show all posts
December 24, 2024

Are You Afraid of Raw Head and Bloody Bones?

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"Don't Talk! Go to Sleep! Eyes shet an' don't you peep! Keep still, or he jes moans: 'Raw Head an' Bloody Bones!...
December 22, 2019

Civil War Fruit Cake Recipe -150+ Years Old!

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Fruitcake. I'm young enough to have never encountered a fruitcake in the wild. Its reputation had been cemented before I was a chil...
February 29, 2016

Weird Leap Year Traditions

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It's leap day! Which means bachelors beware! Leap year has been used historically as a year to reverse gender roles.  In the 1700s an...
October 31, 2015

1880s Fortune Telling by Moles

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Happy Halloween! Through my library travels I came across a book that was no doubt a product of the spiritualism movement of the 1880s a...
November 27, 2014

Happy Thanksgiving!

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  Happy Thanksgiving everyone! There is so much to be thankful for. As part of my plan not to work on Thanksgiving I have decided not t...
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January 1, 2014

Goodbye 2013

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Another year. I'm always amazed at how fast a year goes and how much happens during one. One of my personal reasons for keeping a bl...
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November 19, 2013

10 Fun History Podcasts to Listen to this Winter

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wikigallery.org  The holidays are coming up which means I'm going to be spending more time than usual cleaning the house. I don'...
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October 31, 2013

Witch Jugs and Witch Bottles

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Child Levitation  Witch bottle, or witch jugs are a curious archeological find today. Bottles filled with liquid, rusty nails, hair, pin...
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March 29, 2013

Why I am Sharing the Secret Family Recipe: Italian Easter Pie (Pizza Gain) with Lots of Photos

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“You don’t do it by pictures,” my grandma said as I snapped a few photos “you do it by feel.” “Well I can’t exactly tell my rea...
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December 24, 2012

A Kiss Under the Mistletoe: History of Mistletoe

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"A memorial of customs departed: For the maids they all try to seem bashful and shy," - Blackwood's Lady's Magazine 1841...
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November 19, 2012

Mid-1800s Servitude and Cooking This Week

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This etching was taken from a story that illustrated the difficulty of keeping a good cook. It also inadvertently illustrated the Irish st...
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November 12, 2012

Just Checking In

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I feel like we missed most of the Fall and Winter came on too suddenly. I already find myself securely fastened in heavy blankets, reluctan...
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November 5, 2012

Remember, Remember the 5th of November

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Explosives placed under a government building by  a group of religious extremists? Sounds like something we'd see on the news.  On the...
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October 31, 2012

Happy Halloween! A Short History of Jack O' Lanterns

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We know Halloween is around the corner when we see cold nights, colored leaves and the scary faces of carved pumpkins staring at us from doo...
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March 17, 2012

St. Patrick's Day Guest Post

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This is a guest post from Andy, as he's been promising to record some music for me for quite some time. Some Irish music History will ...
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