From the Salem witch trials to today’s “witch hunts,” women are front and center because they are considered powerless and more easily swayed by demons. Source: https://www.livescience.com/why-witches-are-women.html
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Found Cassiopeia? Now look for Perseus
Perseus follows Cassiopeia across the night sky. It’s fainter, but has a graceful shape and some of the sky’s most interesting stars and star clusters. Source: https://earthsky.org/constellations/cassiopeia-and-perseus-in-northeast-on-october-evenings…
Someone Stole the Bones of an 18th-Century ‘Witch.’ Scottish Authorities Want Them Back.
Following the 315th anniversary of a Scottish witch’s death, officials have renewed the search for her missing skeleton. Source: https://www.livescience.com/scottish-witch-missing-bones.html
2019 Hugo Award Winners Include a Fan Fiction Site and ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’
DevNull127 writes: The 77th World Science Fiction Convention announced the winners of the 2019 Hugo Awards at a ceremony Sunday night. Here’s some of the highlights. At least two of these stories can be read (for free) online: BEST NOVELETTE: “If at First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again,” by Zen Cho. The entire text is availabe online in the B&N…
Was ‘The Matrix’ Part of Cinema’s Last Great Year?
In 2014 Esquire argued that great movies like The Matrix “predicted a revolution in film that never happened,” adding “We are in many ways worse off now than we were 15 years ago as a culture. We seem to have run out of original ideas.” This week two film critics debated whether 1999 was in fact cinema’s last great year. Slashdot…
Two Friday the 13ths in 2019
Do you have friggatriskaidekaphobia … an irrational fear of Friday the 13th? Today isn’t Friday the 13th. But it is exactly 13 weeks before a Friday the 13th in September. Then, exactly 13 weeks after that, 2019’s second Friday the 13th will fall in December. Zoinks! Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/two-friday-the-13ths-in-2019…
For Sale: ‘Haunted’ Medieval Prison That Held Accused Witches
The former jail is known by the ominous nickname “The Cage.” Source: https://www.livescience.com/65694-medieval-witch-prison-house.html
New Game Based On ‘The Blair Witch Project’ Demoed at Microsoft Xbox Event
“So that Blair Witch reboot wasn’t very good. But maybe a video game could change things up?” writes Engadget. Mashable has more details:
Remember The Blair Witch Project, that viral horror sensation that made waves before social media was even a thing? Well, it’s back. And it’s an Xbox game. Microsoft debuted a first look trailer for Blair Witch during its annual…
A Witch Named Isobel and a “Familiar” Creature
Within the practice of witchcraft there exists a creature that few outside of the craft will have any awareness of. It is a strange and often dangerous creature known as a familiar. When witchcraft was said to be rife across England in the 1500s and 1600s, it was widely believed that witches used small animals… Read more » Source: https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/04/a-witch-named-isobel-and-a-familiar-creature/…
Evil Swamp Demons of Slavic Lore
Throughout the world there have always been legends and lore associated with the dim wilds of our landscape. Dark and forbidding, swamps in particular have attracted such tales since time unremembered, and it seems as if every such murky wetland has its share of spooky lore orbiting it. This is especially prevalent in Slavic cultures,… Read more » Source: https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/04/evil-swamp-demons-of-slavic-lore/…