Throughout the ages, cheese has been perceived to possess all manner of strange and magical properties. Tabitha Stanmore – an honorary research fellow… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/343376/the-peculiar-history-of-cheese-and-witchcraft…
Tag: Witchcraft
Young woman ‘set on fire’ over witchcraft fears
An attempted murder investigation is underway in South Africa after a woman was attacked and set on fire. While witchcraft is generally uncommon in th… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/340846/young-woman-set-on-fire-over-witchcraft-fears…
Hydroxychloroquine Advocate Angry Donald Trump Took ‘Experimental Antibody Stupidness’
“A doctor notorious for claiming hydroxychloroquine is a ‘cure’ for COVID-19 has denounced White House doctors for not giving President Donald Trump the drug to treat his infection…” reports Newsweek. “Other unsubstantiated claims from Immanuel include declarations that fasting can cure those affected by ‘witchcraft,’ that having sex with demons while dreaming can cause gynecological problems and that certain medications contain…
Victorian ‘witch bottle’ was used to ward off evil
An anti-witchcraft potion dating back 150 years has been discovered in a pub in Northamptonshire, England. The historic remedy, which was found after … Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/331651/victorian-witch-bottle-was-used-to-ward-off-evil…
Witches set to cast ‘binding spell’ on Trump
Thousands of witchcraft practitioners are planning to cast a spell on US President Donald Trump later today. Taking full advantage of the Halloween se… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/331480/witches-set-to-cast-binding-spell-on-trump…
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/…
AI is Helping Old Video Games Look Like New
Classic video games are getting a makeover. But it’s not big-name game developers making the improvements: it’s independent modders. From a report: The technique being used is known as “AI upscaling.” In essence, you feed an algorithm a low-resolution image, and, based on training data it’s seen, it spits out a version that looks the same but has more pixels in…
8 Silent Films Every Sci-Fi and Horror Fan Should See
Genre films have been around basically as long as cinema itself—which means audiences have been shrieking at monsters and marveling at space adventures for over 100 years. Technology may have changed rather dramatically, but a lot of the core stories are still remarkably similar.Read more…Source: https://io9.gizmodo.com/8-silent-films-every-sci-fi-and-horror-fan-should-see-1834084371…
Chile’s Mysterious Island of Warlocks
Some places in this world just seem to draw to themselves mysteries and legends. Just off the coast of the South American country of Chile, in the Los Lagos Region of the southern end of the country, is a place called the Chiloé Archipelago, the name meaning “place of seagulls” in the native Huilliche language,… Continue reading Chile’s Mysterious Island of Warlocks