Theo Paijmans
They were strange days—curious dream-like days—and they followed each other silently, like shadows over grain fields. Edith Allonby, The Fulfilment, 1905.
- About two decades ago, I researched Spring-heeled Jack in America. I just found my 64-page catalog of cases from 1881 to 1975 that I wrote at the time. These are the sources for one of the cases; I note how many librarians and historians I contacted. Not everything is digitized.
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- From my library: 'The Legends of Alsace' (1892) mentions the story of the terrible Doggele, a creature that sits on the chests of children in the midst of night (old hag syndrome?): "It's a kind of nightmare or vampire, looking like undetermined, pasted together animal shapes."
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- Reposted by Theo PaijmansAccording to a Flemish folktale, a woman was followed by a ghost while she walked home late at night. The ghost had a skull instead of a head and a white beard. Overnight, a huge tree grew in front of her door. It had to be cut down because nobody could enter or leave. #PhantomsFriday
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- This arrived today, published in 1880. So if you don’t hear from me the coming days, you know where I am…
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- A nocturnal shelfie. Which book would you read?
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- Colonial Denmark treated the Inuit, the indigenous Greenlanders, with a genocidal, racist Joseph Mengele program of forced sterilizations (subjects could be girls as young as 12 or 13 years) and abductions of Inuit children, well into the 1970s. That's the country we're supposed to help?
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- That time when I found an original letter written by Charles Fort, pasted in a first edition of his 'Lo!' (1931):
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- A row of books I currently don’t know where to place, shelf space is at a premium here. They were published between 1902 and 1909, reincarnation, astral travel, Atlantis, interplanetary visitors, ghosts and hauntings and Marian apparitions. All written and recorded by women, except the red book.
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