by Eric Olsen | Dec 17, 2015 | culture, media, monsters, movies, religion and belief, seasonal, weird/science, werewolves and shifters |
Of all the odd customs, traditions, and legends associated with Christmas around the world, none seems odder than the werewolves of Yule. Werewolves and Halloween? Obviously. Christmas and a baby, a manger, a magical gift giver in red and white? Clearly. But why...
by Eric Olsen | Dec 16, 2015 | culture, religion and belief, seasonal, weird/science |
Mari Lwyd (Gray Mare) is a mischievous, rhyme spouting, party animal Christmastide figure in Wales consisting of a horse’s skull with a hinged jaw — all the better to nip you with, my dear — perched atop a pole, and carted around by a man inside a...
by The Lineup | Dec 15, 2015 | culture, magick and occult, paranormal, religion and belief, weird/science |
By ORRIN GREY Anyone who’s heard of the Hand of Glory raise your, um, hand. Perhaps you’re familiar with these ghastly magic items—the severed hands of fiendish men that are pickled and dried and turned into talismans. Such objects frequently appear in role-playing...
by Eric Olsen | Dec 11, 2015 | art, books, comics, culture, media, movies, paranormal, radio, religion and belief, seasonal, supernatural beings, television |
On this special holiday episode of After Hours AM/America’s Most Haunted with co-hosts Joel Sturgis and Eric Olsen, we talk Krampus with famed novelist Richard Kadrey, an aficionado of dark Christmas traditions of every stripe! Kadrey, who lives in San...
by Eric Olsen | Dec 11, 2015 | art, books, comics, culture, media, movies, paranormal, religion and belief, seasonal, supernatural beings, television |
It seems you can’t swing a dead cat these days without smacking into Krampus, the dark shadow to the bright light of St. Nicholas at Christmastide. The ancient Alpine demon-thing comes equipped with horns, fangs, claws, unruly fur, hooves, long creepy tongue;...
by Eric Olsen | Dec 10, 2015 | culture, ghosts and spirits, paranormal, religion and belief, seasonal |
Most of us take the rituals and customs of Christmas at face value and don’t realize how weird and ancient some of them truly are. Remember the Log Lady on Twin Peaks? The middle-aged woman who cradled a log in her arms and passed on its clairvoyant prognostications?...
