Tag: Supernatural

It’s ‘I Put a Spell on You’ Month all October! Happy Halloween??

When you really think about it, we all live in mystery houses. Secrets and blood are two things that really help shape our notions of ‘family’. Perhaps the most well known mystery… Read More …

It’s ‘I Put a Spell on You’ Month all October! Happy Halloween??

When you really think about it, we all live in mystery houses. Secrets and blood are two things that really help shape our notions of ‘family’. Perhaps the most well known mystery house of all, that of Widow Winchester in San Jose, California had one more feature that helped define it, a family curse. Join us this week as we explore family curses throughout history. from the Hapsburgs and their ravens to Henry VII and his monks, a good curse seems to be almost status symbol for European royalty. We’ll discuss the machinations of general cursing and the curse of original sin before taking a look at one of America’s own cursed Colt family.

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It’s ‘I Put a Spell on You’ Month all October! Happy Halloween??

When you really think about it, we all live in mystery houses. Secrets and blood are two things that really help shape our notions of ‘family’. Perhaps the most well known mystery… Read More …

Whether it’s a ghostly double staring at you from across the street, or a mirror image whose expression doesn’t quite match your own; finding ‘twins’ in unexpected places is quite unsettling. Having an experience like this can make us confront aspects … Read More …

Whether it’s a ghostly double staring at you from across the street, or a mirror image whose expression doesn’t quite match your own; finding ‘twins’ in unexpected places is quite unsettling. Having an experience like this can make us confront aspects … Read More …

Whether it’s a ghostly double staring at you from across the street, or a mirror image whose expression doesn’t quite match your own; finding ‘twins’ in unexpected places is quite unsettling. Having an experience like this can make us confront aspects of ourselves we’d really like to ignore; unmoor relationships with reality; and send even the most self-assured into an identity crisis. Doppelgängers are haunting manifestations of the uncanny, a thing that is, or almost is, and yet cannot be. It is little wonder then that so many 19th century writers explored this territory as they searched for their own voice. Join us this week as we discuss the phenomena of doppelgängers and the ways they have haunted authors from Poe to Wilde; from Maupassant to Anderson. Can this all be explained away by Jung’s theory of the shadow self? Or is there something more sinister, perhaps even supernatural behind these battles?

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