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• Travel

Tolbooth Tavern: now home to a drinking establishment, this Edinburgh building has a macabre history ~

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• Catacombs, Graves and Cemeteries

Boot Hill Cemetery: “They died with their boots on.”

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• Myths and Legends

Black Shuck: The mythic hellhound Of Medieval England

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• Lighthouses of the world

Terrible Tilly, the Tillamook Rock Lighthouse

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

February 15: The Roman Festival of Lupercalia

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

Who was the real St. Valentine? The (many) myths behind the Inspiration for Valentine’s Day ~

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• Abandoned Places

The decaying beauty of the Winderbourne mansion (for sale)

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• Lighthouses of the world

Point Lookout Lighthouse: why is it one of America’s most haunted lighthouse?

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

Groundhog Day, an American holiday with purely Europeans origins ~

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

Imbolc: the ancient Celtic festival of February

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

Wolf Moon: the first Full Moon of the year

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

January 24 – Paganalia: ancient Rome’s “Earth Day”

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• Abandoned Places

Squire’s Castle: the only structure from a huge mansion that was never built

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

The Carmentalia

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

January 9 | The Agonalia or Festival to Janus

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• Food

“It’s fart time!”

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• History

That day when New York forbade lovers

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• Travel

The curious background of Tombland Alley

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

Celebrate the New Year with a Good Luck Pig!

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• Food

Moose Milk: the Winter Cocktail of the Canadian military

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

How the wren became the King of the Birds

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

How to play a hot victorian Christmas game without get burned

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• History

The day they banned Christmas

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• Random Christmas 2020

23# The curious story of the Swedish Yule goat

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• Random Christmas 2020

22# History of the tradition of Christmas Elves

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• Holiday, folklore and Traditions

Io, Saturnalia!

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• Random Christmas 2020

15# Mumming: another unusual Christmas tradition

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• Today In History 🗓

13# The terrifying tradition of the Mari Lwyd

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• Random Christmas 2020

12# Wassailing: a very ancient custom in past centuries

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• Food

The oldest candy store in the world is in England, and has been selling traditional sweets since 1827…

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• Travel

Fairy Rock, the place where according to local legends fairies used to dance in the moonlight and invite handsome young men into their grottoes ~

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• Random Christmas 2020

8# The legend of Christmas Robin

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• Random Christmas 2020

6# Why do we kiss under the mistletoe?

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• Random Christmas 2020

5# The legend of the noble evergreen trees

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• Food

Carrageen Moss Pudding – a sweet, silky Irish pudding with a seaweed as secret ingredient ~

1 year ago Leo S

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• Random Christmas 2020

4# The legend of Madelon and the Christmas rose

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• Lighthouses of the world

Clare Island Lighthouse, an Ireland hidden gem

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• History

How to seduce a turkey: a bizarre sex experiments of the 1960s

1 year ago Leo S

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• History

Horatio Nelson: from frail guy to National Hero

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• Travel

Fairy Steps, the legendary stone steps that were once used to haul coffins up the rockface ~

1 year ago Leo S

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• People, mysteries and stories

Bottle trees: a southern tradition with a spiritual past

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• People, mysteries and stories

Charlie Lawson, the wandering ghost of Stokes County

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