Tales of Halloween - All Hallows Eve 2022

Tales of Halloween | Full Movie | Awesome Horror Anthology | Greg Grunberg | Halloween 2022

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Tales of Halloween - Ten stories from horror's top directors. Ghosts, ghouls, monsters, and the devil delight in terrorizing unsuspecting residents of a suburban neighborhood on Halloween night.

2015.  Stars: Greg Grunberg, Adrienne Barbeau(voice), Hunter Smit, Barry Bostwick, Cameron Easton

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'All Hallows' Eve'

The pumpkin grinned from ear to ear,
“The moon is bright, the sky is clear;
This is the night we’ve waited for,
When elves come knocking on the door,

“When witches ride their broomsticks high
And ghosts and goblins fill the sky.
Then Jack and Jill, with fairy queen,
Will dance and sing: it’s Halloween.”

-- Constance B. Osborne

 

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"Strange Things In The Woods" ft John DeSouza 10/28/22

October 29th, 2022.

Quite Frankly

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Friday night and we are going to skim through some relevant headlines, including a follow up on the immediate fallout from the Twitter sale, Paul Pelosi's hammer fight, and some audience submissions for Obese Disney titles. Then we welcome back Retired FBI paranormal investigator, John DeSouza, who recently contributed to David Paulides' latest installment to the Missing 411: The UFO Connection. Should be plenty of time in the second half to take some calls, and read through some entries on our Strange Things You've Seen in the Woods forum thread (very relevant to tonight's main topic). Halloween fun continues all weekend, including Saturday Night.

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"I was out in the ranges stalking  when an animal bedded down under shrubs caught wind of me and stood up. It looked like a cross between a Brahman bulll and a zebra and we locked eyes. Slowly I  moved my hand towards my quiver, but the very second I touched an arrow, the thing turned tail and bolted down the hill.

"Needless to say, there are no Brahman nor zebra where I hunt. Haven't seen it since, but still have NO IDEA what I was looking at."

-- TheStinkingBishop

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~Vlad Dracul~

Hero for All-Hallows Eve

Order of the Dragon

Vlad the Impaler - Dracula The Man & Myth Documentary

The People Profiles

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319,316 views - August 10, 2022

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"That was BRILLIANT!!! I’ve never seen such a riveting portrait. What a strange time and place he lived in! In some ways he was more interesting than the myth. Truth is stranger than fiction."
-- Jaywill909

"I am sincerely impressed not only by the care for the exact pronounciation of all names (well done!), but also by the amount of research done and the exhaustive presentation of all historical facts. New subscriber here, keep up the great work!"
-- Angelfeather100

"Wow, this is one of the best documentaries I have ever seen on Vlad Tepes. It rivals the one done some years ago covering the book 'In Search of Dracula'."
-- jfnuyen

"Vlad the Impaler is what we now call Super-Hero"
-- Cro-Magnum

"I live in Canada my great auntie was from Romania she used to tell us kids stories about Vlad the Impaler in the early 1980s I still remember it"
-- Ryan Donovan

"Rise up Great Vlad Dracula, Europe needs you, rise up..."
-- D4Disdain

"This man was and is a hero for The West!!!"
-- jimsy7al

"Why no one makes a movie based on the real story as it is fascinating!"
-- C A F É B E A T S

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'Terrifying close-up of an ant's face gives horror movie monsters a run for their money'

Angelica Stabile - Fox News via MSN - October 21, 2022

It turns out that zooming in on an ant’s face is an absolute nightmare.

A close-up photograph of an ant was sent in as a submission to the 48th annual Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition — and the results are freaky.

The tight shot of the tiny insect, captured by Dr. Eugenijus Kavaliauskas of Taurage, Lithuania, shows the ant’s beady red eyes, angry expression and what appears to be long, sharp teeth.

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Lake of Fire!!

Close-up photograph of current erupting Hawaii volcano looks like the pit of Hell !

[Source: AP via MSN - 'Hawaii's Big Island gets warning as huge volcano rumbles']

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Justina Szilágyi - Wife of Vlad Dracul

This would have made her Queen of Wallachia

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The Mysterious Origin of Halloween - Randall Carlson

After Skool

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208,233 views - October 24, 2022

Halloween is seen in our modern age as a day lacking in any historical meaning. It has become known for scary movies, candy, costumes and mischief. But there is a deep, universal tradition behind Halloween, also known as the Festival of the Dead, All Souls Day or Feast of the Ancestors. This festival is observed around the world, in the northern and southern hemispheres at the SAME time of year. In this video, we take a dive down the rabbit hole with Randall Carlson to uncover the mysterious origin of Halloween.

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Libera Me

Mental Set

103,139 views - October 8, 2010

From "Interview with the Vampire" (1994)

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'Libera me, Domine' (English translation)

Gabriel Fauré

'Free me, Lord'

Free me, Lord, from eternal death,
on that terrible day, on that day.
When the skies are to be moved,
when the skies are to be moved, and the earth.
As you'll come to judge the aeon/world by fire.
 
Terrified, terrified I have been caused to become,
and I fear, as the tremor will come
and the rage is going to come.
 
That day, the day of rage,
danger and misery
That day, the great
and bitter, very bitter day.
 
Bestow us eternal rest, Lord,
and constant light may shine for them, may shine for them.
 
Free me, Lord, from eternal death,
on that terrible day, on that day.
When the skies are to be moved,
when the skies are to be moved, and the earth.
As you'll come to judge the aeon/world by fire.
 
Free me, Lord, from eternal death.
Free me, Lord.

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Libera me

"Libera me" ("Deliver me") is a responsory sung in the Office of the Dead in the Catholic Church, and at the absolution of the dead, a service of prayers for the dead said beside the coffin immediately after the Requiem Mass and before burial. The text asks God to have mercy upon the deceased person at the Last Judgment. In addition to the Gregorian chant in the Roman Gradual, many composers have written settings for the text, including Tomás Luis de Victoria, Anton Bruckner (two settings), Giuseppe Verdi, Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Duruflé, Igor Stravinsky, Benjamin Britten, Sigismund von Neukomm, Orlande de Lassus, Krzysztof Penderecki, Antonio Salieri, Lorenzo Perosi, Arnold Rosner and Patrick Gowers (first stanza only). The Christian technical thrash band Believer also used the entire text in the operatically sung section of "Dies Iræ (Day of Wrath)" in their 1990 album Sanity Obscure.

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"Halloween music"

Danse Macabre - Camille Saint-Saens
Devil Went Down to Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band
Skeletons in my Closet - Alice Cooper
Witchy Woman - Eagles
Dark Shadows Theme- Robert Cobert
This is Halloween - Danny Elfman
Monster Mash - Bobby Pickett
Halloween - Misfits
Hallow's Eve - Hallows Eve
Hellbound / Second Sight Seance - Christopher Young
Iron Maiden Studio version - Iron Maiden
Vedergällningen - Garmarna
Burzum - Dunkelheit
Type O Negative - Black No. 1 (Little Miss Scare)
Helloween - Halloween
The Legend of Wooly Swamp - Charlie Daniels Band
Stigmata Martyr - Bauhaus
Hurdy Gurdy Man - Donovan
Time of The Season - Zombies
Season of The Witch - Donovan
"The Future" and "You Want it Darker" - Leonard Cohen
Purple People Eater by Sheb Wooley
Monsters' Holiday - Buck Owens
Night On Bald Mountain - Fantasia (1941)
Haunted House - Jumpin' Gene Simmons (not the one from KISS)
The Cramps - Human Fly
Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.
I Put a Spell on You - Credence Clearwater Revival
Spooky - Atlanta Rhythm Section
Witchy Woman (Eagles) - Doctor Sleep
Demented Are Go - Shadow Crypt
Last Caress - The Misfits
London Dungeon - Prong
This is Halloween - Leo Moracchioli
House of 1000 Corpses - Rob Zombie
Då Som Nu För Alltid - Kent
They're Coming to Take Me Away -  Butcher Babies
A.F.I. - "Totalimmortal" - A.F.I.
Temptation - Cradle Of Filth
The Death of Love -  Cradle Of Filth
The Blood - Such Fun - The Blood
My Dark Place Alone - Murderdolls
Necrodaemon Terrorsathan 2020 - Belphegor
Conjuring The Dead - Belphegor
We Are the Truth - Mushroomhead
Twilight Zone - Manhattan Transfer
Lil' Red Riding Hood - Sam the Sham & the Pharoahs
Halloween Music - Dark Castle of Mystbane - Fantasy & World Music by the Fiechters
Halloween Music - Haunted Organ | Dark, Vampire - Fantasy & World Music by the Fiechters
Spooky Carnival Music - Antique Carousel of Fright  - Fantasy & World Music by the Fiechters

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          Autumn’s Spell

                The fields of wheat are seas of gold
                Along the open country road.
                The orchard’s wealth clings to the vine,
                Clustered fruit for sweet, red wine.

                The cornstalks’ silken, tasseled heads
                Stand tall above the melon beds;
                The golden pumpkin waits its fate
                To be a jack-o’lantern’s face,

                While in the cornfield at his post,
                Reluctant scarecrow’s playing host
                To crows who taunt his haystack head
                And raid, like beggars, the harvest bed.

                The harvesttime is a holiday
                Of brilliant colors, costumes gay,
                So Autumn, weave your magic spell
                Ere winter’s white shrouds hill and dell.

                -- Edith Elaine Williamson

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Are lions and eagles on hearaldry, actually dragons?

Double-headed Lombardo-Venetian eagle, apparently of Masonic origin

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Arms of Sirmione in the

province of Brescia

 

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Eagle on past German flag

 

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Brescian lion

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Venetian lion

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Above: South Tyrolian eagle.... Below: "Rodan" of Japanese movie fame

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Classic German eagle

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Ritus Sulphurium: The Darkest Mass - Part III

So who made up this revolutionary coalition? They were a small segment of dissidents from all of the victimized groups, including: Templars, Freemasons, Rosicrucians, Luciferians, Hermeticists, and Alchemists who were driven underground…. persecuted Jews, Catholics who were thrown under the carriage due to politics or some other alternate reason, and even a few forcefully converted crypto-Muslims…. Protestants in hiding, such as Cathars, Waldensians, Spiritual Franciscans, Hussites, and Beguines…. Druids, Odinists, Witches, and many other pagan polytheists living in the shadows…. overthrown Monarchs, Gnostic heretics, and miscellaneous others who were destroyed by the ruling order for reasons that were political and economic, or those who ended up on the wrong side of personal vendettas from the ruling class…. or simply the kith and kin of innocent people who were tortured and murdered!

All of these dissidents made up a relatively small number of people who began to network together. They wouldn’t represent the typical person from their own communities, but as individuals they were traumatized, angry, and damaged. Everything above is based on fact, and now for the speculation. Knowing now the clear pattern of their behavior over time, I believe there must have been one night that the general leadership of this revolutionary coalition were all in one place at one time to be counted, to lay out their goals, and to permanently cement their new accord. The one conclave where they could commence their movement; where they swore revenge, and vowed to someday destroy the Church forever.

Over the coming centuries, this hidden hand would operate via proxy under the guise of many revolutionary movements where only they would be the victors. Each step seemingly unconnected to the next, and the next, and the next. History has known them as Jacobins, Illuminati, British-Israel World Federation, Hellfire Club, League of the Just, Royal Institute of International Affairs, Council on Foreign Relations, Communism, Monopoly Capitalism, war profiteers, frackers, Big Pharma, Secret Intelligence Service (compartmentalized black operations cells), Black Rock, Zionism, Globalism, Process Church, Bohemian Club, Skull and Bones, Société Générale de Belgique, Fabian Socialism, Business Roundtable, Carlyle Group, Project for the New American Century, International Bank of Settlements, Frankfurt School, Hand of Death, Hollywood, Lucis Trust, Rockefeller Foundation, Neo-Conservatives, Neo-Liberals, Silicon Valley, Bohemian Club, Wall Street, Central Intelligence Agency (compartmentalized black operations cells), Club of Rome, World Economic Forum, United Nations, and more than could ever be listed here.

They can destroy any opposing movement through infiltration and slander, they can create artificial revolutions through controlled opposition, create wars and arm both sides, make the innocent guilty and the guilty innocent, conduct weather wars, and a hundred other vicious tactics to permanently run roughshod over society. They’ve either taken over from the inside or created alliances with their former enemies. They’re white leather loafers on a marble floor in an ivory tower on Wall Street manipulating a few blips on a computer screen to steal the wealth from a Midwest farmer, while at the same time they’re black boots on a concrete street a few miles away setting a hard working immigrant's business on fire. They’re more than evil; there may not be an appropriate word for them in the English language.

So lets just speculate that at midnight, on Saturday, May 1, 1509, this revolutionary coalition secretly met in a remote wooded location in the Sonian Forrest south of Brussels, then the capitol of a small regional state within the Holy Roman Empire, to finally set their plans in stone. The abused will become the abuser, and much worse than that abuser. Saturday literally means “Saturn’s Day.” “May 1” is their admitted date for “Revolution.” I’m aware that May 1st had a different pagan spiritual meaning, but they've co-opted it like so many other things. May 1, 1509 = 5-1-1509 = 5+1. 1+5, and 9 = 669 = 666, the numerical dimensions of Saturn’s north pole. Of course, this is probably not the date or the place, but I’m sure that there is some deep occult tie-in to whatever name, date, place, and time that it actually was. Perhaps July 15, 1506, Midsummer, such as with the ‘Cremation of Care” ritual at Bohemian Grove. I’m 99% certain that there was a DATE involved. Even if somehow there wasn't a definitive date, then they must have later installed one! It's probably some date that they've symbolically foisted upon us as part of their incessant fetish ever since. The founding of the Illuminati was in 1776 (I guess putting the exact date on the back of the dollar bill would have been too overt even for them), and that date is the exoteric, while this unknown earlier starting date is the esoteric.

All of this secret history is recorded and is a major fetish for them, that I suppose they will come out in the open with at some future point. For example, when they created the Project for the New American Century. They absolutely did not need to create that group, and with a website, with plans no less! They love to fetishize their actions. They could have created a secret temporary group with all of the same individuals to meet their goal, and it would have been much more practical; but the fetish, always the fetish! They just love to create yet another secret group! The Trilateral Commission was created by longtime Democrat hander Zbigniew Brzezinski, and has NO practical function! They merely did it for the fetish of it! So for whatever it’s worth, I’m sure they had a specific date and time for their first ritual. I’ll just speculate that it may have been called ‘Ritus Sulphurium’ (The Rite of Sulphur), as they've been such a corrosive force in the world.

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Ritus Sulphurium: The Darkest Mass - Part II

To jump ahead to clarify one point, there are different types of Satanists today; from a simple harmless theology, to something somewhat like benevolent Paganism, to ritual mass murderers. One size doesn’t fit all. Anton Levey was either a legitimate philosopher so to speak, and simply tried to make money to fund his organization, or he was a fraud who was in it for the money, or he was an agent of the higher ups who were trying to create like a "minor league Satanism" for maybe recruitment or some other purpose. I would guess the latter. I don't know, but Leveyan Satanism is not big league Satanism. It’s like grammar school Satanism. Maybe they thought they need that. Real Satanism is the “Cult of Saturn,” which is massive. If a person just doesn’t care about anything, has no principles, is of average intelligence, and wants to be successful… just seek them out and join! I don’t suggest it, if for no other reason than they’re dishonest!

How can you follow their motto, “Do what thou wilt,” when you’re completely controlled by highly advanced mechanisms that plug you into a technocratic system? It’s impossible, so "do what thou wilt" isn't worth a damn. I’ve looked closely at their plans, and it’s nothing short of suffocating. According to the Bible, Satan is a liar, and they’ve adopted that personality! It doesn’t matter what you believe; that’s their system! Personally, I like the old Saturnian tradition, as long as it doesn't have anything to do with men in high places or the projected “bad guy from the Bible.” One size doesn't fit all. The more malevolent type, as stated previously, got started in the Middle Ages; likely initially when Christian heretics were caught numerous times in various places, having orgies with animals, and conducting rituals involving numerous bodily fluids that I won’t name. The Church felt that it had to respond to this, and perhaps also used it as a pretext to establish a stronger socio-religious-political bond, so they created the "boogey man" from the Bible... Satan! It was all blamed on "Satanism," and that was a legitimately false "Satanic panic."

The genuine ancient Saturnian traditions had long disappeared by that time, only surviving in co-opted symbolism within Catholicism, Islam, and Judaism. Saturn was once a light-purple shining northern star in what was once our binary solar system, during what the ancients referred to as “The Golden Age.” In this age, thousands of years ago, there existed a rivalry between the solar cults and the Saturn cults. As Saturn slowly fizzled out and became a dwarf star, apparently a different process than a supernova which would have killed us all, the Saturn cults faded away. The solar cults took over in a succession of traditions, leading to the Egyptian Sun cult, which became Christianity. There were other Indo-European planetary cults as well; Lunar, Martian, Venusian, and others. Later it became so convoluted that some later religions have symbolism from more than one. For example, Islam has both Saturnian and Venusian symbolism. The lower crescent symbol is actually a Venusian symbol, as it was much more prominent in the sky in past centuries.

As has occurred throughout human history, the new revolutionary coalition adapted the ancient Saturnian tradition as their organizing principle for waging war. However, they predominantly adopted the Biblical version; not the genuine Saturnian tradition! In their self-serving manner, returning to “The Golden Age” simply meant that they would begin their quest to bend the entire world to their will. Now it is true that the ancient Saturnian Priesthood, such as existed in Phoenicia-Canaan, did engage in human sacrifices… including sacrificing children. However, the early Christians did the very same thing, and it continued right through the Middle Ages! The Eucharist wasn’t always merely wine and crackers. Also, every major church and cathedral constructed during the Middle Ages has a dark secret; a small child was kidnapped and cemented alive in one of the front pillars.

So when a Christian zealot complains about Halloween, and how the Druids conducted human sacrifices; or about Easter, and how the Canaanites sacrificed people; or even Christmas, and perhaps how the ancient Teutons held brutal rites… they did the same. The various inquisitions shouldn’t be any surprise. The Medieval Church caused, by their own actions over a long period of time, a reaction; an “underground Satanic church” that has now existed for centuries. This oppression, despotism, torture, and murder caused their victims so much trauma, that a small number of very angry people got together and created SATANISM!! Now it always has, and it always will, be conflated with the ancient Saturnian Priesthood. Of course, they’ve also plagiarized from the ancient European pagan traditions, such as with the seasonal Sabbats. However, the new Satanism is still a perversion of them; a system founded and designed specifically for revenge. A terrifying legacy from damaged people of centuries past; a program intended to poison everything they touch.

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Ritus Sulphurium: The Darkest Mass - Part I

World history changed in one night

During the second half of the Middle Ages, long after the Dark Ages supposedly were to have ended, something sinister came across the land. Political and religious upheaval, the inquisitions, witch hunts, the Burning Times. In March of 1314, as the Grand Master of the Knights Templar was literally burning to death, he was said to have cursed the Monarchy and Church. Jacques de Molay swore vengeance! Somehow after the Templars were finished with their business in Jerusalem, they returned, massively expanded their membership, and became an incredible maritime/business/banking empire; a veritable breakaway international state! Many powerful people, including the King himself, were soon up to their eyeballs in debt to them. The Church, in particular it's own banking empire, apparently felt threatened. It's as though they found some type of lost secrets from the ancient world during their travels in the near east. The secrets of money?

de Molay swearing vengeance

Some of the revolutionary coalition mentioned throughout this whole piece were probably guilty of a whole lot of things! There are always two sides to a story, even though it's not popular today to say so. For example, written history charges the pagan Vikings with engaging in endless violent raids on Christian monasteries, forgetting that the Christians had first deliberately blocked most of their trade routes. Lets try to set aside most of the speculation of who may have been justified in their actions, or not, for now. This story is to answer the question of why the world is the way that it is today. This is the ultimate tale of the abused becoming the abuser. This is about how a small coalition of thoroughly defeated groups of people coalesced to conquer the world. There have always been those who will say that it's this group or that group; saying that it's "them" or it all goes back to "this group." Often, over the course of history, most of these are just small temporary coteries designed to fulfill one particular goal, and then disbanded.  However, in the bigger picture, it was only a very tiny segment of each victimized concern which participated from the beginning, and form the ruling families of today.

Satanism: From imagination to reality

The brutal oppression, show trials, tortures, and executions of people based on their imaginary allegiance to Satan took place between the years 1450 and 1750. The vast majority of these people had no connection to any sort've pagan tradition at all. Probably exactly ZERO of them were actually "Satanists," at least in the beginning of this. Many of those charged were done so based on economic, political, or some personal reason if truth be known. Up to 50,000 people were executed during this time, and countless others tortured. This is aside from other religious persecutions, such as the Spanish Inquisition (1478-1834) or the destruction of the Cathars and other protestant sects. The emerging revolutionary coalition must have been made up of an almost boundless number of religious, political, or economic concerns.... or even just the families of innocent people who were murdered by the symbiotic state-church structure! It may have been an old lady merely collecting herbs for some type of simple folk medicine!

The high point of the witch trials occurred between 1580 and 1630. The torture was immense! I suppose that I don't really need to delve into all of that, except to ponder that this occurred over fifteen generations! If they had started in 1722, then they would just be ending now. There were private entrepreneurs and opportunists who got into the act. When a government promotes something stupid, there will never be a lack of willing participants! One such group was the Vehmic Court in Westphalia, who hunted down and executed pagans. They could have just operated as paid assassins! They could murder someone and just say that the person was a witch or Devil worshiper, and it would then be okay. Another example, in approximately the year 1473, German Domincan Churchman Heinrich Kramer was appointed as the official inquisitor by the Archbishop of Salzburg. Henricus Inquisitor, as he was known, was responsible for the Tyrol, Salzburg, Bohemia, and Moravia. In other words, he was a paid thug put in charge of stopping the rise of the imaginary Satanic sects in those areas. He was going to "find them" whether they existed or not. He was just one of the many leaders of the inquisition across Europe for centuries! In 1487 he authored 'Malleus Maleficarum' ("Hammer of Witches"), a guide to witchcraft and how to interrogate people in order to get a confession out of them. The methods were so extreme that even some authorities of the day condemned it.

Three centuries of torture

The Spanish Inquisition was part of the larger Catholic Inquisition (or known simply as "The Inquisition"), as was the Roman, Portuguese, and other Inquisitions. These inquisitions very much included Protestant sects! Cathars, Waldensians, Spiritual Franciscans, the Hussites, and the Beguines were terrorized by the inquisitors. Any institution which could be thought of as competition to the Catholic Church, and later other dominant Protestant sects, had the screw put to them. It wasn't just the death toll, 50,000 over three centuries, as there were battles in World War II where 100,000 soldiers died in a single day. It was the aura of fear that existed over that time period, a dark cloud that just wouldn't go away. As is human nature, the fear eventually turns to anger. When the vast majority of history's conquerors finally defeated the targeted population, such as with the Roman Empire, the next step was to allow them to partake in its system and bring them into the fold. These religious zealots did not offer that at all! They just kept putting the screw to them! Even a bully in school, who wants smaller students' lunch money, is at least satiated if they hand it over to him. They're backed into a corner, but they're at least allowed a chance to get out of that corner if they cooperate. However, as stated, there was no end to the violent oppression, and anyone could be a victim if they weren't careful.

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That old Albanian witchcraft legend in Val Camonica

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During the sixteenth century, it is estimated that there were approximately 30,000 people living in the Val Camonica, then part of the Venetian Republic. Out of that number, about 10,000 were adherents of native paganism aka "Camunian witchcraft." I would guess that the whole of the Brescian Tri-Valley, the region of the Bergamo Alps, the Valtellina, and the Val Chiavenna probably had a similar ratio of Roman Catholics to native pagans. There apparently were no problems with between the two. Many times rural Christians had old folkways which would have looked very pagan, or many pagans have long used Christian symbolism. For example, the "cult of Mary" is heavily conflated with the Goddess Diana.... whom was called the Goddess Mona in Camunian; "Mon" being the ancient word for Moon. Separate from the ancient roots of Camunian witchcraft, there was another somewhat unsubstantiated legend of another old tradition.

During the Ottoman/Islamic invasion of the western Balkans in mid to late fifteenth century, fairly large numbers of pre-Ottoman Albanians of Illyrian origin--purportedly all Christian--were settled in southern Italy; the Arbëreshë. According to some old Venetian records, but apparently not written in the official historical narrative anywhere, the Venetians accepted a small number of Albanian refugees. Not knowing what to do with them, they just brought them inland and sent them into the Camunian mountains. Perhaps the number was so small that it was neglected by the history books, but according to Venetian and Church authorities some of them were adherents of what they called "witchcraft." They were blamed for the upsurge in what they considered the scourge of ungodly activity in the Val Camonica. Were they just a convenient scapegoat to justify sending an army of Venetian soldiers and Church inquisitors up into the mountains to forcefully reestablish Church rule?

 

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We'll probably never know, but it's possible that the native pagans at least made some attempt to keep outward displays of their traditions to a minimum. It's also possible that the Albanian pagans did not, so it may have been a combination of the two. The church and state may have wanted to do something about it before, and this allowed them a pretext to action, which one-way-or-another ultimately culminated in the Val Camonica witch trials; perhaps also the witch trials in the Valtellina as well. Aside from the various church complaints that witches' spells had brought droughts, injury, pestilence, fires, and general Satanic heresy, they also mentioned what seemed to be an upsurge of a particular "evil sect." Could that have been the Albanian witches?; or was it merely more of the synergistic bluster they used to galvanize themselves into action?

In the Alps, in the Balkans, and in seemingly every corner of Europe, there was the ancient witch-cult from somewhere very deep in the history of the Proto-European people. In ancient Greece, there was the Hecatean tradition which predated the Olympian pantheon of gods. In central Italy, there were similar traditions which predated the Romans.. and even the Etruscans. In Scandinavia, there was a similar tradition which predated the Vikings, and so on. A tradition before the Mediterraneans, before the Teutons, before the Celts, Slavs.... back beyond the last glacial movement to the mysterious Proto-Europeans.

"Witchcraft has no origin, it has always been with us."
 -- Leo Ruickbie, 'Witchcraft Out of the Shadows: A History'

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Full Beaver Moon 2019

Full Beaver Moon

The Full Beaver Moon will occur on Tuesday, November 12th at 8:34 AM EST. This means that it's a tweener, just as "full" on Monday evening as it will be on Tuesday evening.


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The Storr featured on Windows 10 Spotlight

The Storr, Isle of Skye, Scotland


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Pablo Escobar's hippos keep multiplying and Colombia doesn't know how to stop it

3,189,397 views - February 9, 2019

CBS This Morning

For more than 25 years, Colombia has been working to leave behind the violent legacy of Pablo Escobar. But there's one unusual problem that keeps growing: the notorious drug lord's pet hippos. Manuel Bojorquez reports.


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Misplaced animals

Hippos in Columbia from the imported pets of an 80s drug lord, monkeys in the Florida swamps from the old Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan films of the 30s, and raccoons in Japan from imported pets.

Video: Monkeys swarm Ocala man’s property

Why There Are Raccoons in Japan


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The Shapeshifter - Nature Documentary

479,565 views - October 17, 2015

Coyote Documentaries

This is the story of how the Coyote - at once revered and reviled - has learned to adapt across diverse landscapes. While grizzlies and wolves narrowly missed extinction, the coyote has earned its status today as top dog.


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DON GIBSON - I Can't Stop Loving You

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Ryleigh Black

Spiritual healer, empath, paranormal researcher, and model

www.blackcrossparanormal.com

www.clubpara.com

www.ryleighblack.com


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Cat vs Fox

2,643,084 views

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South London 


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'The Swastika Part One, Earliest Evidences'

MimirsBrunnr -  MimirsBrunnr.com - December 15, 2018

The Swastika has to be one of the most misunderstood symbols of our time. In some variation it is found all over the world, this fact has lead many a debate on its exact origin. There is so much to say on this symbol, that it will take me a few parts to go through it all. In this first instalment we will try to answer the question of origin.

The Ukraine is said to be the birth place of the Swastika, based on several finds at the Mezin site in the northern part of the country. The Mezin site is situated on the edge of the Desna river, and based on Mammoth teeth, has a date range from 27,000 BC and 13,000 BC. Given these vastly different date ranges it is possible the site was in use for millennia. The site is an exceptionally important one, giving us a unique look at our Palaeolithic ancestors. The site has so many unique finds, and is so full of intrigue, It is something I will write more about in the future. For now though our focus is on the Swastika and we are not in short supply.

The Swastika finds consist of several carved mammoth ivory birds (example below left) and a lesser known ivory bangle (below right) . These artefacts, as well as being stunningly beautiful, tell us much about our very distant ancestors. Our Palaeolithic forebears are often thought of as living life day to day- hand to mouth, this quality craftsmanship shows a very different story. The dates given to these artefacts are 13,000 BC, putting them at the very last date for the site. If this is because the whole of the mezin site is given that date out of prudence or not I am unsure. I have not been able to find either specific carbon dating or Stratigraphical dating for the finds themselves. Even at this late date they are still the oldest examples of the swastika anywhere in the world, by some margin too!

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Fairlawn Mansion, Superior, Wisconsin

Fairlawn Mansion, built by Superior's three-time mayor Martin Pattison for his family in 1891. The 42-room mansion is now a museum.


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Eddy Arnold - Make the World Go Away (Audio)Eddy Arnold - Make the World Go Away (Audio)

202,624 views - May 5, 2017

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Glen Coe featured on Windows 10 Spotlight

Glen Coe in the Highlands of Scotland


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A younger Gail McKenna

English---although of Liverpool Irish descent---model, TV and stage actress, and TV presenter. This photograph somehow strikes me as practically rated-G.


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The now infamous article


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Saarland featured on Windows 10 Spotlight

Saarland Region of southwest Germany

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I Can't Get You Out Of My Mind (Original Song)

JR Bashon

'I Can't Get You Out Of My Mind'

It's late in the evening and I should be sleeping
I can't get you out of my mind
My head is reeling
it's so hard to explain what I'm feeling
and I can't get you out of my mind.

Every night I paint the dream
the one that brings you closer to me
I paint the moon looking down on us
and all of the angels singing in chorus.

I would give my heart to you
I wonder would you take it if you knew
that I can't get you out of my mind
I'll just keep it to myself
because I know you love somebody else
and I can't get you out of my mind.

There's no reason to pretend
it breaks my heart I'm alone again
Time goes by and still I find
I just can't get you out of my mind.


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'Notre Dame, Our Mother'

Sung after Notre Dame football games. Notre Dame is French for "Our Lady" and refers to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the patroness of the school. I recall the Stanford football team defeating Notre Dame in 1992, no small feat at that time. When the clocked ticked to zero, far from succumbing to the sting of an unexpected and disappointing loss, the Notre Dame fans gave the Stanford team a standing ovation. I have never heard of any fan base doing that before or since, or anything of the sort!

Notre Dame, our Mother
Tender, strong and true
Proudly in the heavens,
Gleams thy gold and blue.
Glory’s mantle cloaks thee
Golden is thy fame,
And our hearts forever,
Praise thee, Notre Dame.
And our hearts forever,
Love thee, Notre Dame.


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Former cheerleader and now San Diego weather and newscast anchor Ashlee DeMartino

Ashlee DeMartino in "Dancing for Arizona's Children" 2015

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'This Man’s Rattlesnake Bite Is a Warning to Everyone to Take Animal Bites More Seriously'

Jen Babakhan - MSN.com - October 9, 2019

Austin McGee, 20, was on his family's heavily wooded farmland in Tennessee when he heard a soft buzzing nearby. "I heard it a few times, but it sounded more like a bug, so we ignored it," he recalls. McGee would regret that decision.

He and a friend had traveled deep into the woods on the family's 500 acres of land to retrieve some scrap metal to repair his father's tractor. "After I heard the sound, I reached down to pick up the piece of metal at the top of the pile and felt a bite," he says. "I pulled my hand back, and there were two small bloody fang marks."

McGee never saw the snake that bit him, but the size of the fang marks combined with the buzzing sound confirmed that it must have been a baby rattlesnake. "I instantly told my friend, 'I just got bitten by a rattlesnake,'" he recounts. Snake bites made the list of the 12 most dangerous bites you can get—here are the rest.

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Belogradchik, Bulgaria

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Kiss - I Was Made For Lovin' You

29,427,480 views - June 13, 2019

KISS


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Haida Gwaii featured on Windows 10 Spotlight

Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, Canada. Haida Gwaii is an archipelago approximately 45–60 km off the northern Pacific coast of Canada. Wet ocean air cools the lush terrain of Haida Gwaii, making this remote Canadian island chain seem even more like a trip back in time, when pristine nature dominated the landscape here.


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Flag of the Goths

The fierce Teutonic tribe which conquered parts of every corner of Europe during the Middle Ages.


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'Recent Tasmanian Tiger Reports Revealed by Australian Government'

Tim Binnall - CoastToCoastAM.com - October 16, 2019

 A remarkable document released by the Australian government reveals eight recent reports from people claiming to have seen the Tasmanian Tiger. Also known as the thylacine, the creature is believed to have died out sometime in the 1930s and was declared extinct by scientists in the 1980s. However, purported sightings of the animal have persisted over the years, fueling speculation that the carnivorous canine-like marsupial may still exist.

While mainstream scientists have largely dismissed that idea, an intriguing report from Tasmania's Department of Primary Industries, Water and Environment suggests that it just may have some merit. Released in response to an official information request similar to an FOIA query here in America, the document features reports submitted to the department from eight different individuals who say that they spotted the Tasmanian Tiger in separate incidents between 2016 and 2019.

 Among the alleged sightings was one case from February of 2018 wherein a pair of tourists visiting Tasmania saw a striped dog-like creature that sported a stiff tail. The observers were fortunate enough to get a relatively long look at the anomalous animal as it lingered in the road in front of them for around 15 seconds. Said to possess a familiarity with the wildlife of the area, the duo asserted that they were "100% certain that the animal they saw was a Thylacine."

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Rabun County, Georgia

'40 years later, ‘Deliverance’ causes mixed feelings in Georgia'

Marketplace Contributor - MarketPlace.org - August 22, 2012

Tess Vigeland: When big movies are filmed in small towns, they can pour money into the local economy. Crews need to be fed, housed, moved about and entertained. Productions need extras, and every once in awhile a local gets cast in a speaking part. Some movies even leave a footprint long after the cameras are gone. Santa Barbara Wine Country saw a huge influx of tourists after “Sideways.”

But not every production leaves a sweet taste in locals’ mouths. Film producer Cory Welles and director Kevin Walker decided to make a documentary about one such movie, and the people it portrayed. Cory filed this story about her own film, “The Deliverance of Rabun County.”

Cory Welles: The folks in Rabun County, Ga., put on the Chattooga River Festival this past June to encourage people to visit and take care of their river. But it wasn’t the moonshine tastin’ or banjo pickin’ that got me out to this lush, green mountainous part of the state. It was “Deliverance.”

The movie was shot on and around the Chattooga 40 years ago this year, and they were using that as the hook for the festival.  What Sarah Gillespie and others who helped put the event together didn’t count on was how it would split the community.

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Those who would dehumanize people in Rabun County often would be the first to start sniveling if someone portrayed their own people in a very negative way. The group from the city were to have come from Atlanta; however, in a wild example of projection, some have referred to the fictionally portrayed region as an example of the entire South! 'Deliverance' was a great adventure film, but it was just a film.


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Wardruna - Helvegen (The Way To Hel)

10,041,596 views - August 14, 2016

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'Hel', in Norse mythology, originally the name of the world of the dead; it later came to mean the goddess of death. Hel was one of the children of the trickster god Loki, and her kingdom was said to lie downward and northward. It was called Niflheim, or the World of Darkness, and appears to have been divided into several sections, one of which was Náströnd, the shore of corpses. There stood a castle facing north; it was filled with the venom of serpents, in which murderers, adulterers, and perjurers suffered torment, while the dragon Nidhogg sucked the blood from their bodies. Mention is made in an early poem of the nine worlds of Niflheim. It was said that those who fell in battle did not go to Hel but to the god Odin, in Valhalla, the hall of the slain.


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'Gjöll' is one of the eleven rivers of 'Hel', in Norse mythology, Gjöll is the river that flows closest to the gate of underworld and it's spanned by a bridge (Gjallarbrú), which must be crossed in order to reach 'Hel'. According to Gylfaginning. It is described as a covered bridge, "thatched with glittering gold", which was crossed by 'Hermód' during his quest to retrieve 'Baldr' from the land of the dead. The river is said to be freezing cold and have knives flowing through it. Hermód was sent to retrieve the fallen god from the land of the dead. When 'Hermód' arrived at the bridge he was challenged by the giant maiden Módgud who demanded that he state his name and business before allowing him to pass.

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