Poison and Women: Cordelia Botkin
Reading Time: 3 minutes Cordelia Botkin (née Cordelia Brown) and Dunning began consistently seeing each other in secret. When Mrs.…
Macabre Religious Relics: The Nursing Madonna/Virgo Lactans.
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Nursing Madonna is an iconography of the Madonna and Child in which the Virgin Mary…
Women Mob Bosses: Stephanie St. Clair / The Queen of Harlem
Reading Time: 5 minutes Stephanie St. Clair, the notorious “queen” of the illegal numbers racket in New York’s Harlem neighborhood,…
World Stories: Iran Ninja Rangers
Reading Time: 2 minutes In the modern world, most nations cultivate a variety of martial arts disciplines within their borders,…
Wells in Folklore
Reading Time: < 1 minute Wells are believed to be passageways for ghosts and spirits to enter the physical world.…
African Cultures: Banyankole Marriage Test.
Reading Time: 2 minutes The primary responsibility of the aunt was to confirm that the groom is potent and that…
World Stories: Mary Jane Veloso
Reading Time: 2 minutes Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso is a Filipino woman who was arrested and sentenced to death for…
Urban Legends: Kuchisake-onna\ Cleft mouth woman \ Slit Mouth Woman.
Reading Time: 2 minutes She is a woman who was mutilated by her husband, and returns as a malicious spirit…