History – EsoterX

Category: History

505 Posts

History, Occult, Philosophy

This is the end of one road, but not goodbye

January 19, 2023 — 21 Comments

The Weird Part: Fun with Paranormal Podcasting

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Philosophy

The Weird Part: Fun with Paranormal Podcasting

December 18, 2022 — 1 Comment

The Murder of John Gamble: Contempt of Corporeality

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Occult

The Murder of John Gamble: Contempt of Corporeality

November 14, 2022 — 1 Comment

Strange Waves of Seriality: Objectivism at Play in the Fields of the Absurd

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Occult, Philosophy

Strange Waves of Seriality: Objectivism at Play in the Fields of the Absurd

November 11, 2022 — 7 Comments

Etienne Bottineau and Nauscopy in the Ile de France

Anthropology, Folklore, Geography, History, Occult, Technology

Etienne Bottineau and Nauscopy in the Ile de France

October 27, 2022 — 2 Comments

Mr. Graverol’s Diabolical Stroll

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

Mr. Graverol’s Diabolical Stroll

September 27, 2022 — 1 Comment

We’re Going to Need a Bigger Ballista: Regulus vs. the River Monster

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Technology

We’re Going to Need a Bigger Ballista: Regulus vs. the River Monster

September 22, 2022 — 2 Comments

The Yule Goat: Retired Christmas Icon

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

The Yule Goat: Retired Christmas Icon

December 23, 2021 — 2 Comments

Seraphim of Sarov: Patron Saint of Nuclear Weapons

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Philosophy, Technology

Seraphim of Sarov: Patron Saint of Nuclear Weapons

December 15, 2021 — 0 Comments

Dictation from the Dead: Spiritualist Copyright Infringement

Folklore, History, Occult

Dictation from the Dead: Spiritualist Copyright Infringement

December 11, 2021 — 1 Comment

Permanent Liminality: The End of Innocence

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Philosophy

Permanent Liminality: The End of Innocence

August 27, 2021 — 4 Comments

To Serve Coelacanth

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

To Serve Coelacanth

July 16, 2021 — 5 Comments

Webster v. Molesworth: Amateur Ghost Hunting and Scottish Rental Law

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Occult

Webster v. Molesworth: Amateur Ghost Hunting and Scottish Rental Law

May 28, 2021 — 3 Comments

Black Box Eclecticism in Modern Paranormal Investigation

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Occult, Philosophy

Black Box Eclecticism in Modern Paranormal Investigation

May 9, 2021 — 4 Comments

Leap Castle and the Fear of Ubiquitous Ghosts

Anthropology, Folklore, Geography, History, Monsters, Occult

Leap Castle and the Fear of Ubiquitous Ghosts

April 15, 2021 — 1 Comment

Wrangling Your Elementals with Hassan Khan Djinni

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Wrangling Your Elementals with Hassan Khan Djinni

February 5, 2021 — 2 Comments

Terror Management Theory and the Headless Nun of Watton Priory

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Philosophy

Terror Management Theory and the Headless Nun of Watton Priory

January 28, 2021 — 6 Comments

Reflections on Fata Morgana and the H.M.S. Barracouta

Anthropology, Folklore, Geography, History, Mythology, Philosophy

Reflections on Fata Morgana and the H.M.S. Barracouta

January 18, 2021 — 2 Comments

The Curse of the Lawrenceburg Ferry

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Occult

The Curse of the Lawrenceburg Ferry

January 17, 2021 — 1 Comment

The Politics of the Zombie Apocalypse

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Philosophy, Technology

The Politics of the Zombie Apocalypse

December 31, 2020 — 9 Comments

The Miseducation of a Solomonar: Learning the Dark Arts at Scholomance

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

The Miseducation of a Solomonar: Learning the Dark Arts at Scholomance

December 17, 2020 — 2 Comments

The Shadow over Newburyport

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

The Shadow over Newburyport

December 9, 2020 — 4 Comments

The Exile of the Great Bell of Uglich

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Philosophy

The Exile of the Great Bell of Uglich

September 22, 2020 — 2 Comments

The Unbreakable Mister Talkington

Anthropology, Folklore, History

The Unbreakable Mister Talkington

September 10, 2020 — 1 Comment

The Nicotine Fiend of Lake Koshkonong

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

The Nicotine Fiend of Lake Koshkonong

September 9, 2020 — 5 Comments

Pandemic Magic: A Brief History of Abracadabra

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Occult

Pandemic Magic: A Brief History of Abracadabra

July 2, 2020 — 2 Comments

The Count de Cabreras: A Valencian Vampire Hunter in Hungary

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

The Count de Cabreras: A Valencian Vampire Hunter in Hungary

June 24, 2020 — 1 Comment

The Fire Inside Willie Brough

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

The Fire Inside Willie Brough

June 23, 2020 — 2 Comments

The Possession of Nicola Aubry: Lessons on Exorcism from Satan

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

The Possession of Nicola Aubry: Lessons on Exorcism from Satan

May 13, 2020 — 1 Comment

Bargrave and Veal: The Reading Lists of the Undead

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

Bargrave and Veal: The Reading Lists of the Undead

May 11, 2020 — 5 Comments

Sense and Supersensibility: The Procession of the Damned

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult, Philosophy

Sense and Supersensibility: The Procession of the Damned

May 4, 2020 — 6 Comments

Last Minute Confession of the Warlock Major Weir

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Occult

Last Minute Confession of the Warlock Major Weir

April 29, 2020 — 3 Comments

Captain Beauclerk’s Prehistoric Horse Haunting

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Captain Beauclerk’s Prehistoric Horse Haunting

April 22, 2020 — 4 Comments

Jacopo Donati and the Bored Banshee

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Jacopo Donati and the Bored Banshee

April 20, 2020 — 7 Comments

Pro-Tips on How to Cheat the Devil

Anthropology, Geography, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Pro-Tips on How to Cheat the Devil

April 18, 2020 — 2 Comments

Bertholi is Burning: Deliberate Human Combustion

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy

Bertholi is Burning: Deliberate Human Combustion

April 11, 2020 — 4 Comments

A Monstrous Ticket to Ride: Liminal Locomotives

Anthropology, Folklore, Geography, History, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy, Technology

A Monstrous Ticket to Ride: Liminal Locomotives

October 6, 2019 — 4 Comments

Human Salamanders: Check the Expiration Date on Your Superpowers

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology, Occult

Human Salamanders: Check the Expiration Date on Your Superpowers

September 4, 2019 — 2 Comments

Albert de Rochas, the Father of Future Life Progression

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Mythology, Occult

Albert de Rochas, the Father of Future Life Progression

August 31, 2019 — 2 Comments

The Phantom Black Dogs of Wheal Vor Mine

Anthropology, Folklore, History, Monsters, Mythology

The Phantom Black Dogs of Wheal Vor Mine

August 28, 2019 — 2 Comments

“It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry ‘Monster!’ and looked behind him.”
-Laini Taylor

“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.”
-Oscar Wilde

“Life is Hard. After all, it kills you.”
-Katherine Hepburn

“Horror is beyond the reach of psychology.”
-Theodor Adorno

“All would be well. All would be heavenly–If the damned would only stay damned.”
-Charles Fort

“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
-Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.”
–Jerry Garcia

“You can’t create a monster, then whine when it stomps a few buildings.”
–Yeardley Smith

“Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.”
–Robert Anton Wilson

“The earth, it has been said, is one vast graveyard, and man can nowhere put down his foot without stepping on the remains of a brother.”
–M. Schele de Vere

“Even from the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.”
–H.P. Lovecraft

“If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?”
–Guillermo Cabrera Infante

“The problem with people who say monsters don’t really exist is that they’re almost never saying it to the monsters.”
— Seanan McGuire, Discount Armageddon

“Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean there isn’t an invisible demon about to eat your face.”
–Jim Butcher, Storm Front

“What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people’s faces as unfinished as their minds.”
–Eric Hoffer, American Social Philosopher

“The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.”
–Günter Grass, German Novelist