Category: What Day
A week before Valentine’s Day is the day you are most likely to be dumped. It’s so bad that it’s called Red Tuesday. http://giphy.com/gifs/l3q2MLJv9vDh7Lgje Turn your phone off. Log …
Lame Duck Day, on February 6th, honors anyone who is on their way out of their jobs or their elected office. Political lame ducks are in the enviable …
On Sunday, January 8th, 2017 tens of thousands of people took off their pants on subways in over 60 cities in over 25 countries around the world. The event …
Who says Santa Claus is the only one trying to come down your chimney during the festive season? Watch out for the Kallikantzaroi, the holiday demons. These uninvited festive …
An American businessman who was known as “The Reindeer King” created the story of Santa’s Reindeer as we know it. The Reindeer King Millions of people know Clement Clarke …
There is a charming old bit of folklore from Iceland about a giant Christmas cat that will eat anyone who doesn’t get new clothes for Christmas. The lesson? Work …
Zwarte Piet is usually a blacked-up white man or woman with big, rouged lips, a tight curly wig and dressed in bright pantaloons, a big ruff and gold earrings. …
European Christmas cards in the 1800s featured kids being whisked away to hell by the Christmas Demon, Krampus. The cards cheerily passed on Gruß vom Krampus (Greetings from the Krampus). Krampus …
Long before the film “The Exorcist” terrified a nation, real exorcists fought to save a child from a mysterious force. In the weeks after the film came out in …
Have clowns always had a dark side? Clown-like characters have been around for thousands of years. Pygmy clowns entertained Egyptian pharaohs in 2500 BCE. In ancient imperial China, a …
Was Johann Conrad Dippel, born Konrad Dippel von Frankenstein at Frankenstein Castle, the first Dr. Frankenstein? In “Maladies and Remedies of the Life of the Flesh” (1736), Dippel claimed …
We are familiar with the Mad Scientist archetype. He lives in a castle cum laboratory, browbeats his odd sidekick, has an eccentric appearance, enjoys unusual hobbies, makes outlandish pronouncements …
