How much everything - mystical, terrible, incomprehensible and terrible is happening around us. Here are 15 facts from the life of people in which there is mysticism, horrors, strange actions, no less strange events and phenomena.
Self-propelled wedding dress
It happened in 1849 - Anna Baker (Anna Baker) a girl from a wealthy family fell in love with a poor metal worker. But Anna's father forbade this marriage and drove the young man out of the city. Anna was so angry with her father that she made a vow to never marry and lived as an old maid until her death in 1914.
The story is interesting to those. that Anna had already chosen a wedding dress, which she was not destined to wear. This dress was worn for her wedding by another girl, Elizabeth Disart, and boasted about it to Anna. It is said that Anna cursed the dress and after the Baker mansion was turned into a museum, the wedding dress was displayed in Anna Baker's former bedroom. Numerous visitors have repeatedly noticed that the dress sways by itself, as if an invisible bride is dancing in it. No draft was found, the dress was in a glass cube, but in the full moon the dress began to "dance". No one can explain this phenomenon, except for the version that Anna finally put it on and dances at her own wedding.
Honey corpses
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The honey man is a commodity that could be purchased in the 12th century in large Arabian bazaars. It is a human corpse soaked in honey, parts of which were taken orally for medicinal purposes.
In the reference book "Medicinal Substances in Chinese Medicine" (1597), a description of how this honey corpse was created is preserved: "In Arabia, there are men, aged 70 to 80, who want to give their bodies in order to save others. Such a person does not eat food, he only drinks honey and bathes in honey. After a month, he excretes only honey (urine and excrement are composed of honey) and soon dies. His assistant places him in a stone coffin filled with honey, in which he soaks. The month and year of death are recorded on the coffin. A hundred years later, the coffin is opened. The candied body is used to heal broken and injured limbs. When a small amount is taken internally, the pain stops immediately.
Human flesh treatment
By the way, until the end of the 18th century, human flesh was traditionally present in the arsenal of European medicine. At the beginning of the 17th century, doctors used the remains of those executed, as well as the corpses of beggars and lepers.
Pharmacologists and healers of that time gave recommendations on eating human flesh, allegedly curing many diseases - the blood of gladiators was considered a cure for epilepsy, powder from Egyptian mummies was considered the "elixir of life", human skulls served to stop bleeding, fat - for the treatment of rheumatism and arthritis. And it was possible to get the remaining years of life from the flesh of a person who died an unnatural death.
So the German pharmacologist of the 17th century Johann Schroeder recommended cutting human meat into small pieces, adding a little myrrh and aloe, soaking in wine alcohol for several days, and then drying it in a dry room.
And the famous Paracelsus claimed that parts of the corpse and blood were essential items that were available in every pharmacy.
Even the ancient Romans, the author of the publication in the journal points out, considered the blood of gladiators a cure for epilepsy. During the Renaissance, powder from Egyptian mummies, considered the "elixir of life", gained popularity. Human skulls were used to stop bleeding. Fat - for treating rheumatism, gout and arthritis. In case of dizziness, a crushed human heart is recommended - "a pinch in the morning on an empty stomach." For the treatment of teeth, powder from the teeth of the dead was mixed with dog milk. There were many prescriptions for the treatment of epilepsy. For example, one was based on baby dust powder.
In addition, if a person did not die a natural death, it was believed that by eating his flesh, one could get the remaining years of his life.
When Pope Innocent VIII was dying in 1492, his doctors pumped out the blood of three boys and gave him to drink. The boys are dead. Daddy too. Was it cannibalism? Sugg answers this question in the affirmative.
Sale of wives
Until the early 20th century, there was a tradition of selling wives in Europe. a woman who got married was the property of her husband and was, in fact, an absolutely powerless being. The sale was announced in advance and an auction was held - a noose of rope was put on a woman's neck or waist, her hands were tied. The wife was given away at the highest price charged. This was one of the ways for a man to end an unsatisfactory marriage. Similar auctions were regularly held in the 18th and even 19th centuries.
There have been times when a woman sold herself in an attempt to get rid of a terrible marriage. The sale of the wife survived in some form until the beginning of the 20th century. The last known case was in 1913, when a woman claimed in Leeds Police Court that she had been sold to one of her husband's comrades.
Lobotomy in the Kennedy family
The Kennedy clan was essentially an American royal family with tremendous political power and racy rumors about their personal lives. Their family pictures, full of happiness, fun and wealth, inspired people to seek their "American happiness."
However, this story was hidden from the public for a long time. In the photo, in the bottom row on the right, sits Rosemary Kennedy, whom the head of the family Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., an ambitious and demanding person with respect to his children, considered a big problem for his family. He considered the girl to be frankly stupid, having a rebellious character, and, according to unverified data, she had a mental disorder. And in order not to spoil the happy picture of his family, his father put Rosemary in a psychiatric clinic, where, on his instructions, she underwent a lobotomy. Profitable. Rosemary, who, according to historians, may have suffered from some kind of mental disorder, was conscious throughout the operation, which, naturally, ended in failure. The girl essentially turned into a vegetable, unable to speak and control her intestines,with the intelligence of a 2-year-old child. She spent the rest of her life in a medical facility, away from the public, and her brother John at this time became a presidential candidate.
Mores of Siam
In the 19th century in Siam, it was forbidden to touch royalty on pain of death. And this led to a tragedy. Queen Sunandha Kumariratana once rode a boat and the boat capsized. Many residents saw this tragedy, but not a single one moved. The queen, along with her little daughter, drowned in front of the servants and the people.
Rat King
Until now, no one can really explain why rats make this knot from intertwined tails mixed with blood, dirt and excrement. Rats grow together with tails connected, which are often broken. Historically, the finding of the rat king was considered a bad omen associated with epidemics.
Sex with the spirit
Perhaps the most famous and officially recorded case of sex with a spirit. Journalist Jen did not give any hope of love to one young man. However, soon the guy was moore, and his spirit began to come to Jen at night. Jen turned to the famous New York doctor Nathaniel Fodor and he personally made sure that Jen was not lying - the doctor spent several nights in Jen's bedroom and watched Jen behave as a passionate woman leads during a violent intercourse. The "act" lasted about ten minutes, after which the exhausted lady immediately fell asleep soundly.
The scientist established medical supervision for his patient. Specialists in various fields of parapsychology came to his aid. But the mystery remained unsolved. And this despite the fact that the "spirit" came to Jen every night for … 15 years!
Faces on the floor
Spain, Belmes - an officially reported case of the paranormal that began in 1971. A man's face appeared on the floor of the Pereira family's kitchen. Frightened, the head of the family knocked down the cement floor and laid a new one, but after a while the face appeared again. Now the family announced this publicly and the cement was removed, taking it for examination. However, faces - male and female - began to appear again from time to time on the new floors of the house. Later it was discovered that the house was in an old cemetery, and the remains of people were found under the floor. The remains were reburied, but this did not save them from the faces on the floor. Many researchers have visited this house, the floor was demolished to the ground several times, but faces reappeared on new floors. The owners also tried to clean the floor using strong detergents, but in addition to changing facial expressions on the floor,and the eyes widened, nothing happened.
As part of the research, samples of the cement board were taken to ICV (Institute of Ceramics and Glass in Spain) for analysis, which did not confirm the presence of paint or dyes in the sample. In another experiment, the kitchen floor was photographed piece by piece, then covered with a cloth on top that was sealed around the edges. The house and windows were also sealed to prevent unauthorized access attempts. All this took place in front of the cameras of German television journalists and in the presence of the city notary. For the next 3 months, the kitchen of the house remained sealed. After the fabric and seals were removed, it became apparent that the faces changed their expressions and moved from one place on the floor to another.
The owner of the house passed away in 2004 and the house was put up for sale, but faces continue to appear and move across the floor. Until now, parapsychologists are sure that this phenomenon has become the most important paranormal phenomenon of the 20th century, as it was repeatedly documented and recorded on video and photographic equipment.
Waterloo teeth
After major battles, in which tens of thousands of young soldiers perished, they pulled out their teeth right on the battlefield, from which they later made dentures. As soon as the smoke cleared, and the military left the battlefield, scavengers came out of hiding and began to examine the corpses in search of precious prey, not particularly caring about whether the person had died or was only seriously wounded.
This phenomenon was called "Waterloo teeth" - the marauders pulled out thousands of teeth from the dead British, French and Prussian soldiers who died during the last Napoleonic battle.
Of particular note is the American Civil War, which brought a "good harvest" - the teeth torn from fallen soldiers from both warring sides were sent on ships to England, where they were either sold individually or made into dentures.
The goat for the sacrifice that took the sacrifice with it
Turkey, 2014 Mehmet, the father of 13-year-old Heval, brought a goat to the house for a sacrifice on the Eid al-Adha. Kewal was playing in the yard at that time, and his father brought the goat to the roof of the six-story building and left it untied. Apparently, the goat came too close to the edge of the roof and fell down, falling on the teenager and killing him. The goat died too.
Police in the city of Diyarbakir (southeastern Turkey) said they were investigating the circumstances of the boy's death and added that they had never heard of such cases before.
Police and human skin
Henri Pranzini, a late nineteenth century French felon, known by the nickname "The Charm" was executed by guillotine. "The charming woman" was famous for his style, for example, he wore a ring on his hand with a tooth inserted into it, personally knocked out by a bandit from a woman he had robbed. Later, his personal belongings, including this ring, were put up for auction. But it was not the ring that made a splash, but the cigarette case, which the police made of his skin.
Woman man
Eugenia Falleni, 1920, Annandale, New South Wales dressed as a man from her teens, worked in a brick factory and a stable boy, was a cabin boy. On one of his voyages to the seas, the ship's captain suspected a woman in the cabin - Evgenia was raped by sailors, soon gave birth to a child, but left him in the care of a distant relative. And she herself, still wearing a man's outfit, decided to get married. Taking the name Harry Crawford to marry a widow with a 13-year-old son, Annie Birkett. For many years, their married life proceeded quite calmly, and the wife never knew that her husband was "not quite a man."
On October 1, 1917, Harry invited his wife to a picnic in the countryside, from which she did not return. Harry stated that his wife ran away and soon remarried. But the stepson did not leave this business so - he found a place where his mother went with her "husband" and a charred corpse of a woman was found at the picnic site. Harry was arrested after hitting the police with a request to put him in a women's cell.
Several dildos were found in Harry's belongings. His second wife, Elizabeth Allison, said at the trial: “He was the perfect husband and we were very happy! And the fact that he performed marital duties in his underwear or dressing gown did not bother me - he explained this by his Puritan upbringing.
Harry, or rather Eugene, was sentenced to death, but later the execution was changed to life imprisonment, but she was released 11 years later and was soon killed to death by a passing car.
It was believed that 38-year-old John Birkett, the son of the murdered Annie Birkett, could be driving that car.
Deadly chess
The Spanish inquisitor Pedro de Arbuez de Epila came up with a sophisticated, bloody entertainment - live chess.
A sufficient number of imaginary or real heretics was needed for the game - the guilt or innocence of the person in this case did not matter. The selected people were dressed in white and black clothes and placed on the board. Two old blind monks played such chess.
As soon as one "ate" the figure of the other, the executioner came to the corresponding cell and killed the unfortunate man, piercing him with a spear or chopping off his head. By the end of the game, the entire chess field was littered with the disfigured corpses of "chess pieces".
An interesting fact is that the Catholic Church solemnly recognized the bloody chess player Arbues, who was killed in 1485, as a martyr. Pope Alexander VII in 1661 recognized him as a righteous man, and in 1867 Pius IX even canonized him.
Deadly lullaby
In the old days, one of the ways to calm a child was to wish him death for the coming sleep. Lullabies were usually sung to sick children in order to deceive death and take it away from the child.
Sleep, my dear child
It will be different by autumn
For the third day …
Sedny Vanyushka will die, Funeral tomorrow
We will bury Vanya, Ring the big bell.
Bai, bai da lyuli, Die today.
I'll knock you a coffin
From oak planks.
Frost tomorrow
They will take it to the churchyard.
Old grandmother
Cut off the towel
Cover the baby.
We will cry, howl
We'll bury the grave.
Bayu, bai da lyuli, Now die
Tomorrow mother has jelly and pancakes, -
That is your commemoration.
Let's make a coffin
Of seventy planks
Digging a grave
On a bald mountain
On a bald mountain
On the master's side.
Let's go to the forest for berries
Let's go to you, child.
Byu, bye, At least die tomorrow.
We'll bake pies
Let's go to remember
Baby, let's go to you.
Oh, lyuli, lyuli, lyuli, You die today
Funeral tomorrow
We will carry it to the churchyard
Bake pies
With raspberries, With buckwheat groats, We will remember Shura, To fill your belly.
Baiushki bye!
I'll put on a mallet.
Bai da lyuli!
At least die now.
We have buckwheat on the current, I'll bake pancakes
I am you, child, Dragged to the churchyard.
Frost tomorrow
And you to the churchyard, I cut the straw
I'll bake pancakes.
I'll go to remember the child
Stuff your ass.
Baiushki bye!
Don't lie on the edge.
In the morning frost
And you to the churchyard!
Grandpa will come
The coffin will bring
Grandma will come
Will bring canvas
Mother will come
The little voice will hold
Father will come
He will take it to the churchyard.
Baiushki bye, I'll put on a mallet!
Author: Millefeuill