House Spirits: Brownie, Nisse, Kobold Explained
There is one figure that plays the same role across the whole of Europe and gets a different name in every language: the spirit that lives in the...
Geopathic Stress: What the Dowsing Tests Showed
Someone tells you there is a water vein running under your bed and that is why you sleep badly. Before you move anything, it is worth knowing exactly...
Witch Marks and Hex Signs: What They Really Mean
Put your hand on the doorframe of a house built before 1800 and you can sometimes feel them: shallow scratches that are not damage and not a carpenter's...
Hamsa Hand Meaning: Up or Down, and Where It Comes From
Every jewellery site gives you the same two-line rule: fingers up for protection, fingers down for abundance. We went looking for where that rule comes from and could...
Birthstones by Month: The Chart, and Who Decided It
Every chart you have seen presents this list as though it came down from somewhere. It came down from a jewellers' convention in Kansas City in 1912, and...
Inner Child Work: Where It Comes From, and Doing It Safely
Inner Child Work: Where It Comes From, and Doing It Safely Three separate lineages feed the phrase, only some of the practice has research behind it, and one...
Simulation or Creation? What the Argument Actually Says
Simulation or Creation? What the Argument Actually Says Bostrom's simulation argument is not the claim most people think it is, the quantum "observer" is not a person, and...
Emoto's Water Crystals: What the Photographs Actually Show
Emoto's Water Crystals: What the Photographs Actually Show The famous images of "thanked" and "insulted" water are real photographs of real ice. What they are not is evidence...
Blue Moon: What It Really Is and When the Next One Falls
Blue Moon: What It Really Is and When the Next One Falls There are two competing definitions, one of them is a documented magazine error from 1946 that...
Gratitude Practice: What the Research Actually Supports
Gratitude Practice: What the Research Actually Supports A working guide to gratitude as a practice — the four formats that hold up, the evidence behind them at its...
Who Drew the Rider-Waite Tarot? Pamela Colman Smith and the Public Domain
The most reproduced tarot images in the world were drawn by a woman whose name is missing from the deck most people call by two other names. This...
Can You Legally Collect Your Own Crystals in the US?
Picking up your own stones is legal in far more of the United States than most people assume — and flatly illegal in some of the most beautiful...