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Goose Bone Weather Prediction: How to Read the Bone for Winter
How the goose bone winter forecast works: Martinmas and Michaelmas origins, breastbone or wishbone, how to read the colors, and how accurate it is.
Hag Riding: The Old Hag Folklore Behind Sleep Paralysis
What hag riding means in Southern, Gullah Geechee and Newfoundland folklore, the old remedies, and what sleep science says about sleep paralysis.
Planting by the Signs: How the Almanac Zodiac Man Works in the Garden
How planting by the signs works: the almanac Zodiac Man, fruitful and barren signs, light and dark of the moon, fall planting and what the research says.
Why Stop the Clocks When Someone Dies? The Old Mourning Custom and What It Means
Why families stopped the clocks and covered the mirrors after a death, the reasons folklore gave, and how people keep the custom today as a way to mark...
Ears Burning Meaning: Left Ear, Right Ear, Superstition
What a burning right or left ear means in folk belief, where the saying comes from, why ears really get hot, and when hot ears belong with a...
Eye Twitching Meaning: Left Eye, Right Eye, Superstition
What a twitching left or right eye means in folk belief around the world, what actually causes eyelid twitching, and when it belongs with a doctor.
Candle in the Window Meaning: Welcome, Remembrance and the Irish Christmas Light
What a candle in the window means, from the Irish Christmas Eve light and All Souls to Hanukkah and American vigils, and how to keep the custom safely.
Kitchen Witch Doll Meaning: Origin, Folklore and Where to Hang One
What a kitchen witch doll means, where the custom comes from, what folklore says she does, and how to hang, gift or make one safely.
Marten Symbolism: Spiritual Meaning & Spirit Animal
The neighbor almost nobody has seen properly: what a marten sighting means as a sign, spirit animal and dream image, from the Ojibwe marten clan to Croatia's marten...
Kirlian Photography: Can It Really Capture Your Aura?
What Kirlian photography records, where it came from, why the phantom leaf does not hold up, what Science measured in 1976, and how aura cameras and GDV devices...
Woolly Bear Caterpillar Meaning: The Winter Forecast, the Science and the Symbolism
What the woolly bear caterpillar is said to predict about winter, what the science shows, and how its bands, sleep and transformation became an autumn symbol.
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