Antique Clippings

Antique humor and clippings, randomly discovered ephemera and interesting things! A lot of the things here are from before 1950, maybe way before. There will be things not politically correct today, ethnic humor, and enemies called names. The past is very messy.

Showing posts with label folklore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label folklore. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Queer Compact of Osprey and Eagle

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1916 WHY FISH HAWK FEEDS KING OF THE AIR. Bird of Freedom Watches Fisher's Nest While It Dives for Prey for Both. PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylv...
Sunday, July 15, 2007

Wet and Dry Moons

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1910 There is an old superstition, which dies hard, that the position of the horns of the new moon tells what the weather will be; if the ho...
Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Fox as "Will O' The Wisp"

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1905 Curious Belief That Is Prevalent Among the Japanese Among the many superstitions of the Japanese there is none more strange or more uni...
Saturday, May 26, 2007

Eli Clouse Revives Annual Hunting Story

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1909 It is reported in the city papers that Eli Clouse of Friend's Cove, 30 miles northeast from Cumberland, in Bedford County, has agai...
Tuesday, May 22, 2007

The Pied Piper's Anniversary

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1915 Recently occurred the anniversary of the visit to "Hamelin Town in Brunswick," in 1876 of him "who, for the fantastical ...
Sunday, April 29, 2007

How Joel Chandler Harris Came to Write "Uncle Remus"

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1909 JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS. The Way He Came to Write His "Uncle Remus" Stories. Many great works of genius, as is well known, have ...
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