Sadly very little information about the ancient Celts has survived and what we know is pieced together from fragments, second hand and bias sources. It is believed that the ancient Celtics followed a lunar calendar. As a result, the ancient calendar would have had 12 months one year and 13 the next. The Celtic Tree […]
Ghosts in the mortuary and witches in Liverpool’s Central Library?
Liverpool’s Central Library is a complex set of buildings, some of which are grade II listed and others due for demolition and replacement. The library’s eldest building is the William Brown Library and Museum, which was extended in 1879 to the Picton Reading Room and then the Hornby Library in 1906.
Central Library is part of the William Brown Street conservation area. This area includes the unusual St John’s Gardens and St John’s Church.
St John’s Church was designed by Thomas Litoller and construction started in 1767 in an area which was once used as the general burial ground of a small mortuary chapel. St George’s Hall’s west elevation backs against the Church.
Poster: Chiromancy
Chiromancy: Amateurs wouldn’t know palm-reading if it hopped up and bit them on the thumb.
What is an athame?
Image by Arcadiareptiles via Flickr An athame is a double-edged dagger used in Wiccan ceremonies. The athame traditionally has a black handle, a sharp point and the double-edge. The knife is one of many tools used in Wiccan rituals is used to channel energy and is not intended for physical cutting. Athames tend not even […]
Is the Stanley Dock Tobacco Warehouse now haunted by Headless Moll?
The Stanley Dock opened in 1848 and was designed by Jesse Hartley. The Stanley Dock Warehouse was opened later, in 1901, and is a grade II listed building. In 2006 work began in a £20,000,000 exercise to link the connecting Leeds and Liverpool Canal to the waterways of Pier Head.
In 1901 when the Stanley Dock Tobacco Warehouse was finished it covered the largest area of any other building. The building was used by a morgue for dead American servicemen during the war during which time it became infamous when a body snatcher was discovered and shot dead.
The dock and warehouse were used up until 1980. During their lifetime they served as a port on the sea routes between the United Kingdom and America. As a busy port it was the location for numerous murders. Immigrants and travelers, especially the Irish, were often blamed for the deaths and sometimes without any evidence at all.
An Australian aboriginal creation myth – Ungambikula
It was dark and there was neither life nor death. In the beginning, the earth was a bare plain. Underneath the plain slept the eternal ancestors, the sun, the moon and the stars. Eventually the eternal ancestors arose an in the Dreamtime they walked the earth. The eternal ancestors walked in many shapes and forms; […]
The Empire Theatre and other haunted theatres in Liverpool
Liverpool was the European City of Culture for 2008. In 2009 it handed the title over to the Austrian city of Linz. The city itself was founded in 1207 as a borough and now has a population of a little less than half a million. There are a number of theatres in Liverpool and this […]
Psychic criminology
Psychic criminology is the use of psychics in the investigation of civil or criminal cases. Psychic criminology is also used in jury selection. Psychic criminology has grown since World War II, has had a number of public successes with some celebrity psychics but remains controverial. Psychometry is the main psychic technique used in psychic criminology […]
St George’s Hall
Described as the first non-classical building in Europe, St George’s Hall was designed by Harvey Lonsdale Elmes and opened to the public of Liverpool in September 1854. St George’s Hall was frequently visited by Charles Dickens. Only 25% of the building was open during Dickens time and the hall fell into a state of disrepair. […]
The meaning of colours
Different colours mean different things to different people. It is also true to say that people see colours differently. People can see seven colours; blue, green, indigo, orange, red, violet and yellow. The colour indigo is the hardest to see and many people have six-colour vision and see indigo as an off-shade of blue or […]
