The most beautiful suicide On May 1, 1947, Evelyn McHale leapt to her death from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. Photographer Robert Wiles took a photo of McHale a few minutes after her death. The photo ran a couple of weeks later in Life magazine accompanied by the following caption: On May Day, just after leaving her fiancé, 23-year-old Evelyn McHale wrote a note. 'He is much better off without me ... From McHale's NY Times obituary, Empire State Ends Life of Girl, 20: At 10:40 A. The serenity of McHale's body amidst the crumpled wreckage it caused is astounding. Update: Here's a better photo of Warhol's print. Update: Here's the page as it appeared in Life Magazine. Update: Codex 99 did some research on McHale and her activities on the day she died.
5 Terrifying Serial Killers Who Happened to Be Animals The most dangerous animal on earth is man -- nothing you read in this article will change that. Animals kill for food and territory, and out of fear, but it takes a man to kill repeatedly, just for the fun of it. Well ... usually. As we have previously shown, the animal kingdom has its fair share of diabolical serial killers. #5. Photos.com The Time: 1957 The Place: Mysore, Near Bangalore The sloth bear of India sounds like the most harmless animal to carry the "bear" name outside of the koala. Wilfried Berns"You'd be surprised how good thin-sliced face tastes on a toasted bagel." That is precisely what the people of Nagvara Hills near Bangalore learned when a sloth bear decided to start murdering them. We're going to pause the article here so you can read that last sentence a couple more times. Possibly while picturing this. Over the course of several days, the enraged sloth bear mutilated about three dozen rural folk. Getty"A moment on the lips means a lifetime on the hips." #4. Getty #3.
Folkloric Witches Folkloric Witches: The streghe in popular imagination--sundry types, origins, and history This page is currently under construction. Folkloric witches exit in folklore and popular imagination in many cultures. According to Sabina Magliocco in Witchcraft, Healing and Vernacular Magic in Italy: The word strega (plural streghe), from the Latin strix “screech owl,” is often used to refer to the folkloric witch, and the word has ancient negative connotations… Folkloric witches perform feats that are absolutely supernatural: they transform into animals, fly through the air on the backs of goats; tangle people’s hair; steal milk from nursing mothers and livestock; suck blood from living beings; and torment their enemies by paralyzing them in their beds at night. Versions of this list can be found in several Italian sources. Abitatrici dei campi (dweller of the fields) The nature of these streghe (witches) is ambivalent. Cogas (cooks)Cogas are the streghe (witches) of Sardinian folklore. Endnote:
Just Detention International – End Rape in Prison Scary Paranormal Stories The Smoked Corpses of Aseki, Papua New Guinea We tend to associate mummies with ancient Egypt, but a lot of culture around the world practiced mummification. The Anga tribe of the Aseki region of Papua New Guinea is one of them. Anga’s mummies, however, aren't wrapped in bandages and placed in tombs. They are left in the open, high above a cliff, often overlooking the village where they once lived. One of the most important process of mummification is the removal of moisture from the dead bodies, because water promotes decomposition, and a decomposed body cannot be preserved by mummification. Ancient Egyptians achieved this by covering the dead bodies with salt and mixture of spices that had great drying properties. Photo credit: Michael Thirnbeck/Flickr The elaborate process began by slicing open the knees, elbows, feet, and other joints. Photo credit: Ian Lloyd Neubauer/BBC Mummification came to an end in 1949 when missionaries took firm root in Aseki. Also see: Sokushinbutsu: The Bizarre Practice of Self Mummification
Timeless Myths Ancient Egyptians Had A Different Set Of Zodiac Signs, Here's Yours Whether you are a firm believer in zodiac signs and horoscopes or not, you have to admit that they can often do a really good job of describing most people. It's said that where the stars are in the sky on the day of your birth can affect your entire personality, and whether it's coincidence or not, it does a good job. But the horoscopes we are most familiar with aren't the only ones out there. Different cultures across the world and throughout time have been using different techniques of judging what the stars have to say. The ancient Egyptians had their own system, and while it does still have twelve signs it is calculated very differently. Instead of splitting the months up evenly between the signs, ending and starting the next symbol around the same time each month, the Egyptians actually split the time periods up even smaller, but they repeated the same signs a few times a year. Curious about what your new star sign says about you? Nile Peaceful, Practical, and Perfectionists Amon-Ra Mut
My Demands The Daily What Time Warp Wives: Meet the women who really do live in the past By Diana Appleyard Updated: 09:06 GMT, 8 August 2008 The credit crunch, a knife crime epidemic - no wonder so many of us are sick of the 21st century. 1950s Joanne Massey, 35, lives in a recreation of a 1950s home in Stafford with her husband Kevin, 42, who works as a graphics application designer. I love nothing better than fastening my pinny round my waist and baking a cake for Kevin in my 1950s kitchen. I put on some lovely Frank Sinatra music and am completely lost in my own little fantasy world. Enlarge Joanne Massey: 'Living like this makes me happier' We've been married for 13 years and we're extremely happy because we both know our roles. What's wrong with wanting to be adored and spoiled? I don't even put petrol in our Ford Anglia car, which is 43 years old, because I think that is so unladylike. I make sure our home is immaculate, there is dinner on the table, and I look pretty to welcome my husband home. They had it in their garage to keep tools in, so it needed renovation. 1940s
Lyssa Description[edit] She personifies mad rage and frenzy, as well as rabies in animals. In Herakles she is called upon by Hera to inflict the hero Heracles with insanity. In this scenario she is shown to take a temperate, measured approach to her role, professing "not to use [her powers] in anger against friends, nor [to] have any joy in visiting the homes of men." She counsels Iris, who wishes to carry out Hera's command, against targeting Heracles but, after failing to persuade, bows to the orders of the superior goddess and sends him into a mad rage that causes him to murder his wife and children.[1] Greek vase-paintings of the period indicate her involvement in the myth of Aktaion, the hunter torn apart by his own, maddened dogs as a punishment for looking on the naked form of the goddess Artemis. References[edit] External links[edit]