Showing posts with label folklore. Show all posts
Showing posts with label folklore. Show all posts
Thursday, September 05, 2013

Mind your P's and Q's!

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By Mona Goldwater, British Folklore Editor Way back when, at local taverns, pubs, and bars, people drank from pint and  quart-sized con...
Monday, April 29, 2013

Paul Bunyan's Cook Shanty in Wisconsin

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By Jack Brummet The wonderful signage of Paul Bunyan's Cook Shanty.  This is one of my favorite Paul Bunyan monuments.  The restauran...
Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Xochimilco's La Isla de la Muñecas/The Island of the Dolls—the strange story of an island possibly haunted by sentient dolls

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By Jack Brummet Unexplained Phenomena Editor Thanks to Jeff Clinton for the idea for this story. South of México Distrito Federal ...
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Monday, December 01, 2008

My favorite folk tale: Paul Bunyan (How Paul dug Puget Sound, and dozens of other tales)

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click to enlarge - Jack inspects Babe The Blue Ox's testes in Klamath, California Growing up in Kent, Washington, every week I trudged...
Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Oh! What a beautiful morning!

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As you know, I am a fan of folk lore and folk music. Do you remember singing this song in the 3rd grade, or has it slipped from the canon? ...
Saturday, November 03, 2007

All This Is That reheated: Hobo signs

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Here are examples of some of my favorite hobo signs: click to enlarge ---o0o---
Sunday, August 05, 2007

Stuart Miller of the UFO Review speaks out about the inter-UFOlogist sniping

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One of my favorite sites for UFOlogy is the UFO Review, edited by Stuart Miller . They cover a wide range of paranormal and UFO, and cover ...
Thursday, July 19, 2007

Hobos! A Link to a great art site: 700 hoboes

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Even though they form the plural of hobo as hoboes [sic], this is a great site ! When I was growing up, dozens of hobos tramped through ou...