Monday, October 8, 2018

The Plants That Ward Off Evil Spirits in Randolph Cemetery

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Randolph Cemetery, located next to Elmwood Cemetery, was the first African American internment in Columbia, South Carolina after land was ...
Friday, October 5, 2018

Shapeshifting Daniel Koon of the Dutch Fork

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Daniel Koon after transforming himself into the bodiless head of an old man. Art by Patrick Jeffords. The most famous magician in the D...
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Thursday, October 4, 2018

Old Pictures of Halloween in Columbia

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"These hobgoblins and witches in a skull-decorated Model T, were among the hundreds of Halloween celebrants last night who swarmed i...
Wednesday, October 3, 2018

The 1987 South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy Manual on Satanism

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In 1987, at the height of America's "Satanic Panic", a training manual was produced by Paul Banner, Senior Criminolog...
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Tuesday, October 2, 2018

She Lies Beneath Washington Street United Methodist Church

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Sophia Catherine Nance before 1996. Photo from Grave Words, Epitaphs of South Carolina by Craig Metts There are no records of Sophia...
Monday, October 1, 2018

Zauberspruch: Scraps of Old Dutch Fork Healing Magic

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The Germans and Swiss who made their way to that part of the interior of South Carolina known as the Dutch Fork (Dutch being an Angliciz...
Saturday, July 30, 2016

The Witches of Fairfield, S.C. by Lee R. Gandee

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From Fate Magazine January 1970 Psychologists, parapsychologists and students of history are familiar with the witchcraft preoccupatio...
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