British and Irish Women in Black Spirits October 31, 2021
Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
In today’s Boggart and Banshee podcast Chris Woodyard and I talk about the Woman in Black, a largely forgotten and utterly terrifying supernatural figure of American provenance. WiB, as devotees fondly call her, started to be seen in the 1860s in the United States. She would, in the next decades, be spotted in all corners […]
Getting Spiked: A New Social Contagion? October 20, 2021
Author: Beach Combing | in : Actualite
Introducing Spiking Zara a nineteen-year-old fresher at Nottingham Uni (UK) had, 11 October of this year, an extremely unpleasant experience. After entering a nightclub in the city Zara had a ‘complete blackout’ and the next morning she could, on waking, remember nothing of what had happened to her: ‘It’s not a blur of memory, it […]
