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Now this, because it's Xmas and I'm not even slightly in the Xmas spirit (what waiter is? Who has time?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLnl5ZWG4tg
The Austrian version of Christmas, compete with Krampus, this year I am Krampus, and I marvel (briefly) on how pasteurized, homogenized our version of Xmas has become....
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In which someone makes the case for Enkidu being a Neanderthal. Whether you buy it or not, it's an interesting read:
Link: http://architecturalwatercolors.blogspot.com/2011/10/gilgamesh-new-interpretation.html
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And these are fascinating (probably you're already aware) - the religions that sprouted all over the South Pacific following the interactions of primitive indigenous peoples with Allied Servicemen.
Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,892609,00.html
http://www.damninteresting.com/john-frum-and-the-cargo-cults/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A2267426
Quoting Time Magazine: "Imitation radio antennas made of rope and bamboo were set up to receive news of the millennium, when black skins would turn white and all the harsh demands of life would miraculously disappear." & "All of them share the belief that black men will acquire the white man's magic to materialize goods from overseas without doing a lick of work.
John Frum: Probably a corruption or pidgin version of "Hi I'm John from /OHIO/NEBRASKA/IOWA/WISCONSIN" - reduced to John Frum.
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This is an old one, but a great one. Apparently in some places in South London (Brixton), New York, Chicago, anywhere where drugs is a bit of a problem, there are these squirrels that have become unusually aggressive in their search for drugs - having become, as it were, addicted to crack. Or, as I like to say, crack-addled squirrels.
Now there's more than a slight whiff of Urban Legend to this one, but it's been so widely reported that one can't held thinking that maybe, just maybe there's a slight grain of truth to it...but..., well, it's the media after all. Read with caution.
Links: The Sun (UK) - Squirrels go nuts on crack, The Guardian, The NY Times, Various YouTube videos on the Crack Squirrel Problem, Christine O'keefe Aptowicz performs Crack Squirrels, and finally, a seemingly irrelevant connection to Russia where they don't seem to have made the connection - Russian Squirrel Pack Kills Dog.
I couldn't make this stuff up.
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Forteana and Cryptozoology are interests of mine. Not, particularly, going out to look for Bigfoot or Nessie, but the folklore of it, and - in some instances, the mystery behind what it was people saw that made them believe or think as they did.
Like Ghosts or UFO's. I've never seen one, but I'd be curious to have the experience.
Here's an old legend - reported by various sources (none so convincingly recently) - The Jersey Devil. Curious.