by Fairy Tale Review | Aug 21, 2015 | Fairy-Tale Files
“The Sky is falling…”And so are these oddities, based on documented reports:Nondairy creamer in Chester, South Carolina, due to clogged exhaust vents from a nearby Borden Company plant (1969).A deplaned cow that sank a boat of Japanese fishermen – no two-legged...
by Fairy Tale Review | Aug 14, 2015 | Fairy-Tale Files
Timeline Threads17th Century: Subjects of the late Ming Dynasty begin to don wardrobes inspired by characters in popular fiction.1939: Forrest J. Ackerman, the granddaddy of all sci-fi aficionados, wears what he calls a “futuristicostume” at the 1st World Science...
by Fairy Tale Review | Aug 7, 2015 | Fairy-Tale Files
Appalachian Granny MagicA mix of Scots-Irish magical traditions and regional rituals of the Cherokee Indians (known then as Tsalagi), adherents of this practice referred to themselves as witch doctors or water witches, depending on their given specialties such as...
by Fairy Tale Review | Jul 31, 2015 | Fairy-Tale Files
What If Immortality Chose You? After a horrific car accident that should have ended her life, a lightning strike freezes Adaline Bowman’s age at 29 years old. Adaline’s lived a solitary existence in the eight decades since, never allowing herself to form relationships...
by Fairy Tale Review | Jul 24, 2015 | Fairy-Tale Books
Name That TuneWhere sirens sing, shipwreck and death follow. These creatures have bewitched sailors since the time of Euripides, though their most famous appearance occurs in Homer’s 8th century Odyssey. The last century was a boon as well, thanks to Kafka’s short...
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