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A Sinister Revival
SUPERSTITIONS.AUCKLAND STAR, VOLUME LXIV, ISSUE 35, 11 FEBRUARY 1933, PAGE 8 (SUPPLEMENT)
Posted in Alternative Religion, Psychology
Tagged New Zealand, NZ, Psychology, The Occult in NZ Newspapers
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Weird Woman
POLICE COURT.—THIS DAY. AUCKLAND STAR, VOLUME IX, ISSUE 2442, 19 JANUARY 1878 https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS18780119.2.13 With thanks to the National Library of New Zealand
Guy Fawkes Effigy 1919
“Nancy makes the acquaintance of Guy Fawkes”: ‘Our second visit to the Hatuma farm, Oct – Nov 1919’. From the album: Family photograph album; 1917 – 1920; Adkin, Leslie, 5 November 1919, New Zealand, by Leslie Adkin. Gift of Adkin … Continue reading
Glimpses into Spirit Life – a rare book of spiritualist seances
Images from ‘Glimpses into Spirit Life’ (1927), a New Zealand published book of records of spirit communications in the mold of 1909’s ‘Occult Research, Reincarnation, Life in Other Planets & Antiquity Unveiled by Spirit Intelligences’.
Posted in Alternative Religion
Tagged Book, Ghost, New Zealand, New Zealand Social History, NZ, Spiritualism
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Dunedin Cenotaph’s that might have been
A picture of the accepted plan for the cenotaph, featuring frescoes and bronze figures that were not included in the final design due to a lack of funds. Some notes from the judge of the competition held to pick the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, War
Tagged ANZAC, Architecture, civic religion, Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand Social History, NZ
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Two Meloncholy Deaths
SOCIAL AND GENERAL. OTAGO DAILY TIMES, ISSUE 11419, 10 MAY 1899 https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT18990510.2.4 With thanks to the National Library of New Zealand.
The priesthood of Diana in the Waikato Times
Extract from: THE TRUTH PERCEIVERS. WAIKATO TIMES, VOLUME 98, ISSUE 15335, 8 SEPTEMBER 1923 A STRANGE PRIESTHOOD. WAIKATO TIMES, VOLUME 98, ISSUE 15341, 15 SEPTEMBER 1923 THE TRUTH PERCEIVERS. https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WT19230908.2.94.4? A STRANGE PRIESTHOOD. https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WT19230915.2.89.3? With thanks to the National Library … Continue reading
Raising the Devil
AUCKLAND STAR, VOLUME XVII, ISSUE 160, 10 JULY 1886 With thanks to the National Library of New Zealand
“Magic Box” Fortune Telling Wall Game
Spotted for sale within NZ recently, this Wall Game would probably have been in a fish & chip shop or at one of the old Carnival Fairs.
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Popular Magic Handbooks Available in New Zealand 1850-1935
Advertisements for various fortune telling handbooks of the kind sold in the UK as chapbooks. The national library of Scotland as well as the internet archive have large collections, readable online, of these books. Typically they will consist of a … Continue reading
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