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“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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Cold Blooded Murder
A further story from John Wilson’s ‘Reminiscences of the Early Settlement of Dunedin and South Otago‘. The context suggests this story takes place in the 1860s. A report of a double murder at Switzers reached Blatch at Clutha. Two brothers, named Tibbetts. had a station at Switzers. … Continue reading
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Tagged Crime, Murder, New Zealand, New Zealand Social History, NZ, Otago
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Suicide Bombing at Murchison, 1905
Murchison suicide bombing a world first Forget Islamic extremists or anything to do with the Middle East, the world’s first strapped-on suicide bombing happened in Murchison. Joseph Sewell was a 57-year-old farmer from Longford when he strapped himself with sticks … Continue reading
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Tagged Crime, Murder, New Zealand, New Zealand Social History, NZ, West Coast
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New Zealand troops with tanks, World War One
New Zealand troops march with Whippet light tanks on the first day of (the tanks) deployment, during the spring offensive 1918
Nemesis as the goddess of vengeance
From Notes & Queries.,Freethought Review, Volume I, Issue 9, 1 June 1884 https://beta.paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/FRERE18840601.2.17 With thanks to the National Library of New Zealand
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Tagged Goddess, Gods, New Zealanders on Classical Polytheism, NZ, Our Mandate
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Segement from ‘The disappearance of letham crouch’
A segment from ‘The disappearance of letham crouch‘ by Chas Owen an early (the earliest I am currently aware of) example of ‘consciously’ horror fiction in New Zealand. Inhabiting the borderland between weird fiction and the ghost story, the evocative little … Continue reading
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Tagged Ghost, Horror, Maori, New Zealand, NZ, Prose
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Electric Birds: a Scientific Romance
A humourous tale of magnetic emus and polar exploration from “The Huia: A New Zealand Annual” Dec. 1903
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Tagged Humour, NZ, Prose, Science, Science Fiction, Writing
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Druidic Lore and Halloween Custom
By John Pbnnell. Otago Witness , Issue 2227, 5 November 1896, Page 49 http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=OW18961105.2.226&srpos=47&e=——-100–1—-0occult+ritual– Interestingly “John Pennell” seems to be the pseudonym of a New Zealand author, suggesting that this is an original work rather than (as is typical of … Continue reading
Posted in FolkLore, International, Magic, Nature Worship, Uncategorized
Tagged Divination, Ghost, International, Magic, Ritual
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Fairy Horsemen
From Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘The Coming of the Faeries‘ 1921 The wide distribution of the fairies may be judged by the following extremely inter- esting narrative from Mrs. Hardy, the wife of a settler in the Maori districts of New … Continue reading
NZICD.COM
NZICD.COM currently redirects here due to registry updates. We expect to be fully functional within the next 3 days. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
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