Onryo, in traditional Japanese beliefs, refers to a ghost that is capable of causing harm to the world of the living. It would harm, or even kill its enemies. Some times it is recorded to cause natural disasters. Every harmful action is made to exact its vengeance or to make the wrongs made to the […]
Mysterious monolith discovered in remote part of Utah A mysterious monolith has been discovered by a pilot in the Utah desert. Helicopter pilot Bret Hutchings found the large metallic monolith while helping wildlife resource officers count bighorn sheep in southern Utah. In scenes reminiscent of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, the monolith was found […]
William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of the Irish literary establishment, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre. In his later years served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State. […]
The two Brothers Jacob and Wilhelm , also known as Brothers Grimm, were German academics, philologists, cultural researchers, lexicographers and authors. They collected and published folklore during the 19th century. The two brothers were born in Hanau in Hesse-Cassel, and spend their childhood in a town called Steinau. They lost their father in 1796, […]