MMXXVI VOL21 No.949

First Coca Cola was sold 140 years ago

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Witch bottles; one of the most disgusting magic spells you can find

A bottle, yellow fluid and nails to taste. How to make a witch bottle, the magic power of the ingredients, the earliest documented cases, how the practice spread throughout Europe and the Americas and how archaeological remains of this magical practice are still being found

Editor's picks

Yoga as practiced in the Western countries is an invention of the late 19th century, created specifically to be marketed to affluent Westerners. This article explains the genesis of modern yoga, how it spread to the West and "the dark night of the soul", the risks of yoga and meditation

BadMedium diaries 9 – The Abraxite

Exclusively for col2.com, the 9th part of BadMedium's diaries telling his psychic and paranormal experiences in first person. In this installment a mystical vision of an initiation journey and a material that does not exist in the real world or on the internet

The first Spiritualism wave in the 19th century

Evolution of Spiritualism from its early European roots to the 19th-century American craze sparked by the Fox Sisters. Table-turning and automatic writing in Europe, Allan Kardec's Spiritism. Widespread fascination with mediums and séances, including the sessions that Queen Victoria hosted. Key figures, famous followers, skeptics, major fraud scandals, undebunked cases and current status of the movement

Superstitions

The most common superstitions in Western countries and their historical origins. Knocking on wood, Friday the 13th, rabbit's feet and 4-leaf clovers as amulets, wedding superstitions, walking under a ladder, spilling salt, opening an umbrella inside, breaking a mirror, crossing fingers, horseshoes on doors and black cats as harbingers of bad luck

The Premonitions Bureau

Between 1966 and 1968, the British Evening Star newspaper sponsored a project in which readers sent in premonitions about future catastrophes. The letters were studied with the aim of finding a methodology to avoid the ensuing tragedies, using the collective precognition gathered from the readers

BadMedium diaries 3 – Demons

Exclusively for col2.com, the third part of BadMedium's diaries, telling his psychic and paranormal experiences in first person

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An abandoned ocean liner in flames washed ashore at Asbury Park, New Jersey, as if it were Charon's boat straight out of hell

BadMedium diaries 1

Exclusively for col2.com, BadMedium's diaries recounting his psychic and paranormal experiences in first person. In this first installment, an introduction to badmedium

The prophecies of Nostradamus

The story of how an apothecary hunted by the black death became a prophet. The structure of the book in which he published his predictions of the future and the 10 most spectacular prophecies. The astrologer foretold the advent of historical figures, giving names and surnames, hundreds of years before they were born

The Pentagram symbol history

Adopted since 3500 BC by numerous cultures, including early Christians, the pentagram was demonized in 1968. Historically, the symbol had no diabolical connotations

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Can a butterfly flap its wings in Mexico and cause a hurricane in China?

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Nolumus credere, velimus scire

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