In the summer of 1518, dozens of people in Strasbourg danced for days and couldn’t stop. The archive records, the chronicles, the St Vitus pilgrimage, the disputed death toll and the theories, from mass hysteria to ergot.
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In short Hananuma Masakichi (1832-1895) was a Japanese sculptor of hyper-realistic dolls. According to legend, convinced he was dying of
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In short A “rat king” is a group of rats whose tails are tangled and stuck together, for example by
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In 1982, in Georgia, Angela Cavallo lifted a Chevrolet Impala to save her son trapped underneath. The true story, the details often told wrong, and what science says about “hysterical strength”.
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In short Hedviga Golik, a former nurse born in 1924, died alone around 1966 in her 18-square-metre attic flat in
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In short Around 1500, in Switzerland, Jacob Nufer, a pig gelder, is said to have performed on his wife Elisabeth
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In short In Salt Lake City, Utah, the religious group Summum offers the world’s only “modern mummification”. It costs around
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The rites linked to death have been one of the most intriguing aspects of the vast anthropological universe for thousands
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Freddy Krueger is one of the beloved villains of the cinema and by far my favorite. Protagonist of the saga
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When a serial killer is arrested it is not uncommon to hear from family, friends and neighbours that “he seemed
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In short On 19 February 1994 Gloria Ramirez, 31, who had cervical cancer, died in the emergency room in Riverside,
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The world of sects, in the collective imagination, fascinates and frightens at the same time. A vast, multifaceted, complex, difficult
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