https://www.bloodymary.red/bitsandbobs daily 0.75 2023-11-14 https://www.bloodymary.red/bitsandbobs/the-affair-of-the-poisons monthly 0.5 2023-11-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e30c65b9222978599b0f75/cd8c799a-5e8c-4028-9b44-60a9e537c7fe/Water+cure.jpg Bit & Bobs - L’affaire du Poison - Make it stand out (Jean-Baptiste Cariven) Le supplice de la marquise de Brinvilliers - Jean-Baptiste Cariven - Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gaillac.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e30c65b9222978599b0f75/c240fb19-1f68-41e8-9d4a-246cdf4e5ebb/Catherine_Deshayes_%28Monvoisin%2C_dite_%C2%ABLa_Voisin%C2%BB%29_1680.jpg Bit & Bobs - L’affaire du Poison - La Voisin All of these arrests eventually led police to Catherine Monvoisin, known as “La Voisin.” La Voisin was a wealthy “sorceress,” fortune teller, midwife, and abortionist, favored by the elite of society. “She had as much money as she wanted,” a colleague said, “Long before she got up in the morning clients would be waiting for her.” La Voisin was also a devout Christian, who believed that her occult powers were a gift from God, in fact, she was arrested on her way out of church in front of Notre Dame. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e30c65b9222978599b0f75/bed49f72-85a3-4c6d-b544-2dbf4732035d/Madame_de_Montespan_c1660.jpg Bit & Bobs - L’affaire du Poison - Montespan La Voisin claimed that Montespan had poisoned his previous mistress and tricked the king into loving her with love potions sold to her by La Voisin. Many of these love spells were uterine in origin, containing ingredients such as menstrual blood and placenta, as if in unconscious acknowledgment of a woman’s primary source of power at the time. La Voisin also claimed that she had arranged black masses for Montespan, led by defrocked priests, in which Montespan had acted as a human alter, posing nude while gruesome rituals involving the sacrifice of newborn babies occurred on top of her naked body. After Louis had grown bored of Montespan, La Voisin claimed that she and Montespan had plotted to kill both the king and his new lover. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e30c65b9222978599b0f75/2b6e36c1-beb0-444c-85e5-12feebb00509/La_marquise_de_Brinvilliers._D.7061.jpg Bit & Bobs - L’affaire du Poison Restout, Jean (dit le Jeune) (Rouen, 26–03–1692 - Paris, 01–01–1768), dessinateur, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons https://www.bloodymary.red/bitsandbobs/the-man-in-the-iron-mask monthly 0.5 2023-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e30c65b9222978599b0f75/130dcef7-743f-43dd-ab3f-ddbdda8bda9c/Louis_XIV_of_France.jpg Bit & Bobs - The Man in the Iron Mask Hyacinthe Rigaud, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e30c65b9222978599b0f75/b89ac2b9-882a-4293-86d0-b376f1e7a3da/Thne+Bastille_IMG_2254.jpg Bit & Bobs - The Man in the Iron Mask - There was actually an imprisoned nobleman named Eustache Dauger de Cavoye, but he was already imprisoned in a different prison, at the time of the first mention of The Man in the Iron Mask. Eushache Dauger de Cavoye was mentioned in a poem composed by a fellow inmate, in which it is claimed that Dauger de Cavoye died in the 1680’s, twenty years before The Man in the Iron Mask died in The Bastille. Photograph by Rama, Wikimedia Commons, Cc-by-sa-2.0-fr, CC BY-SA 2.0 FR <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/fr/deed.en>, via Wikimedia Commons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e30c65b9222978599b0f75/40e3c176-cc18-449c-84c9-691233d2d224/Man_in_the_Iron_Masque_crop.jpg Bit & Bobs - The Man in the Iron Mask - Make it stand out Anonymous; cropped by Beyond My Ken (talk) 09:23, 30 April 2010 (UTC), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e30c65b9222978599b0f75/cd5085c4-7764-48b7-8f15-1144b0cfd0f5/The_Man_in_the_Iron_Mask_%28Green%29.png Bit & Bobs - The Man in the Iron Mask - Many years after the death of The Man in the Iron Mask, French philosopher and writer Voltaire was sent to The Bastille. Voltaire became intrigued by prison gossip about The Man in the Iron Mask. He began recording the convicts’ impressions. Several of the Bastille’s older prisoners described The Man in the Iron Mask as being of “majestic height, young, of a graceful and noble figure. With refined manners, played guitar, served fine food and kept away from contact with other prisoners, visited only by the governor.” Voltaire described the mask as being made of iron, “the chin composed of steel springs, which gave him the liberty to eat with it on.” Most contemporary accounts, however, describe the mask as being black velvet. Voltaire claimed that The Man in the Iron Mask was an older, illegitimate brother of Louis XIV, imprisoned because he was a threat to the king.and out https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e30c65b9222978599b0f75/c210db7b-de7d-4749-9cda-4009c991c1ea/Michel_Lasne%2C_Armand_Jean_du_Plessis%2C_Cardinal_Richelieu%2C_NGA_73789.jpg Bit & Bobs - The Man in the Iron Mask - Another theory posits that The Man in the Iron Mask was the birth father of King Louis XVI. Before the birth of Louis XIV, his father, Louis XIII had been estranged from his wife for fourteen years, additionally he was old and sick. If he died without an heir, the throne would have gone to Louis’s younger brother, Gaston. The king’s minister, the notoriously schemy Cardinal Richelieu, didn’t get along with Gaston and would have lost his position and possibly his life if Gaston came to power. According to the theory, Richeilieu arranged for another man to impregnate the queen and then run off to the new world. The mysterious baby daddy then supposedly returned when Louis XVI was an adult, attempting to extort money from the king, and wound up behind a mask. https://www.bloodymary.red/bitsandbobs/the-mysterious-death-of-edgar-allan-poe monthly 0.5 2023-10-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e30c65b9222978599b0f75/c9291bac-9fdb-4452-8f64-ee5cb8049a9e/Open_Here_I_Flung_the_Shutter._Illustration_to_The_Raven_by_Edgar_Allan_Poe_MET_MM13840.jpg Bit & Bobs - The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe - Make it stand out Open Here I Flung the Shutter. Illustration to The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe, print, Edouard Manet (MET, 24.30.27(4)) https://www.bloodymary.red/bitsandbobs/co-inky-dinks monthly 0.5 2023-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e30c65b9222978599b0f75/bcf4a4e4-682b-4b6a-8393-da0f43950eff/Pype_Hayes_Park_-_geograph.org.uk_-_2404732.jpg Bit & Bobs - Co-Inky-Dinks? - Barbara Forrest and Mary Ashford, were both brutally murdered in Erdington, England. Both women were twenty at the time of their deaths, both women were killed on Whit Monday, a Christian religious holiday. Both women had been out dancing with friends before their attacks. Both were raped and then strangled, both bodies were discovered in Pype Hayes Park. Barbara’s body was found 300 yards away from where Mary’s body had been previously discovered. The most natural conclusion would be that Barbara and Mary were killed by a serial killer. Except for the fact that Barbara was murdered 157 years after Mary! Image by Michael Westley, Wikimedia Commons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e30c65b9222978599b0f75/b13fed3d-0b80-4c9f-a971-5dbdca73ae99/Girl_from_petrovka_movie_poster.jpeg Bit & Bobs - Co-Inky-Dinks? - In 1974 actor Anthony Hopkins, who would later go on to play Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs, was cast in a film adaptation of The Girl from Petrovka based on the novel by George Feifer. Hopkins wanted to prepare for the role by reading the novel. After unsuccessfully trying several London bookstores, Hopkins spotted a forgotten copy of the book on a bench. Upon examination, the book turned out to be annotated by its former owner. Two years later, while filming the movie, Hopkins met the author of The Girl from Petrovka, George Feifer. Hopkins discovered Feifer didn’t have a copy of his own book. Feifer admitted that he had loaned his personal copy to a friend, who had lost the (heavily annotated copy) somewhere in London. Hopkins showed Feifer his copy and it was the very same copy Feifer had lost. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e30c65b9222978599b0f75/5c276bd6-8dee-4926-a25e-dce91763576b/west+end+church.jpg Bit & Bobs - Co-Inky-Dinks? - In 1950’s America church was more than just a place to go on Sundays. It was often the social center of a community. A really active church member could conceivably be at church every night of the week The West End Baptist Church of Nebraska, Source Daily Sun. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e30c65b9222978599b0f75/73e142a7-8901-4f38-bdc5-5629f7c427dd/AnneParrish1923.png Bit & Bobs - Co-Inky-Dinks? - In 1920 American author Anne Parrish was on vacation with her husband in Paris. The couple was wandering through the used bookstores along the river Seine, when Anne spied a familiar book cover, Jack Frost and Other Stories, a picture book which had been a childhood favorite of Parrish. Parrish’s husband began to flip through the book and found an inscription which read, “Anne Parrish 209 N Weber Street, Colorado Springs.” Somehow the book that Parrish had loved as a child in Colorado Springs had managed to travel 4,922 miles away to Paris, France, only to be found in a used book shop by an adult Anne Parrish. Image from Redman, Ben Ray. Speaking of Books The Spur (August 1, 1923): 46, obtained from Wikimedia Commons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e30c65b9222978599b0f75/b800f730-7374-4954-a9f3-7e4d63f02580/RMS_Titanic_3.jpeg Bit & Bobs - Co-Inky-Dinks? - On a cold April midnight a British ocean liner, roughly 800 feet long, the largest ship afloat, crashes into an iceberg on its starboard side in the north Atlantic. Despite being believed to be unsinkable, the ship actually sinks quickly. Because of a shortage of lifeboats more than half of the passengers are trapped on the sinking ship and drown in the icy waters. 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They too catch and eat a turtle, but like the fictional crew of The Grampus the turtle does not have enough meat to sustain them for long. The crew of The Mignonette also discusses cannibalism and even considers drawing straws, but a cabin boy is already sick from drinking seawater, the crew decides to help nature along, dispatches the cabin boy and drinks his blood. The cabin boy’s name? Richard Parker, of course. Edgar Allan Poe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e30c65b9222978599b0f75/1678722675566-YS6SWCEYT858BIGN9STH/Andrew_Johnson_photo_portrait_head_and_shoulders%2C_c1870-1880.jpeg Bit & Bobs - Co-Inky-Dinks? - Andrew Johnson, by Mathew Brady (Wikimedia Commons) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e30c65b9222978599b0f75/1678722907752-Q677DL45O0ZIDPPHUV8U/Lyndon_Johnson_3x4.jpeg Bit & Bobs - Co-Inky-Dinks? - Lyndon B. Johnson, image by Arnold Newman (Wikimedia) Wikimedia Commons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e30c65b9222978599b0f75/79612c8d-ba34-48f1-8edd-b1c7bf6637fc/ArthurGordonPym-illustration.jpeg Bit & Bobs - Co-Inky-Dinks? - In 1838 Edgar Allan Poe, the grandfather of American horror, wrote his one and only full-length novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. In the novel four crewmembers are stranded on a lifeboat after their ship, The Grampus, wrecks. Adrift on a lifeboat with no provisions, the crew catches and eats a turtle, but unfortunately it doesn’t yield enough meat to sustain the survivors for very long. The crew draws straws, crew member Richard Parker draws the short straw, and is then killed and eaten by the crew. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e30c65b9222978599b0f75/1678732646844-6E1RI3D7UZX12FGRRFIC/Abraham_Lincoln_O-77_matte_collodion_print.jpeg Bit & Bobs - Co-Inky-Dinks? - Abraham Lincoln, image by Moses Parker Rice (Wikimedia Commons) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e30c65b9222978599b0f75/1678722029393-953HD8IMG0HNCNRSJJR5/John_F._Kennedy%2C_White_House_color_photo_portrait.jpg Bit & Bobs - Co-Inky-Dinks? - John F. 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It’s not that Hendrix’s endings are disappointing, quite the contrary, his endings are always deeply satisfying, often a little tear-jerky. It’s just that you race through the book, dying to see what happens next, to spend more time with these people- characters that you care about, and then you get to the end and you know that you’ll never experience this book for the first time again. Grady Hendrix novels are more than just stories, they are life events. How to Sell a Haunted House is no different than Grady’s previous novels in that, you don’t want it to end. It tells the story of two estranged adult siblings who must work together to prepare their recently deceased parents' Charleston home for sale. Louise, is a successful single mom, who just wants to get home to her daughter in San Francisco, and Mark, her younger brother, is an unsuccessful creative-type, who works as a bartender in their hometown. Very early on in the process of packing up their mother’s puppet and doll collections, Louise realizes that there is something deeply wrong in their parents house. https://www.bloodymary.red/haunted-journeys daily 0.75 2024-11-01 https://www.bloodymary.red/haunted-journeys/st-michans-church monthly 0.5 2024-11-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e30c65b9222978599b0f75/d3d5f45b-6d14-4e9d-a075-9d74f943f463/St+Michans+8.jpeg Haunted Journeys - St. Michan’s Church - Make it stand out Down through the cellar door… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e30c65b9222978599b0f75/1681326333675-96VPN5QPC49EAVB4HPE4/St%2BMichans%2B7.jpg Haunted Journeys - St. Michan’s Church - unlock the chain and through the barred door... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e30c65b9222978599b0f75/1681326538460-QKTFHMPDR6BCLT09A1AD/st.%2Bmichans%2B6.jpg Haunted Journeys - St. Michan’s Church - you glance over your shoulder towards the daylight.... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e30c65b9222978599b0f75/1692cdcb-85b7-4c43-9f85-ad429c084f91/st+michans+5.jpeg Haunted Journeys - St. Michan’s Church - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e30c65b9222978599b0f75/bb020d52-676d-4878-b0fa-899ee04fce73/st+m+2.jpg Haunted Journeys - St. Michan’s Church - Make it stand out Death mask of Wolfe Tone and caskets of the Sheares Brothers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e30c65b9222978599b0f75/d0e40586-24ba-4b33-8d65-a54a3d74a507/st+michans+4.jpeg Haunted Journeys - St. Michan’s Church - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e30c65b9222978599b0f75/032cfdff-2c46-4b15-89c0-185c88fb6dd5/stone+gravesite.jpg Haunted Journeys - St. Michan’s Church - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e30c65b9222978599b0f75/5c075bb9-cfe6-4e9d-91b3-bdaa024aab6f/st+m.jpg Haunted Journeys - St. Michan’s Church - Make it stand out Three of “The Big Four.” https://www.bloodymary.red/haunted-journeys/tower-of-england monthly 0.5 2023-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e30c65b9222978599b0f75/ff0de742-f9e1-4495-8c34-e838ac1966f3/Hans_Holbein_the_Younger_-_Portrait_of_a_Lady%2C_perhaps_Katherine_Howard_%28Royal_Collection%29.jpeg Haunted Journeys - The Tower of London - Catherine Howard Catherine Howard, Henry VIII’s fifth wife (and cousin to Anne Boleyn), was also executed on The Tower Green, also for adultery. Catherine Howard was between sixteen and twenty-one when she married the forty-nine year old King. They were married for a little over a year, when she was sentenced to death by her husband, also for adultery. Catherine was between sixteen and twenty-one when she was killed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e30c65b9222978599b0f75/673ac7cf-5832-41c0-ba1c-d41819c446a3/Paul_Delaroche_%281797-1856%29_-_The_Execution_of_Lady_Jane_Grey_-_1052_-_Guildhall_Art_Gallery.jpg Haunted Journeys - The Tower of London - Lady Jane Grey Lady Jane Grey was executed by Queen Mary I (daughter of Henry VIII) for treason on The Tower Green after a plot to put her on the throne by her parents and in-laws was thwarted. Countless others were tortured, imprisoned, and executed in Tower of London. A few instruments of torture are present in the basement of the Wakefield Tower. The graffiti of past prisoners can be seen in The Beauchamp Tower. The Execution of Lady Jane Grey by Paul Delaroche hangs in the National Gallery of London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e30c65b9222978599b0f75/eb908510-4d8c-4b65-8695-00e396d2abeb/kasturi-roy-a1LVsvM_zuE-unsplash.jpg Haunted Journeys - The Tower of London - Make it stand out Photo by Katsuri Roy, obtained from Unsplash https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e30c65b9222978599b0f75/170a54ff-6eba-456b-b8f1-d4523140f4c4/Traitors%27_Gate_-_Memorials_of_the_Tower_of_London.jpeg Haunted Journeys - The Tower of London - Make it stand out Illustration from Lieut.-Gen. Lord De Ros "Memorials of the Tower of London", 1866. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e30c65b9222978599b0f75/ba362a61-68b5-4180-92f4-e1e73da5d43b/anne-boleyn-932999.png Haunted Journeys - The Tower of London - Anne Boleyn Henry VIII added to the Tower of London, building lavish quarters for his mistress, Anne Boleyn while attempting to annul his marriage from his first wife, Queen Katherine of Aragon. Ironically, the same lodgings would later become Anne’s prison once he tired of her, as well. Anne Boleyn was executed for adultery on The Tower Green. It is said that she roams the tower with her head tucked under her arm. Artist unknown, National Portrait Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63e30c65b9222978599b0f75/70bd9161-fa6a-42c3-8734-0d974c086797/Murder_of_the_Princes_in_the_Tower_by_J.Northcote_%281786%2C_Petworth_House%29.jpg Haunted Journeys - The Tower of London - The Missing Princes The Tower of London, in addition to housing the crown jewels and the royal mint, has been the location of many sordid episodes in England's past. Built atop Roman ruins by William the Conqueror, the tower is more accurately a compound of medieval buildings. Possibly the most famous scandal is the disappearance of the little princes. After the death of Edward IV in 1483, his sons, 12-year-old Edward V and his younger brother the 9-year-old Richard of Shrewsbury were taken to the Tower of London, on the orders of their uncle, Richard Duke of Gloucester, ostensibly to safely await the coronation of Edward V. It was not unusual for monarchs to await coronation in the tower. However, in this case, three months after the princes were taken to the tower, they were declared illegitimate, and their uncle was crowned King Richard III. The princes were never seen alive again. Murder of the Princes in the Tower, by J. 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Sporadic water drips onto your head, as you encounter the tomb of Philibert Aspairt, a man lost in the catacombs in 1773 and found dead eleven years later. Aspairt had become lost in the catacombs and wandered the tunnels until finally expiring, just a few meters from an exit. Instead of going to the trouble of lugging his body above ground, he was laid to rest where he was found. It is said that the ghost of Philibert protects the catacombs. “Cataphiles”- a mysterious group of fans obsessed with the catacombs who like to hang-out and sometimes party in the catacombs, celebrate Philibert Aspairt on November 3, the anniversary of the day he went missing. In 2004 French police found a movie theater, complete with a large screen, projector, seats, and a full bar in the catacombs. French authorities were never able to find the trespassers. It’s easy to see why folks are obsessed with the catacombs after witnessing human remains not just lining walls, but constructed into patterns sixty feet below street level in a limestone cave. 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