I work for a company that sells supplies and equipment for conservators, and earlier in the month we attended a conservator’s conference where a woman did a presentation on restoring a piece found in her great aunt’s attic: a floral hairwork wreath. You get a real respect for this strange tradition when you see just…

This. People don’t realise how thoroughly and completely Germany has dealt with its past. If most countries did even half of what they have done, the world would be better off. But hey, who cares about facts, as usual, it’s just Jezebel is trying to manufacture unjustified outrage over comedy.

This looks awesome. Germany has owned this terrible history and taught it in their schools to make sure it never happens again. Germany has done a better job than most countries, really. America hasn’t taught and owned the terrible history of slavery and native genocide with the completeness that Germany has.

We live in a world where the Israeli PM hates Muslims SO MUCH that he’s willing to blame them for steering Hitler toward Holocaust.

OMG, this! Shortly after we got married my husband and I had a HUGE fight because he wanted to go out drinking with his friends and brothers and I wanted us to do something. But he left and I cried myself to sleep only to wake up to him pulling the covers off me. He was fully dressed and his skin was ice cold (it WAS…

I know, I’m THE WORST! When my boyfriend is trying to be protective of me after I’m totally almost schwasted from running 10+ miles and don’t have it in me to sprint to the car, I actually accepted his offer, nay COMMAND, that I get on the bike and go as fast as I can to the car! So crazy and mean. #badgirlfriend

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We have an old (early 20th century) Grimm’s fairytales book in our family and I grew up with these versions of the tales. Only “the story of the juniper tree” was censored in a way, it was written in some old dialect. I was so confused when I met other children who only knew the disneyfied versions.

AMAZING! It worked! THANK YOU!! :)

I wonder if it was even your mom. I had a similar experience when I was in kindergarten and it’s never left my mind. My mom worked crazy shifts when I was little and we lived with my grandma, my dad and my sister. Sometimes my mom or grandma would get me up and ready for school depending on who was available.

Oh! My mom had a copy of this book when I was growing up—it’s a really beautifully illustrated collection of (mostly Celtic, I think) folklore about faeries, kelpies, spriggans, and so on. I loved it, and spent hours poring over it as a kid. A lot of it is very dark, indeed.

Might not be a ghost. In several European countries, there are legends of domovoi (name varies by region). Basically house guardian that can be a prankster sometimes; usually appears either as an animal (cat/dog) or a man/woman ressembling the “master” of the house. Animals are not scared of him (vs ghosts) and if…

You know, it’s kind of funny, but I’ve been asking men and women how much they would have to get paid to sell their used underwear and every single woman has been able to name a price. But the one guy I asked was like “Gross! No! I don’t want to be some creepy dude’s masturbation material.” My theory is that every…

I forgot to tell my poultrygeist story! I have written about it before, but here it is: