Category Archives: New England Folklore
-
Two New England Cults: ‘The Live For-Evers’ and ‘The Church of the End Times’
Leave a commentNovember 7, 2017 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
One plot staple of Call of Cthulhu (and in many other Lovecraftian RPGs and Lovecraftian fiction) are cults – so …
Continue reading -
Guy Fawkes Night in New England
Leave a commentNovember 3, 2017 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
While Halloween is now past, in New England, until about a century ago, there was another night of masks and …
Continue reading -
New England’s Alchemists, pt. 2: Bulkeley and Lodowick
Leave a commentOctober 24, 2017 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
(You’d be forgiven in thinking that I’d forgotten about our various orphaned posts, but I really do intend to wrap …
Continue reading -
New England Halloween folklore
Leave a commentOctober 17, 2017 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
It has been a while since I’ve updated the blog here. Sadly time is at a premium of late and …
Continue reading -
“Black” Dinah Prince – an 18th century ‘witch’ in York, Maine; pt. 1
Leave a commentAugust 16, 2017 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
One of my interests is account of witchcraft (you can imagine I’m always using air quotes around that term unless …
Continue reading -
The Dover Demon, 40 Years Later, part 1
Leave a commentApril 21, 2017 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
Tonight is the 40th anniversary of the first sighting of the so-called Dover Demon and, in honor or such as …
Continue reading -
“Supernatural Folklore in Rhode Island” (1956)
2August 31, 2016 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
As part of my Internet roamings for all things Lovecraftian, New England-y, curious, and otherwise useful to Keepers, I spotted …
Continue reading
