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With a tagline of “Stay weird,” The Oddities Blog’s purpose is “to celebrate the weird and wild eccentricities throughout history.” It’s part medical curiosities in the vein of the Mütter Museum, part historical peculiarities, and part your crazy aunt’s attic.
Not only is this material fascinating for its own sake, much of it is a fantastic source of inspiration for art or props. There’s a lovely miniature curiosity collection which would be an amazing display piece or gift; it’d be fun to browse antique shops and thrift stores for treasures to display. There are lots of vintage medical illustrations and unusual woodcuts like this leaf from The Nuremberg Chronicle which would be great as part of a collage or scrapbook. And there are historical oddities like the relic which is purported to be the head of a possessed nun; a prop version would be a marvelous addition to a wunderkammer, particularly if you rigged it so that the eyes would occasionally glow red.
Note that a few of the images are technically NSFW, and more than a few are kind of squicky, so browse accordingly.
(No prizes, but if you can answer them all without googling you get bragging rights.)
Which “Scream Queen” made a horror workout video in which a masked killer stalks her exercise buddies, then she shows some out-of-shape zombies the best ways to keep fit?
A) Jamie Lee Curtis
B) Heather Langenkamp
C) Linnea Quigley
D) Debbie Rochon
E) Neve Campbell
This Japanese river imp has a water-filled depression on top of its head which is its source of power; it can be defeated by bowing to it, forcing it to politely return the bow and spill the water.
The TV series Being Human (BBC version) takes place in what city?
A) London
B) Cardiff
C) Bath
D) Glasgow
E) Bristol
This Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett sees Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg pitted against Count Magpyr and his family of vampires.
The album Sunfighter includes songs about werewolves (“When I Was a Boy I Watched the Wolves”) and cannibalism (“Silver Spoon”); it was recorded by two members of this much more famous band:
A) The Grateful Dead
B) Jefferson Airplane
C) Cream
D) The Who
E) Jethro Tull
The Scottish were-creatures called Selkies can transform into what animal?
The first known mermaid stories are about the goddess Atargartis, from which ancient civilization?
A) Assyria
B) Carthage
C) Sumeria
D) Crete
E) Babylonia
The 1982 movie The Thing opens with a helicopter pursuing what animal?
In the Voudou religion, who is the supreme deity?
A) Papa Legba
B) Bondye
C) Simbi
D) Damballah
E) Baron Samedi
In Beetlejuice, what is the name of the Maitland’s case worker?
You’d better clear your calendar before clicking this link because you’re going to be browsing for a while.