Shoo Fly Don’t Bother Me

Daruma, the founder of Zen Buddhism, his arms are raised above his head and he is holding a fly whisk used during meditation. He is either yelling or laughing. Copper Kozuka by Toshiyuki 1800’s     Shoo Fly Don’t Bother Read More …

Cannabis Dances with the Devil

“Lady, Poya night, Devil dance, Lady like see?” It was our appoo (house servant) who spoke, I had commissioned him to a acquire all information concerning the holding of such rites, made up of barbarism, superstition and genuine Oriental occultism. Read More …

A Mexican Priest Flogs the Corpse of a Dead Wizard, 1887

Cupid Chastised – Bartolomeo Manfredi – between 1605 and 1610   A Mexican Priest Flogs the Corpse of a Dead Wizard I couldn’t even make this stuff up if I tried…   “Yesterday at Villa Libre, the parish priest, in Read More …