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Category Archives: Fun stuff
Christmas 2022
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all our followers!
Merry Christmas 2021
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all! We live in Gothic times but the principle of hope will emerge from the darkness.
Posted in Fun stuff
Tagged Addams Family, Christmas, Gothic Times, Holidays, utopianism
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Coffin Boffin’s #31DaysofHalloween
Halloween is finally here! @DrSamGeorge1, The ‘Coffin Boffin’, would like to thank all those who have accompanied her on this Gothtober Halloween journey. If you are still to view the gothic wonders she has uncover, click to enjoy her spooky … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Fun stuff, OGOM News, Uncategorized
Tagged Gothic, Halloween, Spooky
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Mina’s Paprika Hendl, inspired by Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Guest recipe post from Ella Buchan, co-author of A Gothic Cookbook (featured here also) Unlike Dracula’s cold cuts, this traditional Hungarian dish – also known as Paprika Hendl – is a warm welcome in a bowl, thick, rich and shot … Continue reading
Burns Night: Tam O ‘Shanter
As it’s Burns Night, here’s a link to Robert Burns’s delightfully Gothic poem Tam O ‘Shanter (1791), in which, after a heavy bout of drinking, Tam narrowly escapes the clutches of a horde of witches. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43815/tam-o-shanter
OGOM Halloween Countdown: 31 Days of Spookiness
Those who believe that the spirit world and the living world co-exist, always hidden from each other, will see the barrier between them open in the witching hour. Here at OGOM we are leaving the doors of perception open. We … Continue reading
Easter Greetings from OGOM
Happy holidays to all from OGOM. Here’s a cover from a turn-of the-19th-century satirical magazine Puck announcing a very mischievous Easter: However you are spending the bank holiday, I hope you catch some mummers or pace egg plays as they … Continue reading
Merry Christmas!!
Merry Christmas everyone from the OGOM Project!!!
Hallowe’en Greetings From OGOM
Hello OGOMERS, Wishing you a spooktacular Hallowe’en evening!!! We are just back from our Supernatural St Albans Halloween Tour which went down a real treat. Around 40 people engaged in our wonderfully weird history of witches, tortured martyrs, vampire graves, dragons, … Continue reading
Will the Blood Moon Come Too Soon?
Serpents, dragons, jaguars, bats and wolves are all associated with the eclipse, according the Smithsonian Magazine’s What Folklore Tells us About the Eclipse. You have probably heard of the myth of the wolf who swallows the sun or moon causing an eclipse or … Continue reading
Posted in Critical thoughts, Fun stuff
Tagged Blood Moon, Bonnie Tyler, eclipse, Vampires, varcolac, Werewolves
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