Recently, after a long pause, I have noticed some activity on Dr. Beachcombing’s blog – the last entry is about (I think) an urban legend about neo-Nazi groups sticking razor blades to the back of their posters. The idea, of course, is that an opponent who tears off the poster will get hurt badly. This strange case was reported by “The Times” in early December.
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I know rumours about poisoned sweets being dropped by enemy aircraft during World Wars (actually my grandmother told me once she heard them as a little girl during the German occupation of Poland). But explosive pencils are new to me. Centro per la Raccolta delle Voci e Leggende Contemporanee is asking about them.
OK, let’s drop some goodies on the Italians.
Filip Graliński
The always inspiring Dr. Beachcombing tried to take a quantitative approach to assess the evolution of the supernatural last year, in particular he used Google Ngram Viewer in order to generate the graph presenting changes in the frequencies of 5 English words:
