The Lady | True Paranormal Stories & Spooky Folklore | Ep #50

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So if I'm ever a.
Ghost that's haunting you and

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you don't know what to call me.
You have my permission to call

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me Henrietta.
Welcome stranger to Madam

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Strange Ways, where I Madam
Strange Ways narrate your true

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strange stories of the
unexplained whether you're a.

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Skeptic, A believer, or.
Some secret third thing.

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Stick around.
After the story.

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Where I will.
Share my strange thoughts and

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strange research about said
strange story.

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Along the way, I'll also drag
you down a slew of strange

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rabbit holes, kicking and
screaming if needs must, before

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we get to today's true strange
story or any sort of kicking or

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screaming.
The strangest of shout outs to

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Ted, Keith and Tori, thank you.
So much to my Pharaoh.

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Oh, was that?
Thunder, it must be about to

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rain Hellcats and Hell hounds
outside then, so you know what

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that means.
Settle in for a true strange

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story here with Madam Strange
Ways,

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The Lady by Tori.
As promised, I am taking some

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time to sit down and write you
another e-mail with another

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story from my childhood home.
When I was visiting my mom and

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granny in the early 2000s, I was
sitting at the dining room table

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with my granny.
I saw something out of the

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corner of my eye just outside of
the window, but when I looked I

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didn't see anything.
There is a big.

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Crepe.
Myrtle tree just outside.

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The window so I.
Thought it might have been a.

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Bird or a squirrel?
Then I saw it again and turned

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my head very fast and my granny
noticed.

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She asked did you see her and
motioned to the window.

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I told her I saw something move
but didn't see what it was.

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She said it's her.
I asked her to tell me more.

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She.
Hesitated, but started telling.

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Me how they would see her
walking outside the window or

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sometimes down the hallway.
She told me that they didn't

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know.
Who she was or where she came

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from, but that she always gave
her and my mom bad feelings but

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didn't really do too much more
than that.

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She told me that they called her
Henrietta once.

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After they had started.
Seeing Henry around and they

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said that she got very upset and
the entire room got cold and

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they both felt very sick.
After that, they didn't know

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what to call her.
And they just tried.

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To avoid her when she was
around.

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I.
Asked her how long.

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She'd been around and Granny
said about four or five months.

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A couple of weeks.
Later I was.

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Visiting again and I was sitting
in the back of my mom's room

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talking to her and I heard my
granny.

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Call my mom's.
Name My mom was holding my

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daughter and giving her a bottle
so.

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I told her that I would.
Go check on her when I got up to

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my granny's room.
She was.

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Sleeping in her recliner.
I.

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Quietly called out to her and
she didn't move or acknowledge

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me.
So I figure.

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She may have called out in her
sleep.

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I went back to my mom's room and
told her that Granny was.

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Sleeping my mom.
Looked at me and said it must.

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Be her.
I was like, who?

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The lady that walks around the
house.

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She said yes, that she had been
calling her name and when she

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goes to check.
On her that.

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Granny was usually sleeping or
just watching TVI asked how long

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this had been going on and she
said about a week.

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I was on the phone a few days
later with my mom and she heard

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my granny call her name and
walked up to check on her and

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said she was sleeping and that
the lady had been calling her

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more and more and it was getting
more frequent since I had left

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the last time.
She also told me that a couple

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of times she had felt someone
pull her hair just a little.

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I told.
Her that I would look into it

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and see what I could do.
I did some research and found

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that you can burn a black
candle.

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And it can potentially trap a
spirit.

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And then you can throw the wax
into moving water and it should

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get rid of the spirit.
So I decided that's what I

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would.
Try.

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I went to an occult shop in
Austin before my next visit and

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got a black candle.
I told my mom what I wanted to

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try and she was open.
To the idea.

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Since she was getting tired of
hearing her name being called at

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all hours of the day and night,
when I got to the house, I asked

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my mom where she had seen her,
heard her.

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Last.
And she said it was in her room

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so I told her to give me some
time and I would be upfront

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soon.
I lit the candle and sat there

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and watched it burn down to
nothing when I looked.

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At the wax.
I saw something there and asked

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my mom to look and she said she
saw a woman's face.

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My mom and I went down to the
river that runs through the town

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and I threw the wax into the
moving water thankfully after

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that day.
None of us saw or.

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Heard her again.
Tori, thank you so much for

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sending me.
Yet.

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Another one of your.
Tori stories.

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I love a good Tori story.
Thank you so much.

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If you're listening and you
haven't.

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Heard the other stories that she
has submitted.

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Tori has also done.
Let me think.

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Off the top of.
My head, How I Met.

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Henry and the girls and after
this story there is actually a

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fourth Tori story that I.
Haven't shared yet.

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I think that's it.
Tori let me know am I wrong?

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Met on strangeways@gmail.com.
I may be missing one anyway.

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Henry is.
Also mentioned in this.

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Story.
From How I Met Henry fame.

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Go back and listen to those
stories after you listen to this

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episode.
Not right now.

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You're busy right now.
Don't listen now, lesson later.

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After you're done with this one,
it'll be.

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Fun.
Why is it scarier?

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Like not knowing.
Her name and her very clearly

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not wanting you to.
Use her name.

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Why is that scarier?
I can't explain.

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It but it.
Is it's.

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Just it's just the truth.
And Tori, good for you.

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You know what?
You're taking care.

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You, you were taking care of
your Mama.

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You were like, you know what?
No, not in my house, not around

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here, partner.
We're going to, we're just going

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to take care of this.
You went.

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You got yourself a black candle.
You.

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You.
Figured out witchcraft.

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And then?
You just witchcrafted you just

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you just did it.
You know, witch witch.

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But like, cool.
Witch, you know, like.

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You're not a regular witch.
You're you're a cool witch.

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I guess all witches are cool.
All witches are cool.

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I'm just going to say.
What I like to do here on Madam

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Strange Ways is.
Talk about not just supernatural

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explanations, but also mundane
explanations.

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So we like.
To do both I.

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Generally have.
Way more of 1.

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Than the other.
And that is the case today.

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I have a lot of fun, interesting
stuff to talk about.

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But what we're going to talk
about first is the one that I

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have the.
Fewest theories for.

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Which is.
The mundane explanations.

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I I OK from a sceptical point of
view, how could I possibly

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explain three different people
seeing the same figures out of

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the corner of their?
Eye and hearing grandma.

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'S voice Let me start with the
big Let me start with the

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grandma voice.
Maybe she is just.

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Calling out in her sleep.
You know, I mean, we'll never

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know because this was the.
2000s.

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Ish esque.
So now if this were happening

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now, I would.
Say let's.

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Get a webcam.
Let's set up a.

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Let's set up a.
Granny Cam Live.

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Feed so you can.
Watch her all the.

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Time and then when you hear the.
Voice you can make.

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Sure, you can go back and look
at the footage.

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Enhance.
Enhance.

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That you can see was.
Granny actually calling out her

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daughter's name?
Maybe we'll never know.

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That's the thing.
About some of these stories is

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you'll never know.
I kind of like not knowing.

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I kind of like.
I hate not knowing.

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Things, but I also in some cases
I do.

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Recognize that it is better to
not.

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Can you hear the kiddies they
want inside?

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But it's recording time.
OK, we're going to continue.

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I guess like how you would how
you would explain seeing things

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out of the corner of your eye.
I mean, you know, Tori.

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And Granny and Mama.
Tori.

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Are all kind of seeing all kinds
of weird things.

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In that house, so.
Are you just more heightened?

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Are you on edge?
Is it also a situation where

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you're primed?
To see.

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Things out of the corner of your
eyes.

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Maybe.
Honestly, I think those are my

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mundane explanations if.
You've got a skeptical.

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Or a mundane or a naturalistic.
Explanation that you would like

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to share.
Let me know.

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I'm out of
strangeways@gmail.com.

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OK, now.
It's time to get into the

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paranormal stuff.
The cool.

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Fun stuff.
All right, so right off the bat.

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What are we?
Looking at here, what kind of

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haunting because.
It's clearly a haunting.

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What happened?
Is it a residual?

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Haunting.
Or is it an?

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Intelligent, haunting.
I feel like it added an extra.

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I feel like I'm.
Throwing in some extra.

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Syllables.
Syllables.

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In there.
So let me start that over.

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Residual haunting or intelligent
haunting, which one are we

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looking at here?
All right.

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So as as we've talked.
About before residual hauntings.

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Those are also called psychic
impressions.

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It's.
Basically like the clip of a.

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Movie playing on loop.
Across time forever, ad nauseam.

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Which is also basically the
concept of the Stone Tape

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theory.
The Stone Tape theory is a

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pseudo.
Scientific claim that ghosts and

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hauntings occur when traumatic
events are imprinted on certain

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stones or other materials.
Like, I guess plaster.

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Walls.
Question mark.

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And are subsequently replayed.
Similar to a magnetic.

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Tape recording.
Besides residual hauntings or

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stone tape theory hauntings.
You've got your intelligent

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hauntings, Beetlejuice, however
stupid he may seem.

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Is an intelligent, haunting
basically every horror movie

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with a ghost.
Is an intelligent haunting.

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The 6th.
Sense.

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Full of intelligent hauntings.
Whether the Spirit?

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Has you know.
Like something unresolved.

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From their life.
When they died.

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Or maybe they just didn't.
Get the memo to.

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Head towards the light I.
Whatever the reason, the the

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ghost is sticking around and
it's making it your problem.

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It's your problem now, so
they're going to be making

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noise.
They're going to be.

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Possibly tugging on your hair.
However lightly which that.

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Feels like an escalation.
I don't love it.

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So I would say though.
As far as hauntings go, this is

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a.
Pretty classic clear cut.

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Intelligent.
Haunting.

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But not only was the lady
talking, the lady was.

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Mimicking.
Which brings me to mimics, which

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some of you may have been
wondering if I.

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Would mention in this.
Specific story mimics so hot

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right now I feel like every 3rd.
Post on Reddit.

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Is about mimics and.
Also mimic stories all over tik.

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T.O.K, I get it.
They're super scary.

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It's incredibly unnerving.
But this isn't giving mimic.

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I guess because like typically
you don't see a mimic you

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typically you.
Just hear a mimic mimicking your

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family.
So there is a mimicry about, but

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I don't think.
It is a mimic TM, but I think

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it's safe to say it's not a
mimic because you were seeing

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her from the corner of your eye.
Tori But OK, you know how I just

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mentioned like mimics are so
popular.

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Why are they so popular So.
Here's a rabbit hole.

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That I just went down because I
had.

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To know why are they so popular?
What shot them into popularity

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in the past few years?
Because it's crazy.

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So I pulled up Google.
Trends.

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Which is.
It's such a fun tool.

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I've wasted a lot of time.
On Google Trends.

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Like such as now.
I pulled up Google.

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Trends and I looked up Google.
Searches for.

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Mimic ghost as the term because
like I feel.

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Like mimic wasn't enough.
I could have done some other

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ones.
It's fine, don't worry about it.

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So the term mimic.
Ghost shot up in popularity,

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like way high in popularity in
February 2022, which apparently,

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apparently I did not know this.
If you're listening and you know

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what?
I'm going to say Gold Star to

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you.
Gold Star, apparently.

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February 2022.
Elden Ring.

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The video game.
Elden Ring came.

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Out and there's a.
Mimic monster in the.

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Game, which I assume is a
reference to the Dungeons and

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Dragons monster of the same
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Then interest dipped back down,
but it was still higher than it

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was before 2022.
And then?

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It spiked a little bit again and
I looked up what?

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Game.
Came out around the time that

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the new spike happened and it
was DLC.

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For Elden Ring, it's still
Elden.

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Ring.
So I.

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Blame Elden Ring for.
Just bringing it into.

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Like, I don't know.
The cultural zeitgeist.

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Am I using that?
Term properly?

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Who knows?
We may never know.

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Do you know why?
Mimics have.

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Suddenly become so popular.
Let me know

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madamstrangeways@gmail.com.
Are you a mimic?

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Let me know, we want to have you
on the show.

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Madam Strangeways at Gmail.
Dot com.

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Anyway, enough about mimics,
because this is not a mimic.

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OK, let's just let's.
Circle back.

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We're coming.
Out of the we're we're escaping

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the rabbit hole we are getting.
Back to the main story.

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So since Tori, Granny and Mama.
Tori.

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All saw the lady who shall never
henceforth be called Henrietta.

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Which, by the way, I love.
The name Henrietta, I think it's

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so cute.
Like do you guys?

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Remember Mr. Rogers?
And he had his little what was

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it?
Imagination land or fantasy land

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or something like that.
With all the puppets.

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And he had a puppet that was
called Henrietta Pussycat.

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She was so.
Cute.

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She was my favorite.
So if I'm ever a ghost.

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That's haunting you and you
don't know what to call me.

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You have my permission.
To call me Henrietta.

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I'll allow it.
That's fine.

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All right, now we're.
Actually out of the.

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We're actually out of the rabbit
hole.

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Back to the story, anyway.
If I were a.

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Paranormal investigator and I
had to make a.

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Call remotely without being
there to actually.

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Investigate, I guess.
I would say that.

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This is an intelligent haunting
of some kind.

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But then I would also want to
know.

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What had changed or happened
around the?

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Time that the lady showed up.
Like anything emotional,

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anything.
Stressful.

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Or like, were you?
Guys moving?

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Stuff around the house.
Were you doing construction?

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On the House.
Like did someone pass?

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Away was someone.
Going to pass away.

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You know, just.
Just those.

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Or hey, did you bring a cursed?
Object in the house.

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Did you buy a Haunted Objects
object?

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Or plural objects, either one.
Those are questions that I would

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have for you.
And the moment.

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In the early 2000s.
So.

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If we can figure.
Out how to.

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Time travel Tori, I think we can
get those answers, so keep me

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updated, OK?
I wanted to keep this.

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Episode short, but I am only not
even halfway through my notes so

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we're going to just we're going
to move we're going to quick

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we're going to move quickly.
What I thought was really.

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Interesting was the black.
Candle and I didn't want.

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To just talk about like.
You know, Wiccan magic or.

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Any kind of specific magic?
I kind of was like, why are

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they?
Black.

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What?
Why?

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Why are they black candles like
specifically for this purpose?

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So.
I wanted to know I've gone down

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a rabbit hole.
You're coming down with me.

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Here we go.
Black candles and magic.

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You typically see them used as
spiritual cleansing or hex

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breaking shadow.
Word protection.

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And of course.
In this case, banishing.

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Now red candles are for Passion
White.

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Candles are for purification,
purple candles are.

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For psychic insight, obviously.
You see, there's like there's

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different things that are.
Assigned to different color

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candles.
But then I was like why and

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when?
Who, what, when, where, why,

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and.
How all of the?

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Questions.
I like to.

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Ask every episode.
So here's something from in.

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Morning, cult.com.
Morning Like MOURN.

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Which is like a candle store
they're.

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Super cool gothy candles, but
they have like a shockingly well

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sited blog.
Entry about candle.

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Magic written by Travis
Lasafray.

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Let me know, Travis.
Did I say that right?

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We'll find out, but here's this
entry the origins of.

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Candle magic traced back to the
earliest civilizations where

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fire was revered as a divine
force.

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Ancient Egyptians as early as 3.
1000 BCE used early forms of

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wicked candles made from
beeswax.

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And animal fat, often burning
them as offerings to gods and

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spirits.
Similarly in ancient Rome.

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Candles were lit.
During ceremonies and religious

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rites symbolizing the presence
of.

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Deities and guiding the.
Spirits of the deceased.

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So you've got spirits deceased
all right.

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In many cultures, fire.
Was seen as a bridge between the

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physical and spiritual worlds.
Spiritual.

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This is me.
I've added this in Jewish

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culture.
For instance, when a loved one

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dies, you have a candle lit
during Shiva.

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The seven days of.
Mourning, and again every year

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on the anniversary of their
death.

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So.
Again, we have like.

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Spirits, we have the.
Deceased.

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So here we go.
During the Middle Ages, candle

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magic was deeply intertwined
with folk beliefs and Christian

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traditions.
Candles were often blessed and

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used in religious ceremonies
while everyday people.

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Turn to them for protection and
divination.

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Holy.
Candles blessed by clergy were

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believed to ward off evil
spirits.

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And misfortune.
And folk.

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Magic known as cunning.
Craft or hedge witchery?

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Which I love.
Hedge Witchery.

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Colored candles were used in
spells for love, prosperity, and

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healing.
The belief that different candle

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colors carried specific energies
likely.

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Emerge from medieval alchemy.
And and.

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Astrological traditions which
connected colors to planetary

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influences and you know.
I was like.

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I'm in.
We're here we go, medieval

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alchemy rabbit hole.
I just shot down that.

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So what you see in a lot of
medieval alchemy, you've got

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colors yellow, white, red,
black, right?

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Well, those also align.
Those colors?

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Align with the four.
Humors of Greek.

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Medicine.
Ancient Greek medicine, to be

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clear.
Yellow.

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Bile phlegm, which is white,
Blood which is red, obviously.

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And black bile.
Famously, everyone knows black

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bile.
And if you're curious, what are

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the humors?
Humorism.

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Was a system of medicine.
Detailing a.

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Supposed makeup and.
Workings of the human body

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adopted by ancient.
Greek and Roman physicians and

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philosophers.
It fell out of favor in the

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17th.
Century and was definitively

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disproved with the discovery of
microbes.

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So microbes displaced the
humors.

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Microbes killed the humorism *.
There's something there.

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The concept of humors may have
origins in ancient Egyptian

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medicine or Mesopotamia.
Although it was not.

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Systemized until Greek thinkers.
So the word.

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Humor is a translation of Greek
chimos chimos chimos, which

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means literally juice or SAP, or
metaphorically.

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Flavor, which is weird.
Early texts on Indian Ayurveda

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medicine presented a theory.
On 3 or 4.

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Humors Doses.
Which they sometimes linked with

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the five.
Elements 5.

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Earth, Air, water, fire.
And space, apparently.

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Does this kind of sound like
magic to you?

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Because it kind of sounds like
magic.

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To me, earth, air, fire, water,
space and then all the blessings

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and the spirits and wanting to.
Ward off spirits.

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It doesn't.
Doesn't this all kind of sound

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like magic to you?
Of course it's not.

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Magic because they didn't like
magic.

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But it sounds kind of like
magic.

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That like I love.
Especially that this is.

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Basically like a science to
them, since the microbes

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unseeded the humors anyway.
And of course.

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All four humors exist in
everybody and if.

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They're out of balance.
That's when you have problems.

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You can have too much yellow.
Bile or.

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Like too much.
Blood, I guess.

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Oh, I guess that's when you
would.

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Do bloodletting.
See if you have.

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Too much blood.
I didn't go this far down the

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rabbit hole.
But I've also heard and kind of

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read a lot about humors, but not
to understand the process just.

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Do you know what?
I mean like you, you, you're.

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Exposed to something, but you
don't actually do the research

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to fully understand the concept.
And now I'm kind of putting this

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all together, I guess if you.
Have too much blood?

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Leeches.
I bet leeches are kind of for.

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All of the humor problems
anyway.

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Black bile was associated with a
melancholy.

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Nature and get this.
The word.

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Melancholy itself.
Derives from the Greek word for.

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Black bile?
What?

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Also depression was attributed
to excess or unnatural black

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bile.
So melancholy depression?

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Come on, this is weird.
A Swedish.

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Physician suggested that.
I'm sorry I didn't give enough.

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I'm still.
Stuck on the melancholy the the

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word melancholy itself deriving
from the Greek.

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Word for black bile.
What do you mean?

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That's wild.
OK, I thought this was really.

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Interesting too because I guess
I did wonder like where do they

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even come up with?
This stuff.

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Well, here you go.
A Swedish.

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Physician suggested that.
The four humors were.

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Based.
Upon the observation of blood.

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Clotting.
In a transparent container.

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Like.
Glass because they didn't have

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plastic back then.
When blood is.

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Drawn in a glass container and
left undisturbed for about an

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hour. 4 different layers.
Can be seen.

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A dark clot.
Forms at the bottom the black

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bile.
Above the clot is a layer.

467
00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:50,320
Of red blood cells.
The blood, duh.

468
00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:53,200
Above this is a.
Whitish layer of white blood

469
00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:55,200
cells.
The phlegm, as they called it.

470
00:21:55,360 --> 00:21:57,120
And the top layer is clear
yellow.

471
00:21:57,120 --> 00:22:01,440
Serum the yellow bile.
Oh, OK, that actually you.

472
00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:02,800
Know what?
I'm going to give it to him.

473
00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:04,800
I kind of see where they were.
Going with this.

474
00:22:05,120 --> 00:22:07,280
So anyway.
We've got black bile, right?

475
00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:08,680
And then going.
Back to alchemy.

476
00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:10,360
I looked it up.
Pluto.

477
00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:12,800
Is the planet associated?
With black.

478
00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:15,960
How do we know Pluto?
Let's see.

479
00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:19,160
It's almost like we were really
familiar with.

480
00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:21,360
Pluto, not the planet.
The God.

481
00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:22,560
And that's.
Because in.

482
00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:24,120
Ancient Greek religion and.
Mythology.

483
00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:26,160
Pluto.
Was the ruler of the underworld.

484
00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:28,760
But you.
Probably know him as Hades.

485
00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:32,360
No, they're the same person.
So again.

486
00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:35,680
Spirits deceased.
The underworld.

487
00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:39,200
Black Pluto.
Melancholy.

488
00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:41,520
This is crazy.
Even in modern.

489
00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:45,720
Wicca black candles represent.
Loss, Sadness, Discord

490
00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:47,840
releasement.
I don't know if that's.

491
00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:51,520
A word, negativity, etcetera.
I mean, doesn't that sound?

492
00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:54,800
Crazy familiar like.
Is this where we got black?

493
00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:58,600
As a banishment color for candle
magic I you know I honestly

494
00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:01,080
don't have a definitive answer
because I had to rein myself in

495
00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:04,600
because otherwise I will spend
an entire week researching.

496
00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:07,080
One single episode.
And I got to stop.

497
00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:09,080
It's a.
Problem I have a problem.

498
00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:11,040
It's the Yapper's dilemma and
also.

499
00:23:11,240 --> 00:23:14,240
The Google's dilemma.
The researcher's dilemma.

500
00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:16,280
It's a problem.
I'm just surrounded by dilemmas.

501
00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:17,960
So I.
Had to stop myself from going

502
00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:20,600
further down this rabbit hole.
But do you have any insight into

503
00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:21,760
this do?
You have any?

504
00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:25,560
Thoughts on?
The specific use of colors with

505
00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:26,720
specific.
Candle magic.

506
00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:28,080
Let me know Madam Strangeways at
Gmail.

507
00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:30,360
Dot com.
Also if you want to.

508
00:23:30,360 --> 00:23:33,240
Learn about candle magic to
perform your own.

509
00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:38,360
Candle magic.
I hear a fellow Madam has the

510
00:23:38,360 --> 00:23:39,960
best.
Guide around which is called the

511
00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:42,240
Book of Candle Magic by.
Madam Pamita.

512
00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:44,520
She actually has a fun.
Experiment that she challenges

513
00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:46,440
you to do early in the book.
I couldn't find any.

514
00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:48,640
Libraries that have it in Libby,
so.

515
00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:51,080
I only got to read the preview.
So the candle experiment is

516
00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:52,520
basically.
You take two birthday.

517
00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:54,240
Candles.
From the same pack, and then you

518
00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:57,080
charge one of them with your
energy and you don't charge the

519
00:23:57,080 --> 00:23:58,760
other one.
And you charge that one with

520
00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:00,920
your energy by like rubbing.
Your hands together and.

521
00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:02,920
And holding the candle tight and
kind of like.

522
00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:06,880
Picturing and imagining putting
your energy into it.

523
00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:08,520
And maybe.
You have a specific.

524
00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:10,160
Thought that you have like you
you want to.

525
00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:12,720
Charge it.
With the positive good.

526
00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:14,120
Luck, energy, and then you
think.

527
00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:16,080
I don't know.
Lucky thoughts anyway.

528
00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:17,800
You have to.
Spend a few minutes doing this.

529
00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:19,120
She's very.
Specific you have to.

530
00:24:19,120 --> 00:24:20,480
Spend a few minutes doing this.
This is.

531
00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:22,680
Extremely important.
You only do that.

532
00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:24,840
To the one candle, though, you
leave the other candle alone.

533
00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:28,520
Then you use a flame to soften.
The little butt of both of the

534
00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:29,840
candles.
I don't know what else you call

535
00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:31,640
that.
I think it's a butt you.

536
00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:33,480
You like the little candle, but
just enough.

537
00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:35,760
So that the candle melts.
And then you stick both of those

538
00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:38,600
candles straight up on a plate.
Or a surface, probably a plate,

539
00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:40,320
and then you light.
Both and then.

540
00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:42,880
You watch how they act now,
Madame Pamita.

541
00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:44,280
Says.
That the one you energetically

542
00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:47,280
charged should burn brighter or
have a stronger flame or

543
00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:48,880
something like that.
Something impressive.

544
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:51,920
Maybe it burns quicker?
But she does put the onus on

545
00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:53,040
you.
That if.

546
00:24:53,120 --> 00:24:55,360
You didn't put in.
Real effort into infusing the

547
00:24:55,360 --> 00:24:57,680
one candle with your energy.
Then it won't work.

548
00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:00,640
Which is kind of.
What you hear a lot of like

549
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:04,000
snake oil type salesman say like
if.

550
00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:05,360
They're selling you something
and it doesn't.

551
00:25:05,360 --> 00:25:06,080
Work.
It's your fault.

552
00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:08,400
It's your fault.
Obviously it's not their fault.

553
00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:10,080
It's your fault you didn't
believe hard enough or pray

554
00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:11,000
hard.
Enough or spend enough?

555
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,080
Money or yada yada.
Yada, but I'm not.

556
00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:15,000
Trying to.
Call a fellow Madam a snake oil.

557
00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,280
Salesman, you know, I mean she
seems, she seems.

558
00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:19,600
Like a pretty cool gal.
Because first of all, she's

559
00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:21,880
Madam, so you know I've got
respect for her.

560
00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:24,280
Anyway, you should try this out.
On your own because I want to

561
00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:26,280
try too, but hold on a second.
You know what occurred.

562
00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:27,800
To me as I was reading.
All this out loud.

563
00:25:29,160 --> 00:25:31,720
What are you warming the?
Candle up.

564
00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:34,080
Like with your hand because she
specifically.

565
00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:36,800
Says rub your hands together to
get them warm and then you're

566
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:38,080
holding the candle in your hand
for.

567
00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:40,440
A few minutes.
And then I feel like one of them

568
00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:42,920
is going to.
Burn faster, don't you think so?

569
00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:45,000
I guess maybe part of the?
Experiment is that.

570
00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:47,120
We got to charge it
energetically.

571
00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:49,480
And then put it in the
refrigerator.

572
00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:50,840
Let it.
Like come back.

573
00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:53,320
To room temperature I don't
know, but they both need.

574
00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:54,240
To be the same.
Temperature.

575
00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:55,960
Otherwise this isn't going to
work.

576
00:25:56,520 --> 00:25:58,440
Oh, I guess you have to hold.
Here's what you.

577
00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:00,320
Do nevermind.
I've solved it.

578
00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:02,520
You hold both of them in your
hands.

579
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:04,080
But you only energetically
charge.

580
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:06,720
One of them.
OK, you don't energetically

581
00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:09,800
charge the other one.
You only charge this one.

582
00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:11,200
Maybe that's.
I don't know.

583
00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:12,440
There's other thoughts I have
like.

584
00:26:13,360 --> 00:26:14,400
You'd have to make sure you
wouldn't.

585
00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:16,240
Want to just have one of each?
You'd want to have like 3.

586
00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:18,520
Of each three energy candles and
three normal candles.

587
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:21,240
And you'd also want to make sure
that you're like using the same.

588
00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:24,080
Color birthday candle.
For all of them in case like a

589
00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:27,120
different color dye burns.
Differently than the other ones.

590
00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:28,520
I don't know and.
Also, you want to make sure

591
00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:29,560
there's no.
Drafts in the area.

592
00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:32,640
So listen, I want to do.
This for myself, I'm going to

593
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:34,280
have to go out and buy some
birthday candles.

594
00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:36,280
I'm going to try it.
I want you to try it too.

595
00:26:36,360 --> 00:26:38,200
Keep me updated, I'll report
back.

596
00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:40,360
Let me know
madamstrangers@gmail.com if you

597
00:26:40,360 --> 00:26:43,280
tried this experiment OK one.
Last thing, one last thing.

598
00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:44,920
One last thing.
Before we end.

599
00:26:45,440 --> 00:26:47,520
This is this is good.
I should have opened with this.

600
00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:49,440
It's crazy that I'm ending with
this.

601
00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:52,440
That's just the strange ways
ways.

602
00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:54,520
That's just.
The strange way way, here we go.

603
00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:58,640
Tori, you mentioned.
Seeing a woman's face in the

604
00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:02,200
wax, that's kind of creepy.
Right, but.

605
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:04,200
Hold on a second.
Hold on to your butts because.

606
00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:05,840
You might actually.
Be on to something.

607
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:08,240
There because look what I found
when I was doing my research.

608
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:10,400
On this story.
What you might have.

609
00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:12,880
Actually been doing is.
Called.

610
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:16,160
Caromancy.
It's a form of divination

611
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:18,480
involving wax.
What?

612
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:20,160
So listen.
One of the most.

613
00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:23,080
Common methods of caromancy is
to heat wax until molten like

614
00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:24,800
liquid.
Then you pour it directly into

615
00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:26,600
cold water.
The shapes and movements of the

616
00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:29,280
waxes it cools and solidifies
can then basically tell your

617
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:30,160
future.
You can look at.

618
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:31,880
It and.
Glean things about.

619
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:34,560
The future from it, but.
Another method more commonly

620
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:38,480
practiced in the contemporary
era, which is now, is studying.

621
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:42,080
The burning of an.
Ordinary candle What?

622
00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:48,040
Tori, you're a caromancer.
You're performing Caromancy, did

623
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:50,640
you know that?
Caromancy was widespread in

624
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:52,520
ancient Russia.
And is also known in modern

625
00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:55,480
Russia as one of the.
Christmas rituals which I love.

626
00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:58,600
Caromancy also has roots in
ancient Celtic and perhaps.

627
00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:02,080
Later in ancient Roman.
Times, according to scraps of

628
00:28:02,080 --> 00:28:03,480
knowledge salvage from around
the.

629
00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:06,440
Period 500 CE.
It appears that.

630
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:08,080
The candle burned during a
Druids.

631
00:28:08,080 --> 00:28:11,680
Vigil a druids vigil I feel
like.

632
00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:15,680
Is that an album?
Title A druids vigil.

633
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:18,880
There's something there.
Anyway, the candle burned during

634
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:20,880
a druids vigil, was poured into
a.

635
00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:22,800
Bowl.
And then into a clear pool of

636
00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:25,000
cold.
Water and the auguries for the

637
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,400
future.
Could then be read from the wax.

638
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:30,800
How cool, How cool.
So I guess.

639
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:35,560
Here's here's here's the future
that you were telling with the

640
00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:37,920
wax that looked like a woman's
head is.

641
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:40,120
You're you're like.
I'm seeing something.

642
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:42,720
As you throw it in the river,
you know I'm seeing something.

643
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:43,120
I'm.
Seeing.

644
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:46,600
This woman's face drifting away
and I can't see her anymore.

645
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:50,040
Now she's gone and.
Then she never came back so.

646
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:51,760
I don't know.
You fixed it.

647
00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:54,800
You fixed it.
You're a caromancer now, Tori.

648
00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:57,960
You're a caromancer.
I don't know if you knew.

649
00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:00,520
I'm happy to be the one to
deliver the news.

650
00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:02,680
So there you go, those are my
strange thoughts.

651
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:04,080
On.
The lady.

652
00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:06,280
By Tori Tori.
Again, thank you for sharing

653
00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:09,120
that story with me.
If you listening do.

654
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:11,720
You have a true strange story
that you want to hear narrated

655
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:14,840
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656
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:16,560
Give it to me now immediately,
Madam.

657
00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:19,400
Strangeways at Gmail.
Dot com and I can't.

658
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:30,720
Wait to read it.
Remember.

659
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:33,840
That you can feel.
Afraid and not be in danger

660
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:35,040
you're.
Safe.

661
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:40,160
Here with me probably.
Thank you for joining me for

662
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:43,400
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663
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:45,800
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664
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670
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671
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678
00:30:39,000 --> 00:31:14,590
She said ominously.
What was that?

679
00:31:15,910 --> 00:31:16,950
That's a ghost.