Shadow of the Dead over Florence and Solferino
In 1859 Florence hosts a sultry summer as an unnamed narrator befriends Venetian Captain Angelo Bertani, a fallen Austro-Italian veteran. Bertani reveals a life of exile, Gustave von Hildesheim's friendship, a haunting spiritual bond, and a death foretold by a touch of a dead friend's hand.
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Exorcism in India Described with Blood and Drum Rite
Indira- The Comatic Telegraph recounts a recent exorcism of a sixteen year old girl. The ritual features a tree binding, hair cutting, a live cock sacrifice, blood, bathing, incense, and drum music as the priest seeks to cast out a demon and reveal the possessed girl’s demon name.
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Indira
Comatic Telegraph
India
Freezing causes death by blood cell alteration says Pouchet
French scientist Poouch et al argues in a paper before the French Academy that freezing first narrows capillaries, empties vessels, and that whole or extensive freezing kills. partial freezing may allow recovery if few altered blood globules circulate, while slower thawing increases survival chances.
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M. Pouchet
S’rench Academy of Science
Nest and the hummingbird nest praised in 1864 Ohio report
A detailed homage to a hummingbird nest describes its emerald plumage like a tiny mossy chamber with delicate lichens and plant down. The piece notes two white eggs and a twelve day incubation, plus the birds’ velvet-like nursery.
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J. Dulge
Ohio
Sensational Farmyard Tale of Justice and Nutty Witnesses
A humorous old newspaper fragment narrates a mock crime where a potato acts as principal witness against a culprit who is caught and executed in a fanciful, allegorical courtroom. The piece weaves talking vegetables with a spoof trial and ends with a note on military enlistment rules for boys under twenty-one.
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