Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This Week, Curator Zach is Springing you into the New Year with some wild traditions Midnight isn’t just a timestamp; it’s a thin place where old stories exhale and new ones rush in. We packed our bags and crossed borders to explore how different cultures welcome the year: by smashing plates, hanging onions, racing with suitcases, counting grapes to a chiming clock, ringing 108 temple bells, burning human-sized effigies, a...
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Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This Week, Curator Zach is Springing you into the New Year with some wild traditions Midnight isn’t just a timestamp; it’s a thin place where old stories exhale and new ones rush in. We packed our bags and crossed borders to explore how different cultures welcome the year: by smashing plates, hanging onions, racing with suitcases, counting grapes to a chiming clock, ringing 108 temple bells, burning human-sized effigies, a...
Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This week, your Curator Zach has a Dark Christmas Cannibal Legend. Somewhere in the borderlands between France and Germany a scarecrow waits by the road. We follow the threads of Hans Trapp, the “Christmas cannibal,” from his roots in the very real Hans von Trotha. A petty, powerful baron who feuded with an abbey and defied the Pope, to the folklore figure who haunts December nights with straw-stuffed sleeves and a sharpen...
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Welcome To The Oddity Shop, Where The Bizarre is Always on Sale. This Week, Curator Zach is Springing you into the New Year with some wild traditions Midnight isn’t just a timestamp; it’s a thin place where old stories exhale and new ones rush in. We packed our bags and crossed borders to explore how different cultures welcome the year: by smashing plates, hanging onions, racing with suitcases, counting grapes to a chiming clock, ringing 108 temple bells, burning human-sized effigies, a...