Witches of Old New York Fortune tellers, mystics, and clairvoyants populate this bewitching walking tour Discover the dime-museum magic and front-parlor palmistry that abounded in the Lower East Side from the mid 19th to early 20th century. Fortune tellers, mystics, and clairvoyants populate this bewitching walking tour of one of Manhattan’s most diverse neighborhoods. Often immigrants and housewives, these outsider […]
Ghosts of Christmas Past Feel the dark magic of Yuletide Nothing said “Christmas” in Victorian England like sitting around the fire telling ghost stories. But how did this tradition come to be? Was it all the work of Charles Dickens – or are there perhaps other factors that lend a ghostly magic to this darkest time of the year? […]