Mystery Itinerary

 In 1917, Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, two little girls who lived in a small Yorkshire village, gave life to the mystery of the Cottingley Fairies thanks to several photographs of them in the company of fairies and gnomes. Despite numerous confirmations, the authenticity of those shots was questioned several times. Photograph the Fairies was the sensational headline in the December 1920 issue of the British Strand Magazine. The author was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the famous Sherlock Holmes character. What he said about fairies would cause controversy and amazement for more than 60 years. In the spring of 1917, 15-year-old Elsie Wright, and 10-year-old Frances Griffiths, used to talk about the fairies they played within a small valley near Cottingley, a Yorkshire village. With the camera of her father Elsie she photographed her friend in the company of fairies, then she was photographed with a gnome. Her parents, although skeptical, were perplexed. Over the next th...

The mokele-mbembe is a creature whose existence has not yet been proven, which would live in the Likouala swamp region of Congo. Although there is no certain evidence about it, some local populations claim to have sighted the mysterious creature on several occasions, providing numerous details about it. Since the early years of the seventeenth century, European travelers in Central Africa have reported the existence of a monstrous and mysterious creature. According to the French abbot Proyart, who published a history of Africa in 1776, some missionaries found traces with nail marks measuring over 90 centimeters at intervals of more than 2 meters. The Pygmies of the swamps of Likouala , Congo, claim to have spotted several times the mysterious animal, which they call mokele-mbembe, described as a shy semi-aquatic creature, the size of an elephant, with four solid legs, a thin tail about 3 meters long and neck of almost 2 meters. The animal leaves footprints on the ground in which three ...

The belief in the existence of vampires has its roots in the mists of time. Over the centuries, the figure of the vampire has changed profoundly to the point of assuming a romantic and aristocratic aura given to it above all by numerous 19th-century writers such as Bram Stoker, author of the famous Dracula. In 1732, an army doctor, Johannes Fluckinger, went to Medvegia , a country in the former Yugoslavia, to investigate some assassinations attributed to vampires. The locals told him about a certain Arnold Paole who claimed to be tormented by a vampire, to have got soiled with blood, and to have eaten some earth from his grave to get rid of it. When Paole died and was buried, people began to complain of being persecuted and there were four deaths. Forty days after his death, the body was exhumed and it was found that fresh blood flowed from the eyes, nose, mouth, and ears. The skin and nails had fallen out, but they were growing back. Fluckinger reported that deducing that it was a vam...

If you want to research the origin of the Pomegranate symbol , you need to resort to biblical tradition. Here, in fact, the columns of the Temple of Jerusalem are described as decorated with bas-reliefs depicting this splendid fruit. Different meanings can be given to the symbolism of the Pomegranate. The first-ever that we want to mention here is that relating to the meaning of family and unity inherent in the Masonic brothers. In fact, if we open a Pomegranate we can see that many small seeds are enclosed inside. These are grouped together and together constitute the fruit. By analogy, each suit can be identified as a free, unique and singular mason. At the same time, however, closely connected with others to form a single large family, whose luxuriance is the consequence of this close union. Furthermore, given that the ultimate goal of the seed is to bear fruit, the large quantity of seeds present in this fruit represents the wish of the Masons to proliferate more and more....

Venice is a city rich in history. The only city in the world was founded in the fifth century AD. When the inhabitants of the hinterland decided to take refuge in the lagoon to defend themselves from the barbarians who were invading Italy from the north. Venice soon became a strategic place, a great port, a significant transit point, for the whole Mediterranean. Exponents of all religions will pass from Venice: magicians, alchemists, travelers, philosophers , Knights Templar. We remember Marco Polo, Galileo Galilei, Carlo Goldoni, Giacomo Casanova, who among other things was also a lover of esotericism. On the Grand Canal stands the Palazzo Vendramin Calergi, which has now become a casino. On the ground floor the composer Richard Wagner lived on several occasions, linked to Freemasonry. Here the musician composed the second act of Tristan and Isolde and died here in 1883. A plaque on the wall remembers him. On the facade of the same building, crossing the Grand Canal, you wi...

The mask featured grotesque was found in the small island of Mozia before Marsala in Sicily, during excavations in a Carthaginian sanctuary of the sixth century BC . Within the sacred they were found bones of animals and children who were sacrificed to the gods, remember the horrible practices still present stems. In the context horrible event, do not leave indifferent the defined demonic mask on his scary attitude. The eyes are curved upwards and borders the mouth into a grin distorted. It was worn on the occasion of the sacrifice in the Tophet, the sanctuary where the bodies were burned as gifts to the gods Baal Hammon and Astarte. The practice mainly took the firstborn males, the most precious things you had to offer. This mask, apparently smiling, expressed happiness for the gift to the gods, but also facial contraction denoted a desperate cry for the terrible sacrifice, at the height of despair man distorts eyes and mouth in this way. This type of expression defined grot...