Warning - this whole venture was the result of three hours of drinking with my craziest friend (one of, I guess, in deference to my other crazy friends who might read this). Even as I write this i'm fairly drunk, and can't guarantee any logical sense. Basically we were talking about stuff, and I was waxing lyrical about Anthropology - I'd gone ( Read more... )

From RV Russell's The Tribes and Castes of Central India Vol II (1916)

Aghori, Aghorpanthi - The most disreputable class of General Saiva mendicants who feed on human corpses and excrement, and in past times practised cannibalism. The sect is apparently an ancient one, a supposed reference to it being contained in the Sanskrit drama Malati Madhava, ( Read more... )

Take a good look at this clay tablet, one of almost a thousand of this one type alone recovered from the Bronze-Age Indian "Indus Valley Cvilization":


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Okay, so I broke the Writers Block thing by doing it wrong. I'll do it again with a *fictional* character, but here's one for "any RL person"...

Quick anthropology rant here. My candidate? James Frazer. Although despite the title of this WB, I would in fact be spending it knelt on his chest bitch-slapping him and yelling "DO *SLAP* SOME *SLAP* ( Read more... )

Katherine Briggs - The Fairies in Tradition and Literature
An excellent source of folklore, I dip into her books for little snippets on the Wild Hunts, dwelling places of fairies etc. Useful, academic, and  she Cites. Her. Fucking. Sources.

Seigfried Sasoon - Memoires of a Foxhunting Man
This was passed on to me by hikari_datenshi , and I dipped my nose into it for ( Read more... )

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