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#Spooktober 4: the Drudenmesser

In Austrian and German folklore, the Drudenmesser is a decorated knife meant to guard off an evil spirit called Drude or Trude. It’s today’s Object of the Day on my Patreon.
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Selma Lagerlöf’s The Ring of the General

Ah, Selma Lagerlöf. I haven’t read anything of hers since I was a kid and now, all of a sudden, I find myself reading three works of hers in two months. The first one was Men and Troll, a collection of short stories, and it’s

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