If I sound extra energetic, it's because a pretty girl on the street, not in any kind of customer service capacity whatsoever, smiled at me. It was pretty great. Anyway, here's an exploration of Rube Goldberg and his fantastical fantabulous machines...if they were designed TO KILL! PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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SOURCES:

https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/rube-goldberg

https://study.com/learn/lesson/rube-goldberg-cartoons-inventions.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/407990-largest-rube-goldberg-in-competition

https://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/famous-inventors/who-was-rube-goldberg-and-what-are-his-contraptions.htm

https://study.com/academy/lesson/rube-goldberg-machine-ideas.html

https://study.com/learn/lesson/rube-goldberg-cartoons-inventions.html

https://ipcloseup.com/2018/04/10/family-entertainment-this-rube-saw-the-future-and-its-foibles/

https://interestingengineering.com/lists/rube-goldberg-the-man-behind-the-worlds-craziest-machines

https://www.magnets.com/blog/magnetic-chain-reaction.html

U.S. Patent Office: U.S. Patent No. 269,766, issued December 26, 1882, to James A. Williams for "Animal-Trap."

Legal History & Commentary: Google Patents/Public Records, detailing Williams's explicit patent claims regarding adaptation for securing doors/windows against intruders.

Court Documents: People v. Smit, California Court of Appeal, Fourth District, Division Two (2013).

News Reporting: The Los Angeles Times & The San Diego Union-Tribune coverage of the Hemet, California police task force attacks and Nicholas Smit’s sentencing (2010–2013).

FBI Records: Federal Bureau of Investigation Historic Case Files, "Harvey's Hotel Bombing (John Birges)."

Media & Documentation: Zero Hour: The Bombing of Harvey's (Documentary) and contemporary coverage by The New York Times (August 1980).

Historical Literature: Ann Larabee, The Dynamite Fiend: The Chilling Tale of Alexander Keith Jr., America's First Terrorist (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).

Archive Coverage: The Times of London and international press reports on the Bremerhaven dock explosion (December 1875).

Primary Source: Julijonas Urbonas, Euthanasia Coaster project specifications and conceptual design essays, Royal College of Art/JulijonasUrbonas.php (2010).

Exhibition Documentation: Science Gallery Dublin & Center for Extraordinary Visual Arts catalogs.

Documentary Film: Errol Morris, Mr.Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. (1999).

Investigative Reporting: The Boston Globe & The New York Times investigative profiles on execution technology contracts in the late 1980s.

Michael Ryan Eviction Trap (1993): News Reporting: Associated Press & local Illinois newspaper archives (October/November 1993) covering the barricade, discovery of black-powder traps, and subsequent criminal charges.

Spring-Gun / Booby-Trap Law: Katko v. Briney, 183 N.W.2d 657 (Iowa 1971).

U.S. Patent Code: 35 U.S.C. § 101 (Invention Utility and Operability Requirements).

OH YES! IT'S REAL! Bask in all this "Gallinaceous" glory! AND HORROR! THE HORROR! IT'S GOTTA BE HEARD TO BE BELIEVED! PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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SOURCES:

*Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia (Book VIII):

*Pseudo-Geber (Paul of Taranto), Summa Perfectionis & Alchemical Manuscripts

*Albertus Magnus, De Animalibus

*Barandiarán, José Miguel de, Mitología Vasca

*Sébillot, Paul, Le Folk-Lore de France

*Robelo, Cecilio A., Diccionario de Mitología Nahoa y Folklore Mexicano

*Keel, John A., Operation Trojan Horse (1970)/The Eighth Tower (1975):

*Shuker, Karl, Extraordinary Animals Revisited (2007)

*Bord, Janet & Colin, Modern Mysteries of Britain (1987)

*Aiso, Keisuke, Mother Bird (2016)

*Lorenz, Taylor, "The 'Momo Challenge' Is a Viral Hoax" (The Atlantic, 2019)

If you are struggling with mental health and/or substance abuse issues, don't be a chicken...I'm a turkey! Wait, no...just, please, dial 988.

"(*fighting noises)...Bastard! I didn't know who you were!"...this episode examines the REAL life history of both the "Wu-Tang" (or Wudang) and Shaolin, martial arts, occultism, and all the stuff behind the kung-fu flick and hip-hop mythology! PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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SOURCES:

Shahar, Meir. The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts

Henning, Stanley E. "The Martial Arts of Ancient China." Journal of the Asian Martial Arts 2, no. 1 (1993): 10-19

Despeux, Catherine. "Women in Daoism." In Daoism Handbook, edited by Livia Kohn, 425-458. Brill, 2004

Morris, Andrew. Marrow of the Nation: A History of Sport and Physical Culture in Republican China

Kennedy, Brian, and Elizabeth Guo. Chinese Martial Arts Training Manuals: A Historical Survey

Rousseau, Dennis. "The Lei Tai: A Preliminary Examination of the Chinese 'Boxing Ring'." Journal of Asian Martial Arts 4, no. 2 (1995): 34-43

Naquin, Susan. Millenarian Rebellion in China: The Eight Trigrams Uprising of 1813

Ownby, David. Falun Gong and the Future of China

ter Haar, B.J. The White Lotus Teachings in Chinese Religious History

Esherick, Joseph W. The Origins of the Boxer Uprising

Preston, Diana. The Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China's War on Foreigners That Shook the World in the Summer of 1900

Lovell, Julia. The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China

Schipper, Kristofer. The Taoist Body

Strickmann, Michel. Chinese Magical Medicine

Paper, Jordan D. The Spirits Are Drunk: Comparative Approaches to Chinese Religion

MacFarquhar, Roderick, and Michael Schoenhals. Mao's Last Revolution

Palmer, David A. Qigong Fever: Body, Science, and Utopia in Cultural China

Teo, Stephen. Hong Kong Cinema: The Cross-Cultural Canvas

Wu-Tang Clan. Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (JUST LISTEN!)

Old Dirty Bastard. Return to The 36 Chambers (The Dirty Version) (LISTEN!)

The GZA. Liquid Swords (ARE YOU LISTENING YET!)

Coleman, Brian. Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies

Spence, Jonathan D. The Search for Modern China

French, Paul. Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China

Liu, Lydia H. The Clash of Empires: The Invention of China in Modern World Making

Historical martial arts oral traditions and Cantonese folk history regarding the Five Elders and the Southern Shaolin Temple

19th-century late-Qing wuxia literature (specifically serial novels such as Wan Nian Qing/Everlasting Green)

Shaw Brothers Hong Kong martial arts cinema of the 1970s and 1980s (including Executioners from Shaolin and Clan of the White Lotus)

Quentin Tarantino’s 2004 film Kill Bill: Vol. 2

If you are currently struggling with mental health and/or addiction issues, put on some Wu-Tang Clan, as it's been scientifically proven that listening to it will decalcify the pineal gland. You should probably also dial 988, just to cover all your bases.

The final episode of "The Game of Saturn" series...this one gets weird y'all. PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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SOURCES:

* Adams, Peter Mark. The Game of Saturn: Deciphering the Sola-Busca Tarot and the Dark Renaissance Codex (2017)

* Dick, Philip K. The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick (2011)/VALIS (1981)

* Gnostic Scriptures (e.g., The Nag Hammadi Library, including the Apocryphon of John)

* Jorjani, Jason Reza. Prometheism (2020)/Closer Encounters (2021)

* Monroe, Robert A. Far Journeys (1986)

If you are currently struggling with mental health and/or substance abuse issues, that's just what the archons & RFK Jr. want y'all! Don't play into their game! Please dial 988.

The Penultimate episode in "The Game of Saturn" series. PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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SOURCES:

Bossard, Abbé Eugène. Gilles de Rais, Maréchal de France, "Barbe-Bleue" (1886)

Bataille, Georges. The Trial of Gilles de Rais (1965)

Petit, J.-M. Gilles de Rais: Ou, La gueule du loup (1993)

De l'Epinois, H. La Ligue et les papes (1888)

Various contemporary chronicles cited in: Zambelli, Paola. "Astrologers and Their Clients in Renaissance Europe" in La Astrología y el Occidente (1985)

French National Archives: Trial records from the Châtelet prison, 1574 and 1598

Pius II (Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini). Commentarii – The Pope's autobiographical writings containing the 1462 canonization into Hell

Jones, Michael. "The 'Conspiracy' of 1463: A Reassessment" in Patronage, the Crown and the Provinces in Later Medieval England (1981)

Ricci, Corrado. Il Tempio Malatestiano (1924)

Lavin, Marilyn Aronberg. Piero della Francesca: The Flagellation (1972)

Adams, Peter Mark. The Game of Saturn: Decoding the Sola Busca Tarot (2017)

Couliano, Ioan P. Eros and Magic in the Renaissance (1987)

Kieckhefer, Richard. Magic in the Middle Ages (1989)

Kieckhefer, Richard. Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century (1997)

Klaassen, Frank. The Transformations of Magic: Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance (2013)

Page, Sophie. Magic in the Cloister: Pious Motives, Illicit Interests, and Occult Approaches to the Medieval Universe (2013)

Walker, Daniel Pickering. Spiritual and Demonic Magic: From Ficino to Campanella (2000)

Godwin, Joscelyn. The Pagan Dream of the Renaissance (2002)

Mora, George. Witches, Devils, and Doctors in the Renaissance: Johann Weyer, De praestigiis daemonum (1991)

Meyer, Marvin, ed. The Nag Hammadi Scriptures (2007)

Irenaeus of Lyons. Against Heresies (2nd century)

Jonas, Hans. The Gnostic Religion (2001)

Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius. Three Books of Occult Philosophy (1533)

Warburg, Aby. The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity (1999)

Picatrix (Ghayat al-Hakim)

The Sworn Book of Honorius (Liber Juratus Honorii)

Key of Solomon (Clavicula Salomonis)

Corpus Hermeticum

Dictionnaire Infernal by Collin de Plancy (1818)

Various MSS on demonology in the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Paris

X1, Witness Testimony – Regina Louf (publicly known as "X1"), testimony to the Dutroux Commission (1996-1997)

BBC Documentary: "Dutroux: The Monster of Belgium" (2002)

Ottawa Citizen/Various European press – Coverage of the "Mothers of Darkness" allegations (1990s)

Van Hees, Jean Pierre. The X-Files: What Belgium Was Not Supposed to Know About the Dutroux Affair (1999)

Misc. conspiracy researchers: David Icke (The Biggest Secret), Fritz Springmeier (Bloodlines of the Illuminati) *Note: controversial/conspiratorial sources/maybe bullshit

U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida – Case No. 08-80736-CR-BBM (Epstein's 2008 prosecution)

U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York – Case No. 19-2868 (2019 indictment)

Virgin Islands Attorney General – Civil forfeiture complaint regarding Little St. James island (2020)

Miami Herald – Series by Julie K. Brown ("Perversion of Justice," 2018-2019)

Various flight logs and court documents released via FOIA and litigation

Survivor testimony – Various witnesses in Belgian and Dutch investigations (1990s)

Castle documentation – The Château des Amerois is a real location in Muno, Belgium; owned by the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha family

Spezi, Mario & Preston, Douglas. The Monster of Florence (2008)

Italian court documents – Various trials (Pucci, Lotti, Vinci theories)

Prelati's testimony in the de Rais trial (primary source for the entity's name)

Trump, Donald. The Art of the Deal (1987) – Mentions "Barron" as pseudonym/enterprise name

Various business records – "Barron Enterprises" incorporation documents (1980s)

*I CAN'T FIT ALL THE SOURCES BUT IF YOU WANT'EM, I GOT'EM!

Part of the "GAME OF SATURN" series. PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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SOURCES:

*Anton, Ted. Eros, Magic, and the Murder of Professor Culianu (1996)

*Culianu, Ioan P. Eros and Magic in the Renaissance (1987)

*Encyclopedia of Religion/Encyclopedia.com. "Culianu, Ioan Petru"

*University of Chicago Police Department & FBI Case Files (1991)

If you are currently struggling with mental health and/or substance abuse issues, please dial 988. You are never alone. I'm right behind you right now. Feel my hot breath on the back of your neck. You're gonna be okay. Hooooooooooyeah. Yeah.

Another entry in the Saturnian Current Series...only 2ish...more to go...I think?

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SOURCES:

Magic in the Middle Ages by Richard Kieckhefer (1989); Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century by Richard Kieckhefer (1997); The Transformations of Magic: Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance by Frank Klaassen (2013); Magic in the Cloister: Pious Motives, Illicit Interests, and Occult Approaches to the Medieval Universe by Sophie Page (2013); Unlocked Books: Manuscripts of Learned Magic in the Medieval Libraries of Central Europe by Benedek Láng (2008); The Friar and the Cipher: Roger Bacon and the Rise of the Sciences by Lawrence Principe; The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages by Edward Grant; The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe by Brian Levack; Eros and Magic in the Renaissance by Ioan P. Couliano (1987); The Game of Saturn: Decoding the Sola Busca Tarot by Peter Mark Adams (2017); Archives of the Bavarian State Library, Munich; Vatican Secret Archives, Inquisition records; British Library, Additional Manuscripts collection; and various uncatalogued grimoires from private European collections.

I'm a machine. This is all I do.

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SOURCES:

- Fordun, John of-Chronica Gentis Scotorum (Chronicle of the Scottish Nation)

- Wyntoun, Andrew of-The Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland (c. 1420)

- Bower, Walter-Scotichronicon (1440s)

- The Exchequer Rolls of Scotland (1320)

- The Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland

- The Declaration of Arbroath (1320)

- Ragman Rolls (1296)

- National Records of Scotland

- Nicholson, James-The Folk Lore of North Britain (1879)

- Henderson, William-Notes on the Folk Lore of the Northern Counties of England and the Borders (1879)

- Douglas, George-Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales (1901)

- Briggs, Katharine-A Dictionary of Fairies (1976)

- Briggs, Katharine-The Anatomy of Puck (1959)

- Scott, Walter-Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802-1803)

- Scott, Walter-Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft (1830)

- Various local histories of Liddesdale and the Borders preserving the Nine Stane Rig execution tradition

- Child, Francis James-The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (1882-1898)

- Specific ballads-The Laird of Wariston," "The Cruel Mother"

- Historic Environment Scotland – Official site documentation and architectural surveys

- Lindsay, Maurice-The Castles of Scotland (1986)

- Tabraham, Chris-Scotland's Castles (1997)

- MacGibbon, David & Ross, Thomas-The Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland (1887-1892)

- RCAHMS (Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland)

- RCAHMS Site Records – Archaeological survey of the stone circle near Nine Stones (Nine Stane Rig), Liddesdale

- Burl, Aubrey-The Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany (2000)

- Barnatt, John-Prehistoric Scotland (1996)

- Kieckhefer, Richard. Magic in the Middle Ages (1989)

- Kieckhefer, Richard. European Witch Trials: Their Foundations in Popular and Learned Culture, 1300-1500 (1976)

- Cohn, Norman. Europe's Inner Demons (1975)

- Russell, Jeffrey Burton. Witchcraft in the Middle Ages (1972)

- Bailey, Michael D. Battling Demons: Witchcraft, Heresy, and Reform in the Late Middle Ages (2003)

- Maxwell-Stuart, P.G. Satan's Conspiracy: Magic and Witchcraft in Sixteenth-Century Scotland (2001)

- Goodare, Julian. The Scottish Witch-Hunt in Context (2002)

- Wilby, Emma. Cunning Folk and Familiar Spirits: Shamanistic Visionary Traditions in Early Modern British Witchcraft and Magic (2005)

- Wilby, Emma. The Visions of Isobel Gowdie (2010)

- Purkiss, Diane. At the Bottom of the Garden: A Dark History of Fairies, Hobgoblins, and Other Troublesome Things (2000)

- Lecouteux, Claude. Witches, Werewolves, and Fairies: Shapeshifters and Astral Doubles in the Middle Ages (2003)

- Cohn, Norman. The Pursuit of the Millennium (1957)

- Ginzburg, Carlo. Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath (1991)

- Briggs, Katharine. The Fairies in Tradition and Literature (1967)

- Keightley, Thomas. The Fairy Mythology (1828)

- Hartland, Edwin Sidney. The Science of Fairy Tales (1891)

HEY! ALL THE GODDAMN SOURCES FIT THIS TIME! IT'S LIKE SOME KINDA MIRACLE!

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