Literature
This scientist in Mary Shelley's novel created a monster out of human and animal parts
Who is Frankenstein?
This Massachusetts town was the site of many witch trials in the Puritan era. One of those witch trials involved Giles Corey, who was pressed to death.
What is Salem?
This religion was founded by Aleister Crowley and was based heavily on Egyptian mythology
What is Thelema?
This king wrestled and bound Death so he would not be killed. As punishment, he was forced to roll a boulder forever in the underworld.
Who is Sisyphus?
Everyone who unsealed this Egyptian's pharaoh's tomb in 1922 was supposedly cursed
Who is Tutankhamun?
This genre of literature is usually set in medieval castles and features heavy supernatural elements. Examples of it include Dracula and the works of Edgar Allan Poe
What is Gothic literature?
This woman was the first to be hanged in the Thirteen Colonies for witchcraft
Who is Alice Young
This woman was known as the Queen of Voodoo in New Orleans
Who is Marie Laveau?
In the 11th century Iranian epic, the Shahnameh, Zahhak grows two of these animals from his body. Jormungandr, a giant one of these animals, encircles the earth in Norse mythology.
What is a serpent?
What is Samhain?
Who is HP Lovecraft?
This Puritan clergyman preached at the trials of Captain Kidd and Samuel Bellamy. He also persecuted witches in the Salem Witch Trials, which he defended in a treatise in 1693
Who is Cotton Mather?
The book of this prophet was preserved in the Ethiopian church and details the fall of the angels
Who is Enoch?
A giant one of these creatures is said to live in the Gobi desert. It may be inspiration for the monsters in the Tremors franchise and a type of creature in Dune.
What is the Mongolian Death Worm?
In 1941, it is said that the Soviet Union cursed themselves by unsealing this conqueror's tomb at Samarkand. He built a pyramid of skulls at Isfahan.
Who is Timur?
This demon is sometimes known as the "Mother of Monsters. She appears in Goethe's Faust to tempt him and is nailed to a cross in Neon Genesis Evangelion. She is also the ancestor of the White Witch in the Narnia series.
Who is Lillith?
This new age neopagan religion worships the Horned God and Mother Goddess, and its name comes from Anglo-Saxon for "witch"
What is Wicca?
This religion was founded by the prophet Mani in Iran, who claimed to be the last prophet in a line of prophets including Zoroaster, the Buddha, and Jesus Christ. It traveled along the Silk Road and became the official religion of the Uyghur Khanate, but died out in the 20th century.
What is Manichaeism
This god is likely a fusion of the Greek Hermes and the Egyptian Thoth. His book, the Hermetica, is considered the foundation of Alchemy and Hermiticism.
Who is Hermes Trismegistus?
Erik Larsen's the Devil in the White City is about H.H. Holmes, the first serial killer in American history. He supposedly lived in the White Castle in THIS CITY's 1893 World's Fair
What is Chicago?
This form of horror theater, most famously practiced by Etienne-Gaspard Robert, used magic lanterns to project ghosts and skeletons. In 1816, a collection of works in this genre inspired "The Vampyre" and another work by Mary Shelley.
What is phantasmagoria?
During the reign of this King of France, the witch "La Voisin" was charged with helping nobles poison thousands of people in the "Affair of the Poisons", leading to 36 executions.
Who is Louis XIV?
This Russian artist created Agni Yoga, a syncretic philosophy which combined Buddhism, Hinduism, Theosophy, and Russian Orthodoxy. He emigrated to the US in the wake of the Russian revolution and is most famous for his "Asian expeditions", where he painted the landscapes of the Himalayas and is considered one of the nine masters of modern Indian art.
Who is Nicholas Roerich?
In West African folklore, the shapeshifter Anansi is this type of creature. In the Heike monogatari, a giant version of this creature, called a Tsuchigumo, fights Minamoto no Yorimitsu.
What is a spider?
This ideology, and some of its proponents, such as Emilio Zapata, made frequent use of the skull and crossbones. However, its most famous practicioner, the Ukrainian warlord Nestor Makhno, denied ever using it.
What is Anarchism?