A group of seminary students from the city go on summer break, drunkenly wandering the countryside. They end up lost, and spend a night in the company of a haggard witch. A scuffle breaks out, and one of the students, Khoma (Leonid Kuravlyov), murders the witch. Only it turns out he really killed a beautiful landowner's daughter (Natalya Varley), and now he must sit with her body in a church for three days, protecting it from evil spirits.
Is there a market for pilgrim themed horror (that isn’t about Abigail Williams)? Alas even if there isn’t, my friend and I are making a project about such a topic!!
Welcome to Lake Webrich, enjoy your stay, as it might be forever
The Dorset Ooser from Melbury Osmond, Dorset, UK. Photographed in Yeovil, Somerset, c. 1883-1891.
A bit of odd photographic history from the town where I was born. Although the scale is difficult to discern from the photo, the Ooser was a largish headress that sat on the wearer's shoulders. The eyes were completely opaque and it's possible that the wearer could see through the 'mouth', which was hinged so that it could open and close. It's actual purpose is unknown, and thus lots of quite silly/colourful (take your pick) ideas have been dreamt up to explain it. The owners tried to sell it, hence the photo, but it seems to have been lost - to decay or being sold by a third party - sometime in the early 1900s. It was made from wood, wool/hair and horn.