Noumenal News

The company Strandagaldur (“Witchcraft of Strandir”) was
awarded with the Eyrarrós award at a special ceremony at the
presidential residency at Bessastadir outside Reykjavík yesterday.

Iceland’s first lady Dorrit Moussaieff, the patron of
the award, handed over the Eyrarrós statue created by artist Steinunn
Thórarinsdóttir, and gave Strandagaldur a grant of ISK 1.5 million (EUR
17,000, USD 23,000). RÚV reports.

Strandagaldur runs […]

A 17th Century bottle, said to have the power to break a witch’s spell, is being examined in Leicestershire.

The Bellamine Witch Bottle, believed to be the first of
its kind to be found unopened, is thought to contain urine, human hair
and metal pins.

The find, uncovered in Greenwich, south east London, will be displayed at the Old […]

Feb. 8, 2007 — The child gods of ancient Egypt are depicted
in a surprisingly real-world way on a stunningly well-preserved, gilded
beam recently found at the Temple Precinct of the Goddess Mut in South
Karnak, Egypt.
The structure once crowned the doorway of a birthing house inside
the temple more than 2,000 years ago. Rituals associated with royal
childbirths […]

Druids have called for a proper burial for Neolithic human remains, excavated from a site in Wiltshire in the 1920s.

The bones of a young child were dug up from a ditch in Windmill Hill, Avebury, by archaeologist Alexander Keiller.

The remains went on display at the village’s museum, named after Keiller, who was heir to a […]

Chimpanzees in Senegal have been observed making and
using wooden spears to hunt other primates, according to a study in the
journal Current Biology.

Researchers documented 22 cases of chimps fashioning
tools to jab at smaller primates sheltering in cavities of hollow
branches or tree trunks.

The report’s authors, Jill Pruetz and Paco Bertolani, said the finding could have implications for […]

ZAVENTEM, Belgium (AP) — Thirteen dots looked just right to designer Ronane Hoet.
Together
they had the perfect balance to form a stylized “b” for the new Belgian
carrier Brussels Airlines and the number also matched the airline’s
destinations in Africa, a key market. “It was harmony,” she said,
wistfully.
This week, however, Brussels Airlines was busy
changing the 13-ball logo on […]

VODKA, gin and whisky are not the only spirits to be spotted in the
pubs around Times Territory. A number of ghouls are believed to like a
tipple in their favourite local.
The
Brocket Arms in Ayot St Lawrence is supposedly haunted by a monk who
was hanged outside the pub, for getting another member of the church
pregnant.
The monk, who […]

RIDGE MANOR - The skull in the woods had a tag on it.
It had no teeth.
It was sitting near a mound of coins, colored stones, animal bones and feathers.
On Tuesday, just before sunset, two pinecone collectors from Minnesota stumbled upon the scene.
They
called the Hernando Sheriff’s Office, which decided that this patch of
woods in the Withlacoochee […]

LAKE STEVENS - The nature of God will no longer be part of an atheist
teacher’s American literature class at Lake Stevens High School.
Gary McDonald, 60, said he had no intention of swaying students’ religious beliefs during a lesson last month.
“I regret in the strongest terms the trouble that I have caused,”
McDonald said on Tuesday. […]