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Reading Laura Mauro’s “Japanese Toilet Ghosts” [FT459:30-35], reminded me of a less well known fear in the Western world, which –according to the modern rabbinical Internet resource site TheTorah.com

Late stories of a self-styled ‘arguer with the world’

Did you know that Thomas Müntzer, leader of the German Peasants’ War in 1525, used a rainbow flag to rally his followers? It’s an aptly exuberant image for the radical charisma of Müntzer, and for the

As the days grow shorter and darker, Caro seeks out ways to sit more comfortably in the dark while also enjoying the chinks of brightness that she manages to find.

Doomsong describes itself as “a Roleplay Macabre set in a world on the cusp of a Biblical apocalypse.” It’s dark, it’s filled with death and there’s a range of nasty traitor gods who want to use you f