Happy Halloween scary PowerPoint Marilyn Manson – This is Halloween.

Happy Halloween scary PowerPoint

Marilyn Manson – This is Halloween

Why are clowns so Scary?John Wayne Gacy

Ed Gein-cannibal, necrophiliac…

• The inspiration for Buffalo Bill (Silence of the Lambs) and Psycho

Mr. Crowley?

• O Mago des Mil Faces

• The Wizard of one thousand faces...

• Famous occultist of the turn of the century in England.

• Featured in Ozzy Osbourne song.

History of Halloween

• 2000 years old started by the Celts - Samhain (sow-in)

• Marked the end of summer and harvest and the cold winter beginning.

• Celts wore costumes to scare away the spirits believed to be resurrected on this day

Celts-

When did Halloween come to the United States?

• Halloween was brought to America by Irish immigrants fleeing the Irish potato famine in the 1840’s.

• The Irish potato famine

was caused by a blight

that killed the potatoes.

Potato Famine• The Irish potato famine killed

almost 750,000 people.

They all died of starvation being

that their primary food source was the potato.

• In the years after the famine, scientists discovered that the blight was, in fact, caused by a fungus, and they managed to isolate it. They named it Phytophthora Infestans. 

Vampires

• Porphyria - disease where people cannot go out in the sun

• Myths found in every culture• Vlad the Impaler lived in Transylvania-Put the heads of enemies on stakes

Elizabeth Bathory-The Blood Countess

Porphyria

• Divided into 2 categories• Acute porphyrias. These include forms of the disease that

cause predominantly nervous system symptoms (neuron porphyrias) and, in some cases, skin symptoms (neurocutaneous porphyrias), as well.

• Cutaneous porphyrias. These include forms of the disease that cause skin symptoms as a result of oversensitivity to sunlight, but don't affect your nervous system.

• www.mayoclinic.com

What is porphyria?• porphyria is due to the deficiency of one of the enzymes needed to make a

substance in the body called heme. Enzymes are proteins that help chemical reactions happen in the body. Making heme involves a series of eight different enzymes, each acting in turn.

• Heme is a red pigment composed of iron linked to a chemical called protoporphyrin. Heme has important functions in the body. The largest amounts of heme are in the blood and bone marrow in the form of hemoglobin within red blood cells. Hemoglobin gives blood its red color and carries oxygen from the lungs to all parts of the body. In the liver, heme is a component of proteins that have many functions, including breaking down hormones, drugs, and other chemicals and generating high-energy compounds that keep liver cells alive and functioning normally.

• The body makes heme mainly in the bone marrow and the liver. The process of making heme is called the heme biosynthetic pathway. Each step of the process is controlled by one of eight enzymes. If any one of the enzymes is deficient, the process is disrupted. As a result, porphyrin or its precursors—chemicals formed at earlier steps of the process—may build up in body tissues and cause illness.

• http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/porphyria/

Not pretty.

Queen Victoria’s family tree containing porphyria

Vampires and corn?

• http://www.untamedscience.com/biology/human-biology/legend-vampires-pellagra-corn-and-niacin-deficiency?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ecogeeks+%28Ecogeeks%3A+Untamed+Science+Video+Podcast%29

Werewolves

• Lycanthropes - word for something that can change form

• Hypertrichosis is also known as "Wolfitis", refers to a condition of excessive body hair growth.

• Diseases such as rabies• People accidently ate poisonous plants

which made them hallucinate. Ergot mold

Hypertrichosis• Genetic research has linked the condition to

the X chromosome. That means if a woman carries the gene, she has a 50-50 chance of passing it on to her offspring, whether she has a boy or a girl. If a male carries the gene, 100 percent of his female children will be affected, but none of his sons.

• The gene is vestigial.• Danny Ramos Gomez

Rabies

• A virus transmitted via saliva

• May take weeks to years to show

• Flu like symptoms, hallucinations, twitching, itching, seizures.

• Fear of water (hydrophobia) or fear of air (aerophobia).

• paralysis

Rabies virus

Off with their head.• King Henry VIII

• Bloody King of England

• Had 2 of his wives beheaded.

• Father to Bloody Mary and Queen Elizabeth (Daughter to Anne Bolyn first wife beheaded.

• Second being Catherine Howard.)

Tower of London-One of the world’s most haunted places.

Bloody Mary

EnglishTudor Queen of England - Queen Mary I or Queen Mary TudorLifespan: 1516 – 1558

Proclaimed Queen of England: July 1553Married: King Philip II of SpainFamily connections: Mary Tudor was the daughter of Catherine of Aragon and King Henry VIII of England. Bloody Mary was the half sister to Edward VI and Elizabeth IBloody Mary Tudor was also the cousin, once removed, of Mary Queen of ScotsBitter, fanatical and obsessive. She had nearly 300 protestants burned at the stake.

Bloody Mary legend

• Stand in a bathroom, with one candle lit and say the name “Bloody Mary” into the mirror three 3 times in a row. This will summon her ghost.

• If you see her ghostly face in the mirror, it could have one of the following terrible consequences:

• 1. Eyes ripped out and your face horribly scarred. • 2. Dead with claw marks all over your face and body• 3. Disappearing mysteriously from the bathroom and

ending up trapped in the mirror with the ghost for eternity.

• 4. You could also be driven insane or drop dead on the spot.

How to make fake blood.• http://www.halloween-website.com/fake_blood.htm

Circus Freaks-Ripleys

• http://www.ripleys.com/

Zombies• Texodoxin - Made by bacteria in puffer

fish. Can cause a zombie like state where people are buried alive.

Zombies• Can be the result of accidental burial

• Lack of scientific knowledge

Top 10 Lessons for Surviving a Zombie Attack

1. Organize before they rise! 2. They feel no fear, why should you? 3. Use your head: cut off theirs. 4. Blades don’t need reloading. 5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair. 6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it. 7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike. 8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert! 9. No place is safe, only safer. 10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives

on.

Surviving a Zombie Attack• The Zombie Survival Guide is your key

to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now.

Ghosts

• Woman coming down the stairs.

• From the site www.angelsghosts.com

• Ghost is form the Saxon word “gaste” meaning spirit.

• Poltergeist from the German terms “polter” meaning noise and “geiste” meaning spirit.

Angels and ghosts are associated.

• Someone supposedly took this picture.

Ghostswww.superglobe.com/midiX23r/boo_laughR.wav

• People who have died tragically and unexpectedly or have unfinished business.

• Lingering energy from the person - “soul”

• People feel energy or temperature change

Bachelor’s Grove Cemetary

Salem, MA

• A little girl and her friend had fits

• Were being told stories by the family’s maid

• Many people were accused and eventually 25 were killed.

• Ergot Mold was most likely culprit.

Witches

• The popular icon of a witch is an ugly old woman riding across the sky on her magic broomstick and wearing a pointed hat. But as with all mythologies there is an element of truth behind the image. Witches did ride brooms, after a fashion, the brooms were magic, in a way, and the pointed hat was the mildest of the punishments inflicted on them for their activities!

Warning!

• Ergot, in high doses, can be lethal, a fact that led to the rise in popularity of wheat bread, which is resistant to ergot mold.

During the time leading up to the witchcraft trials in Europe, the staple bread was made with rye. In a

small town where the bread was fresh baked this was just fine, but as Europe began to urbanize and the

bread took more time to get from bakery to grocer, the rye bread began to host a mold called "ergot.

•Why Rye?

Witch Ointment• In smalldoses, ergot is a

powerful hallucinogenic drug which became quite popular among those who were inclined towards herbalism and folk cures. It's mentioned in Shakespeare's plays, and turns up in virtually every contemporary writing of the witchcraft age. In particular, it is the inevitable central ingredient in the ointment that witches rubbed their broomsticks with.

Witches

• Often were women who knew about medicinal herbs

• Midwives

• Anyone different

• People the church did not like• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4m-g

Yersenia Pestis

Bring out your dead

• 25 million people died in just under five years between 1347 and 1352. Estimated population of Europe from 1000 to 1352. 1000 38 million

• 1100 48 million • 1200 59 million • 1300 70 million • 1347 75 million • 1352 50 million

Symptoms

• Swollen lymph nodes

• Extreme flu-like symptoms

• Circular rash

• death

Death by Design

• Movie on Netflix – doc on cell death.

Apoptosis- cell suicide• For every cell, there is a time to live and a

time to die. There are two ways in which cells die: They are killed by injurious agents.

• They are induced to commit suicide.

Edgar Allen Poe

Why pick on Ravens?

• Myths and Superstitions could also be why we pick Corvids as mascots of Halloween.

• In Germany it is told Ravens can find the souls of the dead and even contain the souls of the damned.

• In Sweden the croaking sound of Ravens is thought to the voices of murdered people who were not properly buried.

• The Tower of London has six Ravens because the legend says if anything should befall them, England will be invaded.

More about Ravens + What do they eat?

• A Crow or Raven on the roof foretells death or misfortune to the home’s inhabitants.  A raven on a church steeple is bad news for a whole community.   I have to comment here- We have quite a flock (murder) of crows we feed and entertain daily.   They rest on our roof day after day.  I like to think they give us good luck.

• The Northwest coastal people have traditions that portray the Raven as both the creator spirit, trickster, hero or villain all at the same time.   He is a great shiftshaper and can assume any image to get what he wants.  He either is the creator of the world or plays a big part in its creation.  Their Crow stories explore themes of justice versus the Raven who has a greedy

motivation.

Blood red glacial waterfall.

• Why?

• Extremophile bacteria that release Fe (iron) into the water. Extremophiles are organisms living in extreme environments.

• Add Jack the Ripper

• Worlds fair and Chicago

Your turn

• Your job is to now research what I just introduced to you and produce a 1 and 1/2 page typed, double spaced, 12 font paper on the science behind the legend or legends of your choice.

• This is a 20 point assignment• www.superglobe.com/midiX23r/

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