http://mysticalcharm.storeblogs.com Welcome to my StoreBlogs business blog! Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:04:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For thousands of years, architects have built this world.  What started as simple mud huts soon moved to stone structures and then on to taller buildings.  After a while, the act of building became common place.  It was only a matter of time before kings and nobles wanted to out ... http://mysticalcharm.storeblogs.com/2009/11/12/a-history-of-the-gargoyle Simply put, amethyst is a purple variety of quartz. Impurities in the quartz, such as ferric iron and possibly manganese. Somehow, science has a way of taking the mystical portion away from just about anything. Amethyst is much more than a simple crystal. Amethyst has been a precious ... http://mysticalcharm.storeblogs.com/2009/11/04/the-power-of-amethyst For a number of years, we have had stories of people with superhuman powers battling for control in one way of another.  We have Superman, Spiderman, Batman, Wonder Woman and many more.  These are stories most of us a familiar with us from comic books and movies. Thousands of years ago, ... http://mysticalcharm.storeblogs.com/2009/11/02/a-history-of-mjollnir This Halloween season, many of you will no doubt be going to a haunted house or two.  It's fun, exciting and best of all scary.  Not everyone gets excited about going to a haunted house and having chainsaw wielding clowns jump out of the shadows.  For those people who are ... http://mysticalcharm.storeblogs.com/2009/10/30/an-easy-way-to-ease-your-fears Lycanthropy is the mythological ability of a man to shapeshift into a wolf, or wolf-like creature. Sometimes this is done willingly, other times is is done because the person was bitten by another werewolf or placed under a curse. The transformation accompanies the appearance of a full moon. These ... http://mysticalcharm.storeblogs.com/2009/10/23/the-history-of-the-werewolf The vampires of today are often suave and charismatic. We have Bram Stoker to thank for this modern interpretation of the vampire. His late 19th century book, Dracula, gave artists through the years the framework upon which to build the modern vampire. Although vampires are generally not believed to ... http://mysticalcharm.storeblogs.com/2009/10/20/the-history-of-vampires-part-iv-modern-beliefs Ghost Hunting has been around for much longer than most people are aware of. Thanks to the popularity of movies like Ghostbusters, and TV shows like Ghost Hunters, most believe that hunting for spirits is a new phenomenon. The truth is that hunting for the restless spirits of ... http://mysticalcharm.storeblogs.com/2009/10/15/a-history-of-ghost-hunting Ghost Hunting has been around for much longer than most people are aware of. Thanks to the popularity of movies like Ghostbusters, and TV shows like Ghost Hunters, most believe that hunting for spirits is a new phenomenon. The truth is that hunting for the restless spirits of ... http://mysticalcharm.storeblogs.com/2009/10/15/a-history-of-ghost-hunting Most of the myths we have today about vampires had their origin in the Medieval Period. Two 12th century historians recorded accounts of revenants but otherwise account of vampiric beings after this are scant. Tales of vampires were mostly silent until the 18th century. Durring the 18th century ... http://mysticalcharm.storeblogs.com/2009/10/14/the-history-of-vampires-part-iii-medieval-vampires Scientists have, for decades, been interested in proving the existence of ghosts to be false. Scientists are by nature skeptics and therefore require tangible evidence of something before they will believe. Even with evidence, scientists tend to try and disprove it until there can be no doubt to ... http://mysticalcharm.storeblogs.com/2009/10/13/the-history-of-ghosts-part-v-scientific-explanations