/lit/ - Literature

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form_of_life_(philosophy)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_serum


>A "truth serum" is a colloquial name for any of a range of psychoactive medications used to obtain information from subjects who are unable or unwilling to provide it otherwise. Any information from the truth serum report is corroborated by further investigation. They have been used in the course of investigating civil and criminal cases, and for the evaluation of psychotic patients in the practice of psychiatry.

This is a pretty cool literature thread, OP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_Plague_of_1518

>>6350141

Encyclopedias are /lit/ stupid uneducated nigger

>>6350028
http://murderpedia.org/male.T/t/theriault-roch.htm

scroll past the two news articles, the good stuff starts in the section ripped from everything2

>>6350152
no they arent

reported btw

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UVB-76

>>6350206
numbers stations are freaky in general

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink

>>6350179

tl;dr

>>6350179

The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt prequel that didn't take off in Canada.

>>6350204
good for you, now fuck off

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-coital_tristesse

Okay, sit tight, you're not going to handle this very well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarrare

A few sections:

>Despite his unusual diet, Tarrare was slim and of average height.[9] At the age of 17, he weighed only 100 pounds (45 kg; 7 st 2 lb).[1][5] He was described as having unusually soft fair hair and an abnormally wide mouth, in which his teeth were heavily stained[9] and on which the lips were almost invisible.[10][11] When he had not eaten, his skin would hang so loosely that he could wrap the fold of skin from his abdomen around his waist.[9][10] When full, his abdomen would distend "like a huge balloon".[6] The skin of his cheeks was wrinkled and hung loosely, and when stretched out, he could hold twelve eggs or apples in his mouth.[11][12] His body was hot to the touch and he sweated heavily, constantly suffering from foul body odour;[9][11] he was described as stinking "to such a degree that he could not be endured within the distance of twenty paces".[11] This smell would get noticeably worse after he had eaten,[10][11] his eyes and cheeks would become bloodshot,[9] a visible vapour would rise from his body,[11] and he would become lethargic, during which time he would belch noisily and his jaws would make swallowing motions.[11] He suffered from chronic diarrhoea, which was said to be "fetid beyond all conception".[11] Despite his large intake of food, he did not appear either to vomit excessively or to gain weight.[13] Aside from his eating habits, his contemporaries saw no apparent signs of mental illness or unusual behaviour in him,[13] other than an apparently apathetic temperament with "a complete lack of force and ideas".[11][14]

>Courville and Percy decided to test Tarrare's capacity for food. A meal had been prepared for 15 labourers near the hospital gates; although generally hospital staff restrained Tarrare in the presence of food, on this occasion Courville allowed him to reach the table undisturbed.[6] Tarrare ate the entire meal of two large meat pies, plates of grease and salt and four gallons of milk, and then immediately fell asleep;[2][17] Courville noted that Tarrare's belly became taut and inflated like a large balloon.[6][17] On another occasion Tarrare was presented with a live cat. He tore the cat's abdomen open with his teeth and drank its blood, and proceeded to eat the entire cat aside from its bones, before vomiting up its fur and skin.[2][8] Following this, hospital staff offered Tarrare a variety of other animals including snakes, lizards and puppies, all of which were eaten;[9] he also swallowed an entire eel without chewing, having first crushed its head with his teeth.[2]

>A document was placed inside a wooden box which was in turn fed to Tarrare. Two days later, the box was retrieved from his excrement, with the document still in legible condition.[9][17]

>>6350383
>Having swallowed the box successfully, Tarrare was given a wheelbarrow filled with 30 pounds (14 kg) of raw bull's lungs and liver as a reward,[2] which he immediately ate in front of the assembled generals.[9][18]

> Efforts to keep him on any kind of controlled diet failed; he would sneak out of the hospital to scavenge for offal outside butchers' shops and to fight stray dogs for carrion in gutters, alleys and rubbish heaps.[2][17][20] He was also caught several times within the hospital drinking from patients undergoing bloodletting, and attempting to eat the bodies in the hospital mortuary.[2][17][20]

>Four years later, in 1798, a M. Tessier of Versailles hospital contacted Percy to notify him that a patient of theirs wished to see him. It transpired to be Tarrare, now bedridden and weak.[20] Tarrare told Percy that he had swallowed a golden fork two years earlier, which he believed was lodged inside him and causing his current weakness. He hoped that Percy could find some way to remove it. Percy, however, recognised him as suffering from advanced tuberculosis.[20] A month later, Tarrare began to suffer from continuous exudative diarrhoea, dying shortly afterwards.[20]

>The corpse rotted quickly; the surgeons of the hospital refused to dissect it.[20] Tessier, however, wanted to find out how Tarrare differed from the norm internally, and was also curious as to whether the gold fork was actually lodged inside him.[20] At the autopsy, Tarrare's gullet was found to be abnormally wide and when his jaws were opened, surgeons could see down a broad canal into the stomach.[21] His body was found to be filled with pus,[17] his liver and gallbladder were abnormally large,[17] and his stomach was enormous, covered in ulcers[10] and filling most of his abdominal cavity.[17][20]

>The fork was never found.[22]

>>6350392
>>6350383

>>6350392
>>The corpse rotted quickly; the surgeons of the hospital refused to dissect it.[20] Tessier, however, wanted to find out how Tarrare differed from the norm internally, and was also curious as to whether the gold fork was actually lodged inside him.[20] At the autopsy, Tarrare's gullet was found to be abnormally wide and when his jaws were opened, surgeons could see down a broad canal into the stomach.[21] His body was found to be filled with pus,[17] his liver and gallbladder were abnormally large,[17] and his stomach was enormous, covered in ulcers[10] and filling most of his abdominal cavity.[17][20]
>>The fork was never found.[22]

Is curious that despite of having an abnormally large stomach, liver and gallbladder, his body was of a normal size.

>>6350383
>>6350392

There was a kraut lad who was similar as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Domery

What the fuck was going on with these people? Aliens? I bet they were aliens.

>>6350383
>>6350392

>"The dogs and cats fled in terror at his aspect, as if they had anticipated the kind of fate he was preparing for them"[9]
>Baron Percy

dear god

>>6350220
you're missing out man, easily one of the most fucked up cults of the 20th c., and really well written too

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koro_%28medicine%29
Bumping for someone to post more. I used to have a link to a list of a buncha weird wiki articles but the site's dead now

>>6350764

just say what they did ive read millions of pages on cults.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Akita

>>6350842
The cult leader killed a woman when trying to "heal" her stomach ache, and tried to resurrect her by ejaculating into her skull.

He had 9 concubines among his cultists, and had 26 children from them.

One of his concubines was mulitated (a breast, an arm, a finger, eight teeth, and others) before escaping.

>>6351087

Well its nothing big or special since there are a bunch of guys like that faggot, take this for example :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Koresh

>>6351087
>>6351108

forgot to say that they have mutual backgrounds

>Koresh became a born-again Christian in the Seventh-day Adventist Church

I like going through the progression of art. It really says a lot about the culture of the period that painted the work as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_art#1850s

>>6351119

what does it say? its just a bunch of death and birth dates.

>>6351113
>Koresh was a Seventh-Day Adventist

Holy SHIT that explains so much.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monophysitism

>>6351121
click on some of the artists or paintings from whatever year, I just find it fun branching off into different periods of art and seeing the progression

>>6351087
It was also a survivalist cult, living most of the summer months under brutal forced labor and most of the winter months freezing to death.

He often tortured the children, both those of his concubines, one of whom he froze to death, and even more so the children they brought with them.

He orchestrated orgies with the children, often involving their own mothers and himself.

A mentally retarded man who came to join the cult after hearing about them during a hospitalization at the same place Roch was sent, was force into castration and generally tortured both physically and mentally by Roch, and his wives when he encouraged them to do so.

A concubine who complained of a finger ache had her finger cut off by him. Then he decided it was a good idea to pin her hand to a table with a butchers knife for several hours while he got drunk, and being a good follower she acquiesced. Then once her arm was nice and necrotic he decided to amputate the whole thing. Finally she fled into the woods.

And there is much much more, he would preform amateur, gruesome surgeries on cult members with increasing frequency when he wasn't just outright torturing hem. The guy was just brutal, and the fact that all the violence was inflicted inward towards the cult just makes it that much more disturbing, like a serial killer who thralls his victims in order to slowly torture them for years and years.

>>6351108
hahaha Koresh was a pussy cat, really no worse than so many Mormons

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toast_sandwich
>A toast sandwich is a sandwich made by putting a thin slice of toast between two thin slices of bread with a layer of butter, and adding salt and pepper to taste. Its origins can be traced to the Victorian years.
>The toast sandwich is featured as a side dish for the main course item the "Mad Hatter's Tea Party (c.1892)"—an Alice in Wonderland inspired dish served alongside a mock turtle soup where a fob watch formed of freeze-dried beef stock covered with gold leaf is dropped into a tea cup and has a beef stock "tea" poured over it that dissolves the gold and the watch
>Peter Sagal remarked "This is the culinary equivalent of a Rothko painting. Or it's like a sandwich by Marcel Duchamp! It questions the essence of sandwich and language both!"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_Masks_Case
>The Lead Masks Case (Portuguese: O Caso das Máscaras de Chumbo) was a series of events which led to the death of two Brazilian electronic technicians
> There were no signs of trauma and no evidence of a struggle in the surrounding area. Next to the bodies, police found an empty water bottle and a packet containing two wet towels. A small notebook was also identified, in which were written the cryptic instructions "16:30 estar no local determinado. 18:30 ingerir cápsulas, após efeito proteger metais aguardar sinal mascara" ('16:30 be at the specified location. 18:30 ingest capsules, after the effect protect metals await signal mask').
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toynbee_tiles
>The Toynbee tiles (also called Toynbee plaques) are messages of unknown origin found embedded in asphalt of streets in about two dozen major cities in the United States and four South American cities. Since the 1980s, several hundred tiles have been discovered.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_von_Ungern-Sternberg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prophet_Hen_of_Leeds
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bossenden_Wood
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavius_(ship)

>>6351299
May the suns blessings be upon you.