Real World MERMAID: Melissa Dawn

If you’ve seen Disney’s The Little Mermaid, then you know it’s the story of a mermaid who swaps her tail for two legs so she can join her Prince Charming on dry land. Melissa Dawn’s story, on the other hand, is the exact opposite. She started off bipedal and earthbound, but then one day, she took to the water and launched one of the weirdest enterprises imaginable. You see, Melissa Dawn is a professional mermaid, and for enough money, she’ll perform at your birthday party or corporate event, complete with a clamshell top and a 25-kilogram (60 lb) tail.

Originally a free diver at SeaWorld Orlando (she’s since spoken against the theme park), Dawn was billed as “Mermaid Melissa,” and she could hold her breath for a whopping five minutes. At first, the whole “mermaid” thing was just a nickname. There weren’t any actual fish fins involved . . . not until she hit upon a particularly inventive business plan.

After starting a YouTube channel in 2006, Melissa opened her very own company, “Mermaid Aquatic Entertainment.” Along with a group of professional mermaids and mermen, Melissa travels the globe—showing up in places like Japan, Dubai, and England—and entertains at resorts, festivals, and charities. For enough clams, Melissa and friends will put on their fishy appendages, dive into one of their rentable performance tanks, and dazzle audiences with their impressive underwater acrobatics. 


In addition to wowing guests with her amazing swimming skills, Melissa wants to promote “ocean education through underwater entertainment,” hoping her company will inspire people to “save the oceans before all creatures become mythical.” Of course, if you ever decide to hire Ms. Dawn, you should probably call her “Mermaid Melissa.” That’s her real name. That’s right. This free diver is so in love with her job that she legally changed her name to “Mermaid.” Talk about dedication.



SOURCE: http://bit.ly/1XWieiS

VAGINA Dress

This is weird and gone viral! This woman just ordered a dress from an online shop Wayne by Wayne Cooper which looks like a female private part! The buyer just laugh about it and return the item back to the store for a refund.

PHILIPPINES GHOSTS AND MONSTERS

Since it's almost All Soul's day in the Philippines I am thinking of posting something interesting to those people who don't know ghost and monster that "so-called" exist here in the Philippines.We don't have a Halloween celebration or a trick or treat for kids here in the Philippines. Most people here especially in urban areas are not going out late at night except o course in rural areas. I will be listing down some monsters and ghost that was said saw by few people but of course no pictures that can prove that it exist (who the hell will take a picture if you saw something creepy right? LOL)

Aswang

ASWANG

This is the most common of all Pinoy monsters. They are shape-shifters they can transform into any animal like dog, cat, bat, pig and a lot more. They usually attack at night hunting for human blood and rumored to get hearts of their victims too. Aged people will say that aswangs don't attack within the vicinity of the town they lived in and usually attack other towns. They are said to steal corpses too and eat human fetus from a mother's womb. (It’s a different story from the one in Grimm wherein the Aswang only get the fluid).

MANANANGGAL

This creature is quite similar to aswangs which hunts pregnant women and eat human fetus and sucks blood and eat human heart. They are called "tik-tik" because of their ticking sound which is a defense mechanism they use for hunting it's prey. To confuse its victims, the tik-tik sound becomes fainter as she nears. The lower portion of her body flourishes to the ground while the upper part isolates as she flies looking for food. It has long snake-ish tongue.  To execute a manananggal, one must locate the lower body and spread salt or powder on the open injury. That keeps the two parts from joining and changing back to human structure when sunshine breaks.

KAPRE

These are huge hairy with red eyes creature in human form that smokes a cigar that never burns out. They are usually found sitting on a branch of a tree mostly in a "Balete tree" or any other big trees in a solemn area. They appear during nightfall scaring children who are outside their home late at night. (This is one of the monsters that our parents used to scare us if we will escape at night to play) This monster simply enjoys scaring people they don't eat flesh. They say Kapre's are friendly but of course because of the appearance they scare people away. According to elderly people they are said to have a white stone and whoever finds it Kapre will grant your wish.

TIYANAK

This is a flesh eating monster in a form of a baby. They are usually located in the woods and usually lures people with a baby crying sound. (i remember some of my friends looking for a spider in the woods for a spider fight when suddenly they hear a baby crying and far from them 4 red circle eyes that looks like eyes and something or someone is looking at them. So they ran and got some scratches. ) Some what similar to the TIK-TICK to where the louder the crying sound means they are far from you the lower the crying sound the nearest she gets. And when you found this baby they transform into a monster with huge sharp teeth and eat you. After eating flesh they transform back to their baby form and wait for another victim. We do have some Filipino Movies available for this and got some stories like it was born with a curse. but then again there is no proof that this creature exist.

TIKBALANG

This looks like a chimera with a human body and a head, hooves and tail of a horse. They also have 3

strands of strange hair found in its mane once you pluck one of it you'll be able to tame the Tikbalang and the creature will be your slave. It has been said by elderly that Tikbalangs are harmless and just enjoy perplexing people in the woods (hikers, children who plays in the woods, or someone who is just getting woods, and travellers). If you notice that you going to the same place all over again and making your desire to happen even if it doesn't exist, you need to have turn own  shirt inside out to stop it from happening and for the Tikbalang to stop playing tricks on you.

WHITE LADY

This is a type of ghost which is common in old houses, ruins and sometimes in a specific place. They are said to be a spirit of the person who once lived and can't find peace or has unfinished business in the living world. There are many people who sees white ladies because this type of ghost will not only show to a specific person but to anyone she wants to be seen especially with those people who said to have a third eye. It has been said as well sometimes when you passed by a specific place where the white lady stay they will go inside the car or hail on your car (which I think is creepy). There are sightings that some white ladies are faceless and some are covered in blood some of them are headless and floats in the air. I am not sure if this is said to be eating or killing some people but nonetheless since these ghost only relay message to complete their unfinished business in this world.

Rumoured picture of a SIGBIN in Mindanao

SIGBIN

This is one of the articles I have listed on my previous post. So this is a kangaroo like beast with sharp teeth and walks with their head hangs between its forelegs. This is somewhat related to chupacabra to which is a coyote- like form. They have a long tail and discharges disgusting odor. They hunt children to eat and get their hearts as an amulet. This creature is mostly common in Visayas and Mindanao an no photographic evidence that this really exist.

For more questions about this creature you may read the other post. :)

PARING PUGOT (Headless Priest)

This is the sleepy hollow type it’s just that this is a priest that wears old brown sotana (cassock, or soutane) and carrying his own head. I’ve heard this story I was new here in Baguio City they say that in Diplomat hotel there is a headless priest haunting the place. Diplomat hotel was an old convent then became a hotel and now it’s a ruins an old big building. Many people go there for ghost hunting aside from headless priest they say there are a lot of ghost in that place. The ghost in that place probably had some unfinished business since they don’t hurt anyone. My dads also tell stories about the headless priest way back in our province in Mindanao he said that it lives in the woods. There are no photographic evidence just witnesses who ran away when they saw the headless priest.

DUWENDE (Dwarf)

These are small creature who is also called as nuno who lived mostly in a "Nuno sa punso" or a "old man of the mound". There are 2 types of Duwende basing on what they elderly said to me. We have a good uwende which usually lives are your house if you have a punso near your house they tend to live inside of your house as well and bring good luck. We also have the bad once which don't bring bad luck but they enjoy play pranks to people and are so mean like punished you to have swollen testicles, big acne all over your body and a lot more. They also take revenge if for example if you destroyed their home (nuno sa punso). So if you will pee into something like a try a nuno sa punso or plants make sure to say "Tabi tabi po" aloud so that they can avoid you. I also experience this creature it was just me and my brother that time I was in high school and my brother is in grade school we live in this small 3BR house and there i a nuno sa punso at the back of the house So one night when me and my brother was about to sleep there was a dropping sounds of the kitchen utensils, spoons and forks and breaking of plates it was so loud that I feel that someone break in to our house or cats playing on our kitchen. Since I was so scared to go out alone in the kitchen i ask my brother to go out with my and we are really surprise that nothing was dropped on the floor like NOTHING! So next morning I told my aunt about the experience since they are our only neighbor just in front of our house and told me that there is a duwende living in the house that we are currently living in but these duwendes (meaning to say that there are a lot of them) bring fortune to my aunt who owns it. She told me that my uncle who lived there before us experience the same thing and saw nothing was dropped on the floor and my aunt told me that these duwendes were just playing around the house. My aunt also told me that the midwife who assisted my other aunt who's pregnant that time has a 3rd and when my other aunt was about to gave birth in the living room she saw all 12 of them looking at my aunt. (Creepy right? I was actually having creeps in writing these stories)

SIGBIN

So here's another monstrous creature but not available in any countries only in the Philippines. We call it Sigbin or Sigben, we will get to know this crearure and where did it begin and what they do.

This creature (I don't know if it really exist though) is a part of an old Philippine myth which I know most of you're grandparents told stories about it. Sigbin's are most common in Visayas and Mindanao sicne I did not hear any stories about it in the metro or some urban place in Luzon.

An example of an Aswang

Based on myth stories, Sigbins are own by the family "Sigbinan", who are blessed with the power to control or command Sigbins. It has been said that it is a pet of an "Aswang" (a monster who hunt for blood and sometimes transform itself to an animal) keeping them in a big jars made of clay.


It's usually attacks basing on the myths during Holy Week, hunting for it's prey which are children (the reason why we are afraid to go out at night because of the stories of our grand parents about Sigbin) suck their blood and get their hearts which they used as an amulet for themselves.

It is said that it looks like a kangaroo, but it walks backwards with its head lowered between its hind legs, and to have the ability to become invisible to other creatures especially to humans. They are said to have red eyes, big ears as size as a hand and a flexible tail which can be used as a whip. Their faces is color gold and they discharge disgusting odor.


There are no pictures that will show as proof this creature exist. But many people believed that it does exist basing on eyewitnesses who sees this creature. I can see as well that this creature is somewhat similar to Chupacabra but differs in appearance and prey.






Picture source: http://theflama.com/10-facts-about-chupacabra and http://jsmarantz.deviantart.com/art/Grimm-Season-3-ASWANG-design-model-2-464814167

Chupacabra

Let's get to know first the origin of this creature named CHUPACABRA from the spanish words "CHUPAR" which means SUCK and  "CABRA" which means GOAT. So literaly this is a GOATSUCKER from the name itself and based on what these creature do which is sucking goat's blood. The basic known characteristics of the chupacabra are that it is around three to four feet in length, weighing around 20-30 pounds and its skin is rough and mangy. That it has fangs and a thirst for blood, and is most of all very elusive. Since the first claimed sighting in Puerto Rico, sightings as far as Russia have been reported of the chupacabra.

I don't know if this creatures is true but says it actually exist. In some countries like Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Brazil, United States, and Mexico.

Chupacabra's rumoured cadaver

Some of the reports which started in year 1995 (I was 5 years old back then) in Puerto Rico that this creature attacked 8 sheeps and was found dead. Weird thing is that each got three puncture wounds in the chest area and completely drained of blood. Few months later that specific incident in Puerto Rico there was also an incidents which results to 150 farm animals and pets were killed in a Canóvanas, Puerto Rico. This kind of massacre was linked to an event happened in 1975 in a small town of Moca also in Puerto Rico which they called  El Vampiro de Moca (The Vampire of Moca). But it was rumoured to be a cult killings/ sacrifice. After that numerous killings happen everywhere throughout the town to creatures with their blood depleted to a little roundabout entry points.

There are a lot of reports, photographs and some got wanted to look for a specimen ofthis hideous, hairless dog like creature they call chupacabras. But DNA from some specimens they found are coming from a coyote. They are hairless because of the disease known as "Mange".

Coyote with Mange

Mange is a skin disease most common to animals like mammals also can nfect plants, birds, and reptiles which causes skin scrapings from multiple areas. This is beacuse of the parasite called "Mites". These parasite mites are most common to furry animal which are also known as scabies and demodicosis (you know this if you have a pet cats or dogs). The mites that cause these diseases in humans are closely related to those that cause the mange in other mammals.

I know we're all a bit confounded in the event that it's true or not. Yet, since no clarification about this animal and we just have observers then I get It does some way or another exist.True adherents of the legendary animal stay persevering that the chupacabra exist, some venture to track the animal in spots were sightings were accounted for. Albeit no genuine solid confirmation has ever been observed, most got animals thought to be the chupacabra were rejected after blood tests turned out to be it to be a known creature with a skin condition.

We haven't got any news about this here in the Philippines about chupacabras but I bet they have their own counterparts like what we call a "SIGBIN". Don't worry guys, I will be wrtining an article about it and it'll be done by some time next week.


Enjoy reading. :)




credits to google.com for the images and some reports about chupacabras

Sea Monster: Lancetfish

Lancetfish replica

This is a Lancetfish also known as a Handsaw fish because of their dorsal fins which you can see on the picture above is very prominent. Their scientific name Alepisaurus, translates as "scaleless lizard" because this sea creature doesn't have any scale and their skin is instead covered with pores.

Lancetfish usually feed at night (more of like a vampire for me LOL) eating crustaceans, squid and smaller species of fish. They can grow up to 6.5 ft or 2meters in long (i can't imaghine them growing that long, CREEPY!).

They are not considered as a good fish or good as a food for humans since their body mostly consist of large amount on water making their flesh spongy. The way that their muscles have a high water substance makes it improbable that the lancetfish can move rapidly or seek after other prey, so researchers conjecture the lancetfish is a snare predator — it likely uses its enormous dorsal blade to quicken in short blasts to overcome prey. 

They can be found usually in open waters throughout tropical and subtropical oceans, though they've been known to travel as far north as Greenland and Iceland. Their are some news as well that they are found on North Carolina and it's a live one! Well for me I will be creeped out if I saw one looking at their jaws makes me see some blood on my hands it feels like they will bite once you touch them. (I'm such a scaredy cat, i know haha )

Something PECULIAR about MARIJUANA

Cannabis Sativa

Marijuana is a sort of blooming plants that incorporates three unique species, Cannabis sativa, Cannabis indica and Cannabis ruderalis. These species are indigenous to Focal Asia and the Indian Subcontinent.

Cannabis ruderalis

Cannabis has long been utilized for hemp fiber, for hemp oils, for therapeutic purposes, and as a recreational medication. Mechanical hemp items are produced using Cannabis plants chose to create a plenitude of fiber. To fulfill the UN Opiates Tradition, a few Cannabis strains have been reproduced to create insignificant levels of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the essential psychoactive constituent. Numerous plants have been specifically reproduced to create a greatest of THC (cannabinoids) which is acquired through the dried blossoms of Cannabis plants. Different mixes of the plant, including hashish and hash oil, are separated from the plant.

Cannabis Indica or Purple Kush

Universally, in 2013, 60,400 kilograms of cannabis were created legally. In 2013 somewhere around 128 and 232 million individuals are thought to have utilized cannabis as a recreational medication (2.7% to 4.9% of the worldwide populace between the ages of 15 and 65).

Unfortunately this is not legal in the Philippines and I was thinking it woul be so cool if we are to legalized it of course by not abusing but for medical purpose just likein some states in the United states.

Cannabis, the most regularly utilized illicit medication as a part of America, is going standard. Presently legitimate for recreational use in Colorado and Washington, pot appears to be balanced for more extensive use, as well: 21 states permit the ownership and utilization of pot for therapeutic purposes, as per the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Furthermore, sanctioning effort are in progress in Oregon, California and even Alaska.

Be that as it may, exactly what amount of do you think about the wacky weed and its odd impacts? How precisely does pot give its high, and who found the impacts of smoking the plant in any case? Perused on for a portion of the more interesting realities about cannabis utilization.

1. Legendary Beginnings

The Hippies did not find pot. Be that as it may, the drug's actual starting points remain a touch cloudy.

For instance, one source, the Drug Enforcement Administration Museum in Arlington, Virginia, expresses that the most established composed references to cannabis go back to 2727 B.C., when the Chinese Emperor Shen Nung evidently found the substance and utilized it therapeutically.

However, there's one issue with this putative reality: Shen Nung, on the off chance that he existed, was not the head of China. The primary sovereign of a bound together China was Qin Shi Huang, who was conceived around 260 B.C. — altogether later than the assumed Shen Nung. Nor is it altogether clear where or how this Shen Nung recorded his restorative maryjane tests. The most punctual samples of composed Chinese characters date to the Shang line, between 1200 B.C. what's more, 1050 B.C., when prophets cut images on bones and turtle shells. In spite of the fact that the narrative of Shen Nung saturates pot histories on the web, his presence is by all accounts more pot myth than actuality.

Still, the Chinese merit some credit. The old Taiwanese were utilizing hemp filaments to brighten ceramics around 10,000 years prior, as indicated by "The Archeology of Ancient China" (Yale University Press, 1968).


In any case, the character of the first individual to find pot's inebriating impacts is lost to ancient time.

2.Different Conventions 

Cannabis has different convention depending on the country or culture you have.A pot authority, then again, could pick between strains with names like "purple haze," "chocolope" and "green crack," In the Philippines we usually call it "MJ," "Wee," "Good Shit," "Jut," "Good Stuff," "Ganja," "Momay,". (and yeah I know people who used it LOL)

Unusual names are a period respected convention among pot producers, doing a reversal at any rate to the 1970s, when strains, for example, "Maui Waui" (from Hawaii, normally) went onto the scene. Why such silly names? All things considered, one reason may be the procedure behind the naming choices.

"Such a variety of times, we've at last got to the end of a strain, and we have it in that spot and it's done, and we're similar to, 'What do we call it?'" one of the co-proprietors of Amsterdam's DNA Hereditary qualities, a cannabis seed bank, told the LA Times in July 2014. "And we sit there, and we call all our friends and smoke. That's a brainstorm session."

3. Smoking pot = Congestive heart?


There are lots of question on what are the adverse reaction in our body in smoking Marijuana. One of the main effects in smoking marijuana focused on the brain which increased possibility of developing schizophrenia and other demented disorders. But does smoking weed can affect your heart too?

"The perception is that marijuana is a magical drug, that it's totally safe, and we can use it in medical treatment. What we don't know about are the negative effects, the potential harms," Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum, a cardiologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York who was not involved in the study.

In an April 2014 study, analysts searched through 2,000 instances of medicinal confusions from pot in France and found that 2 percent included heart issues, including nine deadly heart assaults. The study wasn't intended to decide why pot use may once in a while lead to heart issues, however past examination has found that cannabis can build heart rate and circulatory strain, which could tip a powerless individual over into heart assault region.


4. Effects on both Sexes

Smoking up could be an altogether different ordeal for men and ladies, as per a recent report in the diary Medication and Liquor Reliance. In examination on rats, Washington State College clinician Rebecca Specialty found that females were more delicate to cannabis' painkilling qualities, however they were likewise more prone to add to a resistance for the medication, which could add to negative reactions and reliance on maryjane.

The female rats' larger amounts of the hormone estrogen appear to assume a part in these sex-particular impacts. Female rats are more delicate to the impacts of cannabis at ovulation, when estrogen levels are highest, Craft said in a statement.


5. Marijuana BABY SOAPS

In an uncommon case, a healing facility in North Carolina saw an uptick in the quantity of infants who were trying positive for weed in their pee, a finding that can recommend that mother has been smoking and can prompt social administrations getting included. Yet, for reasons unknown these infants weren't experiencing pot introduction. They were simply sudsy.

An examination of the positive tests found that fixings in a few normal baby soaps can bring about a false positive on maryjane pee tests, scientists reported in 2012. The cleansers, including recipes from Johnson and Johnson, CVS and Aveeno, don't contain pot, nor do the get newborn children high. A more touchy test can demonstrate that the introductory screening results were false positives, scientists reported in the diary Clinical Natural chemistry.

6. Does it have to be GREEN?

Not all green with five finger leaf is pot! Well, Growing plants outdoors could lessen marijuana's carbon footprint, and due to high demand of the drug meaning more ways how to produced it and grow it in warehouses and greenhouses.

Innovations such as greenhouses equipped with low-energy LED lights could help make pot greener, but like any large-scale agriculture, marijuana growing will require large-scale energ. In other word to have that color green in a pot they need to suck up more light. The lesser the light the plant sucks the lower to obtain that green color.

7. MARI - Rope

The cannabis plant isn't utilized just to smoke; its filaments can likewise be made into rope or fabric. Maybe the most peculiar utilization of hemp rope on record is as a system for transporting goliath stone statues. In 2012, archeologists made multiplications of Easter Island's statues, attempting to make sense of how antiquated individuals may have moved the notable 9,600-lb. (4.35 metric tons) heads from their quarry. Scholars have proposed everything from log rollers to extraterrestrial help for the errand, yet in 2012, California State College Long Shoreline prehistorian Carl Lipo demonstrated that every one of that was required is hemp rope. 

By appending three hemp ropes to the statue and having a group of 18 individuals rock it forward and backward until it "strolled," Lipo and his group had the capacity move the hunk of stone 328 feet (100 meters) in under 60 minutes, they reported in the Diary of Archeological Science. Easter Islanders would have had woody bushes like maryjane plants to use in making rope, the specialists contended.

8. Hemp versus pot

WARNING!!! This is too scientific! I even had a nose bleed after reading this. LOL

Mechanical hemp plants are the same species as pot plants, yet they don't create a substance called tetrahydrocannabinolic corrosive (THCA). This is the forerunner to tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoactive fixing in pot. Hemp plants neglect to create this substance in light of the fact that they do not have a quality that makes a catalyst to deliver THCA, as per College of Saskatchewan natural chemist Jon Page.

Conversely, pot plants produce THCA however don't make quite a bit of a substance called cannabidiolic corrosive (CBDA), which happens in wealth in hemp yet rivals THCA for crude materials. Hence, hemp is rich in nonpsychoactive CBDA, while cannabis is stuffed with brain bowing THC. 

What's the contrast in the middle of hemp and pot, at any rate? A solitary hereditary switch. In 2011, specialists from the College of Saskatchewan reported that they'd found the hereditary adjustment that permits psychoactive cannabis plants (Cannabis sativa) to give clients a high (when contrasted with modern hemp plants, which are unpleasant for smoking).

9. Pot for pets

Individuals have utilized restorative maryjane to straightforwardness everything from glaucoma to the reactions of chemotherapy. Does this utilized for people may be appropriate to other creatures too? 

Pet proprietors are as of now utilizing cannabis restoratively to assist their with sufferinging felines and puppies, as indicated by a 2013 article in the Diary of the American Veterinary Medicinal Affiliation. More often than not, creatures that ingest pot get over the impacts inside of a couple of hours, veterinarians say. However, in substantial amounts, pot can be fatal to creatures.

10. POT is in the AIR!

There are sure places where a fog of pot smoke is not out of the ordinary: Appreciative Dead shows, for instance, or pot sanctioning revitalizes. In any case, in the city of Rome? 

Yes, as indicated by a recent report done in Italy, follow measures of pot are wafting through the air around the Colosseum and the Pantheon, and additionally in seven other Italian urban areas. Analysts analyzed the demeanor of Rome, Bologna, Florence, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Turin and Verona for psychotropic substances, including cocaine, cannabis, nicotine and caffeine. The researchers discovered these substances in each of the eight urban areas, with Turin having the most noteworthy aggregate focuses and Florence and Bologna having the most elevated groupings of pot. 

Be that as it may, even in Florence and Bologna, sightseers don't have to stress over a contact high while taking in the sights. The levels of weed and different substances were awfully low to influence human wellbeing — yet analysts said they trust the discoveries can educate drug arrangement by evaluating medication utilization in every city.

11. Owls being rat poisoned due to pot

Outside develop operations have their drawbacks, as well — especially illicit plots of pot plants. Imperiled seen owls in California's Mendocino Region are debilitated by the rodent toxic substance put out by individuals who develop pot wrongfully on detached extends of open area. In 2012, two spotted owls discovered dead in Mendocino Area tried positive for rodent poison, as did the assemblages of 85 percent of dead warm blooded creatures called fishers. 

The general population who harvest unlawful pot can wind up with wellbeing issues, as well. In June 2013, healing center specialists in Albania reported a bunch of pot related diseases, with more than 700 patients treated at one town. Laborers close to the town of Lazarat who had drawn out skin contact with cannabis plants amid gathering and pressing created side effects, for example, spewing, stomach torment and sporadic heartbeats, as indicated by Reuters. Half of Albania's pot is developed unlawfully in the local

Source: http://www.livescience.com

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King Tut's mummified ERECTED Penis

King Tut's penis was known not joined to his preserved body in 1922; then, in 1968, Tut's regal "staff", seemed to have vanished; just to return in 2006 when it was discovered covered under the sand near Tut's body in any case, obviously, no more appended.

I was having second thoughts if I will be posting this one. but this is VERY WEIRD to mummify an erect penis. (ROFLOL)

First up! we should know who King Tut is. Tutankhamun was an Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty (ruled ca. 1332–1323 BC in the conventional chronology), during the period of Egyptian history known as the New Kingdom. He is colloquially referred to as King Tut. His original name, Tutankhaten, means "Living Image of Aten", while Tutankhamun means "Living Image of Amun".

Egypt's King Tutankhamun was embalmed in an unusual way, including having his penis mummified at a 90-degree angle, in an effort to combat a religious revolution unleashed by his father, a new study suggests.

The pharaoh was buried in Egypt's Valley of the Kings without a heart (or a replacement artifact known as a heart scarab); his penis was mummified erect; and his mummy and coffins were covered in a thick layer of black liquid that appear to have resulted in the boy-king catching fire.

These anomalies have received both scholarly and media attention in recent years, and a new paper in the journal Études et Travaux by Egyptologist Salima Ikram, a professor at the American University in Cairo, proposes a reason why they, and other Tutankhamun burial anomalies, exist.

The preserved erect penis and other entombment abnormalities were not mishaps amid treating, Ikram recommends, but instead purposeful endeavors to make the ruler show up as Osiris, the divine force of the underworld, in as strict a path as could reasonably be expected. The erect penis brings out Osiris' regenerative forces; the dark fluid made Tutankhamun's skin shading take after that of Osiris; and the lost heart reviewed the god's account being sliced to pieces by his sibling Seth and his heart covered.

Making the lord show up as Osiris may have undoed a religious transformation realized by Akhenaten, a pharaoh generally accepted to be Tutankhamun's dad, Ikram said.

Akhenaten had attempted to center Egyptian religion around the Aten's love, the sun plate, going so far as to demolish pictures of different divine beings. Tutankhamun was attempting to fix these progressions and return Egypt back to its conventional religion with its blend of divine beings.

Ikram alerts that her thought is theoretical, in any case, if right, it would clarify a puzzles' percentage encompassing Tutankhamun's embalmment and entombment.

Osiris tomb the one they have replicated on King Tut's to have erected penis be mummified

Tutankhamun's erect penis 

Tutankhamun's preserved penis in the long run severed from his body after the mummy was found, at one point prompting media theory that it had been stolen.

Ikram has yet to experience another Egyptian mummy covered with an erection. "To the extent I know, no other mummy has been discovered so far with an erect penis," she told LiveScience in an email.

The symbolism of King Tutankhamun's erect penis has an association with the god Osiris, Ikram said. "The erect penis brings out Osiris at his most effectively regenerative minute, and is an element of 'corn-mummies,' the quintessential images of resurrection and revival," she writes in her paper. Corn-mummies were nonhuman fake mummies made in later periods out of appreciation for Osiris. They were made of a blend of materials, including grain.

A missing heart

Another mysterious anomaly is the absence of the pharaoh's heart and lack of a heart scarab to serve as a replacement. "This organ was a key component for the successful resurrection of the body," Ikram wrote, noting that in Egyptian mythology, the heart was said to be weighed against the feather representing the god Maat to determine if one was worthy of resurrection. [See Images of Egyptian Mummification Process]

The absence of Tutankhamun's heart or heart scarab does not appear to be the result of theft, she noted, but, instead, may be an allusion to a famous story in the legend of Osiris when his body was cut apart by his brother Seth and the god's heart was buried.

A cut typically used to remove a mummy's internal organs was unusually "brutal" and large on King Tut, Ikram noted, another allusion, perhaps, to Seth’s butchery of Osiris.

Other pieces of evidence also point to Osiris. For instance, the burial chamber's north wall shows King Tut as Osiris through its decoration.

"Tutankhamun is shown as a fully fledged Osiris — not simply a wrapped mummy," Ikram noted. "This representation of the king as Osiris is unique in the Valley of the Kings: Other tombs show the king being embraced by Osiris or offering to him.

Bacon = Longer Life Span?

Does eating bacon a day can really prolong you life? The world's oldest living person, Susannah Mushatt Jones of Brooklyn, New York, recently said that she eats a serving of bacon every day.

Jones just turned 116 last July 6, 2015 and was delegated the world's oldest living person by Guinness World Records that month, admitted her bacon habit in an interview distributed for the current week on the New York Post's site Page Six. As such, the Internet is having a field day with this data.


I was thinking of going to buy some groceries with a bunch of bacon after reading the article about it. But of course we need to know that bacon is not a fountain of youth. And Jones did not say that it's her secret to long life either she just said that "Bacon makes everything better".

In her interview with Guiness World Records, she credited her good sleeping propensities, and also her forbearance from tobacco and liquor, for her proceeded with great wellbeing.

The world's oldest living person is right in suspecting that her healthyhabits have presumably kept her alive for over a century. On the other hand, it's imaginable that Jones predominantly has her hereditary qualities to thank for her long life, said Dr. Thomas Perls, director of the New England Centenarian Study at Boston Medical Center and professor of medicine at Boston University.

"By no means should anyone, therefore, think that eating bacon is good for them because [Jones] eats bacon," Perls told Live Science. It may be that the Guinness World Record holder has been getting away with doing so only because she has "genes that make up for" her bacon habit, he added.


GOOD GENES

Since 1995, Perls and his associates have been contemplating why a few individuals live more than others. Their investigations of centenarians and supercentenarians (individuals beyond 110 years old) are among the most exhaustive seniority concentrates on the planet.

Perls said there's simply no investigative proof that recommends individuals who eat bacon consistently live more. Actually, the examination on red meat utilization and life span proposes the fact of the matter is an incredible inverse.


For instance, a 28-year investigation of 120,000 individuals directed by specialists at Harvard University observed that eating one serving of natural red meat, (for example, steak or pork cleaves) day by day expanded study members' danger of biting the dust amid the study by 13 percent. Eating one serving day by day of prepared red meat, (for example, bacon) was connected with a 20 percent expanded danger of biting the dust amid the study, the analysts found.

These findings are consistent with a 2010 meta-analysis by a separate group of researchers at Harvard, which found that people who eat processed red meats daily are at much higher risk of developing coronary heart disease and diabetes mellitus than those who do not eat these foods.

But Jones, and supercentenarians like her, are lucky, Perls said. There's an extremely strong genetic component to living this long, he told Live Science.

Living into what most people consider to be "old age" (around 85 to 90 years old) is mostly the reward for a healthy and disaster-free life, he said. People who have a good diet, exercise regularly, don't smoke or drink, and keep their stress levels low might be able to make it this long — a person's genes play a relatively small role in determining whether an individual lives to see his or her mid-80s or 90s.

But past that point, genes play a much bigger role, Perls said.

"It's around 70 percent genetic and 30 percent environment, in terms of what dictates a person's ability to live to ages like hers," he said.

And there is not just one "magic" gene that keeps a person chugging along into a second century on Earth. Rather, there are many genes that each play a small part in longevity, but as a group, can keep a person alive that long, said Perls, who noted that this may explain why you don't meet supercentenarians like Jones every day. Scoring her genetic makeup is as rare as winning the lottery (she's one in about 5 million).

And although it isn't yet clear exactly how "longevity" genes work, research suggests that these genes may be "protective," slowing down aging and decreasing a person's risk for age-related diseases, Perls said.

"And they help you in terms of things like eating a lot of bacon. So she's very lucky. She can eat all the bacon she wants and live to 116."

The oldest person to have ever lived was Jeanne Calment, of France, who lasted to the ripe old age of 122. Calment had an even worse vice than Jones' — she smoked a cigarette a day until she died, in 1997.

Who knows? Perls said — if not for the smoking, perhaps Calment would still be alive.

WITCH - Decapitated for practicing BLACK MAGIC

Mangkukulam/ Mambabarang

Many witches or "Mangkukulam" and "Mambabarang" as was they call it here in the Philippines exist according to some rumours. But in Saudi Arabia they really found one named Amina bint Abdulhalim Nassar and beheaded her for practicing "witchcraft and sorcery". In Saudi Arabia  witchcraft and sorcery is capital offense the reason why Nassar
was sentence to death. Nassar's sentence was appealed — and upheld — by the Saudi Supreme Judicial Council.

Amina Bint Abdulhalim Nassar

Nassar, who asserted to be a healer and spiritualist, was captured after powers supposedly discovered an assortment of mysterious things in her ownership, including herbs, glass jugs of "an obscure fluid utilized for divination," and a book on witchcraft. As per a police representative, Nassar had likewise erroneously guaranteed marvel healings and cures, charging sick customers as much as $800 for her administrations.

It's interesting on the grounds that in the Philippines they really have confidence in healers like Nassar distinction is that they now and then don't acknowledge installments yet gifts will do yet, not necessary. Numerous individuals here in the Philippines offers a few herbs with divination, love elixirs and other stuff yet our law permits them to offer it and it will be contingent upon the general population who really put stock in it. As what they generally say the mixture's force will depend on their faith for it to work and to be viable.

Ali Hussain Sibat

Some years ago a Lebanese man named Ali Hussain Sibat, who for quite a long time had apportioned psychic exhortation and forecasts on a network show, was blamed for witchcraft. Sabat was captured in Saudi Arabia by the religious police, the Board of trustees for the Advancement of Excellence and the Counteractive action of Bad habit. His wrongdoing, similar to that of Nassar, was honing witchcraft, and Sabat was sentenced to death in April 2010, however it's still obscure if his sentence has been completed.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Allegations of witchcraft and magic are not inconceivable around the globe, particularly in political crusades where they are utilized as a smear strategy. Close partners of Iran's Leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were blamed a year ago for utilizing witchcraft and summoning genies by powerful ministers in that nation. As indicated by news reports, around two dozen of Ahmadinejad's nearby helpers have been captured and accused of being "mystical performers." One man, Abbas Ghaffari, was allegedly blamed for summoning a genie who brought about a heart assault in a man who was mistreating him.

Christine O'Donnell

Indeed, even the United States is not insusceptible; Christine O'Donnell, the Republican who ran a fizzled offer for a Senate seat in 2010, needed to answer political inquiries concerning whether she had drilled witchcraft. For quite a long time, allegations of (and laws against) witchcraft have been utilized as an instrument by people with great influence to quiet dissidents; whether that was the situation with Nassar is obscure, however herdeath is an update that faith in enchantment is considered important in numerous parts of the world — and can have grave result.

In the end we don't know whether this witchcraft or magic is viable or workign. There is no exploratory premise for it and no evidence that what they are doing is working. Whatever they did to accused a particular individual doing divination is to depend with the stuff they can see on that individual spot like the mixtures and some witchcraft books. But of course it will be your choice to believe in it or not.

PENIS SNATCHER!

In a late issue of "Pacific Standard" magazine, Louisa Lombard, an anthropologist at the College of California at Berkeley, depicted going by a residential community in the Focal African Republic where she experienced two men who asserted that their penises had been stolen. 

It appears that the day preceding, an explorer going by the town had shaken hands with a tea merchant who instantly guaranteed he felt a stun and detected that his penis had contracted. He shouted out in caution, assembling a group, and a second man then said it additionally transpired. 

This is not the setup to a joke; it is a genuine mental issue called koro in which casualties (for the most part men, however at times ladies) come to trust that their private parts are contracting or withdrawing into the body. The worry is for their sexuality, as well as for their lives, since they trust that the condition may be life undermining if not switched. Keeping in mind the end goal to forestall further shrinkage, casualties have been known not tie their penises with string or metal cinches — even now and then having relatives hold it in transfers until treatment can be looked for, for the most part from shamen or conventional healer