A Tale of Jealousy and Witchcraft | M.P. Pellicer

A man is induced by his wife to strangle her sister, and is in turn put to death in a horrible manner, or so it was rumored.

In October, 1902 The San Francisco Examiner wrote about a remarkable story of "savage superstition". It read like the tales of torture and Indian justice related in James Fennimore Cooper's Indian stories. It came to light among the Mojave Indians who lived along the Colorado River in Arizona about an incident of love, jealousy, superstition, murder and finally a terrible death to the offending Indian. It all combined to make a story of unusual interest and cruelty, astonishing even with those familiar with the tragedies of the mountain and desert in the great Southwest.

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Lucky Number 13 | M.P. Pellicer

How or why the number thirteen has acquired a connection to bad luck is not quite clear, but this superstition dates back hundreds of years to the Vikings, the Romans and even to present day when many buildings don't have a 13th floor. However at the end of the 19th century a club was formed whose purpose was to fly in the face of all superstitions including the dreaded number 13.

The club's inaugural meeting took place on Friday, January 13, at eight-thirteen in the evening, in room 13 of the Knickerbocker Cottage. (It was on Sixth Avenue and Twenty-Eighth; apparently nothing had been available on Thirteenth Street.) The following appeared in the Philadelphia Recorder in June, 1892:

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