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Midvinterblot
What is Midvinterblot? Â Midvinterblot, also known as the Midwinter Sacrifice, was an ancient pagan Scandinavian holiday that was celebrated […]
Literary forgery
Literary work which is either deliberately misattributed to a historical or invented author Literary forgery (also known as literary mystification, […]
Fool’s errand
Type of practical joke Hammer and Nails (1977) by Hans Godo Frabel. A “glass hammer” is a highly impractical object […]
Confidence trick
Attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their confidence A confidence trick is an attempt to defraud […]
Beale ciphers
A set of three ciphertexts For the geographic code classification system, see beale code. Cover of The Beale Papers The […]
San Serriffe
Typography-themed April Fools’ Day hoax Front Page of the supplement San Serriffe is a fictional island nation invented for April […]
Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night
Short story by Nik Cohn “Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night”CountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishGenre(s)FictionPublisherNew York MagazinePublication dateJune 7, 1976 “Tribal Rites […]
Rejecting Jane
The ‘Rejecting Jane’ cover of Issue No. 28 of Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine “Rejecting Jane” is the title of […]
Holocaust teaching hoax
2007 chain email message The Holocaust teaching hoax was a hoax perpetrated in Great Britain in 2007. It involved sensationalist […]