http://empiredelamort.com Photographs of charnel houses and ossuaries by Paul Koudounaris Mon, 13 May 2013 01:26:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://empiredelamort.com/2013/04/sex-ghost-lecture-echo-park-la-april-20/ http://empiredelamort.com/2013/04/sex-ghost-lecture-echo-park-la-april-20/#comments Thu, 18 Apr 2013 01:59:43 +0000 pkoudounaris http://empiredelamort.com/?p=1478 Continue reading →]]> http://www.facebook.com/events/371495176296793/?ref=3]]> http://empiredelamort.com/2013/04/sex-ghost-lecture-echo-park-la-april-20/feed/ 0 http://empiredelamort.com/2013/02/sex-ghost-talk-and-slideshow-in-berkeley-march-14/ http://empiredelamort.com/2013/02/sex-ghost-talk-and-slideshow-in-berkeley-march-14/#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2013 19:28:34 +0000 pkoudounaris http://empiredelamort.com/?p=1333 Continue reading →]]>
Do you like sex? Do you like Death? Do you like Sicilians? If you answered yes to any of these questions, join author/photographer Dr. Paul Koudounaris, as he presents an in-depth lecture with full slideshow on the Sex Ghosts of the Palermo Catacombs, and the history of reported sex between humans and unknown spectral apparitions.

Over 400 years ago, the monks of Palermo’s Capuchin monastery began mummifying their own brothers and prominent local citizens, and displaying their bodies in subterranean galleries. The result was one of the world’s most haunted sites. But many of these ghosts were not content to simply roam the passageways rattling chains–death had apparently not quelled their sexual appetites, and with libidos in overdrive they took to the streets of the city to fulfill their lecherous needs. Dr. Koudounaris will explore this fascinating folklore in a uniquely bizarre lecture, illustrated with his own photographs of the mummies still preserved in Palermo.

Event: Sicilian Sex Ghosts–lecture and slideshow by Dr. Paul Koudounaris; also, book signing (Empire of Death)
March 14, 2013, 7 pm
The Bone Room, 1569 Solano Way, 94707
510 526 5252
This is a free event

For previous press on the Sicilian Sex Ghost lecture, see:
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/35/48/24_siciliansexghosts_2012_11_30_bk.html
http://thehairpin.com/2012/12/death-ghosts-and-paul-koudounaris
http://animalnewyork.com/2012/sicilian-sex-ghosts-haunt-gowanus/
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Did you know:
–Demonically-possessed cats have been reported since the ancient world?
–London was terrorized by a demonically-possessed cat during World War II?
–A demonically-possessed cat destroyed a church in the Middle Ages in France?
–A method for inserting a demon into a cat has been preserved through a witchcraft trial transcripts?
–History’s most famous demonically-possessed cat is reported to reside in the basement of the US Capitol Building?
Learn all this and more! With select reenactment of said behaviors by performance artist Tiffany Rojas.

On the same evening, music by the Fancy Space People..

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