Magda Origjanska
Magda Origjanska is one of the authors writing for The Vintage News
Articles by Magda Origjanska:
Victor Lustig, the smoothest con man in the world, sold the Eiffel Tower–twice
Lavinia Warren’s wedding to Tom Thumb attended by 10,000 in Civil War-era NYC
“Ape Woman” Julia Pastrana was exploited during her life, exhibited for 153 years after her death
Spring-Heeled Jack: The Leaping Boogeyman who terrorized Victorian England
Henbane: Egyptians smoked it, witches used it for “flying ointment,” and it poisoned Hamlet’s father
The earlier versions of Little Red Riding Hood were violent and grotesque
Madam C. J. Walker, America’s first female self-made millionaire, started with a hair tonic
Hollywood’s first sex scandal but not its last: the trial of comic Fatty Arbuckle
The Shoes on the Danube Bank: a moving memorial to war horrors in Budapest
Finding the origin of the birthday cake with candles (and song) tradition
