A little on the World Dracula Congress in 2000.

Still looking for more information on the Evil Eye in Romania I came across the Owl Pages. Fascinating owl beliefs: in Inner Mongolia owls enter the house by night to gather human fingernails and in Ethiopia, a man condemned to death was taken to a table on which an owl was painted, and then expected to take his own life. I’ll have to check this, but this site also claims that Transylvanian farmers used to scare away owls by walking around their fields naked.

Found more books in English about Romania. Transylvanian Desserts by Nicoleta Popviciu particularly attracted me. This site also has short English biographies of a few of the more well-known Romanian celebrities and a Romanian to English online dictionary that couldn’t translate cat and dog from Romanian into English.

“Equality of the sexes should work both ways,” says Jim Hamer of New Jersey who wears, or rather wore, a skirt to school.

Indian man memorizes entire Oxford Advanced Learner’s English dictionary, including page numbers.

Extreme Ironing. Pictures of people ironing in odd places. Still time to enter the competition (deadline is April 31, 2003).

This zoo is what I’m going to visit on my next trip home.

I didn’t know this made it outside the country. Some guy from Alba Iulia (didn’t meet him) pays his wife to stop bugging him.

Romanian witches tried to stop the war in Iraq.

Romanian evil eye news stories from a couple years back at dogsinthenews.com and Ananova.