User:Ihcoyc

Good evening. I'm IHCOYC, a handle I have been using on Usenet since around 1995, and on BBSs since maybe 1984. If you wonder what it stands for, think Greek.

My interests include Indo-European, Germanic, and Latin linguistics, nineteenth century French literature, the English Civil War, the Reformation, the 1600s.

Articles I am guilty of include:

Language and peoples:

• Geats
• Svear
• Metathesis
• Propertius
• laryngeal theory
• augment
• vowel stems
• irregular verb
• lorem ipsum
• archaism
• thou
• period (rhetoric)
• alliterative verse
• skald

Seventeenth century stuff:

• Geneva Bible
• Great Bible
• Bishops' Bible
• Pilgrim's Progress
• Joseph Glanvill
  • Sadducismus Triumphatus
  • Demon drummer of Tedworth
• Jeremy Taylor
  • Holy Living and Holy Dying
• Conventicle Act
• penal law
• Melancholia (large addition)
• Robert Burton
  • Anatomy of Melancholy
• demonology
• Thomas Browne
  • Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial
• Divine right of kings (large addition)
• Wonders of the Invisible World
• Isobel Gowdie
• Matthew Hopkins

French literature

• Emile Nelligan
• Rémy de Gourmont
• Albert Giraud
• Emile Verhaeren
• Jean Moréas
• Stuart Merrill
• Renée Vivien
• Jean Lorrain
• Albert Samain
• Nathalie Barney
• Gustave Kahn

Other art and literature:

• prose poetry
• Pamela Colman Smith
• Jan Toorop
• degenerate art (large addition)
• Cesare Lombroso
• Max Nordau
• Psychedelia
• Psychedelic music (list)
  • Roky Erickson
  • In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
• riff
• Spenserian stanza
• Conrad Aiken
  • Silent Snow, Secret Snow
• Harry Crosby
• Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock
• Grand Guignol (most of it)
• Hammer horror
• Russ Meyer
• ribaldry
• Homeric hymns
• The Omen
• Stagger Lee
• Babatunde Olatunji
• Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
• Aubrey Beardsley
• Austin Osman Spare
• goliard
• Archpoet
• Peter of Blois
• Walter of Châtillon
• alliterative verse
• melodrama

Religious topics:

• vicar
• priesthood of all believers
• atonement (now at sin)
• scapegoat
• Thomas of Celæno
  • Dies Iræ
• Sadducee
• requiem
• Mass (music)
• vespers
• Magnificat
• civil religion
• end times
  • dispensationalism
  • Hal Lindsey
  • Whore of Babylon
• Great Apostasy (Calvinism, Lutheranism, Anglicanism)
• Ten Commandments (Protestant section)
• Cyrus I. Scofield
  • Scofield Reference Bible
• imperial cult
• pow-wow
  • John George Hohman
• grace
• Magi
• Gog

My morbid tastes:

• mourning
• decomposition
• coffin
• requiem
• sarcophagus
• funeral (large addition)
• embalming

Legal matters:

• escheat
• intestacy
• uniform act
• Uniform Commercial Code
• Uniform Anatomical Gift Act
• Twelve Tables

Miscellaneous:

• Pool of Radiance
• Forgotten Realms Unlimited Adventures
• Parker-Hulme Murders
• Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
• atavism
• Monsignor Jozef Tiso
• Ara Pacis
• toga
• quest
• Marie Laveau
• List of occultists
• Joe Hill
• List of famous tuberculosis victims
• Gogmagog
• ouroboros
• Gilles de Rais
• Maciste

Projects / To do list:

• Old French[?]
• Roman Catholicism and the Holocaust[?]
• Roman Catholicism and Fascism[?]