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Category: ballads

A Journal of the Plague Year

April 17, 2020 boneandsickle ballads, Black Death, Britain, England, EPISODE, Great Plague of London, history, medicine, prophecy, visions

The Great Plague of London of 1665 to 1666 is vividly portrayed in Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year,[…]

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Murdered Sweetheart Songs

February 12, 2020 boneandsickle ballads, birds, broadsheets, crime, criminals, death, EPISODE, folk music, folklore, ghosts, gore, history, Scotland, seduction, suicide, superstition, United States, Victorian

As a special Valentine’s episode, we present collection of folk songs known as “sweetheart murder ballads.” We begin with two[…]

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Walled Up Alive

January 17, 2020 boneandsickle ballads, black magic, cannibalism, Catholicism, Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allen Poe, EPISODE, execution, folk music, folk tales, folklore, foundation sacrifice, Gothic, gothic literature, history, horror, human sacfrifice, immurement, legends, literature, magic, Middle Ages, movies, murder, murder ballads, nuns, Rome, saints, superstition

Walling up a living victim, or immurement, has been used both as a punishment and for darker, magical purposes. In[…]

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