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Category: butchers

Witchcraft in Southern Italy

November 21, 2020 boneandsickle butchers, cannibalism, Catholicism, classical music, cunning folk, demons, diabolism, EPISODE, evil eye, fairies, fairy tales, folk customs, folk medicine, folk tales, folklore, horror, Italy, legends, magic, movies, murder, Naples, Stregoneria, superstition, witch trials, witchcraft, witches

In southern Italy, belief in witchcraft has a long history, much of it centering on the town of Benevento, about[…]

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The Gibbet, Hanged in Chains

October 10, 2020 boneandsickle ballads, birds, Britain, butchers, crime, criminals, crows, death, dissection, England, EPISODE, execution, folk medicine, folk music, folklore, gallows, ghost stories, ghosts, Gibbet, gore, history, horror, La Corriveau, law, murder, punishments

The gibbet was a hanging iron cage used to display the corpses of criminals in 18th and early 19th-century England.[…]

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Drowned in Blood: Butcher Lore

November 18, 2019 boneandsickle Anglo-Saxons, birds, Britain, butchers, cannibalism, Catholicism, Christie Cleek, Christmas, criminals, England, EPISODE, folk music, folk tales, folklore, France, Germanic, gore, history, human sacrifice, legends, Middle Ages, mumming, Norse religion, pagan, paganism, Sawney Bean, Scotland, St Martin's Day, St. Nicholas, superstition

Our seasonal look at butcher lore begins with the slaughter of an immense ram as related in the centuries-old English[…]

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