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Category: decapitation

Waxworks

January 23, 2021 boneandsickle black magic, Britain, Canidia, Catholicism, Charles Dickens, crime, death, decapitation, dolls, England, EPISODE, execution, folklore, history, horror, Italy, literature, Middle Ages, movies, murder, puppets, renaissance, superstition, Victorian, waxworks, witchcraft

The macabre feelings stirred by waxwork figures go far beyond their use in horror films, back to the Terror of[…]

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#30 Loup-Garou, Werewolves in France

July 22, 2019 boneandsickle black magic, Bluebeard, cannibalism, Catholicism, Charles Perrault, Conomor the Accursed, crime, decapitation, Devil, diabolism, EPISODE, folklore, France, French werewolves, history, madness, murder, werewolves, witch trials, witchcraft

The werewolf (Fr: loup-garou) epidemic of 16th-century France forms the core of our show, but we also include some medieval[…]

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#29 The Bloody Chamber

July 1, 2019 boneandsickle ballads, birds, Bluebeard, Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, decapitation, EPISODE, fairy tales, folk music, folk tales, folklore, gore, history, horror, legends, movies, murder, murder ballads, pantomime, theater, Victorian

Bluebeard and his bloody chamber full of murderous secrets is widely known as one of Charles Perrault’s fairy tales, but[…]

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