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Christmas Devils and the Feast of Fools

December 12, 2022 boneandsickle Boy bishop, Catholicism, Christmas, Devil, EPISODE, Feast of Fools, folk theater, folklore, history, holidays, manuscripts, New Year, Nicholas Plays, Satan, St. Nicholas, Twelve Days of Christmas

From St. Nicholas Day through Christmas, the Devil figured prominently in medieval plays, embodying a subversive seasonal element also celebrated[…]

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Who Put the Hell in Helloween?

October 26, 2022 boneandsickle America, cautionary tales, Devil, diabolism, EPISODE, Evangelicals, folklore, Gerald Gardner, Halloween, holidays, modern folklore, occultism, Satanic Panic, Sibyl Leek, superstition, Wicca, witchcraft

During the Satanic Panic, the notion of Halloween as a Satanic High Holy Day came to prominence, but the elements[…]

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The Hellfire Clubs, Part Two

April 19, 2022 boneandsickle caves, Devil, diabolism, England, EPISODE, folklore, Francis Dashwood, ghost stories, ghosts, Hellfire Caves, Hellfire Club, legends, local legends, London, magic, occultism, paganism

The best known of the 18th-century Hellfire Clubs, one founded by Francis Dashwood, is largely remembered today because of the[…]

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