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Category: England

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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All of Them Witches

October 30, 2019 boneandsickle crows, curses, death, Devil, England, EPISODE, familiars, folklore, ghost stories, ghosts, Halloween, Hannah Cranna, history, horror, legends, magic, Middle Ages, Molly Leigh, Scotland, Sibyl Leek, Thomas Weir, Wicca, witchcraft, witches

This Halloween we have five stories of witches from all the way back to around 1125AD to the 1960s. Some of[…]

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#28 Gog, Magog, and the Bones of Giants

June 12, 2019 boneandsickle antiquity, Bible, Britain, decapitation, England, EPISODE, fairy tales, folk tales, folklore, giants, history, Incubi, legends, mythology, Nephilim, Watchers

This time we look at the myths of British giants Gog and Magog, and a belief in biblical giants seemingly[…]

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