EPISODE Archives - Page 10 of 51 - Bone and Sickle

“Young Goodman Brown”

September 21, 2024 boneandsickle black magic, Devil, diabolism, EPISODE, folklore, gothic literature, Halloween, history, literature, storytelling, witchcraft, witches

We’re getting into the spirit of the season with a classic tale of witchcraft set in 17th-century Salem Village, Nathaniel[…]

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Subterranean Sages and Russian Mystics

August 7, 2024 boneandsickle Agartha, Bolsheviks, Buddhism, EPISODE, folklore, history, Hyperborea, legends, Nicholas Roerich, Russia, Shambhala, Soviets, Theosophy, Tibet

Agartha, Shambhala, and Hyperborea are all names for a a mythic spiritually and scientifically advanced kingdom, always in some hidden[…]

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Inside the Hollow Earth

July 1, 2024 boneandsickle cults, Edgar Allen Poe, EPISODE, fairies, folklore, Gerald of Wales, history, hollow earth, mythology, science fiction, subterranean, subterranean adventure, utopia

Borrowed from fairy lore, the notion of a hollow earth peopled by superior beings became a theme of literary fantasies as[…]

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