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Category: fairy tales

#19 Worm Songs and Beastly Sucklers

January 28, 2019 boneandsickle curses, dragons, England, EPISODE, fairy tales, folk music, folklore, gothic literature, history, horror, Lair of the White Worm, Lambton worm, milk-hairs, snakes, superstition, The Wicker Man, troll-cats, witchcraft, worms

This episode examines the Lambton Worm, a dragon legend that inspired works by Bram Stoker and Ken Russel as well[…]

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#14 Singing Bones & Scrumptious Children

November 12, 2018 boneandsickle Brothers Grimm, crime, death, EPISODE, fairy tales, folk music, folklore, literature, murder, murder ballads, Sweeney Todd, The Juniper Tree, The Singing Bone, Twa Sisters

This episode looks at some particularly gruesome fairy tales and folk ballads telling of murderers convicted of their crime through[…]

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Episode Seven: It is One Hundred Years Since Our Children Left

July 2, 2018 boneandsickle death, EPISODE, fairy tales, folklore, Germanic, Germany, history, horror, legends, literature, martyrdom, movies, mystery, paganism, plague, saints

In this episode, we explore the story of the Pied Piper, a folk tale uniquely anchored in grim historical realities.[…]

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