folk tales Archives - Bone and Sickle

The Dog-Head Saint

July 5, 2026 boneandsickle apocrypha, Catholicism, EPISODE, folk tales, folklore, giants, legends, martyrdom, saints, St. Christopher

Today he’s known mainly as a figure from medals carried to insure safe travels, but that image of a giant[…]

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Trolls in Medieval Literature

April 27, 2026 boneandsickle ballads, EPISODE, folk tales, folklore, Germanic, Iceland, legends, literature, medieval, Middle Ages, monsters, Norse, Norse religion, Norway, saints, storytelling, troll-cats, trolls, witchcraft, witches

Trolls, as presented in medieval literature, are vastly different from the creatures we encountered in our last episode’s collection of[…]

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Trolls (Pt. 1)

March 7, 2026 boneandsickle EPISODE, fairy tales, folk tales, folklore, legends, monsters, movies, Norway, trolls

Trolls in Scandinavian folklore can be a little different from what’s imagined in the rest of the world. We begin[…]

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