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#20 The Undead Come Courting

February 13, 2019 boneandsickle ballads, Bram Stoker, Dracula, EPISODE, folk music, folklore, ghost stories, ghosts, Gothic, gothic literature, Greece, Greek myth, history, horror, legends, literature, movies, Romanticism, superstition, vampires

Vampire mythology first appears in the West in works as early Romantic authors meld themes from folk ballads of resurrected[…]

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#17 Christmas Ghosts

December 24, 2018 boneandsickle Christmas, death, EPISODE, folklore, ghost stories, ghosts, Gothic, history, holidays, horror, legends, Victorian

Traditionally Christmas was a time for ghost stories, and tonight we’re doing our part to bring back the custom. A[…]

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Episode 10: Victorian Mummies

August 24, 2018 boneandsickle Arthur Conan Doyle, Bone & Sickle, Bram Stoker, Crowley, curses, Edwardian, Egypt, Egyptian mythology, EPISODE, Gothic, history, horror, literature, magic, movies, mummies, mythology, pagan, paganism, urban legends, Victorian

This time round we explore the way in which the death-obsessed Victorians fetishized the equally death-obsessed Egyptians, creating a number[…]

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