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Bird-Women of Greece and Russia

September 18, 2021 boneandsickle Aeolus, Alkonost, antiquity, bestiaries, Bird-Women, classical music, folk tales, folklore, Gamayun, Greece, Greek myth, harpies, legends, mermaids, monsters, opera, pagan, paganism, Russian, seduction, sirens, Sirin

Bird-women hybrids of Greek legend and Russian folklore are uniquely ambivalent, sometimes bringing death and destruction and at others, prophetic wisdom[…]

Bees: Gods, Death, and Honey

March 19, 2021 boneandsickle antiquity, bees, Bible, Catholicism, EPISODE, folk customs, folklore, Greek gods, Greek myth, history, Homer, honey, horror, legends, literature, magic, movies, mythology, Old Testament, pagan, paganism, superstition

The mythology of bees has been tied for centuries to notions of the otherworld and death. In this episode we[…]

Medusa and the Gorgons

March 1, 2021 boneandsickle decapitation, EPISODE, evil eye, folklore, Gorgons, Greece, Greek gods, Greek myth, legends, Medusa, movies, mythology, Perseus, sea monster, sea serpent

Medusa was one of the Gorgons, creatures originally considered quite monstrous, who over the centuries came to be humanized and[…]