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#15 Saint, Devil, Sugar-Bread, & Whip: KRAMPUS AND NICHOLAS

November 28, 2018 boneandsickle Austria, Christmas, EPISODE, folk theater, folklore, Germanic, Germany, history, holidays, Nicholas Plays, pagan, paganism, Perchten, saints, St. Nicholas

The Krampus and St. Nicholas represent a folkloric duality embodying a mode of childrearing the Germans call “sugar-bread and whip”[…]

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#13: Ancient Necromancy

October 31, 2018 boneandsickle antiquity, Bible, black magic, Canidia, EPISODE, Erichto, folklore, gore, Greece, Greek gods, Greek myth, history, Homer, Horace, human sacrifice, lamia, lemures, literature, Lucan, magic, manes, mythology, necromancy, occultism, Odyssey, pagan, paganism, Pausanius, Periander, Rome, Witch of Endor, witchcraft

Finishing up with our October theme of “talking to the dead,” we examine necromancy in the ancient world in this[…]

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#12: Seances & Scandals

October 15, 2018 boneandsickle Edwardian, EPISODE, folklore, Fox Sisters, ghosts, history, Seances, Spiritualism, Victorian

Hope you enjoy part two of our exploration of Spiritualism and seances. This one is particularly full of shocking, sad, and amusing[…]

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