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The Kraken and Other Marvels of the Northern Seas

April 3, 2021 boneandsickle apocalypse, Cthulhu, EPISODE, folklore, history, Kraken, legends, literature, nautical, Norse religion, pagan, paganism, Ragnarök, sea monster, sea serpent

The Kraken is only one of the monsters said to inhabit the storied northern seas of Scandinavia. This episode is[…]

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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[…]

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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[…]

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