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Gallows Lore

September 5, 2020 boneandsickle ballads, black magic, Charles Dickens, crime, criminals, cunning folk, death, England, EPISODE, execution, folk customs, folk medicine, folk music, folk tales, folklore, gallows, hand of glory, hangmen, history, Ireland, Jack Ketch, legends, literature, magic, puppets, science fiction, Scotland, superstition, William Calcraft

We examine the lore of the gallows, focusing on the British Isles, encountering hangmen as figures straddling history and myth,[…]

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The Jinn

July 20, 2020 boneandsickle demons, Devil, diabolism, EPISODE, folk customs, folklore, history, horror, King Solomon, legends, literature, magic, movies, mythology, The Arabian Nights

They Arabic mythology of the jinn is, not surprisingly, quite different than what you might glean from Western pop culture. Films[…]

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Four Minutes of Two Years of Bone and Sickle

June 4, 2020 boneandsickle Bone & Sickle, folk tales, folklore, history, horror, legends, monsters, podcast

We’ve created a new video intro to the show, a smattering of excerpts from the first two years of Bone[…]

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