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#34 The Goblins Will Get You!

October 18, 2019 boneandsickle ballads, black magic, Britain, Cornwall, EPISODE, fairies, fairy tales, folk music, folk tales, folklore, goblins, history, legends, literature, magic, Middle Ages, mythology, necromancy, saints, Scotland, Sir Walter Scott, superstition, urban legends

Goblin lore from old folk tales, literature, ancient and modern legends is our topic this time around. We begin with[…]

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#33 Ghosts from Purgatory

September 26, 2019 boneandsickle afterlife, Catholicism, death, demons, Devil, dreams, EPISODE, folk music, folklore, ghost stories, ghosts, Hell, history, legends, literature, Middle Ages, Purgatory, The Ghost of Guy, urban legends, visions

Hear how notions of Purgatory influenced medieval ghost stories, the tradition of All Souls’ Day, and a Neapolitan “cult of[…]

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#32 Vampires, Shroud-Eaters, and the White Plague

September 4, 2019 boneandsickle Bram Stoker, classical music, Edgar Allen Poe, EPISODE, folklore, gothic literature, literature, Mercy Brown, Nachzehrer, New England Vampires, opera, plague, Romanticism, shroud-eaters, tuberculosis, undead, vampires

This episode explores the connection between vampires and disease, beginning in 19th-century New England with a strange graveyard ritual involving[…]

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