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Category: Macbeth

The Fates

July 9, 2025 boneandsickle Ancient Rome, Anglo-Saxons, Charles Perrault, EPISODE, fairies, fairy tales, Fates, folk tales, folklore, Germanic, Greece, Greek gods, Greek myth, history, legends, Macbeth, Middle Ages, modern folklore, Moirai, Norns, Norse religion, pagan, paganism, Parcae, Russia, Russian, Shakespeare, Sleeping Beauty, superstition

The Fates of Classical Antiquity not only survived in the form of related fairy-tale figures but also as the object of[…]

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The Monster of Glamis

November 20, 2023 boneandsickle EPISODE, folklore, ghost stories, Gothic, gothic literature, history, horror, horror movies, legends, literature, Macbeth, Scotland, Shakespeare, The Monster of Glamis

The Monster of Glamis was a Victorian legend involving a Scottish castle, a secret chamber, and a monstrous aristocrat hidden[…]

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Toad Magic

June 21, 2020 boneandsickle antiquity, Astor Place Riot, black magic, broadsheets, Canidia, criminals, cults, cunning folk, Devil, EPISODE, familiars, folk customs, folk medicine, folklore, frogs, history, James I, Macbeth, medicine, Middle Ages, mythology, necromancy, poison, Scotland, Shakespeare, superstition, toads, witchcraft, witches, zombies, Zugarramurdi

Toads have long been associated with magic, as witches’ familiars and as a source both of poison as folk healing.[…]

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