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Bird-Women of Greece and Russia

September 18, 2021 boneandsickle Aeolus, Alkonost, antiquity, bestiaries, Bird-Women, classical music, folk tales, folklore, Gamayun, Greece, Greek myth, harpies, legends, mermaids, monsters, opera, pagan, paganism, Russian, seduction, sirens, Sirin

Bird-women hybrids of Greek legend and Russian folklore are uniquely ambivalent, sometimes bringing death and destruction and at others, prophetic wisdom[…]

Mermen and more Marvels of the Northern Seas

April 19, 2021 boneandsickle cryptozoology, draug, EPISODE, folklore, history, legends, mermaids, mermen, monsters, nautical, revenant, sagas, Scandinavia, sea monster, superstition, undead

In this episode, we continue our survey of supernatural sailors’ lore of the North with a look at mermen, Iceland’s[…]

The Frankenstein Method

August 20, 2020 boneandsickle Albertus Magnus, alchemy, EPISODE, folklore, Frankenstein, Gothic, gothic literature, history, homunculi, literature, Mary Shelley, monsters, movies, Romanticism, The Bride of Frankenstein, theater

The method Frankenstein employed to create life is left mostly a mystery in Mary Shelley’s 1818 book. How then did[…]