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#27 Lilith and the Breeding of Demons

May 30, 2019 boneandsickle antiquity, Babylon, Bible, black magic, changelings, diabolism, EPISODE, fairies, folklore, Hebrew mythology, history, horror, Incubi, Judaism, lamia, legends, Lilith, mythology, nightmares, Old Testament, paganism, seduction, sex, snakes, succubi

Our episode continues from our last with more terrors of the night, the incubi, sucubi, and the most notorious succubus,[…]

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#25 Death by Mother

April 30, 2019 boneandsickle ballads, death, EPISODE, folk music, folklore, Germanic, ghost stories, ghosts, gore, Greek myth, history, La Llorona, Latino, legends, Mexico, movies, murder, murder ballads, mythology, urban legends, witchcraft

For Mother’s Day this year we examine murderous mothers and maternal instincts gone very, very wrong in folklore, legends, and[…]

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#18 Wild Men, Furry Saints, and Burning Dancers

January 14, 2019 boneandsickle Edgar Allen Poe, EPISODE, folklore, gothic literature, history, horror, legends, madness, mythology, pagan, paganism, Pan, Wild Men

This time round we look at the medieval myth of the Wild Man, its connection to seasonal folk traditions, peculiar[…]

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