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Dead Teeth: Fairies, Rats, and Worms

February 28, 2020 boneandsickle curses, EPISODE, fairies, fairy tales, folk customs, folklore, history, horror, Middle Ages, movies, rats, saints, skulls, teeth, Tooth Fairy, United States, witch trials, witchcraft, witches, worms

Explore the folklore of the Tooth Fairy and teeth, particularly dead teeth — those lost by children or adults, and[…]

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Walled Up Alive

January 17, 2020 boneandsickle ballads, black magic, cannibalism, Catholicism, Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allen Poe, EPISODE, execution, folk music, folk tales, folklore, foundation sacrifice, Gothic, gothic literature, history, horror, human sacfrifice, immurement, legends, literature, magic, Middle Ages, movies, murder, murder ballads, nuns, Rome, saints, superstition

Walling up a living victim, or immurement, has been used both as a punishment and for darker, magical purposes. In[…]

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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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