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#24 Possessed Nuns and Holy Demoniacs

April 18, 2019 boneandsickle Catholicism, Devil, diabolism, EPISODE, exorcism, folklore, history, horror, legends, martyrdom, mortification, possession, saints, Satan, stigmatics, witchcraft

This episode finds the Devil where you’d least expect him: stories of possessed nuns and demonic attacks on the rigorously[…]

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#23 Ghastly Saint Stories

March 30, 2019 boneandsickle Catholicism, EPISODE, folklore, history, horror, legends, martyrdom, mortification, mummies, saints, Southern Gothic

Our collection of ghastly stories of saints highlights notions of extreme self-mortification as a spiritual practice along with a preoccupation[…]

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#21 A Deal with the Devil

February 27, 2019 boneandsickle black magic, Devil, EPISODE, Faust, folk theater, folklore, Germanic, Germany, history, horror, legends, literature, magic, movies, necromancy, occultism, opera, saints, theater, Theophilus, witchcraft

The legend of Faust is the archetypal deal with the Devil. This episode looks at the figure as represented in[…]

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