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Category: superstition

Waxworks

January 23, 2021 boneandsickle black magic, Britain, Canidia, Catholicism, Charles Dickens, crime, death, decapitation, dolls, England, EPISODE, execution, folklore, history, horror, Italy, literature, Middle Ages, movies, murder, puppets, renaissance, superstition, Victorian, waxworks, witchcraft

The macabre feelings stirred by waxwork figures go far beyond their use in horror films, back to the Terror of[…]

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Witchcraft in Southern Italy

November 21, 2020 boneandsickle butchers, cannibalism, Catholicism, classical music, cunning folk, demons, diabolism, EPISODE, evil eye, fairies, fairy tales, folk customs, folk medicine, folk tales, folklore, horror, Italy, legends, magic, movies, murder, Naples, Stregoneria, superstition, witch trials, witchcraft, witches

In southern Italy, belief in witchcraft has a long history, much of it centering on the town of Benevento, about[…]

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Gallows Lore

September 5, 2020 boneandsickle ballads, black magic, Charles Dickens, crime, criminals, cunning folk, death, England, EPISODE, execution, folk customs, folk medicine, folk music, folk tales, folklore, gallows, hand of glory, hangmen, history, Ireland, Jack Ketch, legends, literature, magic, puppets, science fiction, Scotland, superstition, William Calcraft

We examine the lore of the gallows, focusing on the British Isles, encountering hangmen as figures straddling history and myth,[…]

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