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P.T. Barnum’s Magnificent Museum Fire

January 10, 2023 boneandsickle America, Bone and Sickle, curiosities, disasters, EPISODE, Fires, folklore, museums, New York City, P.T. Barnum, podcast, Victorian

The fire that destroyed P.T. Barnum’s American Museum on July 13, 1865 was a luxuriantly surreal and tragic event, one[…]

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Villainous Victorian Women

November 14, 2022 boneandsickle ballads, Britain, broadsheets, crime, EPISODE, execution ballads, folklore, gore, history, horror, murder, murder ballads, poison, Victorian

Our survey of villainous Victorian women examines six individuals associated with some of the most ghastly crimes of the era,[…]

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Transylvanian Vampires

November 20, 2021 boneandsickle Bram Stoker, death, Dracula, EPISODE, evil eye, folk customs, folk magic, folklore, ghosts, history, horror, legends, literature, moroi, strigoi, Transylvania, undead, vampires, Victorian, witches

Transylvania’s vampire lore inspired the setting of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, if not the character of the Count, and encompasses not[…]

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