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Ashtar, Orthon, and the Rosicrucians

July 30, 2021 boneandsickle America, cults, EPISODE, extraterrestrials, Flying Saucers, folklore, history, legends, modern folklore, Rosicrucianism, science fiction, Venus, visions

Messages delivered by the extraterrestrials Ashtar and Orthon to Contactees of the 1950s represented a sort of repackaging of 19th-century Theosophy,[…]

A Journal of the Plague Year

April 17, 2020 boneandsickle ballads, Black Death, Britain, England, EPISODE, Great Plague of London, history, medicine, prophecy, visions

The Great Plague of London of 1665 to 1666 is vividly portrayed in Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year,[…]

#33 Ghosts from Purgatory

September 26, 2019 boneandsickle afterlife, Catholicism, death, demons, Devil, dreams, EPISODE, folk music, folklore, ghost stories, ghosts, Hell, history, legends, literature, Middle Ages, Purgatory, The Ghost of Guy, urban legends, visions

Hear how notions of Purgatory influenced medieval ghost stories, the tradition of All Souls’ Day, and a Neapolitan “cult of[…]