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The Dybbuk

August 22, 2021 boneandsickle demons, dybbuk, EPISODE, folk tales, folklore, ghost stories, ghosts, Hebrew mythology, history, Israel, Kabbalah, legends, magic, Middle Ages, movies, theater

A dybbuk is a “clinging spirit” of Jewish folklore, a ghost that can possess a human host. Stories of dybbuks[…]

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,[…]

Friends from Venus, Theosophists in Space

July 22, 2021 boneandsickle astrology, astronomy, channeling, Contactees, EPISODE, Flying Saucers, folklore, history, modern folklore, Venus

The esoteric teachings of Theosophy, particularly those regarding Venus, were surprisingly influential on the tales told by flying saucer Contactees[…]