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A Christmas Ghost Story, VIII

December 24, 2025 boneandsickle Christmas, Christmas Ghost Story, EPISODE, ghost stories, ghosts, storytelling

The Christmas Eve ghost story is a fine old tradition associated with Victorian and Edwardian England, one that’s been making[…]

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Christmas is Carnival: Carols and Calendars

December 18, 2025 boneandsickle A Season of Madness, calendar, Carnival, Carol of the Bells, carols, Catholicism, Christmas, EPISODE, folk customs, history, holidays, Kalends, Krampus, Perchten, Slavs, Twelfth Night, Twelve Days of Christmas

Historically, the celebration of Christmas and Carnival could overlap, and there is some reason to believe that customs associated with[…]

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A Werewolf in Court

November 25, 2025 boneandsickle folklore, Thiess of Kaltenbrunn, werewolves

In our second short episode for November, we take a close look at a the 1692 trial of Thiess of[…]

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