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Beasts of the Bestiaries

January 31, 2020 boneandsickle antiquity, bestiaries, birds, books, Catholicism, cryptozoology, dragons, EPISODE, folklore, history, hybrids, legends, manuscripts, Middle Ages, monsters, mythology, renaissance, superstition, urban legends

The bestiaries of the Middle Ages and Renaissance were books describing animals (some recognizable and others fantastic) in terms borrowed[…]

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Walled Up Alive

January 17, 2020 boneandsickle ballads, black magic, cannibalism, Catholicism, Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allen Poe, EPISODE, execution, folk music, folk tales, folklore, foundation sacrifice, Gothic, gothic literature, history, horror, human sacfrifice, immurement, legends, literature, magic, Middle Ages, movies, murder, murder ballads, nuns, Rome, saints, superstition

Walling up a living victim, or immurement, has been used both as a punishment and for darker, magical purposes. In[…]

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The Goblins and the Gravedigger

December 21, 2019 boneandsickle Charles Dickens, Christmas, goblins, holidays, Victorian

Bone and Sickle continues its holiday tradition of Christmas ghost stories, or a goblin story, in this case. Our tale[…]

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