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#35 Vintage Halloween

October 21, 2019 boneandsickle Halloween, United States

Here’s a short bonus show celebrating Halloween. It’s a bit different format. Whereas most of our shows look at folklore[…]

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#34 The Goblins Will Get You!

October 18, 2019 boneandsickle ballads, black magic, Britain, Cornwall, EPISODE, fairies, fairy tales, folk music, folk tales, folklore, goblins, history, legends, literature, magic, Middle Ages, mythology, necromancy, saints, Scotland, Sir Walter Scott, superstition, urban legends

Goblin lore from old folk tales, literature, ancient and modern legends is our topic this time around. We begin with[…]

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#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[…]

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