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#25 Death by Mother

April 30, 2019 boneandsickle ballads, death, EPISODE, folk music, folklore, Germanic, ghost stories, ghosts, gore, Greek myth, history, La Llorona, Latino, legends, Mexico, movies, murder, murder ballads, mythology, urban legends, witchcraft

For Mother’s Day this year we examine murderous mothers and maternal instincts gone very, very wrong in folklore, legends, and[…]

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#24 Possessed Nuns and Holy Demoniacs

April 18, 2019 boneandsickle Catholicism, Devil, diabolism, EPISODE, exorcism, folklore, history, horror, legends, martyrdom, mortification, possession, saints, Satan, stigmatics, witchcraft

This episode finds the Devil where you’d least expect him: stories of possessed nuns and demonic attacks on the rigorously[…]

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#23 Ghastly Saint Stories

March 30, 2019 boneandsickle Catholicism, EPISODE, folklore, history, horror, legends, martyrdom, mortification, mummies, saints, Southern Gothic

Our collection of ghastly stories of saints highlights notions of extreme self-mortification as a spiritual practice along with a preoccupation[…]

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