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Bottled Spirits: Imps, Devils, Ghosts

August 1, 2020 boneandsickle Aeolus, antiquity, bottled spirits, EPISODE, exorcism, folk customs, folk tales, folklore, gothic literature, Greek myth, Grimm, Hebrew mythology, history, Homer, Ireland, literature, magic, manuscripts, Middle Ages, mythology, Oddysey, Romanticism, Satan, Scotland, witch bottles, witchcraft, witches

Western tales of bottled spirits, imps, devils, and even ghosts are largely borrowed from the Islamic and Jewish legends of jinn[…]

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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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#27 Lilith and the Breeding of Demons

May 30, 2019 boneandsickle antiquity, Babylon, Bible, black magic, changelings, diabolism, EPISODE, fairies, folklore, Hebrew mythology, history, horror, Incubi, Judaism, lamia, legends, Lilith, mythology, nightmares, Old Testament, paganism, seduction, sex, snakes, succubi

Our episode continues from our last with more terrors of the night, the incubi, sucubi, and the most notorious succubus,[…]

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