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#17 Christmas Ghosts

December 24, 2018 boneandsickle Christmas, death, EPISODE, folklore, ghost stories, ghosts, Gothic, history, holidays, horror, legends, Victorian

Traditionally Christmas was a time for ghost stories, and tonight we’re doing our part to bring back the custom. A[…]

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#14 Singing Bones & Scrumptious Children

November 12, 2018 boneandsickle Brothers Grimm, crime, death, EPISODE, fairy tales, folk music, folklore, literature, murder, murder ballads, Sweeney Todd, The Juniper Tree, The Singing Bone, Twa Sisters

This episode looks at some particularly gruesome fairy tales and folk ballads telling of murderers convicted of their crime through[…]

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Episode 8: Dreadful Ships

July 23, 2018 boneandsickle Bone & Sickle, Devil, Dracula, EPISODE, folk music, folklore, Gothic, history, legends, nautical, Romanticism, Ships, superstition, vampires, Victorian

On this episode of Bone and Sickle, we look at the folklore of ghost ships, undead sailors, some nautical elements[…]

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