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#29 The Bloody Chamber

July 1, 2019 boneandsickle ballads, birds, Bluebeard, Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, decapitation, EPISODE, fairy tales, folk music, folk tales, folklore, gore, history, horror, legends, movies, murder, murder ballads, pantomime, theater, Victorian

Bluebeard and his bloody chamber full of murderous secrets is widely known as one of Charles Perrault’s fairy tales, but[…]

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#26 Lullabies and Nightmares

May 20, 2019 boneandsickle dreams, EPISODE, folk music, folklore, Germanic, Germany, history, horror, movies, nightmares, superstition, witchcraft

This episode examines the terrors that come by night, not-so-soothing lullabies, prayers and charms against the nightmare. We open with[…]

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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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