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Villainous Victorian Women

November 14, 2022 boneandsickle ballads, Britain, broadsheets, crime, EPISODE, execution ballads, folklore, gore, history, horror, murder, murder ballads, poison, Victorian

Our survey of villainous Victorian women examines six individuals associated with some of the most ghastly crimes of the era,[…]

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Who Put the Hell in Helloween?

October 26, 2022 boneandsickle America, cautionary tales, Devil, diabolism, EPISODE, Evangelicals, folklore, Gerald Gardner, Halloween, holidays, modern folklore, occultism, Satanic Panic, Sibyl Leek, superstition, Wicca, witchcraft

During the Satanic Panic, the notion of Halloween as a Satanic High Holy Day came to prominence, but the elements[…]

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The Seeress: Germanic Tribes, Vikings, and Witches

May 13, 2022 boneandsickle EPISODE, folklore, Germanic, history, human sacrifice, legends, Norse religion, Odin, pagan, paganism, prophecy, Ragnarök, sagas, Scandinavia, Seeress, seidr, Völva, witchcraft, witches

In pagan Germanic cultures, the seeress played an extremely important role, not only as a clairvoyant, but also often fulfilling[…]

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