Italian Fairy Tales – Bone and Sickle

The Colony of Cats

April 29, 2023 boneandsickle cautionary tales, EPISODE, fairy tales, folk tales, folklore, The Colony of Cats

Fairy tales featuring cats are generally pleasant. After our last show about malformed births, we thought, Andrew Lang’s story, “The[…]

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Dark Fairy Tales I: The Girl with No Hands

July 1, 2022 boneandsickle children's literature, EPISODE, fairies, fairy tales, folk tales, folklore, gore, Grimm, history, horror, literature, The Girl with No Hands

“The Girl with No Hands” is the name of a a folk-tale motif shared by a number of gruesome fairy[…]

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