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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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#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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#20 The Undead Come Courting

February 13, 2019 boneandsickle ballads, Bram Stoker, Dracula, EPISODE, folk music, folklore, ghost stories, ghosts, Gothic, gothic literature, Greece, Greek myth, history, horror, legends, literature, movies, Romanticism, superstition, vampires

Vampire mythology first appears in the West in works as early Romantic authors meld themes from folk ballads of resurrected[…]

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