Transylvania Archives - Bone and Sickle

Vlad the Impaler

December 1, 2024 boneandsickle Dracula, EPISODE, execution, gothic literature, history, horror, legends, vampires

A figure of mythic proportions during his lifetime, Vlad the Impaler’s notoriety receded over the centuries only to be resurrected[…]

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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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Episode 1: Walpurgisnacht, Pt 1

April 24, 2018 boneandsickle Bone & Sickle, EPISODE, folklore, horror, pagan, paganism, vampires, witchcraft

Become a Patron! Episode One of BONE & SICKLE is the first half of a two-parter about May Eve, Beltane,[…]

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