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The Stone Eater and other Curious Cases

January 23, 2023 boneandsickle books, celestial phenomena, curiosities, EPISODE, folklore, giants, Victorian

Enjoy with us a collection of short curious tales culled from a favorite Victorian volume — the Stone Eater of[…]

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P.T. Barnum’s Magnificent Museum Fire

January 10, 2023 boneandsickle America, Bone and Sickle, curiosities, disasters, EPISODE, Fires, folklore, museums, New York City, P.T. Barnum, podcast, Victorian

The fire that destroyed P.T. Barnum’s American Museum on July 13, 1865 was a luxuriantly surreal and tragic event, one[…]

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Electric Fairy Rings and the Slime from Space

May 30, 2022 boneandsickle alchemy, anomalies, astronomy, celestial phenomena, Charles Fort, curiosities, EPISODE, fairies, fairy tales, folklore, history, meteors, Paracelsus, science fiction, Star Jelly, superstition

The folklore of fairy rings and “star jelly” is strangely connected to celestial phenomena, including lightning and shooting stars. We[…]

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