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Witchcraft in Southern Italy

November 21, 2020 boneandsickle butchers, cannibalism, Catholicism, classical music, cunning folk, demons, diabolism, EPISODE, evil eye, fairies, fairy tales, folk customs, folk medicine, folk tales, folklore, horror, Italy, legends, magic, movies, murder, Naples, Stregoneria, superstition, witch trials, witchcraft, witches

In southern Italy, belief in witchcraft has a long history, much of it centering on the town of Benevento, about[…]

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Halloween Bonus Episode

October 31, 2020 boneandsickle demons, EPISODE, folklore, Halloween, holidays, human sacrifice, witchcraft, witches

As a short holiday bonus, we’re offering this special episode examining some obscure aspects of Halloween as manifested in our[…]

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The Gibbet, Hanged in Chains

October 10, 2020 boneandsickle ballads, birds, Britain, butchers, crime, criminals, crows, death, dissection, England, EPISODE, execution, folk medicine, folk music, folklore, gallows, ghost stories, ghosts, Gibbet, gore, history, horror, La Corriveau, law, murder, punishments

The gibbet was a hanging iron cage used to display the corpses of criminals in 18th and early 19th-century England.[…]

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