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Category: France

Drowned in Blood: Butcher Lore

November 18, 2019 boneandsickle Anglo-Saxons, birds, Britain, butchers, cannibalism, Catholicism, Christie Cleek, Christmas, criminals, England, EPISODE, folk music, folk tales, folklore, France, Germanic, gore, history, human sacrifice, legends, Middle Ages, mumming, Norse religion, pagan, paganism, Sawney Bean, Scotland, St Martin's Day, St. Nicholas, superstition

Our seasonal look at butcher lore begins with the slaughter of an immense ram as related in the centuries-old English[…]

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#30 Loup-Garou, Werewolves in France

July 22, 2019 boneandsickle black magic, Bluebeard, cannibalism, Catholicism, Charles Perrault, Conomor the Accursed, crime, decapitation, Devil, diabolism, EPISODE, folklore, France, French werewolves, history, madness, murder, werewolves, witch trials, witchcraft

The werewolf (Fr: loup-garou) epidemic of 16th-century France forms the core of our show, but we also include some medieval[…]

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