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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[…]

Spook Shows

October 24, 2020 boneandsickle EPISODE, folk theater, Frankenstein, ghosts, Halloween, history, holidays, magic, movies, Spiritualism, Spook Shows, theater

Midnight Spook Shows featured stage illusions borrowing from techniques used in fraudulent seances alongside vaudeville-style comedy and burlesque. Performances were staged[…]

All of Them Witches

October 30, 2019 boneandsickle crows, curses, death, Devil, England, EPISODE, familiars, folklore, ghost stories, ghosts, Halloween, Hannah Cranna, history, horror, legends, magic, Middle Ages, Molly Leigh, Scotland, Sibyl Leek, Thomas Weir, Wicca, witchcraft, witches

This Halloween we have five stories of witches from all the way back to around 1125AD to the 1960s. Some of[…]