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#31 Baba Yaga

August 13, 2019 boneandsickle Baba Yaga, cannibalism, EPISODE, fairy tales, folk tales, folklore, legends, pagan, paganism, Russian, Slavs, witchcraft, witches

This episode explores the Russian witch, the Baba Yaga, tales in which she appears, possible origins, and regional variations on[…]

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#29 The Bloody Chamber

July 1, 2019 boneandsickle ballads, birds, Bluebeard, Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, decapitation, EPISODE, fairy tales, folk music, folk tales, folklore, gore, history, horror, legends, movies, murder, murder ballads, pantomime, theater, Victorian

Bluebeard and his bloody chamber full of murderous secrets is widely known as one of Charles Perrault’s fairy tales, but[…]

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#28 Gog, Magog, and the Bones of Giants

June 12, 2019 boneandsickle antiquity, Bible, Britain, decapitation, England, EPISODE, fairy tales, folk tales, folklore, giants, history, Incubi, legends, mythology, Nephilim, Watchers

This time we look at the myths of British giants Gog and Magog, and a belief in biblical giants seemingly[…]

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