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Who Put the Hell in Helloween?

October 26, 2022 boneandsickle America, cautionary tales, Devil, diabolism, EPISODE, Evangelicals, folklore, Gerald Gardner, Halloween, holidays, modern folklore, occultism, Satanic Panic, Sibyl Leek, superstition, Wicca, witchcraft

During the Satanic Panic, the notion of Halloween as a Satanic High Holy Day came to prominence, but the elements[…]

Ashtar, Orthon, and the Rosicrucians

July 30, 2021 boneandsickle America, cults, EPISODE, extraterrestrials, Flying Saucers, folklore, history, legends, modern folklore, Rosicrucianism, science fiction, Venus, visions

Messages delivered by the extraterrestrials Ashtar and Orthon to Contactees of the 1950s represented a sort of repackaging of 19th-century Theosophy,[…]

Friends from Venus, Theosophists in Space

July 22, 2021 boneandsickle astrology, astronomy, channeling, Contactees, EPISODE, Flying Saucers, folklore, history, modern folklore, Venus

The esoteric teachings of Theosophy, particularly those regarding Venus, were surprisingly influential on the tales told by flying saucer Contactees[…]