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Terrible Tales for Terrible Tots

December 20, 2020 boneandsickle cautionary tales, children's literature, Christmas, Der Struwwelpeter, Edwardian, England, EPISODE

Books of cautionary stories for children were a popular Christmas gift in Victorian times. These tales of misbehaving children and[…]

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Holy Puppets, Medieval Robots, and More

May 8, 2020 boneandsickle Arthurian, Catholicism, dolls, EPISODE, folklore, gothic literature, history, horror, legends, literature, magic, Middle Ages, movies, puppets, renaissance, Romanticism, theater, urban legends

This episode looks at puppets given life through magical or mechanical means, holy puppets of the Catholic Church, medieval robots,[…]

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#32 Vampires, Shroud-Eaters, and the White Plague

September 4, 2019 boneandsickle Bram Stoker, classical music, Edgar Allen Poe, EPISODE, folklore, gothic literature, literature, Mercy Brown, Nachzehrer, New England Vampires, opera, plague, Romanticism, shroud-eaters, tuberculosis, undead, vampires

This episode explores the connection between vampires and disease, beginning in 19th-century New England with a strange graveyard ritual involving[…]

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