Nick Cave Archives - Bone and Sickle

Murdered Sweetheart Songs

February 12, 2020 boneandsickle ballads, birds, broadsheets, crime, criminals, death, EPISODE, folk music, folklore, ghosts, gore, history, Scotland, seduction, suicide, superstition, United States, Victorian

As a special Valentine’s episode, we present collection of folk songs known as “sweetheart murder ballads.” We begin with two[…]

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#23 Ghastly Saint Stories

March 30, 2019 boneandsickle Catholicism, EPISODE, folklore, history, horror, legends, martyrdom, mortification, mummies, saints, Southern Gothic

Our collection of ghastly stories of saints highlights notions of extreme self-mortification as a spiritual practice along with a preoccupation[…]

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