nosferatu Archives - Bone and Sickle

Transylvanian Vampires

November 20, 2021 boneandsickle Bram Stoker, death, Dracula, EPISODE, evil eye, folk customs, folk magic, folklore, ghosts, history, horror, legends, literature, moroi, strigoi, Transylvania, undead, vampires, Victorian, witches

Transylvania’s vampire lore inspired the setting of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, if not the character of the Count, and encompasses not[…]

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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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Episode 3: Loudly Sing Cuckoo!

April 25, 2018 boneandsickle birds, Bone & Sickle, death, EPISODE, folklore, history, horror, pagan, paganism, science fiction, The Wicker Man

After two episodes meandering about in the nocturnal folklore of Walpurgisnacht witches sabbaths, we’re inviting our Bone and Sickle friends out[…]

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