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Banshees (Rebroadcast)

March 16, 2024 boneandsickle banshee, Celts, curses, EPISODE, fairies, folklore, ghost stories, ghosts, history, Ireland, mummies, pagan, paganism

Banshees are spirits of Irish folklore, who warn of impending deaths. Originally considered fairies, their Irish name, bean sídhe, means “woman of the[…]

A Viking Funeral

August 1, 2023 boneandsickle EPISODE, funerary customs, Germanic, graves, history, human sacrifice, Middle Ages, Norse religion, pagan, paganism, Russian, Seeress, Slavs, Vikings, Völva

Scenes of fiery Viking funerals have been woven into any number of literary and cinematic tales, but sources on the[…]

Master of the Wolves: Transylvanian and Balkan Wolf Lore

September 12, 2022 boneandsickle EPISODE, folklore, holidays, Master of the Wolves, Rome, saints, Transylvania, undead, werewolves, wolves

The Master of the Wolves is a supernatural figure central to Transylvania’s (modern Romania’s) voluminous body of wolf lore, a[…]