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Category: Canidia

Waxworks

January 23, 2021 boneandsickle black magic, Britain, Canidia, Catholicism, Charles Dickens, crime, death, decapitation, dolls, England, EPISODE, execution, folklore, history, horror, Italy, literature, Middle Ages, movies, murder, puppets, renaissance, superstition, Victorian, waxworks, witchcraft

The macabre feelings stirred by waxwork figures go far beyond their use in horror films, back to the Terror of[…]

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Toad Magic

June 21, 2020 boneandsickle antiquity, Astor Place Riot, black magic, broadsheets, Canidia, criminals, cults, cunning folk, Devil, EPISODE, familiars, folk customs, folk medicine, folklore, frogs, history, James I, Macbeth, medicine, Middle Ages, mythology, necromancy, poison, Scotland, Shakespeare, superstition, toads, witchcraft, witches, zombies, Zugarramurdi

Toads have long been associated with magic, as witches’ familiars and as a source both of poison as folk healing.[…]

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#13: Ancient Necromancy

October 31, 2018 boneandsickle antiquity, Bible, black magic, Canidia, EPISODE, Erichto, folklore, gore, Greece, Greek gods, Greek myth, history, Homer, Horace, human sacrifice, lamia, lemures, literature, Lucan, magic, manes, mythology, necromancy, occultism, Odyssey, pagan, paganism, Pausanius, Periander, Rome, Witch of Endor, witchcraft

Finishing up with our October theme of “talking to the dead,” we examine necromancy in the ancient world in this[…]

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