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#14 Singing Bones & Scrumptious Children

November 12, 2018 boneandsickle Brothers Grimm, crime, death, EPISODE, fairy tales, folk music, folklore, literature, murder, murder ballads, Sweeney Todd, The Juniper Tree, The Singing Bone, Twa Sisters

This episode looks at some particularly gruesome fairy tales and folk ballads telling of murderers convicted of their crime through[…]

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Episode Seven: It is One Hundred Years Since Our Children Left

July 2, 2018 boneandsickle death, EPISODE, fairy tales, folklore, Germanic, Germany, history, horror, legends, literature, martyrdom, movies, mystery, paganism, plague, saints

In this episode, we explore the story of the Pied Piper, a folk tale uniquely anchored in grim historical realities.[…]

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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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