dreams Archives - Bone and Sickle

#33 Ghosts from Purgatory

September 26, 2019 boneandsickle afterlife, Catholicism, death, demons, Devil, dreams, EPISODE, folk music, folklore, ghost stories, ghosts, Hell, history, legends, literature, Middle Ages, Purgatory, The Ghost of Guy, urban legends, visions

Hear how notions of Purgatory influenced medieval ghost stories, the tradition of All Souls’ Day, and a Neapolitan “cult of[…]

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#26 Lullabies and Nightmares

May 20, 2019 boneandsickle dreams, EPISODE, folk music, folklore, Germanic, Germany, history, horror, movies, nightmares, superstition, witchcraft

This episode examines the terrors that come by night, not-so-soothing lullabies, prayers and charms against the nightmare. We open with[…]

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