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The Gibbet, Hanged in Chains

October 10, 2020 boneandsickle ballads, birds, Britain, butchers, crime, criminals, crows, death, dissection, England, EPISODE, execution, folk medicine, folk music, folklore, gallows, ghost stories, ghosts, Gibbet, gore, history, horror, La Corriveau, law, murder, punishments

The gibbet was a hanging iron cage used to display the corpses of criminals in 18th and early 19th-century England.[…]

Slavic Mermaids: Water Ghosts and Goblins

May 29, 2020 boneandsickle classical music, death, demons, EPISODE, fairies, fairy tales, folk customs, folk music, folk tales, folklore, ghost stories, ghosts, Green Christmas, history, horror, legends, literature, mermaids, movies, mythology, opera, pagan, paganism, Romanticism, rusalia, Rusalka, Russian, Semik, Slavs, vodnik, Whitsunday

Quite distinct from their Western equivalent, Slavic mermaids might better be described as water ghosts, as they are almost always[…]

Banshees

March 17, 2020 boneandsickle banshee, Celts, curses, EPISODE, fairies, folklore, 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[…]