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Murdered Sweetheart Songs

February 12, 2020 boneandsickle ballads, birds, broadsheets, crime, criminals, death, EPISODE, folk music, folklore, ghosts, gore, history, Scotland, seduction, suicide, superstition, United States, Victorian

As a special Valentine’s episode, we present collection of folk songs known as “sweetheart murder ballads.” We begin with two[…]

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All of Them Witches

October 30, 2019 boneandsickle crows, curses, death, Devil, England, EPISODE, familiars, folklore, ghost stories, ghosts, Halloween, Hannah Cranna, history, horror, legends, magic, Middle Ages, Molly Leigh, Scotland, Sibyl Leek, Thomas Weir, Wicca, witchcraft, witches

This Halloween we have five stories of witches from all the way back to around 1125AD to the 1960s. Some of[…]

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#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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