hybrids Archives - Bone and Sickle

Mélusine, the Serpent Fairy

February 18, 2025 boneandsickle Arthurian, curses, EPISODE, fairies, fairy tales, folk tales, France, French werewolves, giants, history, hybrids, legends, literature, Mélusine, Melusine, mermaids, snakes

Mélusine is a female fairy of medieval legend. who suffers under a curse transforming her once weekly into a monstrous[…]

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Strange Births and Monsters

April 14, 2023 boneandsickle cryptozoology, curiosities, EPISODE, folklore, hybrids, monsters, Monstrous births, omens

For centuries, strange births, often sounding like mythological monsters, were regarded as portents of ill omen. We hear a number[…]

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Beasts of the Bestiaries

January 31, 2020 boneandsickle antiquity, bestiaries, birds, books, Catholicism, cryptozoology, dragons, EPISODE, folklore, history, hybrids, legends, manuscripts, Middle Ages, monsters, mythology, renaissance, superstition, urban legends

The bestiaries of the Middle Ages and Renaissance were books describing animals (some recognizable and others fantastic) in terms borrowed[…]

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