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#27 Lilith and the Breeding of Demons

May 30, 2019 boneandsickle antiquity, Babylon, Bible, black magic, changelings, diabolism, EPISODE, fairies, folklore, Hebrew mythology, history, horror, Incubi, Judaism, lamia, legends, Lilith, mythology, nightmares, Old Testament, paganism, seduction, sex, snakes, succubi

Our episode continues from our last with more terrors of the night, the incubi, sucubi, and the most notorious succubus,[…]

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#25 Death by Mother

April 30, 2019 boneandsickle ballads, death, EPISODE, folk music, folklore, Germanic, ghost stories, ghosts, gore, Greek myth, history, La Llorona, Latino, legends, Mexico, movies, murder, murder ballads, mythology, urban legends, witchcraft

For Mother’s Day this year we examine murderous mothers and maternal instincts gone very, very wrong in folklore, legends, and[…]

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#24 Possessed Nuns and Holy Demoniacs

April 18, 2019 boneandsickle Catholicism, Devil, diabolism, EPISODE, exorcism, folklore, history, horror, legends, martyrdom, mortification, possession, saints, Satan, stigmatics, witchcraft

This episode finds the Devil where you’d least expect him: stories of possessed nuns and demonic attacks on the rigorously[…]

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