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#13: Ancient Necromancy

October 31, 2018 boneandsickle antiquity, Bible, black magic, Canidia, EPISODE, Erichto, folklore, gore, Greece, Greek gods, Greek myth, history, Homer, Horace, human sacrifice, lamia, lemures, literature, Lucan, magic, manes, mythology, necromancy, occultism, Odyssey, pagan, paganism, Pausanius, Periander, Rome, Witch of Endor, witchcraft

Finishing up with our October theme of “talking to the dead,” we examine necromancy in the ancient world in this[…]

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Episode 10: Victorian Mummies

August 24, 2018 boneandsickle Arthur Conan Doyle, Bone & Sickle, Bram Stoker, Crowley, curses, Edwardian, Egypt, Egyptian mythology, EPISODE, Gothic, history, horror, literature, magic, movies, mummies, mythology, pagan, paganism, urban legends, Victorian

This time round we explore the way in which the death-obsessed Victorians fetishized the equally death-obsessed Egyptians, creating a number[…]

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Episode Six: Lost Heads

June 18, 2018 boneandsickle Bone & Sickle, Celts, decapitation, EPISODE, folklore, Germanic, history, horror, King Arthur, literature, magic, martyrdom, movies, mythology, pagan, paganism, saints, The Wicker Man, witchcraft

As June 24, the feast of St. John the Baptist approaches, the folklore of decapitation suggested itself as an appropriate[…]

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