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Category: modern folklore

Horror, Fact, Fiction, and a Revelation

November 22, 2025 boneandsickle Bone and Sickle, EPISODE, Frankenstein, gothic literature, horror movies, Lovecraft, Mary Shelley, media, modern folklore, pop culture, science fiction, storytelling, urban legends

This is a special short episode looking at fictional evidence used to bolster horror narratives in literature, film, and broadcast[…]

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The Fates

July 9, 2025 boneandsickle Ancient Rome, Anglo-Saxons, Charles Perrault, EPISODE, fairies, fairy tales, Fates, folk tales, folklore, Germanic, Greece, Greek gods, Greek myth, history, legends, Macbeth, Middle Ages, modern folklore, Moirai, Norns, Norse religion, pagan, paganism, Parcae, Russia, Russian, Shakespeare, Sleeping Beauty, superstition

The Fates of Classical Antiquity not only survived in the form of related fairy-tale figures but also as the object of[…]

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Devil Boards

October 28, 2024 boneandsickle demons, Devil, diabolism, EPISODE, Fox Sisters, ghost stories, ghosts, Halloween, history, horror, modern folklore, occultism, Ouija boards, pop culture, Seances, Spiritualism, True Crime, witchcraft

The devilish reputation Ouija boards enjoy in horror films is a relatively new phenomenon. In the Victorian era, they were[…]

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