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Bees: Gods, Death, and Honey

March 19, 2021 boneandsickle antiquity, bees, Bible, Catholicism, EPISODE, folk customs, folklore, Greek gods, Greek myth, history, Homer, honey, horror, legends, literature, magic, movies, mythology, Old Testament, pagan, paganism, superstition

The mythology of bees has been tied for centuries to notions of the otherworld and death. In this episode we[…]

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Medusa and the Gorgons

March 1, 2021 boneandsickle decapitation, EPISODE, evil eye, folklore, Gorgons, Greece, Greek gods, Greek myth, legends, Medusa, movies, mythology, Perseus, sea monster, sea serpent

Medusa was one of the Gorgons, creatures originally considered quite monstrous, who over the centuries came to be humanized and[…]

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Waxworks

January 23, 2021 boneandsickle black magic, Britain, Canidia, Catholicism, Charles Dickens, crime, death, decapitation, dolls, England, EPISODE, execution, folklore, history, horror, Italy, literature, Middle Ages, movies, murder, puppets, renaissance, superstition, Victorian, waxworks, witchcraft

The macabre feelings stirred by waxwork figures go far beyond their use in horror films, back to the Terror of[…]

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