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#21 A Deal with the Devil

February 27, 2019 boneandsickle black magic, Devil, EPISODE, Faust, folk theater, folklore, Germanic, Germany, history, horror, legends, literature, magic, movies, necromancy, occultism, opera, saints, theater, Theophilus, witchcraft

The legend of Faust is the archetypal deal with the Devil. This episode looks at the figure as represented in[…]

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#20 The Undead Come Courting

February 13, 2019 boneandsickle ballads, Bram Stoker, Dracula, EPISODE, folk music, folklore, ghost stories, ghosts, Gothic, gothic literature, Greece, Greek myth, history, horror, legends, literature, movies, Romanticism, superstition, vampires

Vampire mythology first appears in the West in works as early Romantic authors meld themes from folk ballads of resurrected[…]

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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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