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#29 The Bloody Chamber

July 1, 2019 boneandsickle ballads, birds, Bluebeard, Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, decapitation, EPISODE, fairy tales, folk music, folk tales, folklore, gore, history, horror, legends, movies, murder, murder ballads, pantomime, theater, Victorian

Bluebeard and his bloody chamber full of murderous secrets is widely known as one of Charles Perrault’s fairy tales, but[…]

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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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#14 Singing Bones & Scrumptious Children

November 12, 2018 boneandsickle Brothers Grimm, crime, death, EPISODE, fairy tales, folk music, folklore, literature, murder, murder ballads, Sweeney Todd, The Juniper Tree, The Singing Bone, Twa Sisters

This episode looks at some particularly gruesome fairy tales and folk ballads telling of murderers convicted of their crime through[…]

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