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Ashtar, Orthon, and the Rosicrucians

July 30, 2021 boneandsickle America, cults, EPISODE, extraterrestrials, Flying Saucers, folklore, history, legends, modern folklore, Rosicrucianism, science fiction, Venus, visions

Messages delivered by the extraterrestrials Ashtar and Orthon to Contactees of the 1950s represented a sort of repackaging of 19th-century Theosophy,[…]

Gallows Lore

September 5, 2020 boneandsickle ballads, black magic, Charles Dickens, crime, criminals, cunning folk, death, England, EPISODE, execution, folk customs, folk medicine, folk music, folk tales, folklore, gallows, hand of glory, hangmen, history, Ireland, Jack Ketch, legends, literature, magic, puppets, science fiction, Scotland, superstition, William Calcraft

We examine the lore of the gallows, focusing on the British Isles, encountering hangmen as figures straddling history and myth,[…]

Episode 3: Loudly Sing Cuckoo!

April 25, 2018 boneandsickle birds, Bone & Sickle, death, EPISODE, folklore, history, horror, pagan, paganism, science fiction, The Wicker Man

After two episodes meandering about in the nocturnal folklore of Walpurgisnacht witches sabbaths, we’re inviting our Bone and Sickle friends out[…]