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Who Put the Hell in Helloween?

October 26, 2022 boneandsickle America, cautionary tales, Devil, diabolism, EPISODE, Evangelicals, folklore, Gerald Gardner, Halloween, holidays, modern folklore, occultism, Satanic Panic, Sibyl Leek, superstition, Wicca, witchcraft

During the Satanic Panic, the notion of Halloween as a Satanic High Holy Day came to prominence, but the elements[…]

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Spirits of the Corn

October 2, 2022 boneandsickle Austria, ballads, EPISODE, folk customs, folklore, Germany, Grimm, harvest, history, monsters, Noonday Witch, Rye Aunt, Scarecrows, superstition

Spirits of the corn (grain) fields from the United Kingdom to Russia have been imagined as embodiments of the harvest[…]

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Electric Fairy Rings and the Slime from Space

May 30, 2022 boneandsickle alchemy, anomalies, astronomy, celestial phenomena, Charles Fort, curiosities, EPISODE, fairies, fairy tales, folklore, history, meteors, Paracelsus, science fiction, Star Jelly, superstition

The folklore of fairy rings and “star jelly” is strangely connected to celestial phenomena, including lightning and shooting stars. We[…]

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