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Ghost Trains & Railway Terrors

October 14, 2021 boneandsickle American lore, ballads, Britain, death, EPISODE, folk music, folklore, ghost stories, ghosts, history, legends, literature, urban legends

Ghost trains and real-life railway terrors intermingle in this episode’s exploration of old train-wreck ballads, nervous and funereally obsessed Victorians, urban[…]

Holy Puppets, Medieval Robots, and More

May 8, 2020 boneandsickle Arthurian, Catholicism, dolls, EPISODE, folklore, gothic literature, history, horror, legends, literature, magic, Middle Ages, movies, puppets, renaissance, Romanticism, theater, urban legends

This episode looks at puppets given life through magical or mechanical means, holy puppets of the Catholic Church, medieval robots,[…]

Beasts of the Bestiaries

January 31, 2020 boneandsickle antiquity, bestiaries, birds, books, Catholicism, cryptozoology, dragons, EPISODE, folklore, history, hybrids, legends, manuscripts, Middle Ages, monsters, mythology, renaissance, superstition, urban legends

The bestiaries of the Middle Ages and Renaissance were books describing animals (some recognizable and others fantastic) in terms borrowed[…]