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Category: urban legends

#34 The Goblins Will Get You!

October 18, 2019 boneandsickle ballads, black magic, Britain, Cornwall, EPISODE, fairies, fairy tales, folk music, folk tales, folklore, goblins, history, legends, literature, magic, Middle Ages, mythology, necromancy, saints, Scotland, Sir Walter Scott, superstition, urban legends

Goblin lore from old folk tales, literature, ancient and modern legends is our topic this time around. We begin with[…]

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#33 Ghosts from Purgatory

September 26, 2019 boneandsickle afterlife, Catholicism, death, demons, Devil, dreams, EPISODE, folk music, folklore, ghost stories, ghosts, Hell, history, legends, literature, Middle Ages, Purgatory, The Ghost of Guy, urban legends, visions

Hear how notions of Purgatory influenced medieval ghost stories, the tradition of All Souls’ Day, and a Neapolitan “cult of[…]

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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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