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Frau Perchta, the Belly-Slitter

December 9, 2019 boneandsickle Austria, Christmas, EPISODE, folk tales, folklore, Germanic, Germany, Grimm, history, holidays, Krampus, legends, Middle Ages, mumming, mythology, pagan, paganism, Perchta, Twelfth Night, witchcraft, witches

Frau Perchta, sometimes known as “the Belly-Slitter” for the trademark punishment she’s said to inflict on disobedient or lazy children,[…]

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All of Them Witches

October 30, 2019 boneandsickle crows, curses, death, Devil, England, EPISODE, familiars, folklore, ghost stories, ghosts, Halloween, Hannah Cranna, history, horror, legends, magic, Middle Ages, Molly Leigh, Scotland, Sibyl Leek, Thomas Weir, Wicca, witchcraft, witches

This Halloween we have five stories of witches from all the way back to around 1125AD to the 1960s. Some of[…]

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#31 Baba Yaga

August 13, 2019 boneandsickle Baba Yaga, cannibalism, EPISODE, fairy tales, folk tales, folklore, legends, pagan, paganism, Russian, Slavs, witchcraft, witches

This episode explores the Russian witch, the Baba Yaga, tales in which she appears, possible origins, and regional variations on[…]

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