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#17 Christmas Ghosts

December 24, 2018 boneandsickle Christmas, death, EPISODE, folklore, ghost stories, ghosts, Gothic, history, holidays, horror, legends, Victorian

Traditionally Christmas was a time for ghost stories, and tonight we’re doing our part to bring back the custom. A[…]

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#14 Singing Bones & Scrumptious Children

November 12, 2018 boneandsickle Brothers Grimm, crime, death, EPISODE, fairy tales, folk music, folklore, literature, murder, murder ballads, Sweeney Todd, The Juniper Tree, The Singing Bone, Twa Sisters

This episode looks at some particularly gruesome fairy tales and folk ballads telling of murderers convicted of their crime through[…]

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Episode 1: Walpurgisnacht, Pt 1

April 24, 2018 boneandsickle Bone & Sickle, EPISODE, folklore, horror, pagan, paganism, vampires, witchcraft

Become a Patron! Episode One of BONE & SICKLE is the first half of a two-parter about May Eve, Beltane,[…]

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