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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[…]

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Walled Up Alive

January 17, 2020 boneandsickle ballads, black magic, cannibalism, Catholicism, Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allen Poe, EPISODE, execution, folk music, folk tales, folklore, foundation sacrifice, Gothic, gothic literature, history, horror, human sacfrifice, immurement, legends, literature, magic, Middle Ages, movies, murder, murder ballads, nuns, Rome, saints, superstition

Walling up a living victim, or immurement, has been used both as a punishment and for darker, magical purposes. In[…]

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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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