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Episode 10: Victorian Mummies

August 24, 2018 boneandsickle Arthur Conan Doyle, Bone & Sickle, Bram Stoker, Crowley, curses, Edwardian, Egypt, Egyptian mythology, EPISODE, Gothic, history, horror, literature, magic, movies, mummies, mythology, pagan, paganism, urban legends, Victorian

This time round we explore the way in which the death-obsessed Victorians fetishized the equally death-obsessed Egyptians, creating a number[…]

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Episode 8: Dreadful Ships

July 23, 2018 boneandsickle Bone & Sickle, Devil, Dracula, EPISODE, folk music, folklore, Gothic, history, legends, nautical, Romanticism, Ships, superstition, vampires, Victorian

On this episode of Bone and Sickle, we look at the folklore of ghost ships, undead sailors, some nautical elements[…]

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Episode 2: Walpurgisnacht, Pt 2

April 25, 2018 boneandsickle EPISODE, folklore, horror, paganism, vampires, witchcraft

Become a Patron! In our second episode on the grim folklore of Walpurgisnacht — that is May Eve or April 30, St.[…]

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