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Terrible Tales for Terrible Tots

December 20, 2020 boneandsickle cautionary tales, children's literature, Christmas, Der Struwwelpeter, Edwardian, England, EPISODE

Books of cautionary stories for children were a popular Christmas gift in Victorian times. These tales of misbehaving children and[…]

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The Gibbet, Hanged in Chains

October 10, 2020 boneandsickle ballads, birds, Britain, butchers, crime, criminals, crows, death, dissection, England, EPISODE, execution, folk medicine, folk music, folklore, gallows, ghost stories, ghosts, Gibbet, gore, history, horror, La Corriveau, law, murder, punishments

The gibbet was a hanging iron cage used to display the corpses of criminals in 18th and early 19th-century England.[…]

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The Frankenstein Method

August 20, 2020 boneandsickle Albertus Magnus, alchemy, EPISODE, folklore, Frankenstein, Gothic, gothic literature, history, homunculi, literature, Mary Shelley, monsters, movies, Romanticism, The Bride of Frankenstein, theater

The method Frankenstein employed to create life is left mostly a mystery in Mary Shelley’s 1818 book. How then did[…]

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