movies Archives - Bone and Sickle

#29 The Bloody Chamber

July 1, 2019 boneandsickle ballads, birds, Bluebeard, Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, decapitation, EPISODE, fairy tales, folk music, folk tales, folklore, gore, history, horror, legends, movies, murder, murder ballads, pantomime, theater, Victorian

Bluebeard and his bloody chamber full of murderous secrets is widely known as one of Charles Perrault’s fairy tales, but[…]

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#25 Death by Mother

April 30, 2019 boneandsickle ballads, death, EPISODE, folk music, folklore, Germanic, ghost stories, ghosts, gore, Greek myth, history, La Llorona, Latino, legends, Mexico, movies, murder, murder ballads, mythology, urban legends, witchcraft

For Mother’s Day this year we examine murderous mothers and maternal instincts gone very, very wrong in folklore, legends, and[…]

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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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