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The Fates

July 9, 2025 boneandsickle Ancient Rome, Anglo-Saxons, Charles Perrault, EPISODE, fairies, fairy tales, Fates, folk tales, folklore, Germanic, Greece, Greek gods, Greek myth, history, legends, Macbeth, Middle Ages, modern folklore, Moirai, Norns, Norse religion, pagan, paganism, Parcae, Russia, Russian, Shakespeare, Sleeping Beauty, superstition

The Fates of Classical Antiquity not only survived in the form of related fairy-tale figures but also as the object of[…]

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Vlad the Impaler

December 1, 2024 boneandsickle Dracula, EPISODE, execution, gothic literature, history, horror, legends, vampires

A figure of mythic proportions during his lifetime, Vlad the Impaler’s notoriety receded over the centuries only to be resurrected[…]

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Master of the Wolves: Transylvanian and Balkan Wolf Lore

September 12, 2022 boneandsickle EPISODE, folklore, holidays, Master of the Wolves, Rome, saints, Transylvania, undead, werewolves, wolves

The Master of the Wolves is a supernatural figure central to Transylvania’s (modern Romania’s) voluminous body of wolf lore, a[…]

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