vampires Archives - Bone and Sickle

#32 Vampires, Shroud-Eaters, and the White Plague

September 4, 2019 boneandsickle Bram Stoker, classical music, Edgar Allen Poe, EPISODE, folklore, gothic literature, literature, Mercy Brown, Nachzehrer, New England Vampires, opera, plague, Romanticism, shroud-eaters, tuberculosis, undead, vampires

This episode explores the connection between vampires and disease, beginning in 19th-century New England with a strange graveyard ritual involving[…]

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#20 The Undead Come Courting

February 13, 2019 boneandsickle ballads, Bram Stoker, Dracula, EPISODE, folk music, folklore, ghost stories, ghosts, Gothic, gothic literature, Greece, Greek myth, history, horror, legends, literature, movies, Romanticism, superstition, vampires

Vampire mythology first appears in the West in works as early Romantic authors meld themes from folk ballads of resurrected[…]

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Episode 1: Walpurgisnacht, Pt 1

April 24, 2018 boneandsickle Bone & Sickle, EPISODE, folklore, horror, pagan, paganism, vampires, witchcraft

Become a Patron! Episode One of BONE & SICKLE is the first half of a two-parter about May Eve, Beltane,[…]

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