witches Archives - Bone and Sickle

Benandanti versus Witches

October 19, 2026 boneandsickle Banandanti, EPISODE, folklore

In this episode we return to the topic of the Benandanti, or “good walkers,” those mysterious spirit-travelers of northeastern[…]

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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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Six Witches

August 30, 2023 boneandsickle EPISODE, folklore, history, horror, legends, superstition, witch trials, witchcraft, witches

Six historical witchcraft cases as related in the 1880 volume by James Grant, The Mysteries of All Nations, Rise and[…]

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