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Episode 32
This episode explores the connection between vampires and disease, beginning in 19th-century New England with a strange graveyard ritual involving th…
6 years, 6 months ago
The Baba Yaga
Episode 31
This episode explores the Russian witch, the Baba Yaga, tales in which she appears, possible origins, and regional variations on the character.
We be…
6 years, 6 months ago
Loup-Garou, Werewolves in France
Episode 30
The werewolf (Fr: loup-garou) epidemic of 16th-century France forms the core of our show, but we also include some medieval French werewolf tales as …
6 years, 7 months ago
The Bloody Chamber
Episode 29
Bluebeard and his bloody chamber full of murderous secrets is widely known as one of Charles Perrault’s fairy tales, but it’s part of a larger family…
6 years, 8 months ago
Gog, Magog, and the Bones of Giants
Episode 28
This time we look at the myths of British giants Gog and Magog, and a belief in biblical giants seemingly confirmed by giant bones dug from the earth…
6 years, 8 months ago
Lilith and the Breeding of Demons
Episode 27
Our episode continues from our last with more terrors of the night, the incubi, sucubi, and the most notorious succubus, Lilith — and the breeding of…
6 years, 9 months ago
Lullabies and Nightmares
Episode 26
This episode examines the terrors that come by night, not-so-soothing lullabies, prayers and charms against the nightmare.
We open with the grim Icel…
6 years, 9 months ago
Death by Mother
Episode 25
For Mother’s Day this year we examine murderous mothers and maternal instincts gone very, very wrong in folklore, legends, and ballads.
We begin with…
6 years, 10 months ago
Possessed Nuns and Holy Demoniacs
Episode 24
This episode finds the Devil where you’d least expect him: stories of possessed nuns and demonic attacks on the rigorously devout.. It’s a bit of a f…
6 years, 10 months ago
Ghastly Saint Stories
Episode 23
Our collection of ghastly stories of saints highlights notions of extreme self-mortification as a spiritual practice along with a preoccupation with …
6 years, 11 months ago