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Back to SearchA Christmas Ghost Story VII
Episode 137
The Victorian tradition of telling ghost stories at Christmas has been celebrated by Bone and Sickle since 2018. This year is no exception as we sha…
1 year, 2 months ago
La Befana, the Witch of Twelfth Night
Episode 136
A short extra episode on Befana, the gift-bringing Italian witch associated with Twelfth Night, the end of the Christmas season. Included in the sho…
1 year, 2 months ago
Vlad the Impaler
Episode 135
A figure of mythic proportions during his lifetime, Vlad the Impaler’s notoriety receded over the centuries only to be resurrected in the 1970s, when…
1 year, 3 months ago
Devil Boards
Episode 134
The devilish reputation Ouija boards enjoy in horror films is a relatively new phenomenon. In the Victorian era, they were regarded by “psychical re…
1 year, 4 months ago
Missing Intro for Episode 133
Apparently, I clipped off the beginning of the show during the initial upload. It’s been fixed, so this would only effect those downloading yesterda…
1 year, 4 months ago
Spirit Boards
Episode 133
Ouija boards, or more generally, “spirit boards” have antecedents going back to the very first days of the Spiritualist movement. We begin our show …
1 year, 4 months ago
Announcement: Trick or Treat by Mail
A special short announcement regarding the October 20 deadline for Trick-or-Treat-by-Mail for listeners joining our Patreon. Find out how you can r…
1 year, 5 months ago
Young Goodman Brown
Episode 132
We’re getting into the spirit of the season with a classic tale of witchcraft set in 17th-century Salem Village, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story, “…
1 year, 5 months ago
Subterranean Sages and Russian Mystics
Episode 131
Agartha, Shambhala, and Hyperborea are all names for a a mythic spiritually and scientifically advanced kingdom, always in some hidden location, som…
1 year, 7 months ago
Inside the Hollow Earth
Episode 130
Borrowed from fairy lore, the notion of a hollow earth peopled by superior beings became a theme of literary fantasies as early as the 17th century a…
1 year, 8 months ago