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Back to SearchEpisode 91: Marvelous and Rare
As a “summer intermezzo” Bone and Sickle is offering three episodes this August in our “Marvelous and Rare: Antiquarian Circle” format. These are sh…
3 years, 6 months ago
Dark Fairy Tales II: Heads in a Fountain, Bones in a Bag
Episode 90
Dark fairy tale elements including floating heads and bags of bones are featured in a family of tales classified under the Aarne-Thompson system as T…
3 years, 7 months ago
Dark Fairy Tales, The Girl With No Hands
Episode 89
“The Girl with No Hands” is the name of a a folk-tale motif shared by a number of gruesome fairy stories in which the the amputation of the heroine’s…
3 years, 8 months ago
Electric Fairy Rings and the Slime from Space
Episode 88
The folklore of fairy rings and “star jelly” is strangely connected to celestial phenomena, including lightning and shooting stars.
We begin with a d…
3 years, 9 months ago
The Seeress: Germanic Tribes, Vikings, and Witches
Episode 87
In pagan Germanic cultures, the seeress played an extremely important role, not only as a clairvoyant, but also often fulfilling the role of a priest…
3 years, 9 months ago
Hellfire Clubs, Part Two
Episode 86
The best known of the 18th-century Hellfire Clubs, one founded by Francis Dashwood, is largely remembered today because of the theatrical settings in…
3 years, 10 months ago
Hellfire Clubs, Part One
Episode 85
The Hellfire Clubs of 18th-century Great Britain were gatherings of upper-class libertines dedicated to hedonism, blasphemous jests and taboo activit…
3 years, 11 months ago
Grottos: Caves of Wonder
Episode 84
Grottos are a peculiar subset of caves, usually small and picturesque, and often associated with wonders both otherworldly and manmade.
NOTE: Details…
4 years ago
The Dead Lover's Heart
Episode 83
Whether freshly removed or strangely preserved after death, the dead lover’s heart occasionally has continued to be embraced as a repository of inten…
4 years ago
Myth and Magic of the Smith
Episode 82
Folklore of the blacksmith portrays him as a semi-magical figure, a wily opponent of the Devil, a mythic creator in classical and biblical narratives…
4 years, 1 month ago