Bone and Sickle
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Episodes of Bone and Sickle
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Your favorite podcast is now seven years old! As a birthday gift to our listeners, we decided to try a super short, experimental video podcast. For your pleasure, Mr. Ridenour yesterday edited together this vide0, entitled "The May Queen".
Mr. Ridenour introduces his new book "A Season of Madness: Fools, Monsters, and Marvels of the Old-World Carnival," explaining how the project grew out of his research for "The Krampus and the Old, Dark Christmas." In this episode, he sketches
The Sin-Eater was a figure associated with funerals of the 17th - 19th century, mostly in Wales, and the English counties along the Welsh border. According to tradition, he was invited by grieving families to transfer the burden of sins from t
Mélusine is a female fairy of medieval legend. who suffers under a curse transforming her once weekly into a monstrous form. In various tales she becomes either a serpent or fish from the waist down, or fully transforms into a dragon. Mélusine
Unfortunately, release of the episode scheduled for this month has been delayed thanks to the Eaton Wildfire in California.Your hosts are safe and sound, but complications from the fire temporarily halted production.The episode in question
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 share two stories in this episode, one comic, and one frightening. We begin with the Introduction
A short extra episode on Befana, the gift-bringing Italian witch associated with Twelfth Night, the end of the Christmas season. Included in the show is material from the book, "The Krampus and the Old, Dark Christmas," traditional music of th
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 a pair of Boston University scholars went public with theories connecting him to Bram Stoker's
The devilish reputation Ouija boards enjoy in horror films is a relatively new phenomenon. In the Victorian era, they were regarded by "psychical researchers" as something to be embraced in a spirit of calm scientific inquiry, while Spirituali
Apparently, I clipped off the beginning of the show during the initial upload. It's been fixed, so this would only effect those downloading yesterday, but for those who missed it, here it is..
Ouija boards, or more generally, "spirit boards" have antecedents going back to the very first days of the Spiritualist movement. We begin our show with a seasonally spooky visit to the cottage of the Fox sisters in Hydesville, New York, where
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 receive a hand-packed candy bag from the home of Bone and Sickle Podcast. Each bag this year con
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, "Young Goodman Brown." Written in 1835 for New England Magazine, it later appeared in the 1846 c
Agartha, Shambhala, and Hyperborea are all names for a a mythic spiritually and scientifically advanced kingdom, always in some hidden location, sometimes within the earth, a legend which became an obsession of early Soviet spies, a mad soldie
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 and went on to influence fringe theories of the earth's structure into the 19th century.We begi
While the dummies may be inherently creepy, they were not the source of ventriloquism's dark reputation in earlier times. This originates with the understanding that the voice heard, when no mouth seems to speak, belongs to a demon.We begin
Our understanding of hypnotism, once known as "mesmerism," has radically evolved over the centuries. This episode looks at where it all began, examining the fascinating (and rather weird) story of the 18th-century German doctor, Franz Anton M
Banshees are spirits of Irish folklore, who warn of impending deaths. Originally considered fairies, their Irish name, bean sídhe, means "woman of the mounds," those mounds (sídhe) being the ancient burial mounds believed in Ireland to be the
The story of Snow White, as told by the Brothers Grimm, is only one of many narratives involving girls who have fallen into a deathlike state and are displayed in a glass coffins. In this episode, we examine the sordid details of the Grimm's or
A few listeners commented that Mrs. Karswell's dialogue was muffled at points in "Sorcery Schools of Spain." That episode is now updated with a corrected version. Thanks for letting us know.
For centuries, Spain was said to be the home of secret, underground sorcery schools, Toledo being the first city with this reputation and later Salamanca. The notoriety of the latter was more enduring, and when the legend passed to Spanish col
Tonight we bring you our sixth annual Christmas ghost story, a tradition particularly beloved in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. First published in 1908, and set in the days before Christmas, the tale is by British writer Algernon Blackwood (f
The Christmas season is rich in superstitions. The whole period from the beginning of Advent, through the day itself, and especially throughout the twelve days (and nights!) between Christmas and January 6 or Epiphany are, in a sense haunted, a
The Monster of Glamis was a Victorian legend involving a Scottish castle, a secret chamber, and a monstrous aristocrat hidden from the world–a perfect story for Bone and Sickle's return to its old format, a 45-minute deep-dive into the castle's
Tonight we recreate for you elements of an old-fashioned Halloween party as experienced in the 1920s or '30s. Foods, games, spooky stories and poems in an extra-long Halloween episode.For more retro delights of the era, listen to Episode 35 "
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