Folklore, Horror & History Podcast. Frightful tales, fantastic legends, macabre histories, immersive sounds. https://xitter.gq/t.co/QcSJjbhnvn https://xitter.gq/t.co/a65CunlzYI
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A NEW Halloween-themed episode for your nocturnal listening. What really happened in Danville, IL, on Halloween 1968? Can radios speak to you? Turn off the lights and join us as we grope our way through a dark pit of fact & fiction. boneandsickle.com/2025/10/18…
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CORPSE KEYS There are Victorian graves with doors to which only the corpse has the key. Mysterious fears of being buried alive led to doors being fitted already locked over or at the front of the grave, the key left in the hand of the corpse inside #31DaysOfHalloween
NEW EPISODE full of Halloween goodness. What do Jack-o'-Lanterns have to do with flying saucers? Turnips vs pumpkins, the marshy peril of the Lantern Men, Flibberdigibbets, Plinkets, Hinkypunks. Eerie sound FX & music included. tinyurl.com/2caekt2x
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A dragon, yes, but also the ghastly martyrdom, capture of a demon, chains that cure madness, a dismembered traveler, and a child's pancake. Along the way meet the Thracian Rider & the world's largest 4-legged robot.
Bone & Sickle podcast on VIDEO: reviews of more than 30 folk-horror films from outside the US/UK, including some rare gems from Russia, Estonia, and Turkey. Wall-to-wall film clips with historical/ folklore-oriented commentary.
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NEW EPISODE! The Fates of Antiquity not only survived as fairy-tale figures but as obects of rituals associated w/ newborns - into the 21st century in the Balkans! Also: the Weird Sisters, Norns, & a very bawdy 14th-c forerunner of "Sleeping Beauty." tinyurl.com/5r523a5y
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Maiden's garlands typically commemorated those who died early in life. These crown-shaped funeral mementos were often made from paper flowers, rosettes, and ribbons, and carried on the coffin before being displayed in the church. These are two of Minsterley church's garlands.
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Still from pagan #midsummer celebration scene from Tarkovsky's 1966 film Andrei Rublev about Russian icon painter. Entire scene with haunting Ovchinnikov score here: youtu.be/qZzOv_Td1us #FolkloreThursday
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'Saving Shoals' St Antony preaching to the Fishes. They all have different little faces, the shark snarls & the rock lobster thinks he's at a gig. The rest have a sense of porpoise.
NEW EPISODE! Dragons & giants rolled through medieval Nuremberg during Carnival, while a ship on wheels caused riots. Fools, devils & knights clashed in mock combats, runners w/ pyrotechinic artichokes terrified onlookers & in the end it all burned. LISTEN tinyurl.com/mvwps54y
My book is FINALLY out in the US (still only pre-order in EU till June 15)
"A SEASON OF MADNESS: FOOLS, MONSTERS AND MARVELS OF THE OLD-WORLD CARNIVAL"
#krampus, #folklore, #folkhorror, #history, #boneandsickle, #pagan, #aseasonofmadness, #seasonofmadness, #carnival
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Spotted on Google Maps, from a folkloric perspective this seems unwise…
Happy May Day! Just created this video!
Happy Beltane! Happy Seven Years of Bone & sickle Podcast! 141 Episodes!
#mayday #beltane #boneandsickle #krampus #folklore #folkhorror #paganholiday #paganholidays #history #boneandsickle #pagan
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It's #Walpurgisnacht and a young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of witch within a small old wooden church of a remote village
#legendarywednesday #horror #film
Viy, 1967
dir. Konstantin Yershov, Georgi Kropachyov
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PRINTER'S DEVIL cheekily squatting above the entrance to Coffee Lane Yard in York is the Stonegate Devil, a symbol associated with early printing presses. I enjoyed spotting this today.
NEW EPISODE! Was it once believed that bread placed atop a corpse & eaten by a village pariah could remove sins? We look at the historic texts, the literary tales, related funerary customs, drunk pallbearers, mourning bees, soul-cakes, & FUNERAL COOKIES! tinyurl.com/yeykpbej
NEW EPISODE! The story of Mélusine is a medieval thrill-ride -- a fairy enchantress half human & half snake, giants, dragons, a treasure-filled tomb deep within a mountain. Story told from historical texts w FX & music.
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Our seventh year presenting Ghost Stories for Christmas. Enjoy with howling wind and a steaming cup!
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