Bone and Sickle Podcast

Folklore, Horror & History Podcast. Frightful tales, fantastic legends, macabre histories, immersive sounds.

[Bone and Sickle Podcast @boneandsickle]

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. https://t.co/esSXV9wOr6

[Coffin Boffin @DrSamGeorge1]

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

[Bone and Sickle Podcast @boneandsickle]

@wolfsoul4 THANKS!

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@Cydwarf Enjoy!!

[Bone and Sickle Podcast @boneandsickle]

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. https://t.co/chpIhL7lNG

[Bone and Sickle Podcast @boneandsickle]

@p_rander Thanks! Glad you're enjoying the show!

[Bone and Sickle Podcast @boneandsickle]

NEW EPISODE here:
https://t.co/rgblliOXb7
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 and Sickle Podcast @boneandsickle]

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.

https://t.co/cHLkndYS2z

[Bone and Sickle Podcast @boneandsickle]

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." https://t.co/TEIqraKxij

[The Shropshire Witches Podcast @Shropwitchespod]

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.

[Bone and Sickle Podcast @boneandsickle]

Still from pagan #midsummer celebration scene from Tarkovsky's 1966 film Andrei Rublev about Russian icon painter. Entire scene with haunting Ovchinnikov score here: https://t.co/LZY10YUYJH #FolkloreThursday

[Hellebore @helleborezine]

It’s St John’s Eve, when St John’s wort reaches the height of its magical powers. Hanging it on doors and windows is said to keep away storms and evil spirits.

[Bone and Sickle Podcast @boneandsickle]

@Dream_Swarm @IcySedgwick Congratulations!!

[Nina Antonia @NinaAntonia13]

'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.

[Bone and Sickle Podcast @boneandsickle]

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 https://t.co/iyMtKUgs1O

[Bone and Sickle Podcast @boneandsickle]

@AdneSadeh Thanks!!

[Bone and Sickle Podcast @boneandsickle]

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

[Dr Francis Young @DrFrancisYoung]

Spotted on Google Maps, from a folkloric perspective this seems unwise…

[Bone and Sickle Podcast @boneandsickle]

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

[The FolkLore Press @LandofLoreFilms]

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