I tried to make you guess what this episode is about with a spooky story to start it out, but I realized that I had to give it a title. So hopefully this gives an idea without totally giving it away.

My laptop was acting like even more of a jackass than usual while recording and uploading this one, so I think there is one segment that refused to accept background music, and the final second plays for about 2 minutes when I play it, but while uploading, it said it was 18 minutes long. So I dunno what that's all about but luckily if that segment is weird, it's at the end and shouldn't be an issue for you while you listen. 

I'd sell my soul for a decent new laptop and a meatball sub, by the way. Just throwing that out there.

Patreon: Patreon.com/BackAlleyAlchemist

Sources:

https://www.livescience.com/oldest-rock-art-supernatural-beings.html  

https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/weirdos-werewolves-and-full-moon/

Irving-Pease, Evan K.; Ryan, Hannah; Jamieson, Alexandra; Dimopoulos, Evangelos A.; Larson, Greger; Frantz, Laurent A. F. (2018). "Paleogenomics of Animal Domestication". In Lindqvist, C.; Rajora, O. (eds.). Paleogenomics. Population Genomics. Springer, Cham. pp. 225–272. doi:10.1007/13836_2018_55. ISBN 978-3-030-04752-8.

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/early-modern-witch-trials/

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0883769400041701

Decided I would take this opportunity to talk about one of my favorite subjects: Scandinavian history and Norse Mythology.

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/BackAlleyAlchemist

Source Materials:

Gardeła, Leszek. "‘Warrior-women’in Viking Age Scandinavia? A preliminary archaeological study." Analecta Archaeologica Ressoviensia 8 (2013).

Polygyny, Concubinage, and the Social Lives of Women in Viking-Age Scandinavia. Ben Raffield, Neil Price, and Mark Collard. Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 2017 13:, 165-209

The Poetic Edda. The Mythological Poems. Translated by Henry Adams Bellows.

Norse Mythology, by Neil Gaiman

History.com

The sound quality on this one is a bit rough. 

Patreon: Patreon.com/BackAlleyAlchemist

Medium: Medium.com/YamunaHrodvitnir

Email: [email protected]

Eflin, J. (2014). Incursion Into Wendigo Territory. Digital Literature Review, 9.

Jusiak, K. (2015). “The Embodiment of the Taboo: the Images of Wendigo in Literature and Their Rendition in Modern Media”.

Teicher, M. I. (1960, April). Windigo psychosis: a study of a relationship between belief and behavior among the Indians of Northeastern Canada. Seattle: WA: American Ethnological Society.

Willoughby, C. (1908). Wooden Bowls of the Algonquian Indians. American Anthropologist, 10(3), new series, 423–434. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/659862

Patreon: Patreon.com/YamunaHrodvitnir (I swear to fuck I changed the name to BackAlley Alchemist, but technology hates me.)

Email: [email protected]

Medium: Medium.com/YamunaHrodvitnir

OG article on my Medium. Medium.com/YamunaHrodvitnir

Patreon: Patreon.com/YamunaHrodvitnir

Patreon: YamunaHrodvitnir

Sources

Smith, M. (2013). Legends, Lore & True Tales of the Chattahoochee. Arcadia Publishing.

A look into the legend of Bloody Mary, the ritual associated with the legend, and why the two are associated with one another.

Craughwell, T. (2005) Urban Legends: 666 Absolutely True Stories That Happened to a Friend… of a Friend… of a Friend. Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, Inc.

Dundes, A. (1998). Bloody Mary in the mirror: A ritual reflection of pre-pubescent anxiety. Western Folklore, 57(2/3), 119–135.

Ellis, B. (2004). Lucifer Ascending: The Occult in Folklore and Popular Culture. University of Kentucky Press. ISBN 978–0–8131–2289–2.

Hutton, R. (2001). Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978–0–19–285448–3.