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Who's that knocking at your ears? It's Bluebeard! Tune in this week to hear all about Charles Perrault's fairytale, as well as a couple of characters referred to as "real life" Bluebeards - most notably Gilles de Rais (though we suspect another Elizabeth Bathory slander situtation is afoot). 

Created and co-hosted by Georgia Abrams and Hannah Rucinski.
Sound design by Shannon Webster.
Inspired by your mom's pillow talk.

For further reading:

https://ashleyleckwold.wordpress.com/2015/10/16/a-story-with-a-ghost-crimson-peak-is-a-chilling-and-thrilling-gothic-romance/

https://www.stephgraves.net/blog/intertextual-spectres-in-crimson-peak 

.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Perrault

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_de_Rais

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/gilles-de-rais-bluebeard 

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Remember when Georgia mentioned screaming skulls super early on? Well tune in to hear her dive into some of those legends, as well as some other silly stories they've inspired. You also get to hear about our depression and our stims. 


Created and co-hosted by Georgia Abrams and Hannah Rucinski.
Sound design by Shannon Webster.
Inspired by your mom's pillow talk.

For further reading:

https://mjwayland.com/screaming-skull/

https://hauntedpalaceblog.wordpress.com/2016/08/13/screaming-skulls-folklore-fact-and-fiction/

https://burialsandbeyond.com/2018/08/20/a-short-history-of-british-screaming-skulls/

https://www.spookyisles.com/screaming-skulls/ 

https://lancashirefolk.com/2016/08/25/the-skull-at-the-pack-horse-pub-affetside/

http://affetside.org.uk/pub_history.htm

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/king-charles-i-executed-for-treason

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Bonus double episode! Remember when Hannah mentioned the Kitsune in Episode 10? Listen for more info about how fox spirits may have originated in Japanese folklore, a few different kinds of Kitsune, and of course Hannah talks VERY briefly about Naruto.

Created and co-hosted by Georgia Abrams and Hannah Rucinski.
Sound design by Shannon Webster.
Inspired by your mom's pillow talk.

For further reading:

https://japaneseonimasks.com/blogs/magazine/what-is-kitsune

https://rabbitholemag.com/kitsune-the-japanese-fox-trickster/

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/8130/pg8130-images.html

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The discussion about ghosts and hauntings has finally arrived! Tune in as Georgia and Hannah talk about their experiences with ghosts and what their heaven would look like.

Created and co-hosted by Georgia Abrams and Hannah Rucinski.
Sound design by Shannon Webster.
Inspired by your mom's pillow talk.

For further reading:

https://www.worldhistory.org/ghost/

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Better late than never, our discussion of ghosts continues with Georgia bringing you different types of hauntings. From residual hauntings, intelligent hauntings, haunted objects, and poltergeists, we cover a wide array. And what does father of computing Charles Babbage have to do with ghosts? Tune in to find out!

Created and co-hosted by Georgia Abrams and Hannah Rucinski.
Sound design by Shannon Webster.
Inspired by your mom's pillow talk.

For further reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._C._Lethbridge 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninth_Bridgewater_Treatise 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Tape_Theory

https://hauntedwalk.com/news/the-stone-tape-theory/ 

https://theghostinmymachine.com/2020/03/09/how-does-it-work-the-stone-tape-theory-residual-hauntings-and-the-deep-influence-of-memory-and-emotion/

https://gis.smumn.edu/GradProjects/DanielsonL.pdf 

https://www.spiritrealm.net/intelligent-or-residual/ 

https://www.pacificparanormal.com/index.php/menu-btn-articles-essay/114-article-intelligent-haunts 

https://www.vice.com/en/article/d3jvea/man-post-malone-is-definitely-cursed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dybbuk_box

https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7aake/a-cursed-objects-expert-explains-how-our-possessions-can-ruin-our-lives

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poltergeist

https://www.horrifiedmagazine.co.uk/other/the-enfield-poltergeist/

https://www.hauntedrooms.co.uk/enfield-poltergeist-true-story-enfield-haunting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enfield_poltergeist#:~:text=The%20Enfield%20poltergeist%20was%20a,and%20Margaret%20Hodgson%2C%20aged%2013.

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From where do ghosts originate? Tune in to this week's episode where Hannah glances over cross-cultural concepts of the afterlife and how they've contributed to creating "ghosts" throughout time.

Created and co-hosted by Georgia Abrams and Hannah Rucinski.
Sound design by Shannon Webster.
Inspired by your mom's pillow talk.

For further reading:

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2023/09/12/funeral-practices-and-beliefs-about-the-afterlife/

https://www.history.com/topics/halloween/historical-ghost-stories

https://theconversation.com/necromancers-demons-and-friendly-ghosts-humans-have-been-fascinated-with-the-afterlife-since-ancient-mesopotamia-216274#:~:text=Ghosts%20were%20an%20accepted%20part,science%20fiction%20writer%20Philip%20K.

https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/funerary-beliefs-of-the-ancient-egyptians/

https://www.worldhistory.org/ghost/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zh9vgdm/revision/3#:~:text=Many%20Jewish%20people%20also%20believe,the%20living%20and%20the%20dead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khonsuemheb_and_the_Ghost

https://www.unrv.com/articles/roman-underworld-and-afterlife.php

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Created and co-hosted by Georgia Abrams and Hannah Rucinski.
Sound design by Shannon Webster.
Inspired by your mom's pillow talk.

For further reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belial 

https://the-demonic-paradise.fandom.com/wiki/Belial

https://mythos-and-legends.fandom.com/wiki/Abaddon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abaddon

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Bible 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asmodeus 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan 

https://mythos-and-legends.fandom.com/wiki/Leviathan 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_in_popular_culture 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beelzebub 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belphegor 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_of_demons

https://gods-and-demons.fandom.com/wiki/Seven_Princes_of_Hell  

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Georgia and Hannah are still possessed! The demon stories continue in this episode as we talk about the Japanese Yokai, Tawantinsuyu Supay, and Islamic Shaitan and how  ONCE AGAIN everything we have ever known stems from colonization.

Created and co-hosted by Georgia Abrams and Hannah Rucinski.
Sound design by Shannon Webster.
Inspired by your mom's pillow talk.

For further reading:

Japan:
https://yokai.com/introduction/
https://yokai.moifa.org/#/
https://yokai.com/oni/
Fujita, Hiroko, et al. Folktales from the Japanese Countryside. Libraries Unlimited, 2008.

Inca:
MacCormack, Sabine. “Demons, Imagination, and the Incas.” Representations, no. 33 (1991): 121–46. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928760.
Sutherland, Graham, "In the Realm of Supay: The Stories of the Miners" (2011).
Dedenbach-Salazar Sáenz: Deities and Spirits in Andean Belief (October 2017, for Anthropos)

Islam:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/ifrit

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This week, we're talking about DEMONS!! Specifically, those from Judeo-Christian stories associated with the seven deadly sins. But don't worry, there's plenty of Supernatural talk too.

Created and co-hosted by Georgia Abrams and Hannah Rucinski.
Sound design by Shannon Webster.
Inspired by your mom's pillow talk.

For further reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belial 

https://the-demonic-paradise.fandom.com/wiki/Belial

https://mythos-and-legends.fandom.com/wiki/Abaddon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abaddon

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Bible 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asmodeus 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan 

https://mythos-and-legends.fandom.com/wiki/Leviathan 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_in_popular_culture 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beelzebub 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belphegor 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_of_demons

https://gods-and-demons.fandom.com/wiki/Seven_Princes_of_Hell  

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