Devil's Trap: A Supernatural Podcast

It's the season finale of Season 1 Devil's Trap! We finally get to break down the meaning behind the Devil's Trap, aka the Key of Solomon. Toss back some holy water and whiskey with us. Maybe we'll give you some perfumed bat blood to take home.

Sources:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_City%2C_Missouri
• britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_AF-253
• http://goldendawnancientmysteryschool.com/golden-dawn-magical-tradition/golden-dawn-biographies-personalities/s-l-macgregor-mathers/
• http://esotericarchives.com/solomon/ksol.htm
• https://sacred-texts.com/grim/kos/kos16.htm
• https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-writings/grimoires-biblical-king-magical-treatise-solomon-and-key-solomon-005561
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_of_Solomon
• https://occult-world.com/spirits-of-solomon/
• https://www.britannica.com/biography/Solomon/Legendary-wisdom
• The Occult, Witchcraft & Magic Dell, Christopher; 2016
• The Mythology of Supernatural Brown, Nathan Robert; 2011.
• Supernatural: The Official Companion Season One Knight, Nicholas; 2007.
• The Encyclopedia of Demons & Demonology Guiley, Rosemary Ellen; 2009.
• The Dictionary of Demons Belanger, M; 2020.
• Grimoires: A History of Magic Books Davies, Owen; 2009.

It's the next to last episode of Season One, Episode 21 - Salvation. Liz loses her mind over Netflix ditching Kansas. Diana loses her mind over Meg still being around. Then we take you shopping so you too can buy your own holy water and maybe spread your miracle seed.

Sources:

The Mythology of Supernatural Brown, Nathan Robert, 2011

https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/holy-water

https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Your-Own-Holy-Water

https://religionfacts.com/holy-water

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nike-air-max-97-jesus-shoes-filled-with-holy-water-selling-for-4000-2019-10-11/

https://www.ncregister.com/blog/fatima-s-little-known-miracles-with-earth-and-water

https://www.truthinadvertising.org/peter-popoffs-miracle-spring-water/

https://www.truthinadvertising.org/peter-popoffs-miracle-spring-water/

https://www.directfromlourdes.com/i

https://www.amazon.com/Water-Jordan-Certificate-House-Blessing/dp/B01KYGB22E/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=holy+water&qid=1618340608&sr=8-2

It's Season One, Episode 20 Dead Man's Blood and it's all things vampire! We've got creepy fish teeth! Vampire sheep! And financial planning for the immortal! Learn the definition for "grave eating." Team Trunk also gets a new rival in Team Truck.

Sources:

http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/The_Colt

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

https://wizzley.com/serbian-vampire-peter-plogojowitz/

http://theunexplainedmysteries.com/2017/07/24/vampire-peter-plogojowitz/

https://www.vampires.com/the-legendary-arnold-paole/

https://anomalien.com/the-case-of-arnold-paole-real-life-vampire-story/

The Vampire: A New History Groom, Nick 2018.

Supernatual: The Official Companion Knight, Nicholas, 2007

It's Diana's birthday and she gets all sorts of presents in this episode: creepy ghost children, creepy dolls, and her favorite shudder effect. During Lore we discover Liz's brother from another Charles Scudder while talking about Corpsewood Manor.

Sources:

https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/crimefeed/crime-history/the-cold-blooded-killing-of-the-gay-satanists-of-corpsewood-mano

https://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/castle-in-the-country-zmaz81mazraw

https://www.winterwatch.net/2019/12/corpsewood-manor-true-crime-like-no-other/

The Corpsewood Manor: Murders in North Georgia Petulla, Amy 2016.

Corpsewood: A true crime like no other Ellis, Daniel 2016

The Corpsewood Catchfly: A Witch's Tale Fults, Mark Elliot 2017

Corpsewood: The Eyewitness Account West, Shannon; Scott, Susan E.; Hudgins, Teresa 2015

Discussing Supernatural's Season 1, Episode 18 "Something Wicked." We delve into the lore behind the Shtriga and determine Albanian witches are drunken bees.

• Shtriga: Summer Camp https://youtu.be/01ryGT9OJO8
• Gothic metal band Shtriga https://www.bandmix.com/deva/
• Malyasian instrumental rock band Reset to Zilch who has a “A Phantasm; Antithetical” https://resettozilch.bandcamp.com/track/shtriga

Sources:

https://thedemoniacal.blogspot.com/2010/07/shtriga.html

https://wikimili.com/en/Shtriga

https://lotsoflore.blogspot.com/p/shtriga.html

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

https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Shtriga/68384

http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/1.18_Something_Wicked

Durham, M. (1923). 121. Of Magic, Witches and Vampires in the Balkans. Man, 23, 189-192. doi:10.2307/2788569

Durham, M. (1910). High Albania and its Customs in 1908. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 40, 453-472. doi:10.2307/2843266

We are on Supernatural Season One, Episode 17 : Hell House! Diana has very strong feelings about this being set in Richardson, Texas. Liz has very strong feelings about what vegetables Satan keeps in his cellar. And then goes down a lore rabbit hole about why she thinks Tulpamancy is not something to judge. Also - PRANK WAR

Find the original CW's Hell Hound Lair on the Way Back Machine here: https://web.archive.org/web/20060424134515/http://hellhoundslair.com/

Check out the "blackened crust" band Tulpa here: https://tulpaofficial.bandcamp.com/album/unhealed-2

Sources: 

• https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/culture-mind-and-brain/201604/daring-hear-voices
• https://www.vice.com/en/article/exmqzz/tulpamancy-internet-subculture-892
• https://www.mcgill.ca/psychiatry/channels/news/dr-samuel-veissiere-quoted-washington-post-327431
• http://pubs.sciepub.com/rpbs/5/2/1/index.html
• https://www.reddit.com/r/Tulpas/
• https://www.tulpa.info/
• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T-EMyglxoV1V7srVyoCPBBWpk-vUXxm_1meDjnnFKTQ/edit
• https://www.whatisabrony.com/
• Tulpa.org
• https://gist.github.com/cmcsun/5341046#file-entire-guide
• https://www.reddit.com/r/TulpasGoneWild/
• https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0518910/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
• http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/1.17_Hell_House
• http://symboldictionary.net/?p=1080
• https://symbolsandmeanings.net/leviathan-cross-meaning-symbolism-origin-satanic-satans-cross/
• https://symbolism.fandom.com/wiki/The_Leviathan_Cross

It's Supernatural Season 1, Episode 16 - Shadow. Meg and her bloody bowl is back! Why are you hating on pit bulls Dean? Zorastrian daevas sometimes have backward knees. And please deep fry that heart on a stick and dip it in ranch.

Check out the symphonic metal band Aesma Daeva here https://youtu.be/KUQoTPnVbl0

Sources: 

• The Mythology of Supernatural Brown, Nathan Robert, 2011
• https://genies.fandom.com/wiki/Daeva
• metalmusicarchives.com/artist/aesma-daeva
• http://avesta.org/zfaq.html
• Encyclopedia of Demons in World Religions and Cultures Bane, Thersa 2012
• The Encyclopedia of Demons & Demonology Guiley, Rosemary Ellen
• https://study.com/academy/lesson/spiritus-mundi-definition-lesson-quiz.html

Diana and Liz are talking about Supernatural Season One, Episode 15: The Benders. And then we're going to talk about the real Benders, America's firs serial killer family! Other points of fun: phantom gassers! little bunnie foo foo offense! Meth Crafts

Also check out the amazing horror punk band from Mexico the Bloody Benders! https://youtu.be/53n886b5KLU

Sources:

• Kate Bender, The Kansas Murderess: The Horrible History of an Arch Killer Rudolp, Vance / Hardy, Allison 1944 (republished 2017) 
• The Saga of the Bloody Benders: The Infamous Homicidal Family of Labette County, Kansas Geary, Rick 2007
• https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/06/us/bloody-bender-house-trnd/index.html
• The Bender Tragedy: Dedicated to the Memory of My Husband: Dr. William York York, Mary E. 1875
• The Blood Stained Benders: More Evil Than You Know Province, Charles M. 2019
• https://www.legendsofamerica.com/ks-benders/
• https://crimereads.com/the-bloody-benders-americas-first-family-of-serial-killers/
• https://medium.com/internet-archaeology/the-bastardized-story-of-the-bloody-benders-a203fb0e419a
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Gasser_of_Mattoon
• https://mythus.fandom.com/wiki/Spring-heeled_jack
• http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/1.15_The_Benders

Talking Superatural Season 1, Episode 14 and why Sam and Dean are staying in the Billy Bass Motel. Also why is a priest ghost hunting and raving at the same time? Do Diana and Liz feel strongly about the oxford comma? Did the government fund projects to teach our soldiers to bend spoons? Bend! Bend! Bend!

Links:

• Give St Nicholas a hug https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS-g8_obqDM
• Buy your own raver ghost hunting equipment https://xtremeghosthunting.com/thermal-cameras/
• Watch some spoon bending http://www.jackhouck.com/
• A dapper Phillip Sgriccia http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/Philip_Sgriccia

Sources:

Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government’s Investigations Into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis Annie Jackobsen, 2017

https://taskandpurpose.com/history/5-true-stories-militarys-paranormal-activity-research/

http://www.jackhouck.com/

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

https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/dia/PARAPHYSICS_RD-WARSAW_PACT.pdf

https://archive.org/details/ParaphysicsRDWarsawPact_201609

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-government-secret-investigations-into-esp-extrasensory-perception-annie-jacobsen/

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Alexander

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemi-Sync

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_(acoustics)#Binaural_beats

https://time.com/4721715/phenomena-annie-jacobsen/

https://www.urigeller.com/not-trick-uri-geller-mossad-cia-agent/

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-project-star-gate-worked/id278981407?i=1000477281006

http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/Philip_Sgriccia

https://www.newsanyway.com/2019/09/23/how-much-carbon-monoxide-does-it-take-to-kill-you-not-much/

https://xtremeghosthunting.com/thermal-cameras/

Bro, bro, bro. Diana and Liz talk about Supernatural Season 1, Episode 13 "Route 666." They also talk a lot about the Texas Snowpocalypse and ramble on about appropriate modifications to trucks. The lore explores the "Most Haunted Road in America" -Clinton Road, New Jersey and the jerks who stop on it.

Links:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzGpjXrPBwg

Sources:

https://maps.roadtrippers.com/trips/15740010

https://www.nydailynews.com/autos/creepy-cursed-curvy-new-jersey-clinton-road-frightening-road-america-article-1.1803331

https://weirdnj.com/stories/clinton-road/

http://monstrumathenaeum.org/paranormal-history-clinton-road-nj/

https://www.grossmanjustice.com/teenage-girl-killed-in-west-milford-collision-6-injured

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Road_(New_Jersey)

http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/Eugenie_Ross-Leming

http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/1.13_Route_666

https://spn-heavymeta.livejournal.com/19435.html

http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/1.13_Route_666_(transcript)