In part two of Steph and Erin's series on weddings, the girls chat about the wedding industry in general, because what is more macabre than diet culture and capitalism?

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Join Steph and Erin as they delve into the often curious history of wedding and engagement rings in the early twentieth century in the first of TWO BRAND NEW EPISODES!

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Inspired by the research Steph did for her Halloween story, this week's episode of Femmes Macabres finds Steph and Erin reading through Victorian era newspapers for strange ways people died during the time period.  They also discuss the 19th century outlook on death and mourning and compare it to the death positive movement currently taking the world by storm thanks to organisations like the Order of the Good Death.

Coming up next week on Femmes Macabres: how the radium girls inspired workplace health and safety reform.

Music:

Dark Hallway by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/?keywords=Hallway&Search=Search Artist: http://incompetech.com/

Sources:

Bradford, Adam. “Inspiring Death: Poe's Poetic Aesthetics, ‘Annabel Lee," and the Communities of Mourning in Nineteenth-Century America.” The Edgar Allan Poe Review, vol. 12, no. 1, 2011, pp. 72–100. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41506434.

https://thebabydied.blogspot.com/

https://dying.lovetoknow.com/death-cultures-around-world/behind-victorian-mourning-veil-10-surprising-facts

http://victorian-era.org/victorian-era-mourning-period.html

https://www.history.co.uk/history-of-death/victorians-and-the-art-of-dying

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8DxI8Pn1Uw

https://www.tchevalier.com/fallingangels/bckgrnd/mourning/

https://www.thecollector.com/post-mortem-photography/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/understanding-grief/201812/death-and-mourning-practices-in-the-victorian-age

This week, we learn all about vampires and how Steph convinced her students she is one. We had SO much fun with this episode- thank you for listening!

Sources

Backstein, Karen. “(Un)Safe Sex: Romancing the Vampire.” Cinéaste, vol. 35, no. 1, 2009, pp. 38–41. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41690852. Accessed 24 Nov. 2020.

https://www.livescience.com/40843-real-dracula-vlad-the-impaler.html

https://serialkillershistory.wordpress.com/2017/12/20/the-true-story-of-elizabeth-bathory-the-blood-countess-2/

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In this week’s episode, Erin and Steph discuss the storied history of England’s “Black Magic Church.” Go say hi to the inspiration for this episode, Liliana, on instagram, @adaughterofmoths!

-------- Music: Dark Hallway by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/?keywords=Hallway&Search=Search Artist: http://incompetech.com/ -------- 

Sources: https://www.spookyisles.com/the-curse-of-clophill-church/

https://www.spookyisles.com/haunted-clophill-church/

https://clophillhistory.mooncarrot.org.uk/OldChurchPost1848.php

https://enacademic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/4301341

https://mjwayland.com/black-alchemist-1963/

https://hero-magazine.com/article/72027/occult-filmmaker-gary-parsons-on-why-60s-britain-was-obsessed-with-witchcraft/

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