Graveyard Coffee Talk Pod

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they discuss people who've been accused of witchcraft through the ages. Amanda highlights some of the accused individuals in the American Colonies in the 17th century, and somehow avoids the temptation to skip straight to Salem. Corinne does a broad overview of the historical context of the early modern European witch hunts before highlighting a few accused individuals up through more contemporary times.

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Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they discuss cursed locations in nature. Amanda discovers a particularly creepy spot in Old Louisville and gleefully tells Corinne about this hometown legend. Corinne learns about the existence of an extremely cursed rock in Japan, and a possibly even more cursed river in India.

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Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they discuss chilling winter tales. Amanda starts out relatively wholesomely, and then dedicates herself to giving Corinne nightmares. Corinne shares her hatred of the cold alongside stories of wintery female figures of folklore from Japan and Russia

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Sweet dreams and caffeinated nightmares!

Grab your favorite hot beverage and settle in with Amanda and Corinne as they discuss one of Corinne's favorite folklore topics: Selkies! Amanda shares about the role seals play in the mythology of indigenous groups in the Arctic, as well as three variants of stories about the goddess Sedna, all with a common theme. Corinne gives a broad overview of Selkie stories from Ireland, Scotland, Iceland, and Norway, as well as dives into some possible origins for the myths.

TW: mild warnings for discussion of dismemberment.

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Settle in with your favorite hot beverage while Amanda and Corinne dive into lunar mythology. Amanda shares one of her favorite stories about Lone Bird, a figure in Mi'kmaq folklore. Corinne reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of what "Lunar New Year" actually means, before exploring parallel myths from India and Mexico, as well as the story of the Chinese moon goddess, Chang'e.

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Grab a cup of your favorite hot beverage and settle in as Amanda and Corinne discuss the occult practices that become popular during times of war. Amanda describes the strange chain of events that links the American Civil War to both Vampirism and cremation, which Corinne believes would make for a fantastic CW drama. Corinne investigates the weird world of spiritual countermeasures the UK undertook during the second World War, and desperately hopes that the stories she read are true.

mild TW for mentions of child death, general discussions of warfare and trauma

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In this episode, Amanda digs into modern iterations of the Satanic Panic in the US, including QAnon and other conspiracies. Corinne dives into a harrowing case from Brazil and a case from New Zealand that is still having legal repercussions today. Listener discretion is advised; trigger warnings for child sexual abuse, sexual assault, child murder, and genital mutilation.

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Amanda and Corinne chat about how Christmas traditions have developed over the years. Amanda is enthusiastic about food traditions in the US, while Corinne learns more than she bargained for after she started researching "hooded animal" traditions in the UK. Pour a hot beverage and join us for an extremely chill episode!

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In this week's episode, Amanda explores Native American mermaid myths, as well as explains about the "mud mermaids" of the Ohio River. Corinne talks about Chinese and Japanese variants on mermaid tales, and goes on a tangent about free-diving.

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Amanda gives an overview of the McMartin Preschool case, as well as cases involving two cult-like groups of Kentucky teens. Corinne attempts to lighten the mood with a 17th century slander case from the UK.

TW: sexual abuse, physical abuse, child death, gun violence, psychological grooming

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