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In the first episode of a two parter, Charles and Crofty run the risk of being trapped in fairy land on a quest to understand the origins of its famous denizens. Together they trace the history of these mysterious creatures throughout Britain and Ireland, examining how they evolved from elusive elves in Anglo Saxon times, to the regal fairy courts of Elizabethan literature, before finally take their iconic forms amongst the Victorian folklore craze.
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Mythillogical logo by Ettore Mazza. You can find more of Ettore's excellent artwork below:
https://www.instagram.com/ettore.mazza/
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Suonatore di Liuto by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4440-suonatore-di-liuto License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licensehttp://incompetech.com/
Who's that figure standing at the crossroads? After following Anansi's journey from Africa to the New World, today's bonus episode sees Charles and Crofty investigate two other trickster figures who were brought from Africa to the Americas, the gods Eshu and Legba.
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Mythillogical logo by Ettore Mazza. You can find more of Ettore's excellent artwork below:
https://www.instagram.com/ettore.mazza/
https://ettoremazza.tumblr.com/
Suonatore di Liuto by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4440-suonatore-di-liuto License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licensehttp://incompetech.com/
Today Charles and Crofty discuss the enigmatic trickster, Anansi the Spider, tracing his origins on the fringes of West African society and religion, to his evolution into a symbol of slave defiance and rebellion in plantation Jamaica.
https://www.patreon.com/theHistocrat https://www.twitter.com/The_Histocrat
Mythillogical logo by Ettore Mazza. You can find more of Ettore's excellent artwork below:
https://www.instagram.com/ettore.mazza/
https://ettoremazza.tumblr.com/
Suonatore di Liuto by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4440-suonatore-di-liuto License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licensehttp://incompetech.com/
On today's episode Crofty makes a triumphant return, joining Charles to wax poetic about Beowulf, the Anglo-Saxon epic rich in historical and legendary connections, and to ask if the eponymous hero was a poet's creation, or a figure of legend himself?
https://www.patreon.com/theHistocrat https://www.twitter.com/The_Histocrat
Mythillogical logo by Ettore Mazza. You can find more of Ettore's excellent artwork below:
https://www.instagram.com/ettore.mazza/
https://ettoremazza.tumblr.com/
Suonatore di Liuto by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4440-suonatore-di-liuto License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licensehttp://incompetech.com/
On an impromptu Halloween episode, Charles finds himself lost in the woods on the trail of the Bell Witch of Northern Tennessee, tracking it from the first accounts of the early 19th century, through to its fullest and spookiest of incarnations. Enjoy!
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Audio editing by Charles Snart and Byron Lewis. Mythillogical logo by Ettore Mazza. You can find more of Ettore's excellent artwork below:
https://www.instagram.com/ettore.mazza/
https://ettoremazza.tumblr.com/
Suonatore di Liuto by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4440-suonatore-di-liuto License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licensehttp://incompetech.com/
On today's episode, Charles is joined by a special guest host to take a long voyage through two thousand years of Mesopotamian History. Together they track the earliest surviving Creation myths, beginning with the fragmentary creation myths of the Sumerians, through to the Epic Creation myth of the Babylonian period, the Enūma Eliš.
https://www.patreon.com/theHistocrat https://www.twitter.com/The_Histocrat
Mythillogical logo by Ettore Mazza. You can find more of Ettore's excellent artwork below:
https://www.instagram.com/ettore.mazza/
https://ettoremazza.tumblr.com/
Suonatore di Liuto by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4440-suonatore-di-liuto License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licensehttp://incompetech.com/
The search for Bigfoot continues, as Charles and Crofty discuss Patterson and Gimlin's famous Bigfoot film, sketchy salesmen with claims of a captured sasquatch, and even attempts to identify sasquatch DNA.
https://www.patreon.com/theHistocrat https://www.twitter.com/The_Histocrat
Mythillogical logo by Ettore Mazza. You can find more of Ettore's excellent artwork below:
https://www.instagram.com/ettore.mazza/
https://ettoremazza.tumblr.com/
Suonatore di Liuto by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4440-suonatore-di-liuto License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licensehttp://incompetech.com/
What's that sound coming from the trees? Today, Charles and Crofty travel the forests and mountains of North America, hot on the trail of the elusive Sasquatch, following it from Native American legend to the mysterious Bigfoot of the 20th century.
https://www.patreon.com/theHistocrat https://www.twitter.com/The_Histocrat
Mythillogical logo by Ettore Mazza. You can find more of Ettore's excellent artwork below:
https://www.instagram.com/ettore.mazza/
https://ettoremazza.tumblr.com/
Suonatore di Liuto by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4440-suonatore-di-liuto License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licensehttp://incompetech.com/
Avert your eyes! For today Charles and Crofty bring you to the lair of Medusa, and tell of the life of Perseus, his quest to slay the Gorgon, and his subsequent adventures.
https://www.patreon.com/theHistocrat https://www.twitter.com/The_Histocrat
Mythillogical logo by Ettore Mazza. You can find more of Ettore's excellent artwork below:
https://www.instagram.com/ettore.mazza/
https://ettoremazza.tumblr.com/
Suonatore di Liuto by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4440-suonatore-di-liuto License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licensehttp://incompetech.com/
Sharpen your stakes and grab your crucifixes, as Charles and Crofty rise from their crypts and delve into the folklore of Vampires, to discover the origins of one of the most popular creatures of modern horror. https://www.patreon.com/theHistocrat
https://www.twitter.com/The_Histocrat
Mythillogical logo by Ettore Mazza. You can find more of Ettore's excellent artwork below:
https://www.instagram.com/ettore.mazza/
https://ettoremazza.tumblr.com/
Suonatore di Liuto by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4440-suonatore-di-liuto License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licensehttp://incompetech.com/
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