This is the recording from a live stream I did for Halloween where I told the tale of Belphagor as written by Niccolo Machiavelli in 1549. You can find the version I read here on Project Gutenburg: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/31754/31754-h/31754-h.htm#BELPHAGOR_N

You can watch the unedited stream on youtube:

https://youtu.be/hZtdlnBqlaM?si=Sh3tIPzep8-APOdd

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Faust Act 2. Back for the second part of Faust, where we find out about a girl and some gifts

Read from: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/63203/63203-h/63203-h.htm

Music and background sounds from Endemic Sounds:

The White Birch - Moorland Songs

A Cold Wind - Savvon

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The second and final part in my journey with the Devil and his influence on the land. This time we are taken across Europe and find out how the Devil broke his tooth, a fight with an angel, and an angry foot stomp. I hope you find this trip devillishy good fun.

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The first act of Faust! Where we meet Faust and Mestopheles for the first. A bit of magic, a bet, plans, and a debate about learning. Nothing bad can happen from such a wonderful cast can it?

Read from: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/63203/63203-h/63203-h.htm

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Having just moved to Mexico I thought I would share some devilish fun stories from the country. Here I look into the Chaneque, El CUcuy and El Charro Negro. I hope you enjoy this brief introduction to some fun little tales and folklore.

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The next step in out journey with the devil takes us around the world to look at the places that bare his name or his influence on the landscape. In this first part we look at England and the US, there will be a part 2 with more places to come. I hope you find this trip devillishy good fun.

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S4E6: The Devils Wives

Two more stories told today, dark tales from Germany and Italy not for the feint of heart. Similar to episode 17 and Bluebeards Brides we here how the Devil wants to marry and how murdery husbands get burnt alive. Stories told can be found at: https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/type0311.html

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S4E5: The Oldest Tale

A Faustian tale. Well two actually. I tell the tales of The Smith and The Devil, an old Norwegian tale ( http://viseven.dk/albion/index_htm_files/The%20Smith%20and%20the%20Devil.pdf ) , and The Peasant and The Devil by the Grimms ( https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm189.html ) . I then have a very brief look at smiths in folklore and whether or not it is the oldest European folktale. A short episode with not much of a delve this time as have other things being planned ;)

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S4E4: Lilith, plurality, female or male, donkey?

Part 2 of my look into Lilith, here I do more of a delve into the history and roots rather than stories. We look at her becoming a half donkey, a vampire, how there are actually 2 Liliths, no wait there are many, no there are male and female versions....wait what? I don't know, welcome to Lilith!

Go check out Esoterica over on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/@TheEsotericaChannel/featured

And Lady in the Library:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_rlRc3dt1s

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S4E3: Lilith - The mother of demons part 1

Another 2 part episode. In this first part I tell a few tales from throughout history of the entity known as Lilith, from what some say is the first mention of her in Mesopotamia to 13th century Jewish Kabbalah stories. In part 2 I shall do a dive into the history and translations and mysticism around her, in this episode it is mostly tales.

Inanna and the Huluppo tree is from Kramer, S 1938: 

https://oi.uchicago.edu/sites/oi.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/shared/docs/as10.pdf 

Version 1 of the Songs of the Sage is from Gettysburg College:

https://skhadka.sites.gettysburg.edu/Lilith/lilith-in-ancient-texts/ 

Version 2 from Wikipedia (I am not paying £200 for a book!):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith#Jewish_tradition

The Babylonian Talmud can be found at:

https://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/talmud.htm

The Alphabet of Sirach:

https://archive.org/details/alphabetofsirach/page/n1/mode/2up?view=theater

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/lilith#:~:text=She%20began%20as%20a%20female,aspects%20of%20life%2C%20especially%20childbirth.

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