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This week we bring you a special guest to go along with an extra spooky story.

Harry Horror joins us to discuss the story of Jack the Ripper.

Sources

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitechapel_murders#Legacy

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

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Albert_Victor,_Duke_of_Clarence_and_Avondale

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

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

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

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melville_Macnaghten#Macnaghten_and_Jack_the_Ripper

Biography

https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/jack-the-ripper

Historic UK

https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Jack-the-Ripper/

JacktheRipper.org

https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/police-investigation.htm

StrawberryTours

https://strawberrytours.com/london/blog/the-5-most-likely-jack-the-ripper-suspects-and-the-facts-against-them

All That’s Interesting

https://allthatsinteresting.com/jack-the-ripper-suspects

Jack The Ripper Tour

https://www.jack-the-ripper-tour.com/generalnews/london-in-1888/

https://www.jack-the-ripper-tour.com/generalnews/t-p-oconnor-the-star/

https://www.jack-the-ripper-tour.com/generalnews/the-hunt-for-the-ripper/

The Jack The Ripper Tour

https://thejacktherippertour.com/blog/what-was-it-really-like-to-live-in-whitechapel-london-in-1888/

All That’s Interesting

https://allthatsinteresting.com/prince-albert-victor

History.com

https://www.history.com/news/who-was-jack-the-ripper-6-tantalizing-theories

Whitechapel Jack

https://whitechapeljack.com/the-ripper-letters/

Digital Scholarship In the Humanities

https://academic.oup.com/dsh/article/33/3/621/4824843

Smithsonian Mag

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/were-ripper-letters-fabricated-journalists-180968004/

Casebook

https://www.casebook.org/official_documents/memo.html

BBC America

https://www.bbcamerica.com/blogs/whitechapel--51228

Strawberry Tours

https://strawberrytours.com/london/blog/jack-the-ripper/what-was-life-in-whitechapel-like-during-the-jack-the-ripper-murders

This week Tracey takes over and shares the life and legend of the Mad Monk of Russia.

She covers the Man, the Myth, and the Legend that is Rasputin.

Sources

Wikipedia

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

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

Smithsonian Mag

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/murder-rasputin-100-years-later-180961572/

Biography

https://www.biography.com/political-figure/rasputin

Encyclopedia Britannica

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Grigory-Yefimovich-Rasputin

Time

https://time.com/4606775/5-myths-rasputin/

History Channel

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/rasputin-is-murdered

History Co

https://www.history.co.uk/biographies/who-was-rasputin

https://www.history.co.uk/articles/6-myths-about-rasputin-debunked

NPR

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/01/31/510802220/fact-or-fiction-even-when-it-comes-to-food-its-hard-to-tell-with-rasputin

All That’s Interesting

https://allthatsinteresting.com/rasputin-death

Thought Co 

https://www.thoughtco.com/murder-of-rasputin-1779627

Local Life

https://www.local-life.com/st-petersburg/articles/rasputins-penis

New World Encyclopedia 

https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Grigori_Rasputin

Douglas Smith

https://douglassmith.info/books/rasputin/

This week we looked to New Zealand for two Maori myths to share.

Rowan brings you the story of Tane and Whiro and Tracey shares the tale of a famous Taniwha.

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Sources

5 minute folklore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4PhnolOYRI&ab_channel=FiveMinuteFolklore

Wikipedia

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

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

Teara Govt

https://teara.govt.nz/en/taniwha

NZ Geo

https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/taniwha/

Maori Word of the Week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdUcgqIteIU&ab_channel=AucklandZoo

Te Reo Singalong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6wAny_xTwA&ab_channel=TeReoSingalong

Nat Lib NZ

Maori Affairs Department. Hinekorako Mermaid of Te Reinga - (Te Ao Hou - No. 19 August 1957). Ref: Mao19TeA. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. /records/201901

Teao Moari News

https://www.teaomaori.news/black-hole-resembles-whiro-atua-darkness-maori-astronomer
Te Pā o Rākaihautū

https://hail.to/rakaihautu/article/BjTHsrB

Hana Tapiata

https://www.hanatapiata.com/

The Knowledge Basket

https://www.knowledge-basket.co.nz/about/knowledge-basket-legend/

Kupu Maori

https://kupu.maori.nz/

Nerdist

https://nerdist.com/article/the-dead-lands-creators-interview-shudder/

Te Ara

https://teara.govt.nz/en/te-ao-marama-the-natural-world/page-3#:~:text=Te%20Kore%20%E2%80%93%20a%20world%20beyond&text=This%20other%20world%20or%20dimension,'unlimited%20potential%20for%20being'.

https://teara.govt.nz/en/te-waonui-a-tane-forest-mythology/page-1

Journal of Plynesian Society

http://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/document//Volume_32_1923/Volume_32,_No._127/Maori_personifications._Anthropogeny,_solar_myths_and_phallic_symbolism:_as_exemplified_in_the_demiurgic_concepts_of_Tane_and_Tiki,_by_Elsdon_Best,_p_53-69/p1

The Te Reo Maori Classroom

https://www.thetereomaoriclassroom.co.nz/2019/07/the-maori-creation-story/

Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_0JdlRgNGA&ab_channel=Shudder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkVMdwPkEyg&ab_channel=KIWADigital

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In our first minisode we bring you a new D&D style adventure!

Tracey shares the first chapter in the tale of Thea and Roslyn.

Sound effects provided by ZapSplat

This week Rowan and Tracey share the stories of two women known today as famous witches, but were they really witches at all?

Tracey talks about Bridget Bishop the first person killed in the Salem Witch Trials and Rowan shares the story of Mother Shipton a 15th century herbalist.

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Sources

Wikipedia

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Oliver_(Salem_witch_trials)

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

Salem Witch Museum

https://salemwitchmuseum.com/locations/bridget-bishop-home-and-orchards-site-of/

Salem Lib Virginia Edu

http://salem.lib.virginia.edu/people/bishop_court.html

Museum Hack 

https://museumhack.com/who-was-bridget-bishop/

Thought co

https://www.thoughtco.com/bridget-bishop-biography-3530330

Biography

https://biography.yourdictionary.com/bridget-bishop

History.com

https://www.history.com/topics/colonial-america/salem-witch-trials

Biography.com

https://www.biography.com/news/real-witches-in-history

Mother Shipton.co.uk

https://www.mothershipton.co.uk/the-story/

Readex

https://www.readex.com/blog/messenger-should-not-be-hanged-enduring-mystery-mother-shipton-englands-most-famous-prophet

Yorkshire Post

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/mother-shipton-legend-yorkshires-famous-prophetess-347081

True Witch Trials

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/true-stories/what-really-happened-during-the-1692-salem-witch-trials/news-story/8433744aaef7dffb81badfa11cd4bf76

Nesl.edu

https://www.nesl.edu/blog/detail/a-true-legal-horror-story-the-laws-leading-to-the-salem-witch-trials

Bartleby

https://www.bartleby.com/essay/Causes-of-the-Salem-Witch-Trials-Political-FKCPRPFJVC

History Channel Witch Trials

https://www.history.com/topics/folklore/history-of-witches

Happy Valentine's day to you all. This week we are talking about two women who bucked tradition and loved in their own way.

Rowan talks about Julie D’Aubigny and Tracey shares stories about Anne Lister.

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Sources

Encyclopedia Britannica

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Valentines-Day

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QaBYLAOaSY&ab_channel=ExtraCredits

Rejected Princesses

https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/julie-daubigny

Los Angeles Public Library

https://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/blogs/lapl/julie-daubigny-la-maupin-and-early-french-opera

Medium

https://medium.com/exploring-history/julie-daubigny-duellist-opera-singer-and-agitator-1e44d219dd1e

Factinate

https://www.factinate.com/people/facts-julie-daubigny/

Ozy.com

https://www.ozy.com/true-and-stories/the-badass-rogue-who-cross-dressed-and-dueled-her-way-to-infamy/76908/

Eldacur.com

http://www.eldacur.com/~brons/Maupin/LaMaupin.html

History Collection

https://historycollection.com/10-historical-female-duelists-and-their-duels/2/

Incorrect History Quotes

https://incorrecthistories.tumblr.com/post/111342687389/im-not-interested-in-being-polite-or

Westridge Spyglass

https://westridgespyglass.org/813/op-ed/february-stage-spotlight-revenge-song-smooches-and-swordfights-its-way-through-history-at-the-geffen-playhouse/

Wikipedia

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_d%27Aubigny

AnneLister

https://www.annelister.co.uk/

Smithsonian

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/19th-century-lesbian-landowner-who-set-out-find-wife-180971995/

BBC

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/the_life_and_loves_of_anne_lister

Mental Floss

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/581234/gentleman-jack-anne-lister-facts

Historical England

https://historicengland.org.uk/research/inclusive-heritage/lgbtq-heritage-project/love-and-intimacy/anne-lister-and-shibden-hall/

Calderdale Museums

https://museums.calderdale.gov.uk/famous-figures/anne-lister

We’re back! For our first episode of season 2, we are covering two evil, murderous mythological beings.

Tracey tells the tale of Chernobog (not the one from Fantasia) and Rowan brings you the history behind the fiery dragon of Krakow.

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Sources

Radio Times

https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/fantasy/2019-06-21/american-gods-mythology-guide-who-is-bloodthirsty-slavic-deity-czernobog/

God Checker

https://www.godchecker.com/slavic-mythology/CHERNOBOG/

Villains Fandom

https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Chernobog_(mythology)

Wikipedia

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

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

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

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

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

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

Brenden-nobel

https://brendan-noble.com/chernobog-and-belobog-the-slavic-gods-who-werent/

Nerdist

https://nerdist.com/article/american-gods-history-primer-czernobog-a-k-a-chernobog/

“Dragons: Fearsome Monsters from Myth and Fiction” by Gerrie McCall

https://books.google.com/books?id=YO-sCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT12&lpg=PT12&dq=krak%27s+dragon&source=bl&ots=qX8MKIfZt0&sig=ACfU3U0-3uDjk7qUzkj2sIA2luyv05N4ig&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiIq4f_mZjuAhWJJjQIHeTqCEY4ChDoATADegQIBhAC#v=onepage&q=krak's%20dragon&f=false

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28MsMyRtmpw&ab_channel=Culture.pl

Thought Catalog

https://thoughtcatalog.com/january-nelson/2018/08/types-of-dragons/

Europe Is Not Dead

https://europeisnotdead.com/poland-the-wawel-dragon/

DomITP

https://domitp.com/blog/the-legend-of-the-wawel-dragon-krakus-and-the-dragon/

Poland Is Awesome

http://polandisawesome.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-legend-of-king-krak-and-dragon-of.html

Krakow Travel

http://krakow.travel/en/artykul/115/the-legend-of-the-wawel-dragon

Atlas Obscura

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-bones-of-the-wawel-dragon-krakow-poland

ThoughtCo

https://www.thoughtco.com/mythical-beasts-inspired-by-prehistoric-animals-4017589

https://www.thoughtco.com/dinosaurs-and-dragons-the-real-story-1092002

Polandin.com

https://polandin.com/41097508/prehistoric-wawel-dragon-was-a-bone-eater-scientists

InYourPocket.com

https://www.inyourpocket.com/krakow/Krakow-History

Krakow.Wiki

https://krakow.wiki/mounds-of-krakow/#:~:text=Krakus%20Mound,-Krakus%20Mound%20is&text=Some%20hypothesis%20says%20that%20it,as%20an%20important%20cult%20site.

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In our final episode of season 1, we tell you the tale of St. Nick and his demonic pale Krampus.

Rowan shares the history of Santa Claus and Tracey takes us on a trip through Krampus Night.

Sources

USPS

https://about.usps.com/holidaynews/letters-from-santa.htm

Santa Tracker

https://www.noradsanta.org/

Wikipedia

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

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

History.com

https://www.history.com/news/krampus-christmas-legend-origin

Nat Geo

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/12/131217-krampus-christmas-santa-devil/

Mental Floss

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/71999/9-facts-about-krampus-st-nicks-demonic-companion

Smithsonian

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/krampus-could-come-you-holiday-season-180957438/

Encyclopedia Britannica 

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

Coca-Cola Australia

https://www.coca-colacompany.com/au/news/definitive-history-of-santa-claus

The History Channel

https://www.history.com/topics/christmas/santa-claus

Ancient Origins

https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends/ancient-origins-santa-claus-001137

The Vintage News

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/12/09/thomas-nast-the-man-who-invented-santa-claus/

Content warning: child death 

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In our second to last episode of the season, Rowan and Tracey share tales of the spirits of winter weather.

Rowan covers little Jack Frost and Tracey talks about Frau Holle.

Sources

Wikipedia

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fornj%C3%B3t

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

Hair-Raising.com

https://www.hair-raising.com/jack-frost/

Hypnogoria

http://hypnogoria.blogspot.com/2015/12/folklore-on-friday-jack-frost-revisited.html

Writing in Margins

https://writinginmargins.weebly.com/home/a-brief-history-of-jack-frost#:~:text=Jack%20Frost%20is%20not%20really,will%20reveal%20a%20dead%20end.&text=Jokul%20(Icicle)%20and%20Frosti%20(,of%20Norse%20wind%20god%20Kari.

Northern Paganism

http://www.northernpaganism.org/shrines/holda/about.html

Religion Wiki

https://religion.wikia.org/wiki/Holda

Earth and Starry Heaven

https://earthandstarryheaven.com/2016/12/21/wild-hunt/

Hrafnar

https://hrafnar.org/articles/dpaxson/asynjur/holda/

Mother God

http://www.mother-god.com/frau-holle.html

Grimm Stories

https://www.grimmstories.com/language.php?grimm=024&l=en&r=de

Pitt.edu

https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm024.html

Learn Religious

https://www.learnreligions.com/legend-of-frau-holle-2563015

Literature Fandom

https://literature.fandom.com/wiki/Frau_Holle

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This week we are honoring house fairies, elves and all manner of creatures alike, by bringing you two of our favorite tutelary spirits.

Tracey talks about the Domovoi and Rowan shares a tale of the Brownie.

Sources

Wikipedia

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownie_(folklore)

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

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

Domovoi - the protective house spirit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63pbaxt9mjg&ab_channel=UTLiberalArts

Trans Siberian Co

https://www.trans-siberian.co.uk/blog/the-domovoi/

Ancient Origins

https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends-europe/domovoi-0011129

Thought Co

https://www.thoughtco.com/domovoi-slavic-mythology-4776526

Genies.fandom

https://genies.fandom.com/wiki/Domovoi

Encyclopedia Brittanica

https://www.britannica.com/topic/brownie-English-folklore

Knowledge Nuts

https://knowledgenuts.com/2014/03/08/the-different-types-of-mythological-brownies/

Owlcation

https://owlcation.com/humanities/When-Brownies-Turn-Bad

Astonishing Legends

https://www.astonishinglegends.com/astonishing-legends/2018/3/14/brownies-make-finicky-but-useful-roomates