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This week we write fantasy novel introductions for each other as well as answer a few questions! It’s a Q&A episode like you’ve never seen before.

Rowan tells the story of Tracey, the demon summoning Wizard and Tracey tells the tale of Rowan the Rogue.

Sources

https://media.wizards.com/2016/dnd/downloads/UA_Bard.pdf

Wikidot

http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/wizard

Media Wizards

https://media.wizards.com/2016/dnd/downloads/UA_Bard.pdf

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The Nightmare before Christmas continues this week with two stories of monsters that are surprisingly wholesome.

Tracey tells you about the moist, morose little Squonk and Rowan explores the humanity behind Gargoyles.

Sources

Cryptidz

https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Squonk

Lumberwoods Lib

http://www.lib.lumberwoods.org/fclw/squonk.html

http://www.lib.lumberwoods.org/fc/squonk.html

Pennlive

https://www.pennlive.com/wildaboutpa/2015/06/pennsylvanias_squonk_ends_the.html

Medium

https://medium.com/@indrachapa/the-teary-squonk-474d350c84a1

History

https://www.history.com/topics/us-states/pennsylvania#:~:text=One%20of%20the%20original%2013,Independence%2C%20sparking%20the%20American%20Revolution.

Explore PA History

https://explorepahistory.com/stories.php

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gargoyles_(TV_series)

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grotesque_(architecture)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunchback_of_Notre-Dame

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

Atlas Obscura

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pop-culture-gargoyles-in-gothic-architecture

Cornell.edu

https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/adw/gravely/overview.html

Thinking Muse

http://thinkingmuse.com/gargoyles/

Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/04/25/billionaires-rushed-save-notre-dame-amid-backlash-economists-now-say-they-may-have-pledged-more-than-needed/

Interesting Engineering

https://interestingengineering.com/25-extremely-embarrassing-architectural-failures

Mental Floss

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/88019/10-fearsome-facts-about-gargoyles

Folklore Thursday

https://folklorethursday.com/material-culture/gargoyles-demons-sky-grotesque-guardian-angels/

Slate.com

https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/08/pop-culture-and-modern-grotesques-and-gargoyles-in-gothic-architecture.html

Ancient Origins

https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/gargoyles-0012253

Wander Wisdom

https://wanderwisdom.com/travel-destinations/The-Gargoyles-of-Notre-Dame-Cathedral#gid=ci026e22f14007245f&pid=the-gargoyles-of-notre-dame-cathedral-MTc1MTE1ODU0NTM0MjIyOTQz

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In our final Stories from the Sea episode we bring you two famous women in the history of piracy.

Rowan brings you the story of Anne Bonny and the Fearsome Threesome and Tracey tells you about Ching Shih the Terror of South China.

Sources

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy#:~:text=The%20earliest%20documented%20instances%20of%20piracy%20are%20the%20exploits%20of,in%20the%2014th%20century%20BC.&text=By%20the%20era%20of%20Classical,to%20have%20as%20a%20profession.

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

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

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

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

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

Medium.com

https://medium.com/truly-adventurous/the-revenge-of-anne-and-mary-477143d7bf4d

https://medium.com/history-of-yesterday/ching-shih-a-prostitute-who-became-historys-deadliest-pirate-f596f7fcff23

CSPHistorical.com

https://csphistorical.com/2016/05/08/anne-bonny-and-mary-read-female-pirates-and-maritime-women-page-one/

The Post and Courier

https://www.postandcourier.com/news/the-true-and-false-stories-of-anne-bonny-pirate-woman-of-the-caribbean/article_e7fc1e2c-101d-11e8-90b7-9fdf20ba62f8.html

Ancient Origins

https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-famous-people/ching-shih-prostitute-pirate-lord-002582

Annebonnypirate.com 

http://www.annebonnypirate.com/

http://www.annebonnypirate.com/famous-female-pirates/ching-shih/

Rejected Princesses

https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/ching-shih

Smithsonian Magazine

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/if-theres-a-man-among-ye-the-tale-of-pirate-queens-anne-bonny-and-mary-read-45576461/

The Way of Pirates

http://www.thewayofthepirates.com/famous-pirates/ching-shih/

History Daily

https://historydaily.org/ching-shih-the-pirate-queen

Fascinate.com

https://www.factinate.com/people/facts-ching-shih/

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In our second sponsored episode we talk about two different women of the water.

Tracey covers the ruthless Rusalka and Rowan shares the tale of a somber Selkie.

Sources

‘Faeries’ by Brian Froud and Alan Lee

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/faeries_david-larkin/313193/item/121143/?mkwid=%7cdc&pcrid=448938662877&pkw=&pmt=&slid=&plc=&pgrid=109793399012&ptaid=pla-894509663962&gclid=Cj0KCQjwufn8BRCwARIsAKzP694IrBq4BqJjocGH3DS7TvLO6V3QEA22IEjGiMgbYaSukSEdmsyzlr0aAiu1EALw_wcB#idiq=4330553&edition=399512

San Francisco Opera

https://sfopera.com/1819season/rusalka/

Eno.org

https://eno.org/discover-opera/explore-more/a-guide-to-the-slavic-folklore-of-rusalka/

Wikipedia

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selkie#:~:text=In%20Scottish%20mythology%2C%20selkies%20also,form%20by%20shedding%20their%20skin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finn-men

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1mi_people

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

Mythology Wiki

https://mythology.wikia.org/wiki/Selkie

Ancient Origins

https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends/rusalka-mythical-slavic-mermaid-006738

https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends/legends-selkies-hidden-germs-sea-mythology-006409

Encyclopedia Britannica 

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

Slavic Chronicles

https://slavicchronicles.com/mythology/rusalka-the-slavic-mermaid/

 Gods - Goddesses.com 

https://gods-goddess.fandom.com/wiki/Rusalka

Living Seasons

https://www.livinginseason.com/events/green-week/

The Bottle Imp

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2016/12/selkies-sex-and-the-supernatural/

Icy Sedgwick

https://www.icysedgwick.com/selkies-folklore/

Celtic Wedding Rings

https://www.celtic-weddingrings.com/celtic-mythology/the-seal-people

Fandom

https://powerlisting.fandom.com/wiki/Selkie_Physiology

OrkneyJar.com

http://www.orkneyjar.com/folklore/selkiefolk/sulesk1.htm

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In this week's episode Rowan and Tracey tell you tales from the sea, sponsored by White Light Productions Sea Glass Jewelry.

Rowan tells you the tale of Sedna Inuit Goddess of the Sea and Tracey shares some stories about the fearsome Kraken.

Sources

White Light Productions Seaglass Jewelry

http://www.seaglass.us/

National Ocean Service

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/exploration.html

National Geographic

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/great-pacific-garbage-patch/

ITK.ca

https://www.itk.ca/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/5000YearHeritage_0.pdf

AlaskanNatives.com

https://www.alaskan-natives.com/2166/eskimo-inuit-inupiaq-terms-thing/

The Canadian Encyclopedia

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/the-goddess-of-the-sea-the-story-of-sedna

Every Culture

https://www.everyculture.com/multi/Ha-La/Inuit.html

NPR

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/04/24/475129558/why-you-probably-shouldnt-say-eskimo

Raven Reads

https://ravenreads.org/blogs/news/the-inuit-legend-of-the-sea-goddess

Sedna Epic Expedition

https://www.sednaepic.com/

Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLGiCJAe-aU&ab_channel=Mythology%26FictionExplained

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedna_(mythology)

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96rvar-Oddr

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

History Daily

https://historydaily.org/the-kraken-norse-legend-or-recently-discovered-creature

UnMuseum

http://www.unmuseum.org/kraken.htm

Wired

https://www.wired.com/2014/09/fantastically-wrong-legend-of-the-kraken/

The Conversation

https://theconversation.com/the-real-life-origins-of-the-legendary-kraken-52058

BBC

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141212-quest-for-the-real-life-kraken

Ancient origins

https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-myths-legends-europe/legendary-kraken-00267

Ah real Vampires! This week we talk to you about two figures who inspired the famous Dracula.

We cover Vlad the Impaler and Elizabeth Bathory, the Blood Countess.

Sources

Greystoke Media: End of Life Consulting

https://www.greystokemedia.com/

Rejected Princesses

https://www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/elisabeth-bathory

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_B%C3%A1thory

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

History.com

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/bathorys-torturous-escapades-are-exposed

https://www.history.com/topics/folklore/vampire-history

https://www.history.com/news/draculas-dungeon-unearthed-in-turkey

Encyclopedia Britannica

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

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vlad-the-Impaler

Biography.com

https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/elizabeth-bathory

Empatica

https://www.empatica.com/blog/what-does-it-feel-like-to-have-a-seizure.html

History Hit

https://www.historyhit.com/the-blood-countess-facts-about-elizabeth-bathory/

History Collection

https://historycollection.com/real-countess-dracula-12-facts-life-crimes-elizabeth-bathory/5/

Healthline

https://www.healthline.com/health/bleeding-to-death#timeline

YouTube: Biographics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N3TSPZoY1o&ab_channel=Biographics

Hektoen International

https://hekint.org/2017/01/29/epilepsy-from-the-early-civilizations-to-modern-days/

The Travel

https://www.thetravel.com/elizabeth-bathory-history-education-hungary-travel/

“Encyclopedia of the Vampire: The Living Dead in Myth, Legend, and Popular Culture” by S.T. Joshi

https://books.google.com/books?id=CaqE82YIh4QC&pg=PA6#v=onepage&q&f=false

Guiness Book of World Records

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-prolific-female-murderer

DynamicLight

https://comicbook.com/marvel/news/thor-ragnarok-taika-waititi-what-we-do-in-the-shadows-stuart/

Livescience

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

All That’s Interesting

https://allthatsinteresting.com/vlad-the-impaler

Nbcnews

https://www.nbcnews.com/sciencemain/vlad-impaler-real-dracula-was-absolutely-vicious-8C11505315

Undercover Romania

https://www.uncover-romania-tours.com/heritage-tours/dracula-tour

This week, guest host Casie Ropski joins Rowan Hall and they discuss their first hand experience with two of California’s most haunted locations.

Casie tells the story of the Winchester Mystery House and Rowan travels to the RMS Queen Mary.

Sources

Wikipedia

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

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

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

Winchester Mystery House Official Site

https://www.winchestermysteryhouse.com/a-haunted-history/

Biography.com

https://www.biography.com/personality/sarah-winchester

All That’s Interesting

https://allthatsinteresting.com/sarah-winchester

https://allthatsinteresting.com/winchester-mystery-house

The Truth About Sarah Winchester

http://thetruthaboutsarahwinchester.com/

Hunker.com

https://www.hunker.com/13402618/what-is-finish-carpentry

The Daily Beast

https://www.thedailybeast.com/helen-mirren-turned-my-ancestors-life-into-a-ghost-story

Smithsonian Magazine

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/heiress-gun-empire-built-mansion-forever-haunted-blood-money-built-it-180959712/#YbkMoKKUKxQszBVm.99

NYM

http://nymsdiary.blogspot.com/2016/07/will-real-marion-merriman-please-stand.html

Insider

https://www.insider.com/tour-photos-winchester-mansion-2019-8#just-down-the-hall-from-winchesters-bedroom-is-a-smaller-room-where-many-believe-she-performed-seances-there-is-only-one-way-into-the-room-but-three-ways-out-15

https://www.insider.com/tour-photos-winchester-mansion-2019-8#others-claim-to-have-observed-ghosts-in-the-gardens-26

The Wrap

https://www.thewrap.com/13-cool-facts-you-probably-didnt-know-about-winchester-mystery-house-photos/

Patch

https://patch.com/california/milpitas/5-spooky-tales-famous-winchester-mystery-house

Mercury News

https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/10/06/three-ghost-stories-of-the-winchester-mystery-house/

Grunge

https://www.grunge.com/84363/untold-truth-winchester-mystery-house/

Buzzfeed Unsolved

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM31fgkxn2I&ab_channel=BuzzFeedUnsolvedNetwork

Queen Mary Official Website

https://queenmary.com/history/

Time Magazine

http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1855221_1855285_1855252,00.html

Patch

https://patch.com/california/longbeach-ca/queen-mary-historical-landmark-haunted-or-it-hoax

Legends of America

https://www.legendsofamerica.com/ca-queenmary/

Arcadia Publishing

https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/Navigation/Community/Arcadia-and-THP-Blog/December-2017/%E2%80%8BLegendary-Ghosts-of-the-Queen-Mary

Travel and Leisure

https://www.travelandleisure.com/hotels-resorts/most-haunted-hotel-america-queen-mary

Travel Channel

https://www.travelchannel.com/interests/haunted/articles/queen-mary

Titanic and Queen Mary

https://www.sterling.rmplc.co.uk/webdrive/qvvtit.html

Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAxep8bngqw&ab_channel=JDRaimer

For our second Spooky Season episode, our hosts explore two of the United States' most famous cryptids.

Tracey surprises with the scary story of the Jersey Devil and Rowan explores the ominous Mothman figure.

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Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptozoology#:~:text=Patterned%20after%20cryptozoology%2C%20the%20term,misleading%20terms%20like%20'monster'.

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbird_(mythology)

Atlantic County

https://www.atlantic-county.org/history/jersey-devil-pg2.asp

Pine Lands Alliance

https://pinelandsalliance.org/learn-about-the-pinelands/pinelands-history-and-culture/the-jersey-devil-and-folklore/

Weird NJ

https://weirdnj.com/stories/jersey-devil/

Inquirer

https://www.inquirer.com/news/new-jersey/jersey-devil-history-fake-news-norman-jeffries-20190123.html

“Ah, Dang! Mothman Won't Move Out (He Said It Was Just For The Weekend)” TTRPG

https://ettin.itch.io/mothman

Mothman Museum

https://www.mothmanmuseum.com/mothman-museum.html

Mothman Festival

https://www.mothmanfestival.com/

Nerdist

https://nerdist.com/article/mothman-why-we-are-so-obsessed/

Youtube: Storied (PBS)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUpeDwiD64M&ab_channel=Storied

Insider

https://www.insider.com/mothman-festival-west-virginia-legend-trump-tweeted#the-mothman-is-described-as-a-six-or-seven-foot-tall-dark-humanoid-figure-with-wings-and-bright-red-glowing-eyes-1

Courthouse News

https://www.courthousenews.com/dispatches-road-trail-mothman/

Greenbrier Valley Brewing Company

https://www.gvbc.beer/mothman

Fandom

https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Mothman

Medical News Today

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322607#What-is-mass-hysteria?

All That’s Interesting

https://allthatsinteresting.com/mothman

IMDb

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265349/

Phantoms and Monsters

https://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/

Vice

https://www.vice.com/en/article/paqv9z/mothman-sightings-in-chicago

TW: Suicide and the loss of a child

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Let the spooky season begin! We bring you the life and legends behind two of early horror's most famous authors.

This week we chat about Mary Shelley and H.P. Lovecraft.

Sources

Centre for Suicide Prevention

https://www.suicideinfo.ca/resource/suicideandlanguage/

Suicide Awareness Voices of Education

https://save.org/about-suicide/suicide-facts/

The Huffington Post

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mental-health-language-committed-suicide_l_5aeb53ffe4b0ab5c3d6344ab

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/84/84-h/84-h.htm

The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2019/nov/07/does-it-matter-if-mary-shelley-was-bisexual

MentalFloss

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/630408/harry-potter-funko-pop-2020-advent-calendar-sale?utm_content=infinitescroll1

British Library

https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/the-vampyre-by-john-polidori

BritLit

https://blogs.baylor.edu/britlit/2014/09/29/what-is-the-correlation-between-prometheus-and-victor-frankenstein/

The Poetry Foundation

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45136/prometheus-unbound

The New Yorker

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/12/the-strange-and-twisted-life-of-frankenstein

Mytholyoke.edu

https://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/hist257s02/students/Becky/prometheus.html

Biography.com

https://www.biography.com/writer/mary-shelley

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Shelley#Lake_Geneva_and_Frankenstein

Schmoop.com

https://www.shmoop.com/mary-shelley/timeline.html

Goodreads

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/11139.Mary_Wollstonecraft_Shelley?page=1

TheFamousPeople.com

https://quotes.thefamouspeople.com/mary-shelley-2302.php

Hplovecraft.com

https://www.hplovecraft.com/life/biograph.aspx

Lithub

https://lithub.com/we-cant-ignore-h-p-lovecrafts-white-supremacy/

Musings From The Mythos

https://musingsfromthemythos.tumblr.com/post/620350204614410240/a-gift-and-a-show?fbclid=IwAR14VTQAicTPgnNSZSFCqsV2LCGJGzFi6ZAQAPUAAYsvpNypnXB4YeF1pcA

Nyarlathotep

https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Nyarlathotep

Discussing Film

https://discussingfilm.net/2020/08/15/lovecraft-country-review-reclaiming-stories-from-problematic-creatives/

The Wrap

https://www.thewrap.com/lovecraft-country-hp-lovecraft-racist-racism-misha-green-series-premiere-hbo/

Youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC2r-BlxUm4&ab_channel=TVGuideNews

Lovecraft Country

https://www.hbo.com/lovecraft-country

Lovecraft Quote

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/193944-the-most-merciful-thing-in-the-world-i-think-is

This week we bring you the final episode in our Whiskey and Fable mini series! Tim Black tells us a haunting tale while we sip on some bourbon.

Sources

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Grand-Dad

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States#:~:text=Prohibition%20in%20the%20United%20States%20was%20a%20nationwide%20constitutional%20ban,beverages%20during%20the%2019th%20century.

The Whiskey Jug

https://thewhiskeyjug.com/bourbon-whiskey/old-grand-dad-review/

Breaking Bourbon

https://www.breakingbourbon.com/review/old-grand-dad-bonded-bourbon

Bourbon Gents

http://www.bourbongents.com/home/2016/8/29/the-old-grandad-review

Bulliet

https://www.bulleit.com/guide-to-whiskey/

Masters of Malt

https://www.masterofmalt.com/whiskies/bulleit/bulleit-bourbon-whiskey/

Atlas Obscura

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/best-drinking-toasts-and-cheers

Milwaukee Freedom Fund

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/18NWh3KPxGiIZXBw_7gkO_Xahc3Ui6MTws-AlSXf2vGY/viewform?edit_requested=true

Milwaukee Freedom Fund FAQ

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X9Ovd3ADYse95QlGDWzwhm3oV69vmtBa/view?fbclid=IwAR1-ZePMSrrVR4lafQd24rUkoEfJeeaQR5l0PsfQc6sXMEIrF_QgxlF4Uh8