In this heavy hitter episode, Rowan and Tracey explore the history of the Black Death and the subsequent plagues and vaccines that came from it.

Sources

World Health Organization

https://www.who.int/health-topics/plague#tab=tab_1

https://www.who.int/mediacentre/infographic/plague/Plague-October-2017.pdf?ua=1

Dictionary.com

https://www.dictionary.com/e/is-the-coronavirus-a-plague/

Live Science

https://www.livescience.com/worst-epidemics-and-pandemics-in-history.html

https://www.livescience.com/plague-doctors.html

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death#Early_theory

World Economic Forum

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/03/a-visual-history-of-pandemics

Lit Hub

https://lithub.com/ronald-reagan-presided-over-89343-deaths-to-aids-and-did-nothing/

Visual Capitalist

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/worlds-deadliest-pandemics-by-population-impact/

Intermountain Healthcare

https://intermountainhealthcare.org/blogs/topics/live-well/2020/04/whats-the-difference-between-a-pandemic-an-epidemic-endemic-and-an-outbreak/

Cleveland Clinic

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/21590-bubonic-plague

Science Alert

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-new-vaccine-for-plague-is-about-to-undergo-human-trials

The Hill

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/564701-10-year-old-dies-from-complications-linked-to-plague-co-officials-say

Live Science

https://www.livescience.com/56483-vaccines-plague-bacteria.html

History Channel

https://www.history.com/topics/middle-ages/black-death

https://www.history.com/news/black-death-timeline

Eyewitness History

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/flagellants.htm

Stanford News

https://news.stanford.edu/2020/05/12/combating-black-plague-just-much-politics-science/

Open Mind BBVA

https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/humanities/sociology/the-black-death-turning-point-and-end-of-the-middle-ages/

NHD.org

https://www.nhd.org/sites/default/files/Franke_Senior_Paper.pdf

Daily History

https://dailyhistory.org/How_did_the_Bubonic_Plague_make_the_Italian_Renaissance_possible

Ex Urbe

https://www.exurbe.com/black-death-covid-and-why-we-keep-telling-the-myth-of-a-renaissance-golden-age-and-bad-middle-ages/

National Geographic

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/plague-doctors-beaked-masks-coronavirus

Medium

https://medium.com/weird-history/ring-around-the-rosie-a-song-for-the-plague-4647a45b01b1

Welcome to the best time of year. To kick off Halloween early, our cohosts are discussing the Fear of Clowns and Vanish Hitchhikers.

Sources

Smithsonian Magazine

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-history-and-psychology-of-clowns-being-scary-20394516/

IHateClowns.com

https://www.ihateclowns.com/

NBC

https://www.nbcnews.com/healthmain/no-laughing-matter-fear-clowns-serious-issue-725830

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/reports-creepy-clowns-woods-spooking-residents-greenville-s-c-n640876

The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2016/oct/14/coulrophobia-why-clowns-trigger-our-fear-reflexes

Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/09/07/clown-sightings-have-spread-to-north-carolina-now-police-are-concerned-about-creepy-copycats/

Biography.com

https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/john-wayne-gacy

IEEE Spectrum

https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/what-is-the-uncanny-valley

Wikipedia

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

Ss times

https://ss-times.com/urban-legends-the-vanishing-hitchhiker-graveyard-watcher-and-ladies-in-black-or-white/

American Scientific 

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/anthropology-in-practice/why-is-american-folklore-overrun-with-phantom-hitchhikers/

Artifacts journal 

https://artifactsjournal.missouri.edu/2015/04/supernatural-beginnings-in-north-american-folklore-the-vanishing-hitchhiker-and-la-llorona/

Snopes

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-vanishing-hitchhiker/

Story Museum

https://www.storymuseum.org.uk/1001-stories/the-vanishing-hitchhiker

Myths 

http://myths.e2bn.org/mythsandlegends/origins13483-the-hitchhiker.html

Beardsley article

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/modernlanguages/applying/undergraduate/crossschool/ln305/biblio/beardsley__hankey_a_history_of_the_vanishing_hitchhiker.pdf

In Chapter 5 of 'The Wizard & The Rogue' we meet Eamon Blacthorn: Justice to the Saint of Sight, High Lord of Rycliff, one of only seven Seats of the Saints, father of the current Sable of Solidarity, Head Judiciary and...certified jerkface.

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This week we bring you a special guest to go along with a larger than life story.

CK, hosts of the Mirths and Monsters podcast brings us the history and lore behind the big man himself, bigfoot.

Sources

Wikipedia

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

Merriam Webster Dictionary

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/myth

Bigfoot Research Organization Map

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=05654d4b7b124208a8a25f67b6f35ea8&webmap=fd18d57dd947498da3c668838f68cbbd

Outside Online

https://www.outsideonline.com/gallery/10-most-convincing-bigfoot-sightings/

Richland Source

https://www.richlandsource.com/news/bigfoot-woman-reports-sasquatch-encounter-outside-gym-in-ashland/article_e16ec08e-ac17-11eb-b715-ebc258717644.html

The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization

https://www.bfro.net/

Portland Monthly

https://www.pdxmonthly.com/arts-and-culture/2017/09/50-years-ago-one-scratchy-home-movie-made-bigfoot-a-northwest-icon

Outside Online

https://www.outsideonline.com/culture/books-media/man-who-created-bigfoot/

KNKX

https://www.knkx.org/post/bigfoot-ruined-man-s-life-then-gave-him-fresh-start

OPB

https://www.opb.org/news/article/bigfoot-patterson-gimlin-sasquatch/

Tracey tells the story of the Slavic witch, Baba Yaga. She's our hosts' favorite proud hag that lives in a hut that walks around on chicken feet and flies around on her mortar and pestle (no kidding!)

Sources

Wikipedia

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hag#cite_note-etym-4

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babay_(Slavic_Folklore)

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

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

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

Digital Spy

https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a32208246/john-wick-baba-yaga-meaning-russian-fairytale-keanu-reeves/

Ancient Origins

https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends-europe/baba-yaga-confounding-crone-slavic-folklore-002836

Vice

https://www.vice.com/en/article/evbbjj/the-enduring-allure-of-baba-yaga-an-ancient-swamp-witch-who-loves-to-eat-people

Ruth - Thesis 

Yaga: The Judicious Magistrate of Russian Folklore

Historic Mysteries

https://www.historicmysteries.com/baba-yaga/

Russiapedia

https://russiapedia.rt.com/of-russian-origin/baba-yaga/

Myths

http://myths.e2bn.org/mythsandlegends/origins117-baba-yaga-and-vasilisa-the-fair.html

Thought Co

https://www.thoughtco.com/russian-folklore-4589898

Tales of Faerie

http://talesoffaerie.blogspot.com/2015/01/interpreting-baba-yaga.html

Cryptids

https://cryptids12-everything.fandom.com/wiki/Baba_Yaga_House

Monster fandom 

https://monster.fandom.com/wiki/Baba_Yaga_(folklore)

TV Tropes

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/TheDeathOfKoscheiTheDeathless

Ask Baba Yaga

https://www.taisiakitaiskaia.com/ask-baba-yaga-book

This week, our hosts discuss spycraft from around the world: the true story of Mata Hari , famed French double agent and courtesan, and the notorious 'Moscow Rules' that kept cold war CIA agents safe.

Example of Traditional Indonesian Dance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MwDJR1iPuI

Indonesian 90s - 2000s Top Songs on Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1AA83YxrweNqyiBOxPWU9W?si=bdd360d2b06f4c44

Reappropriate

http://reappropriate.co/2014/04/what-is-orientalism-and-how-is-it-also-racism/

Wikipedia

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_%C3%89poque

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

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3QDx30yBLg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu3Cb0nDr8g

Art UK

https://artuk.org/discover/stories/hedonism-absinthe-and-parisian-decadence-la-belle-poque

Artsy.net

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-electricity-transformed-paris-artists-manet-degas

Time Magazine

https://time.com/4977634/mata-hari-true-history/

International Spy Museum

https://international-spy-museum.networkforgood.com/projects/26740-conserve-the-mata-hari-dress

History.com

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/mata-hari-executed

Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/10/15/i-am-ready-mata-hari-faced-a-firing-squad-for-spying-and-refused-a-blindfold/

Eyewitness History

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/matahari.htm

CFRF Fashion Book

https://www.crfashionbook.com/culture/a28167871/absinthe-in-the-belle-epoque/

NPR

https://www.npr.org/2019/06/10/724099134/moscow-rules-how-the-cia-operated-under-the-watchful-eye-of-the-kgb

The Moscow Rules by Jonna and Tony Mendez

https://bookshop.org/books/the-moscow-rules-the-secret-cia-tactics-that-helped-america-win-the-cold-war/9781541762183

TEDx Talks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cza9uQiFbU4&ab_channel=TEDxTalks

Wired 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD841NmJbjM&ab_channel=WIRED

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JASUsVY5YJ8&ab_channel=WIRED

Spy Museum - Spys Eye View with Jonna Mendez

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bmPQWZqGuc&ab_channel=IntlSpyMuseum

The Master of Disguise 

https://www.themasterofdisguise.com/about/jonna-mendez

Atlas Obscura

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0uAh02-vPU&ab_channel=AtlasObscura

Rowan continues the story of our two favorite fantasy ladies in the fourth chapter of The Wizard and the Rogue.

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To celebrate our 50th episode, Tracey and Rowan are reading stories submitted by you!

Get ready for Italian witches, more than one haunted Victorian mansion, and a…Goatman boyfriend?

If you would like to send your Listener Legend to Willing & Fable, please use our submission form:

https://www.willingandfable.com/contact

Or email us at: [email protected]

Thea and Roslyn just broke out of the prison and now they are planning their escape from the city when someone gets in their way.

This chapter of The Wizard and the Rogue was written by Tracey.

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This week we talk about two stories from the bible and dive into their possible modern day context.

Rowan shares the tale of Samson and Delilah and Tracey talks about Sodom and Gomorrah

https://chrt.fm/track/BG7BG3/

Sources

Wikipedia

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_the_United_States#:~:text=A%202014%20study%20of%20college,college%20are%20independent%20of%20race. 

The Reformation Project

https://reformationproject.org/case/sodom-and-gomorrah/

Westar Institute 

https://www.westarinstitute.org/blog/sodom-and-gomorrah-how-the-classical-interpretation-gets-it-wrong/

Forbes

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2018/12/04/new-science-suggests-biblical-city-of-sodom-was-smote-by-an-exploding-meteor/?sh=3686dfc5c677

Reconstructing Judaism

https://www.reconstructingjudaism.org/dvar-torah/destruction-cities-sodom-and-gomorrah

BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/cultures/sodom_gomorrah_01.shtml

National Geographic

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/samson-true-weakness-hair-delilah

Jewish News

https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/the-bible-says-what-samson-was-a-misogynist-and-mass-murderer/

My Jewish Learning

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/samson/

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/eshet-manoah/

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/sotah-hot-topic/

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/delilah/

Bible Gateway

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Judges%2016&version=NIV

Bible Study Tools

https://www.biblestudytools.com/bible-stories/samson-and-delilah.html

Chabad.com

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/112512/jewish/The-Story-of-Samson-and-Delilah-in-the-Bible.htm

Crosswalk.com

https://www.crosswalk.com/faith/bible-study/the-truth-about-samson-and-delilahs-shocking-love-story.html

Jstor.com “The Riddle of Samson” Journal

https://www.jstor.org/stable/20689009?seq=1

Jewish Virtual Library

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/samson

JTA.org

https://www.jta.org/jewniverse/2012/samson-meet-delilah

Independent.co.uk

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/lion-s-honey-the-myth-of-samson-by-david-grossman-trans-stuart-schoffman-479702.html

Bible Bash Podcast

https://www.northernspiritradio.org/bible-bash-podcast/tie-me-delilah-judges-16

JWA.org

https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/women-in-samsons-life-midrash-and-aggadah

Twitter

https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan