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Craig talks with the ever knowledgeable and jolly Benito Cereno about Scandinavian elves, which you're starting to see more and more places in decorations and movies. All links mentioned on the show, along with info on Benito, can be found at W
The best show of the year: 19 stories of Christmas Weirdness from the annual Weird Christmas Flash Fiction Contest. Please visit WeirdChristmas.com to get information on the authors and to read the stories again.If you want to support the cont
I talk to Earl Fontainelle of the SHWEP (Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast). We try to trace down any textual evidence that would connect the origins of Christmas to ancient pagan sources, namely the Mithras cult and Emperor Constan
Benito and I discuss the traditions surrounding the Mari Lwyd, getting into similarities with other European wassailing and hobby horse traditions.A recording of the Mari Lwyd rhyme in action by the BBC.Benito's Links:Benito’s Christmas hist
SURPRISE CHRISTMAS IN JULY PODCAST!I never quite got this show finished during the season, so my humble apologies. All is now well.Thank you to Meghan Arcuri for talking to me about Charlotte Riddell! Her collection of Riddell’s stories will
I chat with Thomas Ruys Smith, editor of Christmas Past: An Anthology of Seasonal Stories from Nineteenth Century America and Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of East Anglia.Links from the show:Christmas Past: An
It’s out later than I would have preferred, but like the inevitability of New Year’s following Christmas, it is here.To read the stories, get bio information and links on the authors, and for all other show notes, please check out WeirdChristm
Talking with Christopher Philippo, editor of Volumes 4 and 5 of the Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories.Chris' Goodreads siteValancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories, Volume 4 (the American stories) [Amazon]Valan
Al Ridenour is back after talking to us last year about Krampus, but this time to help unpack the lore and traditions around the Perchten, Krampus-esque goblin-ish creatures tied to both Krampus and Frau Perchta.Links mentioned on the episo
Happy Thanksgiving! We dive deep into the history of Christmas murder ballads with my friend (and cohost from the ReReading Wolfe Podcast) James Wynn.I'll get links to all the songs from the episode up here shortly. But for now, here are link
La Befana, Perchta, Holda, and so many more! We chat with the always encyclopedic Benito Cereno about all the Christmas witch folklore in Christmas history.Links:Benito's Christmas history videosBenito's writing at GumroadApocrypals pod
Full text of all the winners are at WeirdChristmas.com along with bios, information, and links for all the authors.All fiction copyright 2020 by the authors.Please visit WeirdChristmas.com for full information.
Sometimes when you have a podcast, you talk to people who interest you and you don’t worry so much about how it relates to the show or your topic or what your hard-won audience really cares about. So you put out a show that’s all about really,
“…And scary ghost stories of Christmasses long, long ago!”Ghost stories from previous years if you’re in a spooky mood: 2019, 2018, 2017Next year, we should break open this boys’ club with a tale from this…Links from the show:Full text of t
Time to destroy your appetite! I talk to Glen Warren from the Season's Eatings Podcast about weird Christmas food throughout history.Links:Season's Eatings PodcastList of Christmas Podcasts (from Brian Earl's Christmas Past)Holly Jolly
As a Thanksgiving treat, enjoy a deep dive down the rabbit hole of Santa history with Tom Jerman, author of Santa Claus Worldwide: A History of St. Nicholas and Other Holiday Gift-Bringers. This is my favorite book of Santa history, and Tom an
I'm not usually your go-to source for new movies. But this one is worth your time. The Christmas Ride is a mumblecore (improvised dialogue) film about a ride share driver getting an emotional gut punch on Christmas day. I talked to the produce
Krampus. Seems like I should have done a show on Krampus years ago, but I was waiting for the right person. And that person is Al Ridenour, author of The Krampus and the Old, Dark Christmas: Roots and Rebirth of the Folkloric Devil. This is the
Christmas werewolves are a thing. I mean, I don't know if they're REAL real. But people really used to believe they were a thing. So Christmas expert Benito Cereno fills us in on their historyBenito's been on the show before, talking about Chr
The first podcast episode of the 2020 {shiver} season. We do a bit of deep diving into the world of Halloween postcard collecting which, if you follow me on social media, you know is a small obsession of mine. Eric Hinton runs Halloween Postcar
A talk with Brad Warner, author of the new book Letters to a Dead Friend About Zen. How Buddhism can help calm holiday stress, and just stuff about Brad and Zen in general.
What do we know about Christmas during the Middle Ages? Turns out it's kinda hard to find very much information. I talk to two medievalists, Misty Schieberle and Scott Smith, who help me trace what few mentions of Christmas there are in the Eng
The 2019 Weird Christmas ghost story is "The Story of a Disappearance and an Appearance" by M. R. James. I also get some help with background on James and Punch and Judy puppet shows (which show up in the story) from Jim Moon of the Hypnogoria
WC Whoops More To Come This Season!!! by Craig Kringle
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