Ep 12: Bedevilment

10/07/19 • 36 min

A Very Broad History of Werewolves and Other Things

Old Scratch has gone through quite a few incarnations throughout history. In this episode we take a quick look at the ways his myth has changed over time, as well as some of the ways that belief in the literal devil has affected modern American culture.

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Ep 11: They All Went to Heaven in a Little Rowboat

We’re getting biblical, and then some. Flood myths predate the Bible and show up in the cultures of civilizations the world over. In this episode, we take a quick look at some of the most prominent flood myths, the connections between them, and what it might all mean.

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Ep 13: The Vampyres

In 1816 Lord Byron and John Polidori spent a summer with Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley. While the novel Frankenstein is often best remembered as a product of that summer, another story, The Vampyre, resulted from the contentious collaboration of Byron and Polidori, and fundamentally changed how vampires were imagined in popular culture.