Biographies of the Wicked: Recent Episodes
Maartje Slieker
In the dark and cold months at the beginning of the year in the mountains of Switzerland, when you hear the sound of hundred cowbells in the distance, you better hide.
There are thousands of ideas about what the afterlife might hold. Today we will touch upon one of the most famous examples of trying to perserve the dead.
Deadly blood sucking creatures that have risen from the dead and enter your house at night. Even though the idea can still scare us today, we know that they only exist in folklore. But, for many years people believed the creatures were real and that fear had awful consequences.
The world is filled with tiny critters, majestic beasts and soaring avians. But although there's plenty more to discover on the surface, a more intriguing question is: What lurks below?
This episode we are going to take a dive into the world of tarot. Learning more about the illustrator of the world’s most famous tarot deck and how tarot can be used for psychotherapy.
The stories that are older that anyone you know carry meaning beyond what you might expect. The way fairytales were used to teach children lessons to the way mythical lore formed the very foundation of many societies.
It is the stuff of nightmares and horror movies. Yet it is not as uncommon as one might think or hope. Is it possible for someone to understand the reasons behind the use of cannibalism? Perhaps it is a question that is impossible to answer. Let us dive in the beliefs about the magical properties of cannibalism.
Trying to bring people back from the dead is a topic that has interested people for a long time. There are hypotheses that claim that necromancy goes back as far as the prehistoric ages, but due to lack of physical evidence these hypotheses remain unproven.
Years after the witchcraft act of 1735 was applied in Britain people started to forget the act even existed. The life of Helen Duncan was so much more than her final conviction of 1951, her life was filled with love and friendship together with an all too thriving business.
When we think of magic, our mind wanders everywhere, maybe you think about the Harry Potter movies or maybe about fairies. But when we think of witches our mind immediately goes to the witch trials. Across the centuries the word witch has had a large number of emotions clung to it. People were scared or frightened even of witches and their magic. We now live in a time where we question the existence of magic, witches and the occult. But that’s a very recent thing.