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Episode 25: Witch Trials

https://www.newstatesman.com/2018/11/quarter-people-executed-witchcraft-were-men-and-other-surprising-facts   

Moshe Sluhovsky, The Devil in the Convent, The American Historical Review 107(5) 2002. 1379-1411.
Michel de Certeau, The Possession at Loudun. 1990.
Brian A. Pavlac, Witch Hunts in the Western World: Persecution and Punishment from the Inquisition through the Salem Trials. 2009.
Bengt Ankaraloo, Stuart Clerk and William Monter, Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: The Period of the Witch Trials. 202.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/09/07/the-witches-of-salem 

The pact signed by Germain and the demons and stolen from Satan's very own filing cabinet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudun_possessions#/media/File:UrbainPact2.jpg 

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Episode 23: What’s the History of the Crimson Wave?

  • Elissa Stein and Susan Kim. 2009. Flow: The Cultural Story of Menstruation.

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Episode 22: What’s the History of Albinism

Enrico Pasini. 2016. ‘A Prodigious Bodily Nature: Debates on Albinism 1609-1745. Natureza, causalidade e formas de corporeidade. 193-236. https://iris.unito.it/handle/2318/1632037#.W-bd3ZP7REY

Andrew Curran. 2009. ‘Rethinking Race History: The Role of the Albino in the French Enlightenment Life Sciences.’ History and Theory 43.9. 151-179.

Charles D. Martin. 2002. The White African American Body@ A Cultural and Literary Exploration.

Christopher Hohl and Matthias Krings. 2018. ‘Extraordinarily White: The De/Spectacularization of the Albinotic Body and the Normalization of Its Audience’ . In: Liebelt C., Böllinger S., Vierke U. (eds) Beauty and the Norm. Palgrave Studies in Globalization and Embodiment. 75-103

Vera Illugadóttir. 2015. “The Invasion of the Ice Family: That Time a Group of Albinos Drove Icelanders Crazy.” The Reykjavik Grapevine (15): 30. https://issuu.com/rvkgrapevine/docs/issue_15_2015_master_issuu_all 

Tom Jack, The Ice King. https://www.thehumanmarvels.com/tom-jack-the-ice-king/

V. Ö. Vilhálmsson. 2013. Tom Jack and His Family. https://fornleifur.blog.is/blog/fornleifur/entry/1301961/

WUWM. 2014. Former Fashion Photographer Aims to Create 'New Standard of Beauty' Beyond Physical Differences. https://www.wuwm.com/podcast/lake-effect-segments/2014-04-04/former-fashion-photographer-aims-to-create-new-standard-of-beauty-beyond-physical-differences#stream/0

United Nations. ND. People With Albinism: Stories. https://albinism.ohchr.org/stories.html

Wendy Mothata. 2018. ‘It’s About Time We Treat People with Albinism as Human Beings not Ghosts’ SA People News. https://www.sapeople.com/2018/04/17/its-about-time-we-treat-people-with-albinism-as-human-beings-not-ghosts/

AP. 2015. ‘These albino children hunted in Africa will break your heart’ NY Post. https://nypost.com/2015/08/18/africas-hunted-albino-children-receive-new-limbs-new-hope/

BlackGirlWhiteSkin. 2015. Historic Art Installation at National Museum. https://medium.com/@nataliedevora/historic-art-installation-at-national-museum-e0ddbb383be1

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Episode 22: What’s The History of Omens?

M Radford & E. Radford. 1947. Encyclopedia of Superstitions

Mark Menjivar. 2015. The Luck Archive. https://cargocollective.com/menjivar 

Stuart A. Vyse. 1997. Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition.

Robert L. Park. 2008. Superstition: Belief in an Age of Science.

Michael Shermer. 1997. Why People Believe in Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition and Other Confusions of Our Time.

Torunn Selberg. 2010. ‘Taking Superstition Seriously.’ Folklore 114.3. 297-306.

Jan Fidrmuc. 2015. ‘Friday the 13th: The Empirics of Bad Luck. Kyklos 68.3. 317-334.#



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Episode 20: What Are the Best Historic Ghost Stories?

HistoryExtra. 2016. Three Curious Medieval Ghost Stories. https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/3-curious-medieval-ghost-stories/

Matthew Joynes. 2001. Medieval Ghost Stories.

Sir Walter Scott. 1814. Illustrations of Northern Antiquities.

Andy Wright. 2014. Devil Dogs: The Mysterious Black Dogs of England. https://modernfarmer.com/2014/06/black-shuck/

The Suffolk Coast. The Legend of the Bungay Black Dog. https://www.thesuffolkcoast.co.uk/articles/the-legend-of-the-bungay-black-dog

Pliny the Younger. Ep7.27. http://vroma.org/vromans/hwalker/Pliny/Pliny07-27-E.html

Anna Green. 2015. The Screaming Skulls of England. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/70464/screaming-skulls-england

Joshua J. Mark. 2016. A Ghost Story of Ancient Egypt. https://www.worldhistory.org/article/964/a-ghost-story-of-ancient-egypt/

Roger Clarke. 2014. Ghosts: A Natural History.

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Episode 17: Have Children Really Never Had It So Good?

(Incomplete references)

Lloyd DeMause. 1974. The History of Childhood.

Philippe Aries. 1962. Centuries of Childhood

Anna Davin. 1999. What Is A Child? in: Childhood in Question: Children, Parents and the State. ed. Anthony Fletcher and Stephen Hussey. 15-36.

Lindsey E. Jones. 2016. Intersectional Critiques of the Criminalization of Black Girls, Past & Present. https://www.aaihs.org/intersectional-critiques-of-the-criminalization-of-black-girls-past-present/

UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. https://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/crc.aspx

Paul Slack. 1988. Poverty and Policy in Tudor and Stuart England.

D. Toddman. 2007. Childbirth In Ancient Rome: From Traditional Folklore To Obstetrics. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 47, 82–85.

Tim Parkin .1992. Demography and Roman Society.


Roald Dahl. 1984. Boy: Tales of Childhood.

National Archives. Extracts from Lord Ashley’s Report 1842. https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/victorianbritain/industrial/source4.htm

Robert Krulwich. 2012. Do You Know Where Your Children Are? Is That Always A Good Thing? https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2012/10/01/162079442/do-you-know-where-your-children-are-is-that-always-a-good-thing?t=1626009602656

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Episode 13: Did The Nazis Really Go Looking for the Lance of Longinus?

Eric Kurlander, 2017. Hitler’s Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich. 

Eric Kurlander, 2017. A Song of Ice and Fire. https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/song-ice-and-fire

Peter Levanda, 2002. Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult.

Nicolas Goodridge-Clarke, 1985. The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology. 


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Episode 10: How Has Music Changed over History? ft. Dr Anna Scott.

Paleolithic flute made from a vulture bone 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUCBBDV2Tzk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBUFRmQ4eso 

Hurrian hymn #6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBhB9gRnIHE 


Ancient Greek music - the work of Armand D’Angour on reconstructing hymns and sections of dramatic chorus https://youtu.be/4hOK7bU0S1Y 

Earliest surviving complete piece of composition is the Seikilos epitaph c.100ad from Turkey. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%CE%9F_%CE%95%CF%80%CE%B9%CF%84%CE%AC%CF%86%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%82_%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85_%CE%A3%CE%B5%E1%BF%96%CE%BA%CE%B9%CE%BB%CE%BF%CF%85_-_Epitaph_of_Seikilos.ogg

Indian Hindu vedic arts - the Samaveda - 1000BC - sections of the Rigveda set to a melody and chanted http://www.vedchant.com/Yajur.mp3 

Chinese Xun - like egg flutes made of clay. Oldest are about 5000bc . https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ARecording_of_Xun.ogg 

Solitary Orchid in the Stone Tablet Mode - written for the guqin in 7thC AD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPqX2rgCAok 

Synaulia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJLXyBzMci0

Musica Romana: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC4KqvAhqFA 

Music of the Middle Ages https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgHzH5iDcGQ

Le Jeu De Robin Et Marion by Adam de le Halle, troubadour in the 13thC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCIx07t14jw

Hildegard of Bingen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei88J4lERbk

Hermann of Reichenau 11thC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Petits_Chanteurs_de_Passy_-_Salve_Regina_de_Hermann_Contract.ogg 

John Dowland - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkRrzAo9Wl4

"A Newe Northen Dittye of ye Ladye Greene Sleves" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp86xtRUokA

Baroque:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLj_gMBqHX8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-dYNttdgl0

Classical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1FSN8_pp_o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t3Vmo_EM8Y












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