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Episode 156: Bottled Up (ad-free)
🕑 Added 2020-10-26 07:00:03 +0000 UTCHumans are very good at making assumptions. But if we look a little deeper, our preconceived ideas about some of the most common bits of folklore won’t just change—they’ll transform into something terrifying.
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Further Reading
- “Antiques Roadshow expert drinks urine after mistaking it for 150-year-old port,” Mirror, December 2019, https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/antiques-roadshow-expert-tastes-150-21183529.
- Alan W. Smith, “In Memoriam: Eric Maple, 1916–1944,” Folklore 106 (1995), p. 87.
- Peter C. Brown, Essex Witches (Stroud, UK: The History Press 2014).
- Eric Maple, “The Witches of Canewdon,” Folklore 71.4 (Dec 1960), pp. 241–250.
- Michael Howard, Modern Wicca: A History from Gerald Gardner to the Present (Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 2009).
- Matthew Hopkins, The Discovery of Witches (London: R. Royston 1647).
- Robert Ellison, “England’s Royleigh Forgotten Country Town of Rich Legends,” The News and Observer (Raleigh, NC), 20 May 1934, p. 2.
- Malcolm Gaskill, Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005).
- Eric Maple, “Witchcraft and Magic in the Rochford Hundred,” Folklore 76.3 (Autumn 1965).
- Ronald Hutton, “Writing the History of Witchcraft: A Personal View,” The Pomegranate 12.2 (2010), pp. 238–262, https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/POM/article/view/10684.
- James Sharpe, Witchcraft in Early Modern England (Taylor & Francis, 2014).
- Emma Wilby, “The Witch’s Familiar and the Fairy in Early Modern England and Scotland,” Folklore 111.2 (October 2000), pp. 283–305.
- Sylvia Kent, Folklore of Essex (Stroud, UK: The History Press 2005).
- Nigel Pennick, Witchcraft and Secret Societies of Rural England: The Magic of Toadmen, Plough Witches, Mummers, and Bonesmen (Rochester, VT: Destiny Books 2019).
- Lugh, Old George Pickingill and the Roots of Modern Witchcraft (Taray Publications 1984).
- Ronald Hutton, The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press 2019).
- Caroline Tully, “Interview with Professor Ronald Hutton of the University of Bristol, United Kingdom,” Necropolis Now, May 2011, necropolisnow.blogspot.com/2011/05/interview-with-professor-ronald-hutton.html.
- Ralph Merrifield, “Witch Bottles and Magical Jugs,” Folklore 66.1 (March 1955), pp. 195–207.
- M. J. Becker, “An American Witch Bottle,” Archaeology 33.2 (March/April 1980), pp. 18–23.
- James W. Baker, “White Witches: Historic Fact and Romantic Fantasy,” Magical Religion and Modern Witchcraft edited by James R. Lewis (Albany, NY: SUNY Press 1996).
- Eric Maple, “Cunning Murrell: A Study of a Nineteenth-Century Cunning Man in Hadleigh, Essex,” Folklore 71.1 (March 1960), pp. 37–43.
- “An American Witch Bottle,” Archaeology, 2009, https://archive.archaeology.org/online/features/halloween/witch_bottle.html.
Comments
Matthew Dudley
This was great! witch folklore is awesome!
