Hello, and welcome to the Season 1, Episode 18 of the Bones & Bobbins Podcast!
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The Bones & Bobbins Podcast, Season 1, Episode 18: Wishing You a Tragically Victorian Christmas
S01E17: Spiritualists, Fraudulent Mediums, and the Cottingley Fairies: You can question the trustworthiness of spirit mediums all you want, but we still wouldn’t recommend fucking with the Fae. Ever.
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Creepy Holiday Traditions
- Bustle Article: https://www.bustle.com/p/8-christmas-traditions-from-history-that-are-actually-creepy-as-hell-5510628
- Simple Living- Witch Balls: https://www.thesimplethings.com/blog/witch-balls
- Atlas Obscura- Victorian Christmas Parlour Games Will Leave You Burned, Bruised, and Puking: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/victorians-christmas-parlor-games-will-leave-you-burned-bruised-and-puking
- Salon Article “#OccupyChristmas: https://www.salon.com/2011/12/24/occupychristmas/
Victorian Christmas Candle Tragedies
- Candle example ad from Paisley Herald and Renfrewshire Advertiser, 1867: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000464/18671221/080/0008
- Shocking Fatality At A Christmas Party, Illustrated Police News, 1897: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0000072/18970109/012/0003?browse=False#
- Candle Tragedy, Shields Daily News, 1924: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0001168/19241217/062/0003?browse=False
- Christmas Candle Fire, Dundee Evening Telegraph, 1926: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0000563/19261217/106/0007?browse=False#
- A Christmas Tragedy, Yorkshire Gazette, 1894: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000266/18941229/032/0005#
- The Christmas Death Roll, Reynolds’s Newspaper, 1898: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0000101/18980102/012/0002?browse=False#
- Christmas Death Roll in Liverpool, Glasgow Evening Post, 1892: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0001965/18921228/088/0006?browse=False#
- Christmas Death Roll, Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette, 1894: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0000289/18941226/005/0003?browse=False#
- Christmas Candles: Increasing Their Power–Subduing the Light, Northern Whig, 1928: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0001542/19281221/238/0011?browse=False#
- Household Hints: Christmas Candle Problems, New Ross Standard, 1947: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0002322/19471219/216/0010?browse=False#
- Wanted Ad, Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 1873: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0000250/18731025/039/0006?browse=False#
Further Reading:
- How To Make Your Own Witch Ball: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUSsuUGB6xk&feature=share