Weird Christmas
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When it comes to christmas, not everything is jolly, joyful and innocent. This podcast gets into the strange, macabre and bizaare aspects of Christmas and the Holiday season.
Weird Christmas
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Weird Christmas
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Craig talks with the ever knowledgeable and jolly Benito Cereno about Scandinavian elves, which you're starting to see more and more places in decorations and movies. All links mentioned on the show, along with info on Benito, can be found at WeirdChristmas.com at this link:
https://weirdchristmas.com/2023/12/23/nisser-and-tomtar-scandinavian-elves-with-benito-cereno/
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Weird Christmas
1y ago
The best show of the year: 19 stories of Christmas Weirdness from the annual Weird Christmas Flash Fiction Contest. Please visit WeirdChristmas.com to get information on the authors and to read the stories again.
If you want to support the contest and help make more and bigger prizes for the writers next year, please visit Ko-Fi.com/weirdchristmas to donate any amount ..read more
Weird Christmas
1y ago
any textual evidence that would connect the origins of Christmas to ancient pagan sources, namely the Mithras cult and Emperor Constantine's Sol Invictus cult.
Listen here, on your favorite podcast app, or at the Podbean site.
The SHWEP
The SHWEP Oddcast
Music:
"Scriaben Christmas Time is Here" by Kurt Knecht
"Christmas is a Pagan Holiday" by Matt Potako
If you’re feeling generous, you can leave a donation at Ko-Fi.com. It’s probably Christmas-time (ish) when you’re reading this, so remember the spirit of the season is giving. And I’m trying not to turn on the guilt machine, but I would ..read more
Weird Christmas
1y ago
Benito and I discuss the traditions surrounding the Mari Lwyd, getting into similarities with other European wassailing and hobby horse traditions.
A recording of the Mari Lwyd rhyme in action by the BBC.
Benito's Links:
Benito’s Christmas history videos
Benito’s writing at Gumroad
Apocrypals podcast
Friends ‘Till the End podcast
Progressively Horrified
Music:
"Here Comes the Mari Lwyd" by The Eugenes
"Mari Lwyd" by Colorama
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Weird Christmas
1y ago
SURPRISE CHRISTMAS IN JULY PODCAST!
I never quite got this show finished during the season, so my humble apologies. All is now well.
Thank you to Meghan Arcuri for talking to me about Charlotte Riddell! Her collection of Riddell’s stories will be out very soon. And here are some links to her work, which I encourage everyone to check out:
A Little Purple Book of Sharp Wit by Charlotte Riddel, ed. Meghan Arcuri
Arcuri’s stories:
“Because You’re Mine”
“Green with Hunger”
“Am I Missing the Sunlight” in Borderlands 7
Her bio: Meghan Arcuri is a Bram Stoker Award ..read more
Weird Christmas
2y ago
I chat with Thomas Ruys Smith, editor of Christmas Past: An Anthology of Seasonal Stories from Nineteenth Century America and Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of East Anglia.
Links from the show:
Christmas Past: An Anthology of Seasonal Stories from Nineteenth Century America [publisher] [Amazon]
Thomas Ruys Smith's author website
Bumper music:
Usual opening: “O Holy Night” by Tiny Tim, “Christmas Doesn’t Last” by Make Like Monkeys, “Santa Claus Boogie” by Hasil Adkins, “Space Age Santa” by Ross Christman
Featured opening ..read more
Weird Christmas
2y ago
It’s out later than I would have preferred, but like the inevitability of New Year’s following Christmas, it is here.
To read the stories, get bio information and links on the authors, and for all other show notes, please check out WeirdChristmas.com.
Results:
Overall Winner: “The Fight” by Elizabeth Guilt
“Weird Cards” Category Winner: “If the Suit Fits” by Michelle Christophorou
“There Was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard” Category Winner: “A Churchyard Carol” by Dan Fields
“Stocking Stuffer” Category Winner: “The Power of Presents and Spidersilk” by Daniel Ausema
Honorable Mention (in no ..read more
Weird Christmas
2y ago
Talking with Christopher Philippo, editor of Volumes 4 and 5 of the Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories.
Chris' Goodreads site
Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories, Volume 4 (the American stories) [Amazon]
Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories, Volume 5 [Amazon]
Links to the poems and other goodies from the show are at WeirdChristmas.com.
If you’re feeling generous, check out my Patreon page here where you can get all kinds of bonuses throughout the year. You can also buy me a “coffee” ($3 gifts) at Ko-Fi.com.
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Weird Christmas
2y ago
Al Ridenour is back after talking to us last year about Krampus, but this time to help unpack the lore and traditions around the Perchten, Krampus-esque goblin-ish creatures tied to both Krampus and Frau Perchta.
Links mentioned on the episode:
Bone and Sickle Podcast
Ep. 80 "America and the Old, Dark Christmas"
Ep. 58 "The Hellish Harlequin: Phantom Hordes to Father Christmas"
Ep. 38 "Frau Perchta the Belly-Slitter"
Ep. 17 "Christmas Ghosts"
Ep. 15 "Saint, Devil, Sugar-Bread, & Whip: Krampus and Nicholas"
Al Ridenour's page
Book The Krampus and the Old, Dark Christmas by Al Ridenour ..read more