Episode Twenty-Four: HALLOWEEN Crossroads Folklore - My dog Shart

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We have a bumper, extra long, extra spooky episode to close out the greatest month of the year. Niamh looks into the folklore of Crossroads, including liminal spaces and times, some dark history, and of course Vodou Loa to guide us beyond the veil. Don't forget to stick around to the end for some Creature Counsel and submit your own via our contact details below!

Sources:

• https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/why-were-suicides-supposed-to-be-buried-at-crossroads/
• https://independent-liverpool.co.uk/blog/crossroad-burials/
• https://www.icysedgwick.com/3-weird-things-at-crossroads/
• Pettifer, Ernest (1992). Punishments of Former Days. Winchester: Waterside Press
• https://astonishinglegends.com/astonishing-legends/2019/1/14/a-brief-overview-of-crossroads
• https://owlcation.com/humanities/The-Crossroads-a-liminal-setting-for-occult-and-supernatural-activities
• The Devil's Pact: Diabolic Writing and Oral Tradition - Kimberly Ball, Western Folklore, Vol. 73, No. 4 (Fall 2014), pp. 385-409 (25 pages)
• Neale, Zora “Hoodoo in America” in The Journal of American Folklore, vol. 44 (1931): pp 317-417.
• https://www.britannica.com/topic/Bawon-Samdi
• https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-ancient-traditions/baron-samedi-0016698
• http://faculty.webster.edu/corbetre/haiti/voodoo/biglist.htm
• https://visithaiti.com/festivals-events/photo-journal-fet-gede-day-of-the-dead/
• https://medium.com/@lunionsuite/10-things-we-learned-about-fet-gede-haitian-day-of-the-dead-4a9f3b36c4a3

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