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Tales of Geek, Urban Myths, Folklore, Media & the Weird by Charles Christian
includes Weird Tales Radio Show podcast
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In Episode 48 of the Weird Tales Radio Show podcast (available on iTunes, Spotify etc) we sing the sad song of the Mistletoe Bride trapped in her living tomb - we review the legend and have a new version of the song for you from Andy Brown. We also look at the tradition of Old Twelfth Night + Take a quiz on some little known legendary facts - seriously King Arthur, your spear is called Ron? + We discover a churchyard in Northern Ireland where the graveyard dirt really does deliver a miracle cure.
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And we're off with three more stories starting with this one (via Reuters) about a special church ceremony in Madrid to bless pets. Yes, yesterday (17th January) was the Feast of St Anthony – that's St Anthony the Great, one of the early Christian "Desert Fathers" (died AD 356) who started as a hermit in the Egyptian desert and ended up laying the foundations for Christian monasticism. Along the way he was kind to animals and cured a pig, which subsequently became devoted to him. There's cute pet footage in the accompanying video.
Next up... a sign of the times from the Treadwells esoteric book shop in London, as they continue to host and curate sell out events...
Finally... our very good friends at Ancient Origins have just published the latest edition of their new monthly magazine, containing among many other the things, the first of a new regular column by me on the Ritual Year...
And we kick off today's stories with a reminder that the 17th of January is "Old Twelvey" or Old 12th Night because here in the UK some people still haven't got over the Julian-to-Gregorian calendar change in 1752! Still, it provides an another excuse to go wassailing!
It seems like it was only the other day we were all stunned by the news the Chinese had succeeded in growing cotton seed on their new Moon lander spacecraft. Hang in, it was only the other day. Well it's gone to join the choir eternal – it's now dead – it couldn't survive the lunar night. Story by The Register.
Finally... Throwback Thursday – Austrian actors Senta Berger + Marissa Mell + Maria Perschy circa 1963.
Next up a picture (taken by Scott Mahaskey of Politico) which neatly sums-up the whole out-of-control #socialmedia and #fakenews scene in 2018. It shows Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey leaving a congressional hearing in Washington while being heckled by InfoWars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. But why is the congressional aide behind Dorsey wearing Google Glasses? Who is the journalist stilling wearing a 1980s-style Casio watch? And is that cop sporting a Rolex?
 Starting THIS Wednesday (16th January) on the Urban Fantasist... a daily inside skinny news section covering geek – tech – urban myths – folklore – media – the weird – and anything else that takes my fancy!
Rook di goo, There's blood in the shoe – the latest Weird Tales Radio Show is here for you!12/1/2019
I for one am shopping online right now for a haunted mirror!   For all fans of the British cousin of the Yeti and Bigfoot – now mainly seen in carvings in Suffolk churches.
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In Episode 48 of the Weird Tales Radio Show podcast we sing the sad song of the Mistletoe Bride trapped in her living tomb + take a quiz on some little known legendary facts: seriously King Arthur, your spear is called Ron? + discover a churchyard in Northern Ireland where the graveyard dirt really does deliver a miracle cure.
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