Occultor

This week's episode is white, flavorless, and can kill you within 20 minutes...well, okay, it might be two of those things. Episode 21 is on poisons, their origins, and what exactly they do to the hu...

13 Jan 202127min

Apotropaic symbols are any marking or symbolic charm used to protect from misfortune, harmful entities, or evil in general. This episode covers a few different kinds, the reasoning behind them, and ho...

6 Jan 202130min

This mouthful of a title means the start of a new series! In the first installment, I tell about a few of my favorite lesser-known Greek deities and the mythology surrounding them. Hestia, Tyche, Hypn...

30 Dec 202030min

While Christmas is a Christian holiday, it's rooted in many much older practices. This episode goes over some of the history surrounding Christmas traditions and how & why they were carried over from ...

23 Dec 202033min

Mummies, fossils, and casts, oh my! This episode covers some of the various ways the human body can be preserved, both intentionally and unintentionally. From Egyptian mummies to modern science exhibi...

16 Dec 202034min

Whew, prepare for a ranty episode! Ley lines are a truly fascinating theory about the way energy, electricity, and gravitational forces travel through the earth. There's a lot of different ideas for h...

9 Dec 202023min

Weeping women are one of the storytelling archetypes that seem to appear in legends, folk tales, and mythologies across cultures all over the world. The similarities between the different stories are ...

2 Dec 202029min

The Malleus Maleficarum, or the 'Hammer of Witches', was a book from which much of the chaos and hysteria during the witch trials stemmed. To understand what lead up to its publication, this episode l...

25 Nov 202024min