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Podcast: Hellbent for Horror
Episode: Episode 056- Medicine and Monsters
Description: Do you ever wonder how the legends of monsters are born? What made people think werewolves and vampires were real? How did the ideas of silver to kill werewolves, and garlic to repel vampires get passed down from generation to generation? People with mental illness were thought to be visited by ghosts. Throughout history, before the discovery of microscopic organisms that cause illness, curses and monsters were thought to be the causes of illness and disease. Interestingly, the weapons from folklore that could destroy these monsters were also effective in treating the real-world disea...