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Podcast: Bone and Sickle
Episode: The Goblins Will Get You!
Description: Goblin lore from old folk tales, literature, ancient and modern legends is our topic this time around.
We begin with the poem from which we take our episode title, James Whitcomb Rileyâs âLittle Orphant Annieâ in which the poet remembers his childhood nanny and her âwitch talesâ and threats about goblins coming.
Next, we take a quick look at the word âgoblinâ itself, and how it relates via the goblin-like âboggartâ or âboggleâ  of the Northern England and Scotland to our word, âbogeymanâ (hearing a snippet along the way of Henry Hallâs 1932 rendering of the song, âHush, Hush, Hush, H...