(Sort of) The Story
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(Sort of) The Story
117. Hot Boys Don’t Go to Bed Before Midnight (or miss their graveside dinner date)
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Janey and Max
Welcome back everybody! Today Janey is going to tell us a Victorian story about a super hot Irish doctor with a banshee on his back, and Max is going to tell us all about a female samurai's love test. Enjoy!
Janey’s Sources - The Banshee’s Warning
- Fearsome Fairies: Haunting Tales of the Fae, edited by Charlotte Riddell
Max’s Sources - Of Ghosts and Goblins / The Test
- “Of Ghosts and Goblins” by Lafcadio Hearn
- Full free text of “The Test”
- “Onna-Bugeisha, the Female Samurai Warriors of Feudal Japan”
- “Onna-musha” on Wikipedia
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