- Wed Feb 17, 2016 6:54 pm
#80140
@Mateo,
I'll definitely check out that podcast. I'm actually folklorist by education, (Wrote my undergrad thesis on satanic imagery in art and film, shocking I know). Unfortunately there's no money to be had in academia, and bills to be paid, so to advertising I sold my soul.
Early American folklore is really interesting in that so much of it is a melding of tribal traditions that were already here and christian beliefs that puritans and separatists brought with them.
There was a local legend in the town I grew up in about headless Lenape Indians dancing around a fire. when I looked up the location of the supposed ghostly activity in the town archives, I discovered to my horror and delight that it was a direct line of site from my bedroom window about 100 yards away. I won't say I saw anything, but I can't deny I always looked.
I have been in this business a long time. Now if I don't want to do a show, it's not because I got stage fright. It's because some creature from beyond doesn't want me to do the show. Now gangway.