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  2. D.L. Ashliman, “Faust Legends,” Faust Legends, www.pitt.edu/~dash/faust.html.

  3. Frank L. Borchardt, “The Magus as Renaissance Man,” The Sixteenth Century Journal, vol. 21, no. 1, 1990, pp. 57–76.

  4. Titus Burckhardt and William Stoddart, Alchemy: Science of the Cosmos, Science of the Soul (Fons Vitae, 2006).

  5. Richard Conniff, “Alchemy May Not Have Been the Pseudoscience We All Thought It Was,” Smithsonian.com, February 2014, www.smithsonianmag.com/history/alchemy-may-not-been-pseudoscience-we-thought-it-was-180949430.

  6. Valerie I.J. Flint, The Rise of Magic: in Early Medieval Europe (Clarendon Press, 1991).

  7. “Johann Georg Faust Biography,” Magick Books Library, darkbooks.org/articles/Johann-Georg-Faust.html.

  8. Georg Luck, Arcana Mundi Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Collection of Ancient Texts (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008).

  9. Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus (New York: New American Library, 1969).

  10. Melanie Christina Mohr, “Goethe and Zoroastrianism: The Eternal Battle between Good and Evil,” Translated by Charlotte Collins, Qantara.de, 2018, en.qantara.de/content/goethe-and-zoroastrianism-the-eternal-battle-between-good-and-evil.

  11. Leo Ruickbie, Faustus: the Life and Times of a Renaissance Magician (History, 2009).

  12. “How One Man's Love of Urine Led to the Discovery of Phosphorus,” Gizmodo, May 2014, gizmodo.com/how-one-man-s-love-of-urine-led-to-the-discovery-of-pho-1582537526.

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Sources from Episode 159

  1. “The Incredible Secrets Inside the Walls of the Waldorf Astoria,” Bloomberg, September 2016, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-06/secrets-of-the-waldorf-astoria-presidential-tunnels-red-velvet-cake.

  2. Jan-Andrew Henderson, The Town Below the Ground: Edinburgh's Legendary Undgerground City (Mainstream Publishing: Edinburgh and London, 1999).

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Sources from Episode 158

  1. “14,000-Year-Old Village Unearthed on B.C. Island by UVic Student,” TCV News, April 2017, https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/14-000-year-old-village-unearthed-on-b-c-island-by-uvic-student-1.3358511.

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  3. “Vancouver Island,” The Canadian Encyclopedia, date unknown, https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/vancouver-island.

  4. Anne Cameron, Daughters of Copper Woman (Vancouver: Press Gang Publishers, 1981).

  5. Jo-Ann ‌Christensen, Ghost Stories of British Columbia (Toronto: Hounslow Press, 1996).

  6. Mary BethCrain, Haunted Christmas: Yuletide Ghosts and Other Spooky Holiday Happenings (Guilford: Globe Pequot, 2009).

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  8. “The Christmas Eve Murder That Shocked 19th Century Victoria.” The Capital, date unknown, https://www.capnews.ca/news/1890-christmas-eve-murder-david-fee.

  9. Paul LeBlond, John Kirk III, and John Walton, Discovering Cadborosaurus (Blaine: Hancock House Publishers Ltd., 2019).

  10. Daniel Loxton and Donald R. Prothero, Abominable Science! Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013).

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  12. “The Life and Death of Missionary Bishop Seghers,” ExploreNorth, Accessed March 25, 2020, http://www.explorenorth.com/library/bios/archbishop_seghers-funeral-1888.html.

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Sources from Episode 157

  1. “Archaeologists Find Mysterious 'Elixir of Immortality' in Ancient Chinese Tomb,” ScienceAlert, March 2019, https://www.sciencealert.com/archaeologists-discover-elixir-of-immortality-in-ancient-chinese-tomb.

  2. Theresa Bane, Encyclopedia of Beasts and Monsters in Myth, Legend and Folklore (Jefferson: McFarland and Company, Inc., 2016).

  3. Robert Bartlett, The Hanged Man: A Story of Miracle, Memory, and Colonialism in the Middle Ages (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004).

  4. Anne Birrell, "The Elixir of Life,” in Popular Songs and Ballads of Han China, (HONOLULU: University of Hawai'i Press, 1993) pp. 41-56.

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  7. Roger Chapman, “Throwing the Explorer out with the Fountain: American History Textbooks and Juan Ponce de Leon,” The Florida Historical Quarterly 94, no. 1 (Summer 2015), pp. 92-107.

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  9. Natalie Clunan, “The Obscure Story of Vermont’s Frozen Hill People Will Give You Goosebumps,” Only in Your State, February 2019, https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/vermont/frozen-hill-people-vt.

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  13. “Two Tales of Mermaid Meat,” Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai, Sept. 2015, https://hyakumonogatari.com/2015/09/24/two-tales-of-mermaid-meat.

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  2. Melissa Chan, “Why Friday the 13th Is a Real Nightmare for Some People,” Time, October 13, 2017. https://time.com/4979595/friday-the-13th-triskaidekaphobia.

  3. Cara Giaimo, “The 1880s Supper Club That Loved Bad Luck,” Atlas Obscura, April 25, 2017, https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/thirteen-club-superstition-new-york.

  4. Ethan Haimo, Schoenberg’s Serial Odyssey: The Evolution of His Twelve-Tone Method, 1914-1928 (Oxford: Clarendon, 1990).

  5. Brian Handwerk, “Friday the 13th Is Back. Here's Why It Scares Us,” National Geographic, April 12, 2018, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2017/10/what-is-friday-13th-superstition-facts-science.

  6. Norman Lebrecht, The Book of Musical Anecdotes (New York: Free Press, 1985).

  7. Malcolm MacDonald, Schoenberg (London: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., 1976).

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  9. Dika Newlin, Bruckner, Mahler, Schoenberg (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1978).

  10. Jeffrey K. Olick, In the House of the Hangman: The Agonies of German Defeat, 1943-1949 (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2013).

  11. Chris Opfer, “Does Your Body Really Replace Itself Every Seven Years?” How Stuff Works, June 6, 2014, https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/cellular-microscopic/does-body-really-replace-seven-years.htm.

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  5. Essie Fox, “A Story for Halloween—Herne the Hunter in Windsor,” The Virtual Victorian, 18 Oct. 2016, virtualvictorian.blogspot.com/2013/10/a-ghoulish-story-for-halloween.html.

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  2. J. Wood Brown, An Enquiry into the Life and Legend of Michael Scot (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1897). 

  3. Owen Davies, Grimoires: A History of Magic Books (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).

  4. Owen Davies, “Owen Davies’ Top 10 Grimoires,” The Guardian, 4/8/2009, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/apr/08/history.

  5. Owen Davies, Popular Magic: Cunning-folk in English History (London: Hambledon Continuum, 2003).

  6. Glenn M. Edwards, “The Two Redactions of Michael Scot’s ‘Liber Introductorius,’” Traditio 41 (1985), pp. 329-340.

  7. Charles H. Haskins, “The ‘Alchemy’ Ascribed to Michael Scot,’ Isis 10, no. 2 (June 1928), pp. 350-59. 

  8. Charles H. Haskins,“Michael Scot and Frederick II,” Isis 4, n. 2 (Oct. 1921), pp. 250-275.

  9. Charles H. Haskins, Studies in the History of Medieval Science (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1924).

  10. Urban T. Holmes, Jr., Daily Living in the Twelfth Century: Based on the Observations of Alexander Neckam in London and Paris (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1952).

  11. John Kalbfleisch, “In 1682 Montreal, an Accused Witch Escaped Sanction,” Montreal Gazette, 6/25/2016, https://www.newspapers.com/image/494115134/?terms=montreal%2Bwitch%2Blamarque.

  12. Kay, Richard. “The Spare Ribs of Dante’s Michael Scot.” Dante Studies 103 (1985), pp. 1-14.

  13. James Kritzeck, “The School of Toledo,” in Peter the Venerable and Islam, (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1964), pp. 51-55.

  14. Jonathan Lyons, The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization (New York: Bloomsbury, 2009).

  15. Lucy K. Pick, “Michael Scot in Toledo: ‘Natura Naturans’ and the Hierarchy of Being.” Traditio, 53 (1998), pp. 93-116. 

  16. T.C. Scott and P. Marketos, “Michael Scot,” http://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Scot.html.

  17. Lynn Thorndike, A History of Magic and Experimental Science During the First Thirteen Centuries of our Era. Vol. 2 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1923).

  18. Travis Zadeh, “Magic, Marvel, and Miracle in Early Islamic Thought,” in The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West: From Antiquity to the Present, Edited by David J. Collins, S.J. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), pp. 235-267.

  19. “A Modern Sorceress,” St. Louis Globe-Democrat (St. Louis, Missouri) March 30, 1879, p. 14.

  20. “The Gold Diggers Still At Work,” Intelligencer Journal (Lancaster, Pennsylvania), 05 Mar 1879, p. 3.

  21. “Lancaster County Witch Story,” Reading Times (Reading, Pennsylvania), 28 Mar 1879, p. 2

Sources from Episode 150

  1. “Artwork hidden under Picasso painting revealed by x-ray,” The Guardian, Feb 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/17/artwork-hidden-under-picasso-painting-revealed-by-x-ray.

  2. Adam King, “Mississippian Period: Overview,” Georgia Encyclopedia, 8 June 2017, https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/mississippian-period-overview.

  3. “Bourbon Orleans Hotel,” Bourbon Orleans Hotel, https://www.bourbonorleans.com/bourbon-orleans-hotel-history.

  4. “Bourbon Orleans, New Orleans, LA,” Haunted Rooms, https://www.hauntedrooms.com/louisiana/new-orleans/haunted-places/haunted-hotels/bourbon-orleans.

  5. “Can I Go Inside the LaLaurie Mansion?,” Ghost City Tours, https://ghostcitytours.com/new-orleans/haunted-places/lalaurie-mansion/tour-inside-lalaurie-mansion.

  6. Carolyn Morrow Long, Madame Lalaurie, Mistress of the Haunted House (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2015), p. 272. 

  7. “Mistress of the Haunted House,” 64 Parishes, https://64parishes.org/mistress-haunted-house.

  8. Cindy Ermus, “The Good Friday Fire of 1788 in Spanish Colonial New Orleans,” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association, Vol. 54 No. 3 (Summer 2013): 292-331.

  9. “Misrecognized: Looking at Images of Black Suffering and Death,” PhD diss., Duke University, 2008. https://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/10161/707/D_Baker_Courtney_a_200808.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y.

  10. “The Duelling Oaks,” Duelling Oaks, https://www.duellingoaks.com.

  11. Fred R. Darkis, Jr., “Madame Lalaurie of New Orleans,” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association Vol. 23, No. 4 (Autumn, 1982), pp. 383-399. 

  12. “Four real New Orleans legends that put ghost stories to shame,” The Historic New Orleans Collection, 15 October 2018, https://www.hnoc.org/publications/first-draft/four-real-new-orleans-legends-put-ghost-stories-shame.

  13. George W. Cable, Strange True Stories of Louisiana (Project Gutenberg, 2004), p. 346.

  14. “The Ghosts of Le Petit Theatre,” Ghost City Tours, https://ghostcitytours.com/new-orleans/haunted-places/le-petit-theatre.

  15. Grace Elizabeth King, Creole Families of New Orleans (New York: Macmillan, 1921), p. 465.

  16. “The Most Haunted Places in the United States,” National Geographic, 22 October 2018, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/travel-interests/tips-and-advice/the-most-haunted-places-in-the-united-states.

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  18. “Haunted Bourbon Orleans,” Haunted Hocking, https://www.hauntedhocking.com/Bourbon_Orleans_Haunted_New_Orleans.htm.

  19. “The Haunted Bourbon Orleans Hotel,” Ghost City Tours, https://ghostcitytours.com/new-orleans/haunted-places/haunted-hotels/bourbon-orleans-hotel.

  20. “The Haunted LaLaurie Mansion,” Ghost City Tours, https://ghostcitytours.com/new-orleans/haunted-places/lalaurie-mansion.

  21. “Indigenous Tribes of New Orleans & Louisiana,” American Library Association, 13 April 2018, http://www.ala.org/aboutala/offices/nola-tribes.

  22. “Ghost At New Orleans’ Secret Horror Chamber,” Skeptical Inquirer, 23 November 2016, https://skepticalinquirer.org/newsletter/ghosts-at-new-orleans-secret-horror-chamber.

  23. “Vintage photos of Le Petit Theatre: 99 years later, a new vision for the French Quarter gem,” 3 September 2015, https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/arts/article_627b30d9-ee30-5f95-bfbd-50cc326a2f2e.html.

  24. “La Madame et la Mademoiselle: Creole Women in Louisiana, 1718-1865,” Master’s thesis, Louisiana State University, May 2005. https://web.archive.org/web/20110807152536/http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-04042005-171447/unrestricted/Morlas_thesis.pdf.

  25. “The Sinister Story Behind This Popular New Orleans Park Will Give You Chills,” Only In Your State, 6 September 2017, https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/louisiana/new-orleans/sinister-park-new-orleans.

  26. “Dueling Oak,” New Orleans Historical, https://neworleanshistorical.org/items/show/109.

  27. “LaLaurie Mansion,” Atlas Obscura, https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lalaurie-mansion.

  28. “The Lalaurie Mansion: New Orleans’ House of Horrors,” NOLA Ghosts, 11 May 2018, https://nolaghosts.com/lalaurie-mansion.

  29. “Louisiana’s Traditional Cultures: An Overview,” Folklife in Louisiana, originally published 1997, updated online to reflect new information, http://www.louisianafolklife.org/LT/Maidas_Essay/main_introduction_onepage.html#tab2.

  30. “Marie Delphine Lalaurie,” Murderpedia, https://murderpedia.org/female.L/l/lalaurie-delphine.htm.

  31. Michael Democker, “Haunted NOLA: Duels for ‘Pride and Honor’ Left Behind Hundreds of Ghosts at Duelling Oaks in City Park,” 29 October 2019, https://nola.verylocal.com/haunted-nola-duels-for-pride-and-honor-left-behind-hundreds-of-ghosts-at-duelling-oaks-in-city-park/89807.

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  35. “The Burden of Louis Congo and the Evolution of Savagery in Colonial Louisiana,” in Discipline and the Other Body: Correction, Corporeality, Colonialism, edited by Steven Pierce and Anupama Rao, 61-89 (North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2006).

  36. “A Voudoo Tree: Haunted Sycamore of Congo Square,” Louisiana Digital Library, 1 August 1891, https://louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/state-lwp%3A5157.

Sources from Episode 149

  1. “Largest Collection Of Ancient Surgical Tools Was Found Here, Not At Pompeii,” Forbes, Feb 2018, https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2018/02/28/largest-collection-of-ancient-surgical-tools-was-found-here-not-at-pompeii/#233459c0317f.

  2. “American Railroads in the 20th Century,” Smithsonian Institute, https://americanhistory.si.edu/america-on-the-move/essays/american-railroads.

  3. “The Beginnings of American Railroads and Mapping,” Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/collections/railroad-maps-1828-to-1900/articles-and-essays/history-of-railroads-and-maps/the-beginnings-of-american-railroads-and-mapping.

  4. “Bostian Bridge Train Wreck,” NCPedia, 2006, https://ncpedia.org/bostian-bridge-train-wreck.

  5. “Casey Jones,” Biography, April 2019, https://www.biography.com/personality/casey-jones.

  6. Cleveland Moffett, “Stories from the Archives of the Pinkerton Detective Agency,” in McClure’s Magazine, vol. 4, 549-554, S.S. McClure Company, 1985.

  7. “Community Dreams,” Smithsonian Institute, https://americanhistory.si.edu/america-on-the-move/community-dreams.

  8. Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, February 12, 1887.

  9. “The Ghost Train of Bostian’s Bridge,” NCPedia, December 2010, https://ncpedia.org/culture/legends/bostian-ghost-train.

  10. “Ghost Trains,” Virginia Lamkin, Seeks Ghosts, 22 December 2013, https://seeksghosts.blogspot.com/2013/12/ghost-trains.html.

  11. “Ghost Trains: A Haunting Look Behind the Legends,” The Occult Museum, http://www.theoccultmuseum.com/ghost-trains-haunting-look-behind-legends.

  12. “Ghost Trains: Real or Legend?,” The Ghost Diaries, February 2016, http://theghostdiaries.com/ghost-trains-real-or-legend.

  13. “The Haunted Railroad Bridge,” Vermonter, https://vermonter.com/haunted-railroad-bridge.

  14. “A History of American Protest Music: This Is the Hammer That Killed John Henry,” Tom Maxwell, Longreads, 4 October 2017, https://longreads.com/2017/10/04/a-history-of-american-protest-music-this-is-the-hammer-that-killed-john-henry.

  15. J. A. Ferguson, “The Wrong Rail in the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time,” Vermont History Journal, Vol. 81 (2013): 52.

  16. “Lincoln’s Phantom Train,” A Grave Interest, 26 April 2013, http://agraveinterest.blogspot.com/2013/04/lincolns-phantom-train.html.

  17. “Lincoln’s Phantom Train,” Virginia Lamkin, Seeks Ghosts, 4 November 2014, https://seeksghosts.blogspot.com/2014/11/lincolns-phantom-train.html.

  18. “North Carolina Ghost Train, Bostian Bridge 1891,” LeAnne Carey, The Pamlico Porch, 8 October 2018, https://www.thepamlicoporch.com/blog/2018/10/8/north-carolina-ghost-train-bostian-bridge-1891-statesville-nc.

  19. Paul Adams, The Little Book of Ghosts (The History Press, 2014). 

  20. “Railroad History: A Timeline,” American Rails, https://www.american-rails.com/history.html.

  21. “Railroads in the 20th Century, the 1900s,” American Rails, https://www.american-rails.com/1900s.html.

  22. Scott Reynolds Nelson, Steel Drivin’ Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend (Oxford University Press, 4 August 2008), p. 224.

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Sources from Episode 148

  1. “Archaeology of the Underworld: In Search of the Ancient Greek ‘Necromanteion’”, Mysterious Universe, July 2017, https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2017/07/archaeology-of-the-underworld-in-search-of-the-ancient-greek-necromanteion.

  2. “1441: Margery Jourdemayne, the Witch of Eye,” Executed Today, October 27, 2014 http://www.executedtoday.com/2014/10/27/1441-margery-jourdemayne-the-witch-of-eye.

  3. “The Rise and Fall of Eleanor Cobham,” History of Royal Women, November 11, 2018. https://www.historyofroyalwomen.com/eleanor-cobham/the-rise-and-fall-of-eleanor-cobham.

  4. “Margery Jourdemayne,” History Naked, October 31, 2015 http://www.historynaked.com/margery-jourdemayne.

  5. “Witches in Britain,” Historic UK, https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Witches-in-Britain.

  6. “Royal Sorceress: The Chilling Trial and Punishment of Duchess Eleanor Cobham,” The Vintage News, February 19, 2018. https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/02/19/eleanor-cobham.

  7. Francis Young, Magic as a Political Crime in Medieval and Early Modern England: A History (Bloomsbury, 2017).

  8. Phillipa Gregory and David Baldwn Michael Jones, The Women of the Cousins’ War: The Real White Queen and Her Rivals (Simon and Schuster, 2011).

  9. “Medieval royal witches: from Elizabeth Woodville to Queen Joan of Navarre,” History Extra, https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/medieval-royal-witches-from-elizabeth-woodville-to-queen-joan-of-navarre.

  10. John Ashdown-Hill, Royal Marriage Secrets: Consorts & Concubines, Bigamists & Bastards (The History Press, 2013).

  11. John Ashdown-Hill, The Wars of the Roses (Amberley Publishing Limited, October 15, 2015).

  12. “Henry VI may have had a “sex coach” – plus 4 more curious facts about his life,” History Extra, https://www.historyextra.com/period/plantagenet/king-henry-vi-facts-life-death-reign-marriage-sex-coach-wife-illness-mental-health-mysterious-strange.

  13. “Henry VI,” BBC, http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/henry_vi_king.shtml.

  14. “John, Duke of Bedford,” English Monarchs, http://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/plantagenet_63.html.