Spooktober: Monster Mash - Ep 159

This week, we lift our spirits (oooOOOooo) with a round-up of monsters. We explore their origins and effects on us, with examples ranging from memories of very real things in the past to a hypothesis that doesn't quite have legs (unlike griffins).

Links

• Why we'll always be obsessed with – and afraid of – monsters (The Conversation)

• Why the scariest monsters look almost human (Wellcome Collection)

• Why We Still Need Monsters (Nautilus)

• Why Are So Many Monsters Hybrids? (Nautilus)

• A History of Monsters (Aeon)

• Why do we want to feel sorry for monsters that scare us? (Gizmodo)

• Why Frankenstein is the story that defines our fears (BBC)

• Neanderthals, Scandinavian trolls, and troglodytes (Norwegian American)

• Ōnamazu (Yokai.com)

• Namazu-e: Earthquake catfish prints (Pink Tentacle)

• Namazu (World History Encyclopedia)

• Giant catfish and a legacy of disaster in one of the world's most seismically active regions (Phys.org)

• Folklore and earthquakes: Native American oral traditions from Cascadia compared with written traditions from Japan (Geological Society, London, Special Publications via ResearchGate)

• Why Protoceratops almost certainly wasn't the inspiration for the griffin legend (Mark Witton)

• Griffin Bones (American Museum of Natural History)

• Andrewsarchus, "Superb Skull of a Gigantic Beast" (American Museum of Natural History)

• Jumbies of the West Indies (The Brown Geeks)

• Rare Book Library Summons Tales of World’s Oldest Monsters (Smithsonian)

• The evolution of monsters in children’s literature (Nature)

• A Visual History of Society’s Monsters (Hyperallergic)

• The Nazi Werewolves Who Terrorized Allied Soldiers at the End of WWII (Smithsonian)

• Doin’ The Mash (Tedium)

• The strange tale of ‘Monster Mash’, the graveyard smash that will never die (NME)

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Spooktober: Feral Children - Ep 157

SPOOKTOBER HAS BEGUN! This week, we discuss the trope in myth, legend, horror, and adjacent genres of feral children. We won't be directly discussing actual cases of trauma, neglect, or child abuse, but rather the place of the bestial feral child in the mythology of different ancient cultures all the way up to a more recent timeline. Why do these stories interest us, spook us, and who's the real monster here?

Links

• Register for our International Archaeology Day Live Show on October 16!

• Black Doves Speak: Herodotus and the Languages of Barbarians (Center for Hellenic Studies)

• How Young Children Learn Language (Scholastic)

• Flint Dibble on Wolf’s Milk and More

• Guide to the classics: the Epic of Gilgamesh (The Conversation)

• Between gods and animals: becoming human in the Gilgamesh epic (Aeon)

• The History of Hayy ibn Yaqzan, translated by Simon Ockley

• Rewriting the Savage: The Extraordinary Fictions of the "Wild Girl of Champagne" (Eighteenth-Century Studies)

• The Wild Girl, Natural Man, and the Monster (via WorldCat)

• Why Sasquatch and Other Crypto-Beasts Haunt Our Imaginations (Anthropology of Consciousness)

• Feral Disorders and Colonial Exclusions: Animal Reared Feral Children, Discourses of Animality, and the Treatment of Animals in Colonial India (via Academia.edu)

• Wild stories: why do we find feral children so fascinating? (The Guardian)

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