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This is the Alloooooooooosionist, in which we learn about the etymology of some scary words for Halloween, with the help of Paul Bae of The Black Tapes and The Big Loop podcasts, and Chelsey Weber-Smith of the podcast American Hysteria. Beware of demons! Satan! The bogeyman! Lemurs!
Wait - lemurs??
EXTRA MATERIALS:
For more demon content, there’s the Allusionist about Titivillus the typo demon.
For more sinister content, hear Aaron Mahnke from Lore podcast explain on the Step Away episode why stepmothers in fairly tales are associated with wickedness.
For more Paul Bae content, listen to him on the episode Yes, As In, featuring people with names that are nouns or adjectives.
YOUR RANDOMLY SELECTED WORD FROM THE DICTIONARY:
oneiromancy
oneiromancy, noun: the interpretation of dreams in order to foretell the future.
CREDITS:
Paul Bae makes the podcasts The Big Loop and The Black Tapes, and his new memoir You Suck Sir is out now. Find him on twitter @MrPaulBae.
Chelsey Weber-Smith makes the podcast American Hysteria. The new season has just started, with true crime and killer clowns. Find them on Twitter @AmerHysteria.
This episode was produced by me, Helen Zaltzman; thanks to Lauren Passell of Podcast The Newsletter.
The original Allusionist music is by Martin Austwick. Download his songs at palebirdmusic.com and hear more of his composition on the new science podcast for kids Maddie’s Sound Explorers.
Find the show at twitter.com/allusionistshow, facebook.com/allusionistshow, twitter.com/helenzaltzman and instagram.com/allusionistshow.
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