Sources from Episode 196

  1. Benner, Allen Rogers, and Francis H. Fobes, trans. The Letters of Alciphron, Aelian and Philostratus. LCL 383. Edited by Jeffrey Henderson. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1949.

  2. Cooper, Brian. “The Word Vampire: Its Slavonic Form and Origin.” Journal of Slavic Linguistics 13, n. 2 (Summer-Fall 2005), 251-270.

  3. “Death by Lightning.” The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. 7/24/1857. Page 2. https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/50409793/?terms=robert%2Bmcknight.

  4. Godley, A. D., trans. Herodotus: Books V-VII. LCL 119. Edited by Jeffery Henderson. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1922.

  5. Jensenius, Jr., John S. “A Detailed Analysis of Lightning Deaths in the United States from 2006 through 2019.” Published February 2020. https://www.weather.gov/media/safety/Analysis06-19.pdf.

  6. Kovacs, Maureen Gallery, trans. The Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablet XI: The Story of the Flood. Electronic Edition by Wolf Carnahan. 1998. http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/mesopotamian/gilgamesh/tab11.htm.

  7. McCartney, Eugene S. “Magic and the Weather in Classical Antiquity.” The Classical Weekly 18, n. 20 (March 30, 1925), pp. 154-57, 163-66.

  8. “Priest is Buried Alive in Russia.” The Dexter Tribune. 11/9/1905. Page 3. https://www.newspapers.com/image/425718868.

  9. “Rain Dance.” Indians.org. http://www.indians.org/articles/rain-dance.html.

  10. “Russian Priest Buried Alive.” Aberdeen Press and Journal. 8/9/1905. Page 6. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000576/19050809/071/0006.

  11. Schafer, Edward H. “Ritual Exposure in Ancient China.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 14, n. ½ (Jun. 1951), pp. 130-84.

  12. Spencer, Luke. “8 Unusual Deaths from the Victorian Era.” Mental Floss. 4/5/2016. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/78166/8-unusual-deaths-victorian-era.

  13. Sugg, Richard. “The Hidden History of Deviant Burials.” History Today. 2/21/2017. https://www.historytoday.com/hidden-history-deviant-burials.

  14. Sugg, Richard. The Real Vampires: Death, Terror, and the Supernatural. Gloucestershire: Amberley, 2019.

  15. Ward, Donald J. “Warning Signs and Weather Magic: Some Ideas on Causality in Popular Belief.” Pacific Coast Philology 3 (April 1968), pp. 67-72.

  16. Warner, Elizabeth A. “Death by Lightning: For Sinner or Saint? Beliefs from Novosokol’niki Region, Pskov Province, Russia.” Folklore 133, n. 2 (Oct 2002), pp. 248-59.

  17. Warner, Elizabeth A. “Russian Peasant Beliefs Concerning the Unclean Dead and Drought, Within the Context of the Agricultural Year.” Folklore 122 (August 2011), pp. 155-75.

  18. Warner, Elizabeth A. “Russian Peasant Beliefs and Practices concerning Death and the Supernatural Collected in Novosokol’niki Region, Pskov Province, Russia, 1995. Part I: The Restless Dead, Wizards and Spirit Beings.” Folklore 111, n. 1 (April 2000), pp. 67-90.

  19. White, Sam. “‘Shewing the Difference Between their Conjuration, and our Invocation on the name of God for Rayne’: Weather, Prayer, and Magic in Early American Encounters.” The William and Mary Quarterly 72, n.1 (Jan 2015), 33-56.

  20. Wigington, Patti. “Weather Magic and Folklore.” Learn Religions. 6/25/2019. https://www.learnreligions.com/weather-magic-and-folklore-2562497.