Freaky Folklore

Bi Mwanaidi has washed the dead for thirty-one years and has never been afraid of a body. Then she finds the same tiny puncture beneath the eyelid on three bodies that seem to have nothing in common. And then a living man comes to her gate and asks her to prepare his body before sunset.

This week on Freaky Folklore, we travel to Pemba and Zanzibar to dig into the legend of the Popobawa (also spelled Popo Bawa), the shapeshifting spirit said to come for you while you sleep. Its smell is burnt matches. Its terrible rule is that you must tell everyone what happened, or it comes back. We cover the legend's origins in 1965, the 1995 panic that sent whole villages out of their beds to stay awake by the fire, the story of the sheikh who lost control of a jinn, and what skeptics and scholars say is really going on.

Freaky Folklore is part of the Eeriecast Network. Find more terrifying tales at eeriecast.com.

If you love the dark side of the human mind, check out Deadly Intent, where we dig into the monsters that are entirely human. If you'd rather have your monsters made up, come find Carman's Crypt, where I make new ones up to keep you awake.

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It walks backward, with its head hung between its hind legs. It claps its enormous ears like a hand. And it doesn't drink your blood from your throat. It drinks it from your shadow.

This week we're headed to the Visayas and Mindanao in the Philippines, for the legend of the Sigbin. It's a goat-like creature with a whip-like tail, a nauseating stench, and the power to vanish in front of you. We dig into the families said to keep Sigbin in clay jars, the link to the aswang, the folk logic behind staying out of the moonlight, and the theory that this monster is really a kangaroo. Before all that, there's a story set in a quiet Samar village, where a young surveyor home for a job hears clapping in the night and goes out to look.

Keep your lamp lit, and don't go looking for the sound.

Freaky Folklore is part of the Eeriecast Network. Find more shows at eeriecast.com.

If you like your monsters entirely human, listen to Deadly Intent. If you want new ones made up to keep you awake, try Carman's Crypt. Both are on the Carman Carrion channel on YouTube.

Does your family have a Sigbin story or a rule about shadows? Tell me in the comments.

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Every Saturday, a woman locks her door. Her husband swore he'd never open it.

This week on Freaky Folklore, we dive into the legend of Melusine, the medieval French water-fairy cursed to become a serpent from the waist down every Saturday. Melusine built castles overnight, bore ten sons marked by her supernatural blood, and became the folkloric founding mother of the House of Lusignan. Her
descendants ruled as kings of Cyprus and Armenia. Luxembourg, the Plantagenets, and other royal houses claimed her too. Then her husband broke his promise.

In this episode: a story of the stonecutter who came to tear down Melusine's castle, followed by the real history behind the legend. That includes Jean d'Arras's 1393 romance, Geoffrey Great-Tooth, the Château de Lusignan, the Luxembourg Melusina, and the twin-tailed mermaid that still turns up in pop culture.

Freaky Folklore is part of the Eeriecast Network. Find more shows at eeriecast.com.

More from Carman: Deadly Intent (true crime psychology) and Carman's Crypt (original horror fiction) on the Carman Carrion YouTube channel.



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Deep in the peat hills of Shetland, the old folk won't cross the green mounds after dark. Those hills belong to the trows: small, grey, limping hill-folk descended from the Norse trolls. They'll steal a fiddler for a night that lasts a hundred years, and they'll trade a healthy baby for a sickly changeling.

In this episode of Freaky Folklore, we go under the hill. First comes an original story. A wind-farm technician picks up a fiddle tune in the vibrations of the ground beneath a haunted mound. It's the unfinished song his father was playing the night he vanished, thirty years ago at Yule. Then we dig into the real Shetland and Orkney legends behind the trows:

Keep a knife by the door. Keep a light in the window. And if you hear music coming out of the ground, keep walking.



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On Christmas Eve, 1945, the Sodder family's home in Fayetteville, West Virginia, burned to the ground. Five of the ten children were never found. No remains were recovered, and the case was closed almost as quickly as it was opened. For decades, their parents refused to believe their children had died that night.

This is a preview from Deadly Intent, Carman's true crime psychology podcast. Every episode goes beyond what happened to ask why: what was going on in someone's mind that let them do the unthinkable, and what the evidence still leaves unanswered.

New episodes of Deadly Intent drop every Wednesday. Search "Deadly Intent" wherever you listen, hit follow, and start with the full episode on the Sodder Children.

Because intent doesn't lie. People do.

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