Boggart and Banshee: A Supernatural Podcast

Medieval X-Files: Experiencing the Impossible in the Middle Ages

January 01, 2024 Chris and Simon Season 3 Episode 4
Medieval X-Files: Experiencing the Impossible in the Middle Ages
Boggart and Banshee: A Supernatural Podcast
More Info
Boggart and Banshee: A Supernatural Podcast
Medieval X-Files: Experiencing the Impossible in the Middle Ages
Jan 01, 2024 Season 3 Episode 4
Chris and Simon

Chris and Simon cross swords over a medieval X-files collection: necromancers, monsters emerging from graves, an encounter with a fairy-like Woman in White, the walking dead, and, best of all, a trustworthy demon named Oliver, all found in Caesarius of Heisterbach’s thirteenth-century Dialogue on Miracles. Although Caesarius’s purpose was to instruct Cistercian novices, these stories of medieval high strangeness can still delight the Fortean, the anomalist and anyone else interested in the supernatural. So step into the cloister, dear friend...

Show Notes

Chris and Simon cross swords over a medieval X-files collection: necromancers, monsters emerging from graves, an encounter with a fairy-like Woman in White, the walking dead, and, best of all, a trustworthy demon named Oliver, all found in Caesarius of Heisterbach’s thirteenth-century Dialogue on Miracles. Although Caesarius’s purpose was to instruct Cistercian novices, these stories of medieval high strangeness can still delight the Fortean, the anomalist and anyone else interested in the supernatural. So step into the cloister, dear friend...