Sup KOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKS! Here's a folkloric exploration of various "pig man" legends. From medieval lore to modern day cryptid encounters, we jump in the pigpen to get down and dirty with this particularly weird modern day legend with roots that stretch way, WAY back. PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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SOURCES:

* Claude Lecouteux - "Phantom Armies of the Night"

* Jacqueline Simpson & Steve Roud - "A Dictionary of English Folklore"

* Katharine Briggs - "An Encyclopedia of Fairies"

* Marina Warner - "From the Beast to the Blonde"

* Jan Bondeson - "A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities"

* Robert Chambers - "Book of Days"

* The Mabinogion - Twrch Trwyth and enchanted boar mythology

* Sabine Baring-Gould - "Curious Myths of the Middle Ages"

* Bengt af Klintberg - "The Vanishing Hitchhiker"

* Linda Dégh - "Legend and Belief

* David J. Skal - "The Monster Show"

* Jeffrey Jerome Cohen - "Monster Theory: Reading Culture"

* Regional “Pigman Road” folklore from New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Vermont.

* Angola Pigman - paranormal-strange.fandom.com

* https://www.newyorkhauntedhouses.com/real-haunt/pigman-road.html

* https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Pig-Man_of_Cannock_Chase

* https://www.reddit.com/r/Paranormal/comments/f5off7/cannock_chase_england_hauntingcreature/

* Pig-man of Cannock Chase? It’s the army telling porkies! - www.birminghammail.co.uk

* Terrifying seven foot 'pigman' spotted roaming notorious bigfoot hotspot - www.dailystar.co.uk

* Cabeza de chancho | Cryptid Wiki - cryptidz.fandom.com

* r/Cryptozoology on Reddit: What is a Chilean Cryptids?

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Just wanted to say farewell to a good friend. It kinda didn't seem right to just cram it into the middle of an episode. I also chose not to use his given name for the privacy of both his family and friends. There's also quite a bit I chose to omit, as it largely originates from a place of anger and feelings of helplessness, which (amongst other reasons) I didn't want to include in what's essentially meant to be an overall positive message.

The music is sampled from the track "What Is Best In Life", from the original film score for "Conan The Barbarian", which (to me at least) seems very on brand.

To a friend, a father, a son, a brother, and so much more, to so very many others. Not to mention a legend, who despite his having passed away, now lives on forever within the hearts and minds of all those that he leaves behind.

P.J.S.

(1983-2026...2026-ETERNITY)

Hidey-hidey-hidey-HOOOOOOOOOOOO YEAH! Sup you beautiful kooks! Here it is, the finale of the "Black Magic Academies" world tour! This episode covers: "DOMDANIEL", Mt. Longhu and the "Fangshi" ritual masters, Mt. Kurama and it's Tengu teachers, another (almost obligatory at this point) dip into "Gu/Kodoku Magic", the Azande witches of central Africa, the Siddhas and Nagas of MT. (mufuggin') KAILASH! (not to mention all the other various weird shit going on around that place!), and finally we end our journey in the Artibonite Valley of Haiti where we'll examine the voodoo secret society known as THE BIZANGO! All of this merely just sets the stage for the mindbending deep weirdness coming around the corner next episode so get your mind-holes ready! PLEASE TO ENJOY!

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SOURCES: holy shit...here goes...

The Discoverie of Witchcraft — Reginald Scot

The History of Magic — Éliphas Lévi

The Encyclopedia of Witches and Witchcraft — Rosemary Ellen Guiley

To Live as Long as Heaven and Earth — Robert Ford Campany

Daoism and Chinese Culture — Livia Kohn

Celestial Masters — Terry Kleeman

https://www.travelchinaguide.com/attraction/jiangxi/yingtan/longhu-mountain.htm

The Tengu: Demon Warriors of Japan — Stephen Turnbull

Japanese Demon Lore — Noriko T. Reider

https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e3903.html

Civilized Shamans — Geoffrey Samuel

The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep — Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

The Serpent Power — Arthur Avalon

Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande — E. E. Evans-Pritchard

The Serpent and the Rainbow — Wade Davis

Earth Lights — Paul Devereux

Passport to Magonia — Jacques Vallée

The Trickster and the Paranormal — George P. Hansen

A History of Magic, Witchcraft, and the Occult by Suzannah Lipscomb

https://www.sapienceinstitute.org/jinn-hypothesis/?scfm-mobile=1&b=1775520000000&b=1777944873297 [NOTE: Check this shit out, it's pretty awesome!]

Vallee, J. (1991). Revelations

Keel, J. A. (1970). UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse

Farah, D. (2026). The scariest UFO theory yet: They live underwater - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-F7aoChVKw

r/HighStrangeness

The Oriental Magical Practice of Onmyōdō and Its Checkered History - www.ancient-origins.net

The Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilization to 221 BC

Sorcery and Sovereignty: The Rise of a Local Religious Tradition in 16th-17th Century China by Kenneth Dean

The Cult of the Fox: Power, Gender, and Popular Religion in Modern China by Xiaofei Kang

The Chinese Ghost Festival by Te-ch'ao Mu and Stephen Little

Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (Liaozhai Zhiyi)

Daoist Master Zhuang: Chapter Three by Kristofer Schipper

The Taoist Body by Kristofer Schipper

Millenarian Rebellion in China: A Study of Secret Societies and Religious Movements by Chesneau and Blanc

White Lotus Teachings in Chinese Religious History by B. J. ter Haar

Kailash Mansarovar Yatra Resumes: 5 unsolved mysteries of Mount Kailash - timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Mount Kailash Mystery: 20 Shocking Unknown Facts of Kailash - himalayantrekking.com

The Unsolved Mysteries Of Mount Kailash - www.nativeplanet.com

r/AlternativeHistory on Reddit: Mount Kailash: The Forbidden Mountain of Myths and Conspiracy

The Unsolved Mysteries of Mount Kailash: Facts, Legends, and Theories - nepalboundarytrekking.com

Mount Kailash, Tibet: The Mysterious Abode of the Gods - www.mystreal.com

Secret Societies - link.springer.com

Haiti: Passage of Darkness - faculty.webster.edu

Africa Museum - the Bizango - theonearmedcrab.com

Bizango - www.monstropedia.org

Guardians of the Spirit World — www.houseofgoodfortune.org

Gang violence killed more than 5,600 people in Haiti in 2024: UN | United Nations News - www.aljazeera.com

Criminal Violence in Haiti - www.cfr.org

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