Episode 128: A Hole in the Head (ad-free) (Patreon)

Most of our life is spent looking for things. Companionship, security, even our lost keys. But above all of that is our search for answers, and the way human beings have tried to find them has lead to all manner of frightening situations.

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Further Reading

1. “Ancient Fortune-Telling Shrines Unearthed in Armenia,” NBC News, February 2015, https://www.nbcnews.com/science/weird-science/ancient-fortune-telling-shrines-unearthed-armenia-n309691.
2. Robert P. Brittain, “Cruentation: In Legal Medicine and in Literature,” Medical History 9, n. 1 (1965), https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1033446/pdf/medhist00156-0094.pdf.
3. Barbara Tedlock, “Divination as a Way of Knowing: Embodiment, Visualisation, Narrative, and Interpretation,” Folklore 112 (2001): 189-97.
4. Owen Davies, Executing Magic in the Modern Era: Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine (Springer, 2017).
5. Dawson, L, Lander Johnson, B (ed.) & Decamp, E (ed.) 2018, “In Every Wound there is a Bloody Tongue”: Cruentation in Early Modern Literature and Psychology, In Blood Matters: Studies in European Literature and Thought, 1400-1700.
6. James Emmitt, Life and Reminiscences of Hon. James Emmitt: As Revised by Himself (Chillocothe: Peerless Printing, 1888).
7. P. J. Heather, “Divination,” Folklore 65, n. 1 (1954): 10-29.
8. Barbara Kalfs, “Pike Village was Scene of Bizarre ‘Trial by Blood,’” Chillicothe Gazette, https://www.newspapers.com/image/292865719/?terms=Louis%2Bsartain.
9. Steven P. Marrone, “Magic and the Physical World in Thirteenth-Century Scholasticism,” Early Science and Medicine 14, n. ⅓ (2009), 158-85.
10. “The Ordeal of the Bleeding Corpse,” Strange Remains, https://strangeremains.com/2015/07/26/the-ordeal-of-the-bleeding-corpse.
11. Andrew Pourciaux, “Trial by Ordeal: Submitting the Accused to Combat or Burning or Boiling Saved the need for Trials, Witnesses, or Evidence,” Vintage News, https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/05/25/trial-by-ordeal.
12. Arallyn Primm, “A History of ‘Trial by Ordeal,’” Mental Floss, http://mentalfloss.com/article/50161/history-trial-ordeal.
13. Mitchel P. Roth, Crime and Punishment: A History of the Criminal Justice System, (Cengage Learning, 2010).
14. George Lillie Craik, English Causes Célèbres, Or, Reports of Remarkable Trials, Volume 1 (Charles Knight & Company, 1840), pp. 269-296.