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Our Advent Calendar (on Instagram) this year takes the form of a journaling game where day by day you will construct a saint's life for a very unusual individual.

See how to play at medievaldeathtrip.com/lscc2025/ and find the game on Instagram @medievaldeathtrip or search IG for #MDTAdvent25.
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December 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
For our Patreon patrons: a Thanksgiving treat in the form of an appendix to Ep. 118, in which we hear more from Sir Walter Scott on the link between fairy folklore and witchcraft in early modern Scotland.

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Woodcut of a coven of witches dancing with demons from Nathanial Crouch's Kingdom of Darkness (1688)
November 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Finally, after unexpected delays (spelled P-N-E-U-M-O-N-I-A), our eleventh anniversary is here. Join us as we trace the folkloric history of the redcap from the 21st century back into the 12th. It's Ep. 118: "Concerning Redcaps."
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Detail from the Maastricht Hours, British Library Stowe 17, fol. 260v.
November 23, 2025 at 11:37 PM
As we plunge into the middle of spooky season, we take a little trip to Hell with the Venerable Bede and then get an infernal FAQ with Gregory the Great. It's Ep. 117: Concerning More 8th-Century Visions of Hell.
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October 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Happy Labor Day weekend -- you can't get any more relaxed than dead! Here is Ep. 116, in which we tour the afterlife with two accounts from the Venerable Bede.
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August 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Our next episode (#116) is coming soon; here is its riddle to puzzle over in the meantime:

"A bristly mother gave me birth, they say, / And now above my verdant food I stay, / My name, too, is a god's, with the first sound away."
August 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
For our Patreon supporters, an appendix to Ep. 115 ("The Voyage of the Uí Corra" Part 2) is now available. This time, we visit another strange island on a less saintly journey, following the Red-Rose Knight to the Island of Women, from the Elizabethan book by Richard Johnson.

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July 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
This episode, we finally enter the open ocean with the Uí Corra and their fellow pilgrims as they explore strange new lands, seek out new afterlives and new sects, and boldly go where many other saints and heroes of Irish legend have gone before.

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The Voyage of the Uí Corra (Part 2)
This episode we finally enter the open ocean with the Uí Corra and their fellow pilgrims as they explore strange new lands, seek out new afterlives and new sects, and boldly go where many other saints...
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June 26, 2025 at 11:48 PM
In this episode, we embark on another Irish adventure with the first part (of two) of "The Voyage of the Uí Corra," in which we don't actually set sail until the final paragraph.

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May 3, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Happy St. Patrick's Day! Today we complete the project we started back in episodes 68 & 69 to present all the canonical texts written by St. Patrick with his Epistola ad Coroticum.

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St. Patrick's Letter to Coroticus | Medieval Death Trip
For this St. Patrick's Day, we finally present the last canonical text written by St. Patrick, his letter to Coroticus, completing the series we began in Episode 68 with the first half of Patrick's Co...
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March 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Oh no, it's Valentine's Day, and you forgot to get any valentines to hand out! Never fear, here are some free Medieval Death Trip valentines you can use. Just follow the link below, download the PDF, print, cut, and address on the back!
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MDT Valentines 2025 | Medieval Death Trip
Oh no, it’s Valentine’s Day, and you forgot to get any valentines to hand out! Never fear, here are some free Medieval Death Trip valentines you can use. Just download the PDF, print, cut, and address...
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February 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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In "The Loose Hanged" the Fratres Herodoti must find a runaway criminal who survived their (first) hanging.

The idea for this Rosewood Abbey mystery came from the episode "In the Shadow of the Gallows Pole" by @medievaldeathtrip.bsky.social.

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MDT Ep. 90: Medieval True Crime IV: In the Shadow of the Gallows Pole | Medieval Death Trip
We finish off our Medieval True Crime miniseries with a look at two hangings from the year 1484 and explore some of the practices surrounding and meanings of hanging as a mode of execution in medieval...
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January 24, 2025 at 11:42 PM
In our new episode, we take a deeper look at the legend of St. Kenelm, murdered prince. We also learn what it means to "crab the parson." It's Ep. 112: "Concerning the Murder & Miracles of Kenelm of Mercia."

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Concerning the Murder and Miracles of Kenelm of Mercia | Medieval Death Trip
This episode, we go into more depth with the legend of St. Kenelm (Cynehelm) and his jealous sister Quendrida (Cwenthryth). We also learn what it means to "crab the parson." Today's Text - "The Legend...
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February 10, 2025 at 2:52 AM
First episode of 2025 coming soon! Here is its riddle:
"She's leaving town now, and tossing cakes behind her." What is being described?
February 1, 2025 at 6:43 PM
An appendix to Ep. 111 is now available for our Patreon supporters -- an Edwardian doctor surveying theories, ancient and modern, of unusual fetal development. www.patreon.com/posts/append...
Appendix to Ep. 111: "Origins of Medical Monstrosities" (1912) | Medieval Death Trip
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December 24, 2024 at 4:37 PM
We continue our discussion of marvels in the Middle Ages with another dip into William of Malmesbury. It's Ep. 111: "Concerning Conjoined Twins, Some Incorruptibles, & Royal Murders."

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Concerning Conjoined Twins, Some Incorruptibles, and Royal Murders | Medieval Death Trip
We continue on from last episode's look at the Green Children of Woolpit with a further consideration of what it meant to wonder at a marvel in the middle ages, with additional illustration of some wo...
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December 15, 2024 at 12:47 AM
We're about to kick off the festive season with Episode 111, so here is its mystery word: Glop.

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November 29, 2024 at 10:58 PM
We celebrate our 10th anniversary with a look at one of the most famous episodes in medieval weird history, the Green Children of Woolpit -- and also hear the other, less famous prodigies their story was originally presented alongside, including a Suffolk "merman."
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Concerning the Green Children of Woolpit and Other Prodigies | Medieval Death Trip
This Halloween marks our 10th anniversary, and we observe it by hearing the earliest written accounts of one of the most well-known pieces of medieval weird history: the Green Children of Woolpit -- a...
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November 1, 2024 at 1:22 PM
Our Halloween episode approaches! Here is its riddle:
"I have a chapple all in green, forty soldiers be therein & every soldier cloathed in white, ile give ye a groat & tell me it right."
October 31, 2024 at 1:00 AM
As if world events weren't enough to make you pessimistic about the state of humanity, this episode we hear from Cardinal Lotario di Segni (the future Pope Innocent III), who provides exhaustive detail on just how rotten human existence really is.
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Concerning the Miseries of the Flesh according to Pope Innocent III | Medieval Death Trip
In this episode, we explore the tradition of contemptus mundi with a text all about how horrible it is to be a human being, On the Misery of the Human Condition, written by Pope Innocent III (when he ...
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October 20, 2024 at 12:41 AM
Now available for our Patreon supporters: an Appendix to Ep. 108 in which we hear some of the canons of Lateran IV.
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MDT Ep. 108 Appendix: "Some Canons of Lateran IV" | Medieval Death Trip
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October 1, 2024 at 7:31 PM
We continue from our last episode into the years 1212-1214 in the Melrose Chronicle, where we come to the end of the interdict, and perhaps the prophesized end of King John's true sovereignty.
It's Ep. 108: Concerning the End of the Interdict and a Vexatious Prophet
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MDT Ep. 108: Concerning the End of the Interdict and a Vexatious Prophet | Medieval Death Trip
We continue from our last episode into the years 1212-1214 in the Melrose Chronicle.
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September 19, 2024 at 3:02 AM
Ep. 108 is coming soon. Here is its riddle: "Great deeds with little strength I do,
I close the open, ope the closed for you.
I keep the master's house, the master keeps me, too."
September 16, 2024 at 6:12 PM
We head back to the Melrose Chronicle for a survey of some particularly bad years. It's Ep. 107: "Concerning Portents, an Interdiction, Persecutions, Heresy, and a Year of Bloodshed."
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MDT Ep. 107: Concerning Portents, an Interdiction, Persecutions, Heresy, and a Year of Bloodshed | Medieval Death Trip
We return to the Melrose Chronicle with a notably nasty run of years from 1205 to 1211. We also consider why people -- medieval and modern -- are so captivated by bad news. Today's Texts: The Chronicl...
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August 18, 2024 at 12:03 AM
The editing team (pictured) is hard at work polishing the new episode, so here is its mystery word to consider in the meantime: ebiresse.
August 17, 2024 at 7:33 PM