Cannibalism & True Crime w/ Chelsea G. Summers
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
We’re joined this week by author Chelsea G. Summers to talk about the different forms of cannibalism throughout history, as well as patriarchy, misogyny, aging, and questioning what culture dictates. Be hungry, horny, and satisfied.
This week, Julia recommends Dead to Me, now available on Netflix.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about homicide, cannibalism, mental illness, violence against women.
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You can follow Chelsea G. Summers on her website or on Twitter at @chelseagsummers. And keep an eye out for her upcoming Audible exclusive book, A Certain Hunger.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirits Podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:03.9 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:07.1 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:07.7 | And I'm Julia. |
| 0:08.8 | And this is episode 128, cannibalism and true crime with Chelsea G. Summers. |
| 0:14.4 | So editor Eric was going through this episode and sent us a message saying that this is probably the chillest episode of spirits he's ever listened to, |
| 0:22.4 | which is saying something given our subject matter for this episode. Yeah, I mean, basically, |
| 0:26.4 | we just noticed that Chelsea had written a modern novel about a woman cannibal and was like, |
| 0:32.0 | that sounds really interesting and that she talks often about like feminism and aging and just |
| 0:36.1 | all kinds of really fascinating topics. So |
| 0:38.1 | we wanted to interview her. So in a way, this is not a traditional episode of spirits because we, |
| 0:43.1 | this is not like an exhaustive, you know, survey of like the history and mythos and like cultural |
| 0:48.8 | baggage of cannibalism, but more like a, you know, one person's understanding of these topics, her involvement and, you know, |
| 0:57.3 | conflicted feelings about true crime and really just like a kind of free ranging conversation |
| 1:01.9 | about being a woman in a world where crime is like a genre and a fact. And it's really fascinating. |
| 1:10.5 | Yeah. And that's not to say that we don't talk |
| 1:12.0 | about mythology in this episode. We do touch upon it in several points because cannibalism is |
| 1:16.7 | extremely tied to mythology and in particular stories about women in mythology. So I'm curious |
| 1:21.7 | to see what y'all think of this episode. I'm really excited about it. Me too. I'm also so |
| 1:26.9 | excited to have some new patrons |
| 1:28.4 | with us. Welcome to Morgan, Frankenisco, Abby L. Cincinnati, Abigail, Jacob, Flem, Isabel, and |
| 1:35.8 | Led Zefferlin. I like Led Zefferlin. It's a very good name. That's extremely good. And also |
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