Episode 185: Special Halloween Episode: St. Peter Bind Them Parchment

Year of Polygamy Podcast

Religion & Spirituality, History, Education, Christianity

4.8 • 821 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Lindsay interviews Mormon historian Clair Barrus about the mystical parchments that the Smith family owned. He explains the symbols and the magical meanings behind them.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Year of Polygamy Podcast. I'm your host, Lindsay,
0:05.6	and I am excited to be podcasting for this special October 2020 Halloween special with my good
0:14.6	friend Claire Barris. Claire, can you say hello? Hello, everyone. So we had talked about this, gosh, how long ago did you come up with this idea for this?
0:25.6	You know, I think it was after Sunstone last year.
0:30.6	And yeah, I had been working on some of this stuff and I thought, you know, this would really be fun for Halloween.
0:36.6	But we really didn't have time to get one ready for last year. So here we are, doing it now.
0:45.3	Well, it's great because I have long wanted to do things for Halloween because I love Halloween.
0:53.3	It's my, it's the most wonderful time of the year.
0:56.3	I love it so much. I love spooky things. I like all of the nostalgia. And I like scary stories
1:03.3	in Mormonism and scary stories in our larger culture. So that's what we're going to talk about
1:10.7	today.
1:11.6	Why don't you kind of give us an introduction?
1:13.9	Oh, and actually for those who don't remember you,
1:17.2	Claire's been on the podcast many times,
1:18.8	but Claire, can you say a little bit about yourself?
1:23.3	Yeah, I dabble around in history a bit.
1:27.2	I do a thing called today in Mormon History. That's kind of a daily set of interesting tidbits about Mormon history. You can go to that at today in Mormon history.com.
1:40.8	I've got a couple of articles published and yeah, that's about it.
1:47.0	Okay, what are we talking about today?
1:49.0	Well, and let me point out that if you're just listening, you may want to switch over to the audio.
1:57.0	I've got some really cool images that will help illustrate this.
2:03.6	So we're going to embed that in the site and probably put it on YouTube.
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