From the Vault: The Ancient and Occult History of the “A Christmas Story” Leg Lamp
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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🗓️ 21 December 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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The 1983 holiday film “A Christmas Story” warned us of the dangers associated with BB guns, bar soap and frozen flag poles – but it also introduced us to the Old Man’s prized leg lamp. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe dive into the deep, ancient and occult history of lamps and other objects shaped in the likeness of a human leg or foot. (originally published 12/23/2021)
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| 1:27.1 | Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. It is Saturday. So we have another vault episode for you. |
| 1:28.9 | This one's a bit older than some of the vault episodes that we roll out. This is an episode that originally published 12, 23, 2021. Seems like a |
| 1:35.6 | very long time ago, but I guess it wasn't really that long ago. This is our episode, the ancient |
| 1:40.3 | and occult history of the A Christmas Story leg lamp. Yes, the leg lamp from the 1983 |
| 1:45.6 | holiday film, A Christmas Story. We get into it. We talk about the deep ancient and occult |
| 1:51.7 | history of lamps and other objects shaped in the likeness of a human leg or foot. So it's a |
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