Haunted Dolls
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Break out your ghost detectors and specter-o-meters. Because we’re talking about HAUNTED DOLLS this week! Julia breaks down the historical links to the haunted dolls of today, and then lays out some of her favorite unique examples to scare Amanda.
This week, Julia recommends the new podcast Passenger List!
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about child death, car accidents, possession, and systematic racism.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spearth podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:03.8 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:06.9 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:07.4 | And I'm Julia. |
| 0:08.2 | And this is episode 149, Haunted Dolls. |
| 0:10.8 | Thank you for letting me talk about haunted dolls for my birthday. |
| 0:13.5 | Oh, you're welcome. |
| 0:14.0 | Julia, happy birthday plus one. |
| 0:16.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:16.4 | Plus one, yes. |
| 0:17.2 | As we're recording it, it is my birthday. But if it is October 9th when you're listening |
| 0:21.1 | to this episode, it's the day after my birthday. And it doesn't mean anything. I've always been |
| 0:25.6 | jealous that on your birthday, you can do, like, fun outdoor activities and also dress in like a cool |
| 0:30.3 | fall way versus in the depths of February. One cannot. But we drink hot toddies and we can sit by a |
| 0:36.1 | fireplace for your birthday. That's very |
| 0:37.9 | true. That's very true. Speaking of which, Julia, tell us what drinks you made as we record this |
| 0:41.5 | episode for your birthday. Yes. So we talk about them a little bit more after the refill in this |
| 0:45.8 | episode, but I made dirty Shirley's, which is a Shirley temple, but reserve your judgment. |
| 0:51.4 | Nasty. Yeah. No, it's, it's extremely delicious. No, it's very, very delicious. |
| 0:55.4 | I made them with a hybiscous grenadine. |
| 0:57.3 | It was extremely good. |
| 0:59.0 | And because Haunted Dolls is kind of like a childhood thing that is also fucked up, I figured |
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