94 episodes
Styx and Bones with Chelsea and Tenn Chelsea and Tenn
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4.6 • 87 Ratings
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Come join your ghost hosts Chelsea and Tenn as we study hellenism, ancient magic, death, the paranormal, witchcraft and more!
Chelsea is a professional evidential psychic medium, High Priestess to King Hades and Italian Folk Witch. She also leads paranormal investigations through her ability to see and hear spirits and is a professional necromancer.
Tenn is an archaeologist and has her PhD in Art History who specializes in Weaponry and Combat Iconography. She teaches ancient art history with a focus on religion, mythology and ancient practices.
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Episode 95: WRATH OF THE GODS: HADES AND PERSEPHONE
Welcome to WRATH OF THE GODS a new series here on our podcast! Today we're diving into the mythology of King Hades and Queen Persephone and their most wrathful stories.... but, did the mortals in these tales deserve it?
High Priestess Chelsea and Dr K. are entering the ring and you get to decide which mortal in these myths received the worst punishment for their crimes!
Who do you think got it worse? Pirithous or Sisyphus!
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Episode 94: Gatekeepers,Tomb Guardians and Curses of the Dead
We're talking all things gatekeepers of the cemeteries and tomb guardians in the ancient world - what are they and is Cerberus considered a gatekeeper? Guess what... so are SIRENS!
Your ghost hosts are then describing how they would want their tombs to look and Dr K. might be inserting poison darts and ancient riddles in hers.
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Episode 93: Curses, Demons and Love Triangles
Welcome back to Styx and Bones!
Would you summon a demon or send a curse tablet to the underworld to scorn a lover, out of jealousy or for revenge? Well guess what... the ancients and not so ancients did and still do!
Today we're diving into demonic curse tablets. greco-roman curse tablets invoking Hekate and Persephone and more!
Let us know what you think of some of these tablets? Professional, unhinged, justified or fraud?
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Episode 91: Folklore of the Strega, Strzyga, Witches and More!
Hi everyone and welcome back to Styx and Bones with Chelsea and Tenn!!
Today we're talking about the folklore of witches, STREGA, and the Strzyga. Ancient communities would protect themselves from this folkloric figure and we're deep diving into Slavic folklore today.
We're also discussing the word Strega in the Italian sense, Italian Folk Magic and more!
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Episode 90: The Queens of Greek Myth | Jealous Wives or Powerful Rulers?
Hi everyone and welcome back to Styx and Bones with Chelsea and Tenn!!
Today we're talking about the powerful queens of Greek myth - Hera, Persephone and Aphrodite and taking a closer look at their craziest stories and were they actually just jealous women or scorned lovers?
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Customer Reviews
Amazing!
Listening to your comparisons between Catholicism and other religions makes me want to actually discuss with you. I have a degree in History/Art History with a minor in History of Religion and I love listening to you so much. Tenn’s intelligence of art history and Chelsea’s basis in Italian folklore/Catholicism gives me the same feeling that I got in college. A+ podcast!
Best Hellenism and Paranormal Podcast!
This podcast is great for both entertainment and educational purposes. I feel like Tenn and Chelsea are my besties! I also really love that while their interests intersect, their knowledge and experiences complement each other very well and balance the show. Love my spooky ghost hosts!
- @georgiageorvanna
Research needed
This show came highly recommended to me by many folks so I gave it a listen. I like some of the core ideas they hold & agree with them on points such as mental health & healing (yes!) However, while the hosts are knowledgeable in certain areas there are some areas where they have “hot takes” which are uninformed making me wish they did more research beforehand. In one episode they share why they don’t agree with a specific practice/ belief system speaking from a negative personal experience they had (which is valid & so appreciated that they brought attention to a problematic side of the practice in modern day). However they then use their experience with a problematic modern day practitioner as a blanket statement of “this is how this particular system works overall” which is untrue making it an issue; they would have know this was untrue if they had done research. Despite continually saying “we have no issues if you practice this” they then followed up with a long list of uninformed opinions on why the practice is a problem. And while they had one small historical fact correct in regards to the practice (the decade it came to exist), that seemed to be the only piece of information they got right. They continued to make assumptions without looking into cultural or historical context for how the practice came to be, how the culture/ country of origin reflects in the practice & how it’s been twisted in modern day becoming problematic.