In 2006, Keith Ellison, a newly elected congressman from the state of Minnesota, and the first Muslim elected to Congress, took his oath of office on a Qur’an …
Episode 29: The Slavic Vampire
Long before Bill and Sookie, Bella and Edward, there was the upyr', a mythical creature that caused crops to fail, infants to die in their cribs, and plagues to …
Episode 28: “Demonic Possession” in Early Modern Europe
Descriptions of common men and women convulsing violently, speaking in tongues, expelling foreign objects like nails and pins, and levitating above their beds …
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