32: Boogeymen (The Girl Who Cried Tikolosh)

We’re back! Thank you for your patience and a thousand blessings upon your house. Now, pour yourself a delightful glass of curdled milk or blood (we won’t judge) and heed these warnings three! A South African sex pest, a beautiful murder bird wife, or a maniac with a hook for a hand might be lurking around the next corner! We’re talking boogeymen this week. Intruders that go bump in the night, judge your messy house, and then force-feed you baby food. A little lost? You’ll just have to listen. Segments: The Tikolosh, Schnabelperchten, and Cropsey with a Willem DaFoe appreciation interlude.

Content Warnings: Discussions of rape, gore, violence against children, violence against disabled peoples, kidnapping.

The Wyrd Sisters Podcast is written, recorded, and produced on Wurundjeri land. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land: the peoples of the Kulin Nation and pay our respect to their elders past, present, and emerging.

Music: “Halloween Creep” by Bruised via Envato

Sources:

Tikolosh:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTdIwEg5niQ
• ‘Needle Implantation Ascribed to ‘Tikoloshe.’” The Lancet, Vol. 342 , No. 8882, 1993, pp. 1304.’
• https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/tokoloshe  

Schnabelperchten:

· https://www.boneandsickle.com/tag/schnabelperchten/

· https://austrianadaptation.com/blog/perchten-austrias-wild-pagan-festival#:~:text=Perchten%20is%20an%20ancient%20pagan,through%20the%20centre%20of%20villages.&text=All%20up%20the%20costumes%20can,drumming%20in%20the%20village%20streets

· https://www.raurisertal.at/en/region/traditions-folk-customs/schnabelperchten/

· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MszCKZsGx44

Cropsey:

· https://allthatsinteresting.com/andre-rand-cropsey

· https://the-line-up.com/cropsey-monster-of-staten-island

· https://classicnewyorkhistory.com/history-of-willowbrook-and-the-terrifying-legend-of-cropsey/

· https://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/14/nyregion/body-unearthed-on-si-is-that-of-missing-girl.html

· https://thoughtcatalog.com/steven-casale/2015/03/creepy-history-cropsey-the-monster-of-staten-island/