Madness, blood and ladies! We talk all things bloody, from Freud to Pliny to the Red Grail to Queen Elizabeth the First to murdering an entire hive of bees. The Madonna / whore complex? Check. Horrible Norse mythology about men being scared of ladies, and gods being made out of spit? Check. Etymology that devolves into single entendre riddles about vegetables? We gotchu. Also, Lottie gets increasingly cross.
Games / books mentioned in this episode, for your gaming / reading pleasure:
- Cultist Simulator, by us
- Natural History, by Pliny the Elder + John Healey
- The Joy of Sex, by Alex Comfort
- Paradise Lost, by John Milton
- Various Norse mythology, which Kevin Crossley-Holland translates excellently
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