Spring Heeled Jack, Part 1 - Mythillogical Podcast
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Published 2020-11-25
On today's Halloween(-ish) episode, Charles and Crofty head out on the trail of the Terror of London, Spring Heeled Jack, and investigate how the industrial revolution may have lead to fears of a phantom prowling the streets of Victorian London.
38:52 Timepoint to skip the Hammersmith ghost origin section.
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All Comments (21)
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"Forgive you" for details and tangents? That's why I keep coming back, mates.
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Legend has it his boots were used by an apprentice of the grey fox to steal an elder scroll during the oblivion crisis
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My friend is in Hospice, and we both listen in the night until she falls asleep. Love your work, much appreciated. 💫
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Don't worry about the length of the episodes, the deep dive into the topic is the reason I listen. Looking forward to learning more in the next episode.
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An additional credit that we forgot to include in the video, a number of the newspaper images used in this video were taken from the British Newspaper Archive.
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Great show lads. When I was a young boy in the mid-60,s--and I was jumping about in the street. My grandma would shout to me----You look like Spring-Heeled Jack.
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Springheel Jack is featured in a short story - 'strawberry spring' from "Night Shift" by Stephen King, it was the first time I'd heard of him.
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From memory, the first time I remember hearing of Springheeled Jack was in the Skulduggery Pleasant books
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The difference between the Hamersmith Ghost attacks and the Springfield Jack attacks was the middle of the 1830's, during which Penny Dreadful stories (like the incredibly infamous Varney the Vampire) first hit it big. I bet the kitsch comic book element may have been drawn from these and circulating stories much like them, which brought nonlocal legends to the working class. That's just my unprofessional guess, but it is a notable coincidence.
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I believe tangents and and details is what gave birth to the first podcast !
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This all sounds like a more violent version of Scooby-Doo
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I remember them from Oblivion, well his boots xD
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Just dicovered your channel, a real treasure chest!
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An episode on the wild hunt would be very interesting as well. Osp did an halloween episode on this and before that I didn't know much about it except that it had some connections to Odin, but turns out the topic has so many variations that a 1-2h podcast could easily be filled
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I'm incredibly thankful for this series, as I've been using it to better understand just how myths come into being. It's been helpful in the creative writing process to create a more believable and worldly environment for characters to explore. Something that starts out as maybe an obscure animal or strange individual, its story grows in a multi-generational game of telephone to the point where it becomes this completely fantastical being.
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Your content is so well researched. You have an amazing ability to make deep content that has a great appeal to dummies like myself. Would love to hear your make a video on the codex gigas (devils bible) and aleister crowly. Love your work thankyou
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I like that the backgrounds for the time and the legends are given.
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Spring Heeled Jack...the original Parkour Master! Lol!
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Theres also many stories of him being in liverpool..well documented, over time..
