We run on cuba if he is about which was there's no such thing as a fish in the bush. Now seriously is in these oxen dictionary of underwater life, says it right up as paragraph no six things: the hello and welcome to another episode of no such thing as a fish, a weekly podcast coming to you from the qr offices in covent garden. My name is dan schreiber, I'm sitting here with James Harkin and the marionettes in sky, and once again we have gathered around the microphone with our four favorite spooky facts from the last seven days, but this our halloween special and in no particular order here we go. Okay fact number one andy Murray fact is that until the year six three five, a d halloween, was on the twelfth of may

Well, I was it only twelve, the man! Why did we change it? What does anybody on twelve may, because it's halloween is the day before all saints day yeah? I was under the impression that that was the first in november. Yes, well basically halloween as part of the all hallo tied festival, three days which, as well as eve, halloween, all hallows day or all sides day and also state. It was introduced in six or nine a day, but it was on the thirteenth of my end of roma. Travel to roman do pilgrimages there, but in eight three five gregory, the fourth whose than the pope said that it should become the first of november and were not really sure why there is a theory that it was because of a wave adopting other religions or other traditional rights and make folding them into the church because are already was a clever middle of autumn yeah. That's a solid and it was the festival of the beginning of wine,

and there was a lot of death around there. It's also also assist spooky time spring, isn't spooky time. That's when life starts to happen in the sun's coming out at the when belgium spooky would be raised of his room, there's a theory that it was moved toward him, because when so many people with the rome ever got malaria, which is itself quite spooky zombie like happen, the pilgrims so, but it didn't used to, because obviously we ve transformed into a time of the undead an end. Lying, really those they asked spooky back there. So that might be. Why might have a nice and may now? There are amazing, hello in traditions, wish evolved from the old, remember the dead thing so trick or treating came from selling its original, not just children of his poor people and children. You got dotted all praying for people that people in exchange for cake- I've heard some other ideas about what a country can hear me to debate

so. He has one, for instance, they had mischief, knighton leads and profit in yorkshire and with children go wrong, causing trouble and the authorities would just let them often they say it's nobbut boats. Mischief night. Ok, though, is also a thing called hop tuna in the isle of man and that's how people wandering around armed with bits of turnip, singing and monks and demanding cash, and the idea is that these guys, from light yorkshire or isle of man or island or scotland, at all gone over to america during the You know whatever that was and that they brought it there and then it's come back over here. That's that's one theory behind trickled treats. While I thought it was a, I think it was originally a german tradition, but it was popular in pennsylvania, dutch communities in america, until the early twentieth century. There first on the council and its cool bell, sniffling, which I think should because it's just a good name, but it was a chris.

this tradition. I have been on christmas eve, but it's so similar. So basically, the teenagers of the community would dressed up as various different characters, fictional characters and they go round. Kids, houses and they'd scare, the kids and the kids would have to guess what they were dressed up ass. If they guessed right, they got a sweet. So, basically, there's lots of different theories to trickle. Trees is probably just something that builds up all over the world. Like it's an obvious thing: isn't it one night a year you go a bit crazy, like the by the perch: What movie would you like? Some of you? The first answer bobbing for apples, it's halloween tradition. Now, obviously it seems that you should be more valentine's day tradition, so it was a way of people selecting a future husband, so each apple, egypt and water and assigned a man's name, and then a bunch of women would work up plunge their faces into the water and the apple that they bit if a bit the apple the first time than they met the man who live happily ever after. If they bits the apple successfully, the second time, then he would caught her, but their love would fade away.

They, but the apple. The third time the relationship was doomed, needs to be that of physical bobby for apples, because maybe the monument mary will be Bob bob, always barbier only be possible without any old bob sounds like swinging. You know when you throw your car keys into a hat, but with more commitment. So we because haven't turned in these days into a scare mongering time where everyone thinks bobbing for apples were filled with razor blades and ends and drinks girls, and it was a big scare, yeah, yeah and and just general. You know, like you, gotta watch out now, and it's not safe to be on the streets that portends badly for the relationship. Doesn't it if the apple you pumped into the man's name is full of razor blades yeah, but I go to the first time, so I'm sure the nars will be successful. Have you guys heard of a thing called Kesha

It's spelled with a dollar sign in her name, that's okay, cool, because I read something about her, but I just wanted to check people have heard of her. I hadn't she had this one called supernatural to know: that's about ghosts! It's about her having sex with a ghost tour experience having sex with ghosts, what she does on a semi regular basis. Apparently she wants her to go to a a hypnotist therapist who told her tat. She had dead people living in her body and specifically in never reach, and so she had to have her vagina exercised, somebody to exhaust the ashes new dvd the vienna mccall bugger, there's a word for someone for the ghost has sex with people by carmen when it is such a bus he's accuracy or in the morning he says they, the female and male version, yeah yeah, the heavens and ghostbusters. Yes, it yeah yeah I'll robust yesterday, which had ghost bus tools written on it, which I think is an amazingly good waived,

they do ghostbusters it's better than colonists saki about I'm just quickly on the night, terrorism being assaulted by ghosts in your sleep. There's a folklore ass david offered to estimates that fifteen percent of people will experience that at some point in their lives. So don't genuinely. feel bad if you ve had it is. I want your kind of just kind of on the verge of waking up are on the verge of going to sleep in your consciousness comes back, but your body still asleep and see. You can't really set up a new kind of gap, it of a terror that you can't sit up. I think there's quite common thing. People believed that it likes. The depot believe that are being held in diagnosing consciousness is come back before the bodies woken up properly While I have a unique status, alertly, terrifying beside you know the number one palomino, humans would have the right formula which, still worse,

I thought I was going to be really surprising, like it's actually is rising by thought. It would be like other now, a super para costume, but an iphone and I made this unless the line of the most popular ones isn't there in america. This isn't there were seven mill, in children dresses witches in america. They share. They think- and this can be five point: eight million princesses, which is this a most, but has a scary the what this theory that the costumes comes from this tradition, which is in the middle ages, were churches with display their relics or hell is eve and ohio state, but if they didn't have any, they would let depression is dressed up as the sides instead. Is that which saint would you dressed up as on the saint Jerome? What did he look like? If I dressed up as saint Martin of tour, would I be allowed to do what he did, which was he went around? Exercising people are one of the ways he did. That was to put his hand down their throats push the spirit of that anus.

The wrong way about. If he's trying to exercise quiches need apparently there's a quarry, which is something like he. The spirit left knotty phil The trail behind. It is a time for fact, number two, and that is my bag. My fact this week is that which is used broomsticks to put hallucinogenic drugs up their bums. What turns out that a lotta historian suggests that the imagery itself is actually representative of what they were going through, which is that these two do hallucinogenic drugs and the tripping the flying that they used to do was actually fly to the mind of stuff going on inside their head, and it was all just one. Big drug trip is insane a drug called datura european drugs that you could get, which was a hallucinogenic and they just used to go through their mental landscape and the flying bit of it is just representative of what they were going through in there

Heads, I suppose, that's more logical than the much we flying what about the room while I catch the broom was a way of applying the data or drug which it was an application device for the bum a well. I suppose the tree, a supposition so all the imagery that you see is not them flying on a broom. It is using the broom as a apology for the drug. I called Jordan. The bergamo in the fifteenth century use one of the guys who made up erased about it said they anointed staff and then anointed themselves under the arms or in other harry places, which one could refer to be heard exactly what he meant. Yes, I do I just like that like that, because everyone dresses up as a witch and they have an impression of why they dressing opposite and it turns out there's a whole different connotation together. Everything- this is definitely true about the broom stay calm, because there must be some other theories about why

I did so. I found this out via a ethno biologist called wade. Davis, oh yeah, he's a guy who's. It has made extraordinary adventures. He's really great books in this was just a passage inside this book. The book is actually about zombies. On a trip, a heated to haiti, we went to five separate villages and in those villages they all use the same combinations of thing to create this thing where people were cited as being supposedly being zombies, so his eye there's that he did discover what makes somebody's in haiti and it's this potion. I like the idea of patients, that's em, so I was reading a sixty in sixteenth century spain. This physician, he rated a house basically which was occupied by what they thought was riches and he confiscated from it a pot full of a certain green ointment composed of hub, such as hemlock nitrate, henbane and mandrake from home of a couple of years of witchcraft.

As I say, I didn't last a sixteenth century. Drugs raid is examined. How well I've got some mandrake. I am a hamlet under the bed, the first woman in germany to run a post office was burned into which I wish she was full nugget running about us now or rise in the price of them. Now she was called cuts. Rina cannot hanno and no, she was. She was just a big member of the community and then she got used to being a which, as they often did, and then she was burned. Unfortunately, student or a number of witches or alleged witches who were killed in europe in the fifty three centuries as fifty thousand somewhere but light the salem which trial stout basically came as just someone accusing someone else and then went bigger and bigger and bigger, but ended when the wife of the mare or something like that got accused of being a witch and then suddenly the mail. And all this is all rubbish. You guys stop it bad till then the authority,

he's a kind of agreed to it all and then, as soon as like one of the wives of the main guys in the town is accused that suddenly they were like no no yep, definitely not true bloody politician and they still in papua new guinea that similar tradition of kind of hunting down, which is making people of witchcraft and thoughts mainly focused on men. At the moment, parent neo keyser has quite heavy focus on men, yeah and all When I was reading about this, I learned the difference when witchcraft and sorcery, which does make total sense. But what would you guess it was men and women, but as witchcraft is something that you are born with that you have a gift inside you. Three, you can learn that we could. All these goals are as, but only I m aware. One way of finding I if someone was a witch in africa, was administering poisons with chicken that mentioning the name of a suspected which, if the chicken dies than the suspects is a witch which it might be because the suspects his which or it might because you just poison that,

that's a stack legal system. You ve got the nineteenth century. There was a chicken that kept on laying egg saying that Christ was coming in the end of the world was nigh. delong already putting by this for a while, it was, and so was written on the eggs and eventually a guy went to investigate it. It turned out that it was being written on the eggs and then they were being shoved back up inside yeah enthusiasm have you heard of which bottles you would you'd bury them. This was in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. You would bury them to ward off, which is basically and you would fill up an ordinary bottle with with hair and urine and pins, and that was the person you wanted to protect. You would put their urine in and it would throw any spell they cast back on you and they keep finding these things

buried all over the place where it is needed, because that's almost like a spell in itself, isn't it yeah you're? Almost everyone, your own little bit of witchcraft, to get rid of the witch which makes you a which is well known as no running site eventually will all be, which is here, the pins acquire important witches. They may use of law in that in that spells the penda witches who are from my neck of the woods they were found to be, which is because one of them went to town to try and procured some pens, because I needed them for the spells ass this guy for some pens he said no, he walked away. She swore ammo, something he then had a stroke or a heart attack and they thought that sheet caused it that's why they were caught and then hanged for being a witch already me. Yeah. Brim is traditionally used in marriage ceremonies and a lot of cultures, because one n represents the phallic kind of male end and one end is the the bristly female end, but also

the youngest present, to get a patent on something as a little boy he's gotta painted on double headed broomstick, sam often of buxton darbyshire. He was three years old when he came up with it and by chance his father was patent law, Ok back number three, and that is just linsky. Yet my site is that the women he played the voice of reagan in the exorcist only agreed to play the part on the grounds that you have to priests in a sound booth at all times could be constantly drinking whisky chain, smoking, cigarettes and eating grew eggs who, incidentally, very similar to ours, right things are disturbing mentioned, gregori, while alien boys reasons. Obviously she had a major raspy angry voice in their guide, the priests. Well, because, as she does,

Neither yet, as you say, you want to do the whisky and cigarettes in the royal discussion that without would give further I voice, but she was an alcoholic, and she was drawing a line which she also addicted to roar, eggs and priests. Says you deliberation it's her because to make sure that you will, in falling off the wagon in the process of drinking the whisky. Oh, they weren't. That's the kind of exercise, any demons. Well, it's what I thought it was spiritual. So I've read very by the director of the produce that come under whose son interview he said that it was because she was now collect. But then I have also read that it might be because she wants to make sure no evil spirits could enter playing a part but

Wanna brothers, you didn't last week failed to credit half avoiding any access. This law it sounded like from when I read she didn't want to be credited initially because she just so I'm just doing voicing, and it was such a popular movie. In fact, I think, still to this day it was the highest heist grossing film, over the time that they warn about others had think adjusted for inflation yeah. I just did for inflation. That was the highest grossing film of ahead. So I think, as soon as that happen, she suddenly wanted to be credited. I am you know the scene where the girls neck spins round and that's beckoned play the s so the sound of her neck creaking around it was actually made by the directive, wallet, leather wallet and he just a twisted it round near the microphone, and that made this does not apply there. That he's such

each state that whenever we opened our late it makes his creed and measure the cobwebs clues. So he used to the directive is due in order to achieve the requisite levels of fear on the faces of the act is used to fire guns during filming. Ices at a height of blank. I could never tell if this stuff is true. What you read this about movies you into deeds I don't know why they did it. Ok in scream, drew barrymore, Z, opening scene and scream. You remember the movie where she's chased and she becomes the first victim of the the villain. Apparently, in order to keep her scared on sat where's craven would go around telling stories of animals being harmed because she loved- and that would put the fear and heard brig- is like no she's an actor. She knows how to act, scared, it's kind of insulting to the actors. well, but as yet, it's like, oh, you can't do a scared face. I'm going to have to pretend to shoot you

so an alien, the famous spoiler alert just bursting, see that what told about it beforehand- and I think I've read a bit more- I think they were told, but not in detail. They went out exactly how horrible it was going to be an ideal for cameras for the data they got, seized the rate the rails and horror of idea to rectify the brothers and otherwise at the alien movie, which is that they needed a shot of a cat. Looking scared, apparently that wasn't scary enough for some one in an alien costume to be there, what they had was a screen down, but the cat sitting. There is a cameras, foaming it lifted the screen and there was a dog sitting back and they didn't tell the captain had area dog, that's kind of insulting to the cow yea and that are not properly story. The access this wouldn't have been written if it weren't for grouchy marks, really think yet who wrote it invites instances the guy who did right right it only ever written comedy before then racist

he's a ease, cooled william classy and he went on. They show called. You bet your life we hosted by last year and he one ten thousand dollars which allow them to take some time off. More gruelling work, and I ask that right must believe who wrote to kill a mocking bird works on an airline booking desk. Maybe maybe she was a managing an ally, booking outfit and then she was given a sabbatical by her employer. That's when she wrote cataloguing, but wasn't kafka just the clock and then he just used to go home and right. I love. The idea of these great rice is actually doing other nan jobs. Here I address maritime is a thing in the latest, a fact, but we ve just on, which is that there are five hundred references to Jeff which also in his lifetime, which is a huge number for someone living at that time. No one of them says that he's a writer- and it's always said I wasn't me or something you think so, who is a good one? I'll get. You haven't, read the spice tail, o giant

because it was a five ice and in the shining when there's that really famously in the shiny, if you ve, seen a way ass to hack down the door with an axe prop skies originally made to a proposal that was really easy to hunt down and could even a fire fighting to down too easily so they had to get an actual door put in for him to damn it because he was too, as yours is a man who has drawn wow, that's cool, but a cool guy. Everything about eighty eighty was originally conceived as a horror movie was that yeah it was obstacles encountered. The third kind Spielberg wanted to do more and more alien stuff, but he wanted to do something darker more threatening the pleasant counters, and so he commission scraped and featured agents who could kill you just with one long. Bony fingers remember eighties finger and they made load of prototypes of them, the models of it and they basically look like

evil. It is, you know in gremlins the bad magua look a bit like a good one. That's basically unending. They realise that drew I'm always incapable of doing the requisite scared face. Ass, if they had to change those Steven, Spielberg came in and said animals or be. In a tie yeah? Can I tell you one quick thing about exorcisms? Are we going to move on shortly, but so this is the thing that the catholic church still has five or six hundred exorcists official ones, and one of them Gabriel, I'm off is the kingpin of them. He supposedly done one hundred. thousand yesterday, twenty times he had day here, but I, like the rapporteur, I am quoting easier than you think they are katy brand, the comedian she's to do them really J k. Brain used to be a part of a church in one of the things that she's to do was demon exercising. Hunt down the throat version, those I think it was an oracle can live. What do you have, I think, teaches I'll adele booking campbell

wrinkles? There's a lot of yelling like the power of cries? Compels you it's that sort of stuff and people talking and tongues, and saint hilarious ticket exercise up to four hundred people. Sometimes I think you can do them ensemble. If you're very good, she also once I decide to come on it's amazing, so I just wanted to tell you one thing I found from an article about these excesses conferences. The church has, during the conference the references to agree an excess is based in switzerland, recounted what experience he had. A border swissair flight to lesbians, he said had sat behind him on the plane soon afterwards. He said he felt satan's presence as he silently soldier tell the evil spirit through prayer. One of the women he said began grounding domestically and through chocolates at his head, We even asked how he knew the woman was possessed. He said once you hear, satanic grow, you never forget it. It's like smelling margarita pizza for the first time, something

forget margarita. You know what the first ever horses was. Eighteen ninety- I know it wasn't rose before that was it. It was a george melias. Maybe yeah. I got human, its long wasn't about two minutes long in and he followed it with another movie so school. I think the first one was called the haunted castle, yams animal, the second on the three minutes, long irreverence edna gone overboard and yeah. It is. I can't take this so the the second movie. This was the plot. A man tries to go to sleep, but is disturbed by a giant bug climbing up the bed onto his wall. He attacks the bug with a broom and disposes of it in a chamber pot in a compartment of his bedside table, How was it sank in horror movie ever made. Third horror movie ever made was a remaking of the haunted,

I felt like it was really the vigour of available as yet and not ferralti. That was the first version of dracula, but the first movie to have the name dracula run. It was indeed a belief in the twenty they did. This really interesting thing. With a maid dracula bite in the daytime. The english version and spanish film crew came in at night used all the same sex and made a spanish version of dracula, so they made it in tandem, which seems like really great idea if they using the same sets but they're using totally different. Also, it means that the whole of the british one has to be set during the daytime, which is probably not when truck killer only came out. Nor does it get out. Much of this measure is just a guy. He keeps intimating that he has a secret at night and we never see the actor who play them. Bela Lugosi, but he was buried in the cape that he wore in the dracula movie will say

nice logos first time anyway. The final act of the show james, ok, my fact is that the secrets of youth is drinking youngsters, blood grey thing to be condoning another broadcast. We should also know that in the next and his two priests awesome, youngsters vagina, open brackets. If your mouse closed brackets are also mice. So these are some studies done. Quite recently, where they ve transplanted young mice, blood into older mice and theyve reverse some of the signs of aging in these mice. What signs?

they still being racist and stuff. That's really incredible! It is amazing that not quite sure why they think this might be some some compounds in, though, which which help you, but it sam, like muscle, mass, it's the brain tissue, it's all sorts of all sorts of things. Why? Probably work in humans just for labour, but worth a try, not the ethics committee yeah. Well, I mean you couldn't really do it. Could you, but I don't think, there's any evidence that it works in human stricken other younger than me. yeah. I remember, though, is the theory that the queen mother was constantly have. No, what I have heard that there are, of course you heard that no, I really have an iron, maybe even different circles. There was the big I'm losing different crops circles. It is the big big public, but the queen, the queen mother, the reason she was able to stay old and alive,

alive, being the main on was that she's to have blood of the young Don't I by anyone? They never heard the auditing any normal people, as will the queen mother. There is a deadline from the telegraph queen mother has given eight our blood transfusion, which is when she was a hundred one, but it was, it was tell her recover from anemia. She had. She wasn't. recently by the end of the next of youngsters, ass ugly and it wasn't a medical research. Geographical society on looking on the wrong site might cause David. I don't call says people did he do, Try blood, transfusions, dioxins, didn't neighbours, I was in any way a safer, sensible thing to do and vote for weird stuff, like I think louis, the fourteen personal sean jean baptiste denny eastern, do blood transfusions to various with various things. in view of the same guy with coughs blood twice for because he was suffering from a mental illness, and he had very symptoms after this, like formatting passing black here and

censure, but for some reason I agreed to a third attend, at which point he died from the blood transfusions over. There is incredibly unsafe in those days, though, about blood types and stuff. but it turned out so then he was accused of killing the guy and then they ve tested as broad since the guy who died and it turned out that he was poisoned by arsenic, probably by motorbikes. I've who oversee sore and opportunity for re gathers blamed on that doctor man. The first documented case of any kind of transfusion was by pope innocent the eighth. He was a fifteenth century pope. He was supposedly given the board of three ten year old boys, but he took it by mouth. He didn't trust user into his blood's, rang the bell and also in its other. Maybe it's not true, and it's just like anti paypal, his new area with us written evidence we have of anyone taking someone else's blood lovers. Name pope innocent yeah, arriving a suggestion. That's not an anti paypal name. Is it papilla frailty? They called

okay in really witty. I do mix in those with esa the joke writer for the protestant societies yeah. I've read a bit more about this mouse experiment that oh yeah, really so the the young mice that they did the experiment with the three months old. The elderly. Mice, were eighty I'm sorry! I didn't think I thought it would be completely decrepit, but they didn't they did it, partly by sticking together their circulatory system here, which is an extraordinary idea and then, after the experiment, they that might have been treated. The animals have been treated remembered, how to find a hidden resting platform in a water maize better than the control, and this is the

These are my three days if you know this, it's not like the hampton court, maize anymore. It's a lot smaller these days. It is why nobody said the standard mouse test. These days is either a t shape or why shape or is a tub of milky water with a platform hidden somewhere under the surface, and they put the method and it has to swim desperately around until it can find the platform the easier arabas. It sounds easy. It's not easy at hampton court smaller anyway. Animals that drink blood, a tick can drink six hundred times its own body weight in blood in one sitting and it. So it's back blows up to that, like a balloon, scrape. Oh yeah, there's also a bird that drinks, blood vampire finches have evolved in the galapagos islands because it's quite tough climate outback them to survive and they brought other they can pack at the backs of other birds of booby birds. Parent name

and they can get this about. The interesting thing is that they don't mind yeah, they dont booby birds just sit back, and they does my they think that either it every eye, because there are a lot of the finches, so they might be sworn by the finches. So they worked out that they're gonna be killed by the knife oil, ten yeah that you're sitting there hazing it and they just save religiously justly.

Always the guerrillas, nor was it so. This is cool disagree while we're on vampire animals of bats. Obviously, while others, the convent about them, is the hairy legate them by bat and the white winged, vampire bat and the white winged one and they feed on birds and mammals, their trick forgetting chickens is they will approach a hen and thou mimic a check by doubling up to her brood patch, which is a bit of skin. On her and ass, I wish hedge she used to transfer heat the yes, she s and the handsomer thinks it's her baby cuddling up to her and said you just sit on the bat we're which then has it's all you can eat. Goofy might attract ahead into thinking that it is

That is bad, does also drink blood and young bedbugs transparency, the first meal. They have tons them read image headlines, mouth parts transparent as well, so you can see a little vein of blood going from scalp, to the head: louse ooh, that's cool yeah! Well, I remember in australia, headlights you'd always get headlights because you always in the bush and stuff the school. I went to at least were finally having today. We also had licensing area does that because of schools and kids, the bush, They all crazy. You can save. You see member one falling out of my head once Amigo and I was so that's a donation that work is well paid. Job is normally children playing and it has to be one had touching another. So if ever group photo obviously spread like wildfire, but it is also the idea that they prefer clean her. Today's here is just they just like her. I did. I gather just like a place where they

grab, some heron drink, some blood. They don't care if its dirty all right sounds like every minute is propagated by nine year olds. Recalcitrant your hopes, what's weird, though, is that they just stay exclusively here. They stay in your head hair. Where is pubic? Louse travel all over the body? You can get them in your eyebrows. You can get them in your eye lashes, but you don't get them in your hair and they are two separate species and they don't actually cross over very odd reading a book. The hits a book about parasites, and it says if you have pubic ice in your eyelashes. You ve probably done something to deserve that probably been in the bush. That's it! That's all our backs, thanks! So much listening to our halloween special. If you want to get in contact with us about the things we ve said in this podcast, you can get us all on at q. I podcast otherwise. You can get us individually on our other twitter handles I'm on a tribal and Andy James shaped anna. Can email put caused occupy dot com or you can have

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