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Welcome back everybody! Today Janey is going to tell us a Victorian story about a super hot Irish doctor with a banshee on his back, and Max is going to tell us all about a female samurai's love test. Enjoy!

Janey’s Sources - The Banshee’s Warning

Fearsome Fairies: Haunting Tales of the Fae, edited by Charlotte Riddell

Max’s Sources - Of Ghosts and Goblins / The Test

“Of Ghosts and Goblins” by Lafcadio Hearn

Full free text of “The Test”

“Onna-Bugeisha, the Female Samurai Warriors of Feudal Japan”

“Onna-musha” on Wikipedia

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