Episode 180 - Burn Baby Burn . . . Effigies!

Squaring the Strange
29/07/2022 1h 10min Episodio 180
Episode 180 - Burn Baby Burn . . . Effigies!

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This episode is special because all three of us have personal experience -- in Santa Fe, the Black Rock Desert, or Lewes, England -- watching giant effigies burn down in a symbolic cleansing ritual reputed to have dark, murderous roots. Yet this ubiquitous form of expression is also clever, satirical, and a way to showcase public art and bring a community together. From Wicker Man to Zozobra, what kind of strangeness have humans conjured up, only to burn down?

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