S2 E11. SEA PART II – Charlesfort

February 11, 2021Casting Lots: A Survival Cannibalism Podcast Leave a comment

Religious turmoil. Espionage. Mutiny. Bad accents. This is the story of Charlesfort – an early French attempt to establish a colony in North America.

CREDITS

Written, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis.

Theme music by Daniel Wackett. Find him on Twitter @ds_wack and Soundcloud as Daniel Wackett.

Logo by Riley. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @tallestfriend.

Casting Lots is part of the Morbid Audio Podcast Network. Network sting by Mikaela Moody. Find her on Bandcamp as mikaelamoody1.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Access Genealogy. (n.d.). The French Colony of Charlesfort. Available at: https://accessgenealogy.com/south-carolina/french-colony-of-charlesfort.htm
Bell, S.M. (2012). ‘France’s Lost Colony: One of ‘Em, Anyway’, je parle américain, 17 May. Available at: https://jeparleamericain.com/2012/05/17/frances-lost-colony-one-of-em-anyway/
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Meide, C. (2014). Historical Background Part I: French Colonization in Florida, 1562-1565. Available at: https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/14lostfleet/background/history-pt1/history-pt1.html
Quirion, K.R.T. (2020). ‘The Story of a Failed French Settlement in 16th Century North America: Charlesfort’, History is Now Magazine, 31 May. Available at: http://www.historyisnowmagazine.com/blog/2020/5/31/the-story-of-a-failed-french-settlement-in-16th-century-north-america-charlesfort#.X0kAP8hKjIU=
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Saraceni, J.E. (1996). ‘Charlesfort Identified’, Archaeology, 49(5). Available at: https://archive.archaeology.org/9609/newsbriefs/charlesfort.html
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Thompson, C. (2015). From Charlesfort to Jamestown: French and English Imperial Efforts in Early American History. M.A. Thesis. College of William and Mary. Available at: https://scholarworks.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6130&context=etd

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S2 E10. SEA PART I – The SS Rooseboom

February 4, 2021Casting Lots: A Survival Cannibalism Podcast Leave a comment

This week we return to the Pacific theatre of WWII, where Dutch steam-ship Rooseboom is in the process of evacuating 500 passengers from Padang to Ceylon.

CREDITS

Written, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis.

Theme music by Daniel Wackett. Find him on Twitter @ds_wack and Soundcloud as Daniel Wackett.

Logo by Riley. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @tallestfriend.

Casting Lots is part of the Morbid Audio Podcast Network. Network sting by Mikaela Moody. Find her on Bandcamp as mikaelamoody1.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Allen, T. and N. Vleggeert. (2019). ‘SS Rooseboom (+1942)’, Wrecksite. Available at: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?17527
Brooke, G. (1990). Singapore’s Dunkirk. London: Leo Cooper.
Gibson, W. (2007). The Boat. Burrough on the Hill: Monsoon Books.
Gladstone, M. (2017). Largie Castle, A Rifled Nest. Southerness: Firefallmedia.
Kingshott, J.B. (n.d.). Robert William George Kingshott. Available at: https://www.kingshott.info/robert-w-g-kingshott
Pether, M. (2011). SS. Rooseboom. Available at: https://www.roll-of-honour.org.uk/evacuation_ships/html/s__rooseboom_history.htm
Pether, M. (2013). ‘SS. ROOSEBOOM – Sunk by Japanese submarine number I-159 on 1st March 1942’, South African Military History Society, May 2013. Available at: https://www.samilitaryhistory.org/diaries/roosboom.html
‘SS Rooseboom’. (2020). Wikipedia. Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Rooseboom
The Times. (2005). ‘Walter Gibson’, The Times, 27 April. Available at: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/walter-gibson-m3vb6x9pvnt
Turner, D. (2019). Be Grateful: Brighton College’s Fallen 1939–45. Oxford: Bloomsbury.
Weintraub, R. (2015). No Better Friend. New York: Little, Brown.

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S2 E9. LAND PART VII – The First Crusade

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1098. Frankish knights reach the city of Ma’arra. As the crusaders surround the city walls, in an unusual reversal of convention, this time it’s the besiegers who find themselves desperate for food.

CREDITS

Written, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis.

Theme music by Daniel Wackett. Find him on Twitter @ds_wack and Soundcloud as Daniel Wackett.

Logo by Riley. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @tallestfriend.

Casting Lots is part of the Morbid Audio Podcast Network. Network sting by Mikaela Moody. Find her on Bandcamp as mikaelamoody1.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Andrea, A.J. and A. Holt. (2015). Seven Myths of the Crusades. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett.
Asbridge, T. (2005). The First Crusade. London: The Free Press.
Heller, S. (2011). ‘Terror in the Old French Crusade Cycle: from Splendid Cavalry to Cannibalism’. Re-Visioning Terrorism: An Interdisciplinary and International Conference, Purdue University, Indiana, 8-10 September 2011. Available at: https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1021&context=revisioning
Heng, G. (1998). ‘Cannibalism, the first crusade, and the genesis of Medieval Romance’, Differences, 10(1), pp. 98-174. Available at: http://clworldhistory.weebly.com/uploads/1/0/3/3/10332912/cannibalism_and_crusades.pdf
Kostick, C. (2008). ‘Pauperes and the first crusade: from Antioch to Jerusalem’, in The Social Structure of the First Crusade. Leiden: Brill, pp. 131-158. Available at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctt1w8h1gw.9?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
Le Strange, G. (1890). Palestine under the Moslems. London: Alexander P. Watt. Available at: https://archive.org/details/palestineundermo00lestuoft/page/n3/mode/2up
Maalouf, A. (2012). The Crusades Through Arab Eyes. London: Saqi Books.
Rubenstein, J. (2008). ‘Cannibals and crusaders’, French Historical Studies, 31(4), pp. 525-552. Available at: http://courses.washington.edu/holywar/Links_files/Cannibals%20and%20Crusaders.pdf

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S2 E8. LAND PART VI – Alfred Packer

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Colorado. 1883. Alfred Packer is standing trial. His alleged crime? Luring five men into the mountains with the intention of murdering them and stealing their belongings, then eating their bodies when food ran out.

London. 2021. Casting Lots Podcast is here to answer the question once and for all: Alfred Packer, guilty or not guilty?

CREDITS

With thanks to Emily for transcription help.

Written, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis.

Theme music by Daniel Wackett. Find him on Twitter @ds_wack and Soundcloud as Daniel Wackett.

Logo by Riley. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @tallestfriend.

Casting Lots is part of the Morbid Audio Podcast Network. Network sting by Mikaela Moody. Find her on Bandcamp as mikaelamoody1.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Adams, C. (1874). ‘A party of miners on the plains kill and eat each other’, National Republican, 26 May, p. 5. Available at: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86053573/1874-05-26/ed-1/seq-5/#words=Packer
Bailey, D.P. (2009). ‘Solving the American West’s Greatest Mystery: Was Alferd Packer Innocent of Murder?’ [PDF] Available at: https://web.archive.org/web/20130117101738/https://www.museumofwesternco.com/media/cms/includes/pathways_article_packer_solve.pdf
Benson, K. and M. Benson. (2000). Alfred “Alferd” Packer. Available at: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/785/alfred-packer
Colorado State Library. (n.d.) Alferd Packer: Notorious Cannibal. Available at: https://www.coloradovirtuallibrary.org/digital-colorado/colorado-histories/beginnings/alferd-packer-notorious-cannibal/
Colorado Tourism Office. (n.d.) Alfred Packer. Available at: https://lakecity.com/alfred-packer/
Curry, A. (2002). ‘Case of the Colorado Cannibal’, Archaeology, 55(3). Available at: https://archive.archaeology.org/0205/abstracts/cannibal.html
Daily Arizona Silver Belt. (1907). ‘Scout who ate human flesh dies’, Daily Arizona Silver Belt, 27 April, p. 1. Available at: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87082863/1907-04-27/ed-1/seq-1/#words=Alfred+Packer
Di Stefano, D. (2006). ‘Alfred Packer’s World: Risk, Responsibility, and the Place of Experience in Mountain Culture, 1873-1907’, Journal of Social History, 40(1), pp. 181-204. Available at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4491860
Dobson, G.B. (n.d.) Fort Fetterman. Available at: http://www.wyomingtalesandtrails.com/fetterman.html
Elk County Advocate. (1874). ‘A White Cannibal’, Elk County Advocate, 1 October, p. 4. Available at: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026259/1874-10-01/ed-1/seq-4/
Herald and Tribune. (1885). ‘A cannibal’s trial’, Herald and Tribune, 19 November, p. 1. Available at: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85033429/1885-11-19/ed-1/seq-1/
History.com Editors. (2020). ‘“Colorado Cannibal” Alferd Packer is paroled’, History, 6 January. Available at: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/cannibal-alfred-packer-is-paroled
Idaho Semi-Weekly World. (1883). ‘The Colorado ghoul’, Idaho Semi-Weekly World, 1 May, p. 2. Available at: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84022135/1883-05-01/ed-1/seq-2/
Kansas City Journal. (1897). ‘Packer asks pardon’, Kansas City Journal, 12 September, p. 11. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86063615/1897-09-12/ed-1/seq-11/
Las Vegas Daily Gazette. (1883). ‘Callous cannibal’, Las Vegas Daily Gazette, 18 March, p. 1. Available at: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90051703/1883-03-18/ed-1/seq-1/#words=Alfred+Packer
Las Vegas Daily Gazette. (1883). ‘Packer packed’, Las Vegas Daily Gazette, 14 April, p. 1. Available at: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90051703/1883-04-14/ed-1/seq-1/
Museums of the San Luis Valley and Southern Colorado. (n.d.). Alferd Packer – “The Colorado Cannibal”. Available at: https://www.museumtrail.org/alferd-packer.html
National Republican. (1883). ‘An American cannibal’, National Republican, 13 April, p. 1. Available at: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86053573/1883-04-13/ed-1/seq-1/
Neihart Herald. (1899). ‘Alfred Packer, the “man eater”’, Neihart Herald, 12 August, p. 2. Available at: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85053323/1899-08-12/ed-1/seq-2/#words=Alfred+Packer
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Schechter, H. (2015). Man-Eater. London: Head of Zeus.
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S2 E7. LAND PART V – Count Ugolino

January 14, 2021January 14, 2021Casting Lots: A Survival Cannibalism Podcast Leave a comment

Did you know that there’s survival cannibalism in Dante’s Divine Comedy? And it’s based on a true story? This week, we look at the infamous ‘Cannibal Count’, Ugolino della Gherardesca.

CREDITS

Written, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis.

Theme music by Daniel Wackett. Find him on Twitter @ds_wack and Soundcloud as Daniel Wackett.

Logo by Riley. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @tallestfriend.

Casting Lots is part of the Morbid Audio Podcast Network. Network sting by Mikaela Moody. Find her on Bandcamp as mikaelamoody1.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Alighieri, D. (1997). Divine Comedy, Longfellow’s Translation, Hell. Translated by H.W. Longfellow. Urbana, IL: Project Gutenberg. Available at: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1001/1001-h/1001-h.htm
Benigni, P. (2008). ‘Ugolino della Gherardesca: cronaca di una scoperta annunciata’, Archeologia Viva, 128, pp. 64-67. Available at: https://www.archeologiaviva.it/2976/ugolino-della-gherardesca-cronaca-di-una-scoperta-annunciata/
Bentley, R. (1864). ‘Count Ugolino of Pisa’, in Bentley, R. (ed.) Bentley’s Miscellany. London: Chapman and Hall; v. 55, pp. 173-178.
Casina Rosa, G. (2016). ‘Of starvation and cannibalism in Pisa’, At Home In Tuscany, 20 October. Available at: http://www.athomeintuscany.org/2016/10/20/starvation-cannibalism-pisa/
Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. (2019). ‘Guelf and Ghibelline’, in Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. Available at: https://www.britannica.com/event/Guelf-and-Ghibelline
Herzman, R.B. (1980). ‘Cannibalism and Communion in Inferno XXXIII’, Dante Studies, 98, pp. 53-78. Available at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/40166287

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S2 E6. LAND PART IV – The Great 14th Century Famine

January 7, 2021Casting Lots: A Survival Cannibalism Podcast Leave a comment

Climate change, food shortages, calls for Scottish independence and plague on the doorstep… The 14th century was a very different time.

This week, Alix looks at the Great Famine that struck Northern Europe in the early 14th century.

CREDITS

With thanks to Dr Wingard for invaluable research help.

Written, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis.

Theme music by Daniel Wackett. Find him on Twitter @ds_wack and Soundcloud as Daniel Wackett.

Logo by Riley. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @tallestfriend.

Casting Lots is part of the Morbid Audio Podcast Network. Network sting by Mikaela Moody. Find her on Bandcamp as mikaelamoody1.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Aberth, J. (2010). From the Brink of the Apocalypse (2nd ed.). London: Routledge.
Bailey, M. (1997). Review of The Great Famine by William Chester Jordan. History, 82(267), p. 488. Available at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/24423511
Brain. (2020). ‘The tale of Hansel and Gretel and the Great Famine of 1315-1317’, Fact Source, 8 June. Available at: https://thefactsource.com/the-tale-of-hansel-and-gretel-and-the-great-famine-of-1315-1317/
Carlin, M. and J.T. Rosenthal. (1998). Food and Eating in Medieval Europe. London: Hambledon Press.
Charnock, R.S. (1866). ‘Cannibalism in Europe’, Journal of the Anthropological Society of London, 4, pp. xxii-xxxi. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2307/3025368
Davidson Sorkin, A. (2016). ‘The Next Great Famine’, New Yorker, 3 January. Available at: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/01/11/the-next-great-famine
Davis, D.E. (1986). ‘Regulation of human population in northern France and adjacent lands in the Middle Ages’, Human Ecology, 14, pp. 245-267. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00889240
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Homewood, P. (2013). ‘The Great Famine Of 1315’, Not a Lot of People Know That, 27 January. Available at: https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2013/01/27/the-great-famine-of-1315/
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S2 E5. LAND PART III – The Flatters Expedition

December 31, 2020Casting Lots: A Survival Cannibalism Podcast Leave a comment

This week, we journey to the Sahara for a tale of railways, misadventure and betrayal in Colonial Algeria.

CREDITS

Written, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis.

Theme music by Daniel Wackett. Find him on Twitter @ds_wack and Soundcloud as Daniel Wackett.

Logo by Riley. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @tallestfriend.

Casting Lots is part of the Morbid Audio Podcast Network. Network sting by Mikaela Moody. Find her on Bandcamp as mikaelamoody1.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Asher, M. (2007). Sands of Death. London: Phoenix.
Bernard, F. (1882). Deuxième Mission Flatters: historique et rapport rédigés au service central des affaires indigènes. Algiers: Adolphe Jourdan. Available at: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k503875m/f1.item
Garric, A. (n.d.). Paul Flatters. Available at: https://gw.geneanet.org/garric?lang=fr&n=flatters&p=paul
Heffernan, M. (1989). ‘The Limits of Utopia: Henri Duveyrier and the Exploration of the Sahara in the Nineteenth Century’, Geographical Journal, 155(3), pp. 342-352. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2307/635209
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Strachan, J. (2011). ‘Murder in the Desert: Soldiers, Settlers and the Flatters Expedition in the Politics and Historical Memory of European Colonial Algeria, 1830-1881’, H-France Review, 4, pp. 210-222. Available at: https://h-france.net/rude/vol4/strachan4/

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S2 E4. LAND PART II – Chinese Cannibalism 101

December 24, 2020Casting Lots: A Survival Cannibalism Podcast Leave a comment

Famine, war, siege and political upheaval: Alix takes us on a tour of almost 2,500 years of survival cannibalism history in China.

CREDITS

Written, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis.

Theme music by Daniel Wackett. Find him on Twitter @ds_wack and Soundcloud as Daniel Wackett.

Logo by Riley. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @tallestfriend.

Casting Lots is part of the Morbid Audio Podcast Network. Network sting by Mikaela Moody. Find her on Bandcamp as mikaelamoody1.

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S2 E3. LAND PART I – The Pacific War

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When Japanese supply lines to New Guinea get cut off, the troops are left to fend for themselves in the midst of World War II.

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Written, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis.

Theme music by Daniel Wackett. Find him on Twitter @ds_wack and Soundcloud as Daniel Wackett.

Logo by Riley. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @tallestfriend.

Casting Lots is part of the Morbid Audio Podcast Network. Network sting by Mikaela Moody. Find her on Bandcamp as mikaelamoody1.

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S2 E2. ICE PART II – The Crash of the Skyhawk

December 10, 2020December 17, 2020Casting Lots: A Survival Cannibalism Podcast Leave a comment

A horrific crash-landing over the Rocky Mountains leaves two young survivors stranded in the snow.

CREDITS

Written, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis.

Theme music by Daniel Wackett. Find him on Twitter @ds_wack and Soundcloud as Daniel Wackett.

Logo by Riley. Find her on Twitter and Instagram @tallestfriend.

Casting Lots is part of the Morbid Audio Podcast Network. Network sting by Mikaela Moody. Find her on Bandcamp as mikaelamoody1.

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Brandon Sun. (1979). ‘Air crash survivor recounts ordeal’, Brandon Sun, 1 June, p.1. Available at: https://newspaperarchive.com/brandon-sun-jun-01-1979-p-1/
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