#07 / The Dark Horseman and The Fairy Wind

Episode 7. This podcast is made up of two recordings, the Dark
horseman and the Fairy wind. 


The Dark horseman covers two stories from Lady Wilde's book
'Ancient legends of Ireland'. These stories feature the common
themes of the 'Dark horseman' trickster that leads the
protagonist awry and is quite unnecessarily cruel and spiteful on
travellers he meets along the road. The stories include the visit
to the fairy palace and all its beauty and joy and then things
take a darker turn and the human visitor gets an unpleasant
supernatural brush with death.  The stories propose that the
reason for this unnecessary cruelty is a grudge the fairy folk
have against humanity, much like the Djinn. I then breifly
discuss the startlingly similar origin myths of the Fairies and
Djinn.


The Fairy wind refers to a method of travel employed by the
fairies and how if one is stuck by the wind, you are not long for
this world. The interesting point here is the Jinn are famously
associated with wind, being born of the scoring wind of the
desert and travelling via it across great distances. Another
remarkable similarity between  jinn and fairies.


The interviews with Marco Visconti are coming soon to the podcast
but are already available on my YouTube channel:
Marco's first appearance https://youtu.be/zL5m1txHAAI
Marco's second appearance
 https://youtu.be/aRUWszmh_GM 


Music by Obliqka - https://soundcloud.com/obliqka