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Folkways: The Folklore of Britain and Ireland Archiv

38 Episoden
36 Minuten
England is full of history… but so much has been forgotten.


In this video I sit down with Jack from Past and Curious to uncover the stories that have faded from time.


We talk sin eating, the first English fairy story, the pagan texts of the Anglo Saxons... all the way to a fascinating conspiracy Jack may have uncovered related to Gawain and the Green Knight.


It's all here!


* I recommend watching the accompanying video as oppose to just listening, as I have included helpful details and visuals to bring the conversation to life *





BONUS! Werewolves, water bogies, the bloody red caps and more: https://bit.ly/4vUrsRQ





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33 Minuten
Let's look at May Day and Beltane traditions across Britain and Ireland, from ancient fires to seasonal folk customs.





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SOURCES:


Carmichael, Alexander, *Carmina Gadelica*, Vol. I (1900).


Cormac mac Cuilennáin (attributed), Sanas Cormaic (c. 900–1000).


Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Faust. Part I (1808).


Gregor, Walter, Folklore of the North-East of Scotland (1881).


Guest, Lady Charlotte, trans., The Mabinogion (1849).


Jones, Gwyn and Thomas Jones, trans., The Mabinogion (1949).


Lomax, Alan, *Padstow May Day / Obby Oss Ceremony*, field film recording (1953).


Pepys, Samuel, The Diary of Samuel Pepys (1660–1669).


Pennant, Thomas, A Tour in Scotland (1771).


Praetorius, Johannes, Blockes-Berges Verrichtung (1668).


Phillips, Alan Robert, “The Rituals surrounding Calan Mai – the Welsh May Day – and their Functions” (modern essay / unpublished paper, c. 2020s).


*The Irish Folklore Commission*, National Folklore Collection, University College Dublin: 20th-century field collections.


Bromwich, Rachel and D. Simon Evans, eds., Culhwch and Olwen: An Edition and Study of the Oldest Arthurian Tale (1992).
40 Minuten
Walk across the sea with me. From legends of angels and giants, to a mysterious ley line known as 'the dragon line'... to a bizarre discovery made inside the chapel... let's explore the history and folklore of Cornwall’s most iconic landmark.





BONUS! Full interview with guide Anna Berska on the history of the mount: https://bit.ly/4pCdulQ


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MORE INFO AND CREDITS


Anna Berska


Paul Weston, The Michael Leyline https://bit.ly/41UGtpX


Yuri Leitch, The Dragon Line map


Ithell Colquhoun, The Living Stones (1957)


Jack The Giant Killer (1962)


Featuring folktales of Tom Hickathrift (East Anglia, England) and Red Ettin the Giant (Scotland)


Poetry on the mount by Humphrey Davy (1799), John Davidson (1909), Richard Carew (1602)





Both William Bottrell and Robert Hunt collected Cornish folklore and made accessible overviews in the 1800s. Without these two folklorists' work, many classic Cornish stories would be lost.


Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall (Bottrell, 1870) and Popular Romances of the West of England (Hunt, 1865) are highly recommended.
29 Minuten
Something different! The show has talked a great deal about deity and ancestral veneration in the past tense, with the aim of understanding it within a historical context. But what about those with a living practice today? How does it work? Here is just one example, looking at Nordic Paganism (other examples likely to come the future!)


So... with the intention to banish some winter blues, enjoy this warming chat with Fiona Aedgar on the old gods and the ancestors.


Who are the old gods? How do we approach them? How does an ancestral practice in general fit into this? What about the ancestors we DON'T want to connect with? And most importantly... What's the point? How can this practice improve our lives?





(Video title taken from my favourite Sin Eater tshirt!)





https://fionaaedgar.com/





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*Image credit:


Niren Sengupta: Ancestors


Julia Jeffrey (@StoneMaidenArt):


The Tradition


Meetings in the Smoke


Queen of Stones


Arthur Rackham collection


Photographs of London graveyards:


Paul Hudson, David Holt*
42 Minuten
Let's explore a mystery that has hovered over the Downs since the 1970s. We visit Chanctonbury and Cissbury Ring, then head into the notorious Clapham Woods...





BONUS! Queen of the Witches: https://bit.ly/4x1kgUP





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29 Minuten
Let's take a seasonally-appropriate trip to a mysterious cave in County Roscommon, said to be Ireland's 'gateway to hell', and also the origin of Halloween...


We meet Queen Maeve, monstrous cats, the Morrigan, and of course... the sidhe!





Oweynagat, Co. Roscommon, Ireland





Featuring the texts:





Táin Bó Cúailnge


(1. Queen Medb's Revenge)





Fled Bricrenn / Bricriu's Feast


(2. The Cats' Test)





Echtra Nerai (Adventures of Nera)


(3. Samhain's Threshold)





The Metrical Dindshenchas


(4. Meet the Morrigan)





Related episode: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠(S4E7) Stone and Sidhe with Thomas Sheridan⁠⁠





Related bonus episodes: ⁠⁠Are The Fairies The Dead⁠⁠?Norah and the Fairies (specifically the second half looking at the sidhe/sithean)




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36 Minuten
Folkways welcomes back esteemed guest Thomas Sheridan!


Today we talk about the Irish Sidhe, and the stone circles and hills associated with them.





The circle on a roundabout mentioned is The Abbeyquarter stone circle, Sligo.





Featuring Darby O' Gill and the Little People, 1959. A place called Knocknasheega features in the film, which is likely based on the hill Knocknashee (Irish: Cnoc na Sí), county Sligo.





Bonus episode: Thomas and the Sardinian fairy experience





Related episode: ⁠⁠⁠⁠(S4E4) Christmas Ghost Stories with Thomas Sheridan⁠








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14 Minuten
‘Jesters, clowns, shamans and poets belong to this border realm...’


An extract of the introduction to Boundaries and Thresholds, by Hilda Davidson.





Boundaries and Thresholds from The Folklore Society


Davidson, H.E., Stroud, Thimble Press (1993), Boundaries and Thresholds, Papers from a Colloquium of The Katharine Briggs Club





Related episode: ⁠(S2E5) Places Between Places⁠





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48 Minuten
In 1929 an occultist was drawn to the Scottish Isle of Iona, her eerie story contributing to the island's already substantial mythos.





Enjoy no less than 3 bonus sections created for this episode! ⁠Norah and the Fairies⁠Dion Fortune talk on the Green Ray, 1933 ⁠⁠⁠⁠Are The Fairies The Dead⁠⁠⁠⁠?







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FEATURING:


Phillipa Cookman: Dion Fortune


Casper C: Norah Fornario


Gaz Kerr: John Duncan


Conor Charlton: Calum Cameron
37 Minuten
I sit down for the ultimate winter chat with Thomas Sheridan! We discuss everything from Alternative Folklore, Winter liminality, James Joyce, Irish Christmas traditions, The Snowman... to the symbolic murdering of the year! Not under any circumstances to be missed!





Featuring the end of John Huston's The Dead, 1987





Related episodes: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (S4E3) SOLSTICE: The Real Story of Yule (referenced in the episode)(S4E7) STONE AND SIDHE: Irish Fairies with Thomas Sheridan

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26 Minuten
Please enjoy the original stunning radio play 'Solstice' by Alison Mcleay, first broadcast Sat 21st Dec 1985, 10.30pm on BBC Radio 4. Original blurb: 'It is now the Winter Solstice, the night when the sun dies and is reborn: a night of magic, which has more to do with our traditional Christmas celebrations than people might like to admit. Just for tonight, the Shaman lives...' With the voices of Michael Elder, Diana Olsson and Paul Young. Produced by Patrick Rayner for BBC Scotland. This can additionally be found at the end of A Sleigh Ride Through Christmas from Folkways Podcast https://spoti.fi/3pfx2PB





Merry Solstice!





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22 Minuten
Due to the lateness of this episode (extreme tech issues), please enjoy a juicy extra-long section on Halloween


So... what does romance have to do with All Hallows / Samhain / Calan Gaeaf? ️ Find out in this month's broadcast!





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| LINKS + SOURCES |


Scottish Halloween Customs, Tobar An Dualchais bit.ly/4eJyvVD


Century-old Tricks for Finding Your True Love on Halloween, Library of Congress https://bit.ly/4fgkvCB


P.H. 'Old English Customs: Extant at the Present Time'. (London: Methuen, 1896) ⁠⁠https://bit.ly/3vMRKKf⁠⁠ Dunlop and Tirion 'Night Sky Almanac: A Stargazer's guider to 2024'. (Glasgow: Collins, 2023) ⁠⁠https://amzn.to/3FTHfqL⁠⁠ Hutton, Ronald 'The Stations of The Sun'. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997) ⁠⁠https://bit.ly/3hG1Wft⁠⁠ Lagram, Anne Marie 'Country Wisdom and Folklore Almanac'. (Talking Trees Books, 2020) ⁠⁠https://www.talkingtreesbooks.co.uk⁠⁠ Leendertz, Lia 'The Almanac: A Seasonal Guide to 2024'. (London: Gaia/Octopus Publishing Group, 2023) ⁠⁠https://www.lialeendertz.com/⁠⁠ Roud, Steve 'The English Year' (London: Penguin Books, 2008) ⁠⁠https://bit.ly/3txP9RQ⁠⁠ Wright, Jonathan 'The Forager's Calendar'. (London: Profile Books Ltd, 2019) ⁠⁠https://www.foragerscalendar.net⁠
1 Stunde 2 Minuten
Today the podcast takes a very different approach to last episode, as we head through the trees on a bit of a Cornish epic.


We meet different characters amongst the graves, including Tony Doc Shiels, Leonora Carrington... and Ithell Colquhoun!


But will they be able to help us...?





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#owlman #cryptid #mawnan
39 Minuten
Welcome to Season 4! Today we're plunging into one of the strangest stories in contemporary British folklore... Monsters in the woods at Mawnan, Cornwall.





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#owlman #cryptid
45 Minuten
Let's head to Loch Sween, Argyll, Scotland, as we linger by a patch of rocks, rumoured to be an entrance to the Otherworld...





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THE KIST: The Magazine of the Natural History & Antiquarian Society of Mid-Argyll


http://kist.scot/The%20Kist%2021%20(1981).pdf


http://kist.scot/The%20Kist%2085%20(2013).pdf