Folkways: The Folklore of Britain & Ireland: Recent Episodes
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A stroll through the rich and fascinating folklore of Britain and Ireland. From music, to psychogeography, to what to do if you notice the devil following you to church. It's a long, strange trip and there are no guarantees you'll be home in time for dinner.
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🎈 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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⚡️ Season 4 returns April 2024!
In the meantime, here's a rare self-indulgent ramble about life at Folkways HQ...
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Let's take a look at the reflection of Mars in the Celtic languages, plus St David, St Piran and St Patrick, and the strange fairy lore of Milford Haven...
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Welcome to the new format! The almanac will now be uploaded as an individual video here (streaming platforms), with the main show uploaded separately. As is done on Youtube.
This is in acknowledgement of time sensitivity for episodes - as many people listen in the archive, often years later, and the almanac at the end of an episode may not be relevant!
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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
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Plus the Friends of Folkways Winter Solstice Competition Winners. 💌 Merry Christmas!
🎄 Some more festive offerings... 🎄
❄️ THE ANCESTORS (are watching) https://bit.ly/3RTt1xx
❄️ A SLEIGH RIDE THROUGH CHRISTMAS https://bit.ly/3GUn7H6
❄️ SOLSTICE: The Real Story of Yule https://bit.ly/47cjfft
❄️ GHOST STORIES FOR CHRISTMAS https://bit.ly/3vbdq4C
This Yule, come in from the cold, warm your feet by the fire, grab a mulled wine if you like, as it’s time to consider The Ancestors. 🔥
Plus we talk Anglo Saxon Christmas, the Winter Solstice, JRR Tolkien, and more in December's Almanac. 📅
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What happened in Kersey, Suffolk, October of 1957? Find out in this atmospheric episode for Samhain. 🍂 Plus, the latest almanac!
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This month we take a look at Harvest Home festival (ingathering), plus muse over the foraging, moon, and astronomy for the month of September. Not to mention... we visit the otherworldly Dinas Rock, said to be the last haunt of the fairies in Wales...
📍 Craig y Ddinas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinas_Rock
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In this episode we continue our look at the folk traditions surrounding the early harvest feast. This time we look at the fairs of Tailtiu or Carmen; plus we play 'an hour in the hay', and mull over the significance of that very first loaf.
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A look at the folk traditions surrounding the early August feast that opens the harvest, also known at Lugh's Funeral Games.
Stay tuned for part 2, coming this week.
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Travel with us to Wivenhoe, north Essex, as we muse over fairy trees, the role of folklore today, plus bizarre lockdown sightings with folklore researcher Bethan Briggs-Miller.
BBM's work:
🎧 Eerie Essex Podcast https://t.ly/p8tw
🎧 Spectre of the Sea Podcast https://t.ly/KKxZ
📺 Death and the Landscape: Glamorgan and the Llynfi Valley https://t.ly/V98h
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Enjoy this adventure to folklorist Bethan Briggs-Miller's childhood home in Tondu, Wales. Bethan is a great raconteur and regales us with tales of the spectres that may still linger at the family fireplace... A frank, vivid, and personal conversation.
BBM's work:
📺 Death and the Landscape: Glamorgan and the Llynfi Valley https://t.ly/V98h
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Welcome to Season 3! Today we're heading into the swirling mists of time for four strange tales from these isles...
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Oss Oss Wee Oss! https://bit.ly/42dLat8
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Welcome to the next episode in our series The Otherworld. Part 4: Gifts from the Gods. 🎁✨
Today we delve into some of the mystical presents that have been imparted from 'beyond the veil', including a fairy flag and stories of music and artistry.
This one's for all the dreamers out there...
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Welcome to the next episode in our series The Otherworld. Part 3: The Adventures of Cherry of Zennor.
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| LINKS + SOURCES |
Hunt, Robert 'Popular Romances of the West of England' (Palala Press, 2018)
Hartland, Edwin Sidney 'English Fairy and Other Folk Tales' (2022)
Ditchfield, 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 2022'. (Glasgow: Collins, 2021) 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 2022'. (London: Gaia/Octopus Publishing Group, 2021) 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
Welcome to the second episode in our series The Otherworld. Part 2: Places Between Places.
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| LINKS + SOURCES |
Davidson, Hilda 'Boundaries and Thresholds: Papers from the Katharine Briggs Club' (Exeter: The Thimble Press, 1993) https://bit.ly/3PnfACy
Sikes, Wirt 'British Goblins' (London: The Lost Library, 2010) https://bit.ly/3bTTz0k
Wilde, Jane 'Legends, Charms and Superstitions of Ireland'. (London: Dover Publications, 2006) https://amzn.to/3bWX3z9
Bottrell, William 'Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall'. (London: Franklin Classics, 2018) https://bit.ly/3bZGa6Z
For more details as to the (likely!) location of the cave, please visit the Friends of Folkways show notes (to be uploaded in next few days).
Ditchfield, 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 2022'. (Glasgow: Collins, 2021) 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 2022'. (London: Gaia/Octopus Publishing Group, 2021) 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
Welcome to the first episode in our series The Otherworld. Part 1: Dead Can Dance
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Welcome to the first episode in our unique series Folklore (Why Bother?)Part 1: The Land
Men who eat Ringforts https://bit.ly/3KysPxT
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The show returns with the second instalment of atmospheric folk tale The Bells of Minsmere.
Also included is April's mini-almanac, where we wash white lions in the tower of London, buy some striped paint, as well as beg for eggs at our neighbours' doors.
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The Bells of Minsmere is a folk tale that has almost disappeared. It has been compiled from our own orally-collected sources, combined with Kirsty Hartsiotis's excellent work in the publication below.
Hartsiotis, Kirsty 'Suffolk Folk Tales'. Gloucestershire: The History Press https://bit.ly/3KffGtO
Hill, Susan 'The Magic Apple Tree'. London: Hamish Hamilton https://amzn.to/3JwpFvn
Ditchfield, 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 2022'. (Glasgow: Collins, 2021) 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 2022'. (London: Gaia/Octopus Publishing Group, 2021) 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
A warm welcome to the first episode of Season 2, where we're heading deep into the marshes for the Bells of Minsmere.
Also included is March's mini-almanac, where we muse the Spring Equinox, do some 'shriving' and learn the true origin of Mothering Sunday.
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The Bells of Minsmere is a folk tale that has almost disappeared. It has been compiled from our own orally-collected sources, combined with Kirsty Hartsiotis's work (see below). Please become a Friend of Folkways to review more detailed show notes.
Hartsiotis, Kirsty 'Suffolk Folk Tales'. Gloucestershire: The History Press https://bit.ly/3KffGtO
Hill, Susan 'The Magic Apple Tree'. London: Hamish Hamilton https://amzn.to/3JwpFvn
Ditchfield, 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 2022'. (Glasgow: Collins, 2021) 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 2022'. (London: Gaia/Octopus Publishing Group, 2021) 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
Welcome February 2022! This month we're thinking about Imbolc and St Brigid's Day, Anglo Saxon Aecerbots and much more, plus your usual sun and moon times.
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| LINKS + SOURCES |
Brigid in Folk Tradition from Bluiríní Béaloidis / Folklore Fragments podcast at University College Dublin https://spoti.fi/3hOMQnH
Read more on Anglo Saxon Aecerbots https://bit.ly/3sLpWEc
Hill, Susan 'The Magic Apple Tree'. (London: Hamish Hamilton) https://amzn.to/3JwpFvn
Ditchfield, 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 2022'. (Glasgow: Collins, 2021) 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 2022'. (London: Gaia/Octopus Publishing Group, 2021) 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
Waes hael! Wishing you a happy new year and a prosperous 2022. Please enjoy January 2022's Almanac, including a reading from The Magic Apple Tree by Susan Hill.
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| LINKS + SOURCES |
Hill, Susan 'The Magic Apple Tree'. London: Hamish Hamilton https://amzn.to/3JwpFvn
Ditchfield, 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 2022'. (Glasgow: Collins, 2021) 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 2022'. (London: Gaia/Octopus Publishing Group, 2021) 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
NB: January comes from the Roman Iānuārius. To the Welsh it is Ionawr, in Irish it is Eanáir - both are derivatives from the Roman that are easier seen here in writing.
Solstice greetings! The longest night of the year is upon us.
To help pass the dark hours, why not listen to this conversation between Folkways and Eerie Essex, in which we contemplate the darker side of this time of year.
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Hello! The show returns on the heels of the Spring equinox to give you an update about Season 2 and to inform you of an exciting project. Finally we close with some recent podcasts recommendations on folklore and its peripheries.
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| PODCASTS FEATURED |
- Spirit Box: Darragh Mason https://spoti.fi/39st0ez
- Tell Me a Story: Eddie Lenihan https://spoti.fi/2OUPM7O
- Bluiríní Béaloidis, The National Folklore Collection, University College Dublin https://spoti.fi/39a8IGy
- The Almanac of Ireland (Manchán Magan) https://spoti.fi/3u34DMn
- Uncanny Landscapes: Justin Hopper https://spoti.fi/2QC94z9
- The Lovecraft Investigations: BBC Radio 4 https://spoti.fi/3rjbLSX
| OTHER LINKS|
- Meeting the Other Crowd: Lenihan, Eddie https://amzn.to/31bRbJF
- Eddie’s website https://bit.ly/2Pjo1p8
Written and produced by Ashleagh Claire Hurren | Music by Josh Sandifer | Logo design Jim Fisher
It's Christmas Eve! Wrap up warm, pour yourself a mulled cider and hop on board as tonight we take a sleigh ride through Christmas. We're visiting Newgrange for the Winter Solstice, dropping by on a Roman Saturnalia, as well as encountering the Holly King and that jolly Saint Nick.
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| LINKS + SOURCES |
- Gaw, Matt 'Under The Stars: A Journey into Light' London: Elliott & Thompson Ltd; 2020 https://bit.ly/3q8P6ZN
- Pappas, Stephanie, 'Pagan Roots? 5 Surprising Facts About Christmas': Live Science https://bit.ly/370HQr9
- Main, Douglas 'Magic Mushrooms May Explain Santa & His 'Flying' Reindeer Live Science https://bit.ly/2OqYBFF
- May, Katherine 'Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times' London, Rider, 2020 https://bit.ly/3cUTg3D
- Macleay, Alison 'Solstice' BBC Radio 4 https://bit.ly/3jAqOoY | Solstice video on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h06m6Ttr5Wk (with thanks to HermitPiper Tim for his help and correspondence)
Music by Big Big Sky @big.big.sky | Excluding Many Points of Light by Judson Lee | Christmas piano carols by Roberto Diana
The final instalment in our popular mini-series Still Waters Run Deep. Today we hike through both Snowdonia and the Otherworld as we discover further tales of the Gwragedd Annwn, or, the ladies of the lakes.
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Soundtrack by Big Big Sky @big.big.sky | Excluding Many Points of Light by Judson Lee
| LINKS + SOURCES |
- Myddfai Memories https://bit.ly/2WboSIN (with thanks to William Britton)
- Davies, Jonathan Ceredig 'Folk-Lore of West and Mid-Wales' Ebook, P. 93 https://bit.ly/3mk5Fio
- Further discussion of Nelferch from lake Llyn y Forwyn https://bit.ly/2Lq8zp9
- Folklore of the Welsh Lakes overview https://bit.ly/3nJWLfm.
- Sikes, Wirt (1880) ‘British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions’. Reprint, Glastonbury: The Lost Library, 2010 https://bit.ly/3lCV95U
- Ralls-Maclead, Karen (2000) 'Music and the Celtic Otherworld'. Edinburgh: Polygon https://bit.ly/37n3Ugx
- Stevenson, Peter ‘Welsh Folk Tales’ Gloucestershire: The History Press, 2017 https://bit.ly/3nSqR10
Soundtrack by Big Big Sky @big.big.sky | Excluding Many Points of Light by Judson Lee
We’re returning to our exploration of the the Ladies of the Lakes as we rejoin Rhiwallon in the Brecon Beacons, as the dramatisation of the lady of Llyn y Fan Fach concludes. The second episode in a three-part mini-series.
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Soundtrack by Big Big Sky @big.big.sky | Excluding Many Points of Light by Judson Lee | Maenwen and Rhiwallon played by voice actors Ruth Pownall and Dafydd.
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- Llyn y Fan Fach and directions (Coordinates 51°52′55″N 3°44′31″W) https://bit.ly/36YfNrx
- Folklore of the Welsh Lakes https://bit.ly/3nJWLfm.
- YHA Youth Hostel Info https://bit.ly/395p5Vr.
- Sikes, Wirt (1880) ‘British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions’. Reprint, Glastonbury: The Lost Library, 2010 https://bit.ly/3lCV95U
- Stevenson, Peter ‘Welsh Folk Tales’ Gloucestershire: The History Press, 2017 https://bit.ly/3nSqR10
Today we’re getting out our hiking boots and heading into the mountains to dive into the world of the Gwragedd Annwn: the water women of the Welsh lakes. We start with the most famous lake lady of all - the keeper of Excalibur in the legends of King Arthur - before finding ourselves in the Brecon Beacons for the story of Rhiwallon and the Lady of Llyn y Fan Fach. The first of a three-part mini-series.
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🎧 Soundtrack by Big Big Sky @big.big.sky https://spoti.fi/3wqTA2d | Excluding Many Points of Light by Judson Lee
| LINKS + SOURCES |
- Sikes, Wirt (1880) ‘British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions’. Reprint, Glastonbury: The Lost Library, 2010 https://bit.ly/3lCV95U
- Stevenson, Peter ‘Welsh Folk Tales’ Gloucestershire: The History Press, 2017 https://bit.ly/3nSqR10
- Malory, Thomas (1485) ‘Le Morte D’Arthur’. Reprint, Independently published, 2019 https://amzn.to/2FiGmhl
We’re talking to Rob Jones of Black Dog Zine - a striking new publication looking at East Anglian landscape and lore. We talk cities that fell in the sea, black dogs, white dogs and green children. Plus our relationship with the landscape around us, experimental music scenes, “deep touristing” and the lingering touch of MR James. Not to be missed!
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🎧 Soundtrack by Big Big Sky @big.big.sky https://spoti.fi/3wqTA2d | Excluding Many Points of Light by Judson Lee
| LINKS + SOURCES |
- Black Dog Zine www.blackdogzine.co.uk Instagram @blackdogzine
- Newell, Martin (1999) 'Black Shuck: The Ghost Dog of Eastern England'. https://bit.ly/2ZE9I0y
- Mike Burgess, 'Shuckland: The biggest collection anywhere of East Anglian legends and encounters with the ghostly hound Black Shuck' https://bit.ly/35A71Rz
- Mike Burgess, 'Hidden East Anglia: Landscape Legends of Eastern England' http://www.hiddenea.com
- Abraham Fleming, 'A Strange and Terrible Wunder' Original pamphlet published in 1578 https://bit.ly/3lVr6rm
- Unlikely Records https://bit.ly/2RsEvJu
- Leendertz, Lia (2019) 'The Almanac: A Seasonal Guide to 2020.' London: Octopus Publishing Group Ltd. https://bit.ly/3iqf72N
- Toulson, Shirley (1979) 'East Anglia: Walking the Ley Lines and Ancient Tracks'. London: Wildwood House. https://bit.ly/2ZEoXqp
- Adam Scovell, ’“No Diggin’ ‘Ere!” Revisiting the ghostly locations of A Warning to the Curious’ BFI.org.uk, 28 October 2018. https://bit.ly/2QW92Pl
Welcome to our second episode on Midsummer! We're taking a deep-dive into the customs surrounding this time of year - from fires on the hill tops of Ireland, dreaming of your future lover, to the occult past of St John's Wort.
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🎧 Soundtrack by Big Big Sky @big.big.sky https://spoti.fi/3wqTA2d | Excluding Many Points of Light by Judson Lee
Additional thanks to voice actor Johnpaul Wright.
| LINKS + SOURCES: |
- Old Cornwall www.oldcornwall.net
- Calendar Customs, “Cornish Midsummer Fires” www.calendarcustoms.com/articles/midsummer-fires/
- Órla Ryan, "Why will lots of bonfires be lit across the country tonight?" TheJournal.ie, 23 June 2015. https://www.thejournal.ie/bonfire-night-ireland-2175389-Jun2015/
- Bazian, "St John's wort for depression." NHS, 8 October 2008. https://www.nhs.uk/news/mental-health/st-johns-wort-for-depression/
- M.R. Lee, "St John's Wort (HYPERICUM PERFORATUM) A balm for hurt minds?" Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 1999. https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/sites/default/files/16_0.pdf .
- Frazer, James. (2000) The Golden Bough: A History of Myth and Religion. London: Octopus Publishing Group
- Franklin, Anna (2009) Midsummer Solstice: History, Lore and Celebration. Leicester: Lear Books
Welcome to our maiden voyage! This is the first of 2 episodes on the folklore of Midsummer - that period celebrated between 19 - 25 June, with Midsummer's Day traditionally falling on the 24. We'll be providing context for sun worship in the modern age, pausing for a moment to smell the damn roses, and issuing a warning about stone circles that come alive and dance on Old Midsommers Eve...
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🎧 Soundtrack by Big Big Sky @big.big.sky https://spoti.fi/3wqTA2d | Excluding Many Points of Light by Judson Lee