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Get out your sunscreen and Mr Whippy's as we consider what July has in store for us in the heavens and hedgerows, including talk of St Swithin's Day and Sirius, plus Thomas Hardy and some early Irish verse.
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| LINKS + SOURCES |P.H. 'Old English Customs: Extant at the Present Time'. (London: Methuen, 1896) https://bit.ly/3vMRKKfDunlop and Tirion 'Night Sky Almanac: A Stargazer's guider to 2022'. (Glasgow: Collins, 2021) https://amzn.to/3FTHfqLHutton, Ronald 'The Stations of The Sun'. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997) https://bit.ly/3hG1WftLagram, Anne Marie 'Country Wisdom and Folklore Almanac'. (Talking Trees Books, 2020) https://www.talkingtreesbooks.co.ukLeendertz, Lia 'The Almanac: A Seasonal Guide to 2023'. (London: Gaia/Octopus Publishing Group, 2021) https://www.lialeendertz.com/Roud, Steve 'The English Year'. (London: Penguin Books, 2008) https://bit.ly/3txP9RQWright, Jonathan 'The Forager's Calendar'. (London: Profile Books Ltd, 2019) https://www.foragerscalendar.net
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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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#owlman #cryptid
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Missing episodes?
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⚡️ Season 4 returns shortly!
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
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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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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 the role of folklore today, fairy trees, 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.
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📺 Death and the Landscape: Glamorgan and the Llynfi Valley https://t.ly/V98h
🎧 Spectre of the Sea Podcast https://t.ly/KKxZ
🎧 Eerie Essex Podcast https://t.ly/p8tw
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Welcome to Season 3! Today we're exploring time-slips and their link to the Otherworld...
Featured:
Niamh and Oisín (Ireland)
King Herla (England)
Shon ap Shenkin / Sion ap Siencyn (Wales)
The lad from Scorrybreac (Scotland)
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Oss Oss Wee Oss! https://bit.ly/42dLat8
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❄️🌞 Enjoy Icebreak in full https://bit.ly/3ljU2NO ❄️🌞
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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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✍️ SCRIPT + SHOW NOTES ✍️
1/2 https://bit.ly/3ZdytxU
2/2 https://bit.ly/3icNwYd
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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)
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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
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Welcome to the second episode in our series The Otherworld, where we take a cautious step into liminal spaces.
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Additional research this month by Tamsin Howard.
| 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
✍️ FULL SHOW NOTES (Including the - likely! - location of the cave)
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ALMANAC
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
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What is the connection between the dead, fairies and the otherworld? Let's explore some of the main themes in this first part of The Otherworld series.
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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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