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My guest today is Dougie Mackay. Dougie hails from the Scottish Highlands and draws on his background in nature connection and ancestral skills in his storytelling. He founded the Inverness Storytelling Festival, hosts the Tales for Our Times podcast, recently toured British Columbia and hosts regular events at the Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh.
On this episode Dougie tells the Scottish story of Whuppity Stoorie, and afterwards we talk about the story and his work.
I’m trying a new format, in which we go straight into the story and then talk afterwards, so please let me know if you prefer this.
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Today’s episode is a joint release with Danica Boyce of Fair Folk Podcast to mark Lughnasa. It’s been a few years since Danica and I last guested on each other’s podcasts, during which time our work has evolved and changed, we’ve started collaborating and Danica has moved to Scotland.
So it was about time for a catch up. On this episode we take the story of The Coming of Lugh as a starting point for a conversation about accessing Celtic myth, pagan ritual song and the nature of devotional practice amongst other things.
We also share news of our new offering, The Cave of Dreams.
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If you're in or near England next week, join us at Medicine Festival.
A few Celtic tradition bearers mentioned on the episode who share their work online are Candlelit Tales, Fireside, Michael Harvey, Tamar Williams and Angharad Wynne.
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We're a bit past midsummer but it's such a great story, I couldn't resist!
This is another Celtic story taken from my new book Scottish Myths & Legends Volume II, told by me. It's an old pagan tale of dancing trees which, to me, is an illustration of the overflowing of life and light we experience in Scotland in the middle of summer, when the nights never truly darken. I wonder if the people of Ancient Scotland might have believed that all the trees, not just those in this one glen, danced on midsummer's night.
My version of the story comes from a version by the influential Traveller singer and storyteller Stanley Robertson. Supposedly Stanley’s family would camp at a Traveller site near Lumphanan in Aberdeenshire when they were working on the flax harvest; Auld Croovie was the name of a tree near the site. In some versions, the trees dance only once every fifty years. The word ‘Croovie’ is from the Gaelic word ‘craobh’ for tree.Stanley Robertson had a profound influence on many singers and storytellers, including the celebrated singer Sam Lee who was his apprentice. You can listen to some recordings of Stanley on Soundcloud here.
Go out and tell this story to the trees.
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Today’s episode is a special one as it marks the release of my new book, Scottish Myths & Legends Volume II.
For this episode I wanted to share with you a story narrated by Angus King, who narrated the audiobook of Scottish Myths & Legends Volumes I & II. The story comes from the island of Barra in the Outer Hebrides. I first heard it from Linda Williamson, the wife of the famous Traveller storyteller Duncan Williamson, and it’s called Fair Maid’s Tresses.
You can buy Scottish Myths & Legends Vol. II here.You can find a list of books narrated by Angus here.
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My guest today is Stephen McCabe of Green Temple Therapy. A former student on my Myth Singers course, Stephen is a storyteller, author, Zen Buddhist, tarot reader and nature therapist based in the village of Temple in Scotland. He’s the author of The Moorfoot Tales, a collection in which his deep love for nature is always present and eloquently expressed.
You can use the chapter marker or go to around 47mins if you’d like to skip straight to the story.
Learn more about Stephen by visiting his website where you can download his free nature therapy ebook, or buy getting a copy of The Moorfoot Tales, which I highly recommend.
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My guest today is Jess Smith. Jess is a storyteller, author and singer from the Scottish travelling people. She spent much of her childhood living on a bus and travelling around Scotland with her parents and seven sisters, spending evenings around fires listening to the stories carried by the travelling people while the rest of the country was busy forgetting them.
Listening back to the interview, which we recorded a couple of year ago, I’m struck once again by gratitude that I know and get to talk to people who carry such precious heritage and knowledge as Jess, and to introduce you to her. There are very few people left who can remember this way of life, and even fewer with such a gift for describing it.
You can use the chapter marker if you’d like to skip straight to the story, which starts around 40mins in. But I'd highly recommended listening to Jess describe a way of life which is almost gone from this world.
You can learn more about Jess and find links to buy her books here.Get my free ebook of Orcadian stories here.
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In this episode I share a Scottish story taken from my forthcoming book, Scottish Myths & Legends Volume II.
The story comes from Orkney, an archipelago northeast of the Scottish mainland.
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This is a very special episode!
My guest on today’s episode is Judith-Kate Friedman. Judith-Kate inhabits the flinty places where art, activism, ritual and oral tradition dance. She sings, composes, writes, performs, curates spaces, produces events, tends hearth-fires, tells stories and documents aliveness. Born in New York City, she now calls Washington State’s rural north Olympic Peninsula (traditional Coast Salish lands) home.Judith-Kate was married to the late Daniel Deardorff, who was a mythsinger, storyteller, ritualist, composer, and producer. A polio survivor and early teacher about Otherness, he toured extensively with renowned soft-rock band Seals and Crofts and produced award-winning albums for other artists. When post-polio sequelae required change, he became an independent scholar of myth teaching internationally alongside such renowned teachers as Robert Bly, Martin Shaw, and Michael Meade, all of whom adored and revered him, and speak passionately of him and his work.
Judith-Kate runs the Mythsinger Legacy Project which continues Daniel’s work restoring myth to culture and community. In this episode, Judith-Kate and I talk about Daniel’s life and work, and we are very, very fortunate to feature a recording of Daniel telling a story.
You can learn more about Daniel Deardorff, Judith-Kate and the Mythsinger Legacy Project at their respective websites, which are linked below, along with a link to purchase the new edition of The Other Within.
The story starts at 57mins.https://mythsingerlegacy.org
https://judithkate.com
https://www.amazon.com/Other-Within-Genius-Deformity-Culture/dp/1556437609
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On this episode I share my interpretation of a classic Greek myth.
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My guest on this episode is Aron Hegarty. Aron is an Irish born Actor and Storyteller, and the cofounder of Candlelit Tales. Through Candlelit Tales he and his sister have introduced many thousands of people to Irish mythology, and their podcast is one of my absolute favourites.
We performed together in Dublin last year and again when Aron came to Thailand this month. We also sat down in a little hut by the beach to record a chat and a story for House of Legends. If you’d like to go straight to the story, use the chapter marker or skip ahead manually to 49mins.
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My guest on this episode is Siobhan Asgarzadeh. Siobhan is a storyteller and grief pilgrim based in Colorado. She holds grief pilgrimages both in person, in nature and online, in which she helps individuals and groups to work with their own grief. Siobhan is a member of the Roundhouse Storytelling School, a highly valued member of our community and a very powerful storyteller, so I was delighted that she agreed to come on the podcast to talk about her work and share a story.
Learn more about Siobhan at https://griefpilgrim.com/
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This episode is a collaboration with Pathways, a podcast by Welsh storyteller Tamar Eluned Williams. After a brief chat with Tamar you’ll hear an episode of her podcast in which she guides you on a story walk along the Ely River and down to Cardiff Bay.
Learn more about Tamar at https://www.tamarelunedwilliams.com
Explore Tamar’s Pathways project at https://www.pathways-llwybrau.com
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My guests on the episode are Emily Hanna-Grazebrook and her son Leo, who tells stories together on their wonderful Dragonfly Tales podcast. Here they give us their unique version of that old classic, Puss in Boots.
Listen to Emily and Leo’s podcast, Dragonfly Tales, at:
https://dragonflytales.uk/podcast
Note: Apologies for the lower-than-normal sound quality in the intro, I had trouble finding a quiet space to record recently. Normal service will resume shortly.Get access to every House of Legends episode and patron-only worksheets by becoming a patron at:
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Apologies for the lower sound quality on this episode, I had trouble finding a quiet space to record for this one. Normal service will resume soon.
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Get my books, Scottish Myths & Legends, The Shattering Sea and Finn & The Fianna, at Amazon US:
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Our guest on the episode is Nicholas Jubber, author of the new book The Fairy Tellers. I talk to Nick about the book and we hear Nick tell the story of The Golden City.
You can find Nick at http://www.nickjubber.com
Get his book at your local independent bookshop or on Amazon here.
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www.houseoflegends.me/story-coaching
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Our story on this episode is The Crow’s Wife, which you can also find in my book Scottish Myths & Legends.
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On this episode my guest is Phil Owedy, a Welsh-Nigerian storyteller based in Pembrokeshire. He draws deeply on his dual heritage and multiple cultures in order to find the contemporary in the traditional.
Phil regularly performs in storytelling clubs and has featured at Beyond the Border and Aberystwyth Storytelling Festivals, as well as at Kea Festival in Greece and Fabula Festival in Sweden. I met Phil at Beyond the Border this summer where he delivered the premier of his brilliant new show, The Gods are All Here.In this episode, we take about Phil’s experiences and approach to storytelling, and we hear a telling from The Gods are All here.
Learn more about Phil’s work at:
https://www.philokwedystoryteller.co.uk
Stay up to date with Phil’s The Gods are All Here tour with Adverse Camber at:
https://www.adversecamber.org
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On this episode I share an early draft of the Irish story of The Coming of Lugh from my forthcoming book, The Children of Danu.
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My guest on this episode is Ian Stephen. Ian is a a writer, poet and storyteller from the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. He worked for 15 years in the coastguard service, based in Stornoway, and since 1995 has worked full-time in the arts, after winning the inaugural Robert Louis Stevenson award.
Ian was the first artist in residence at StAnza, Scotland's annual poetry festival. His poetry and short fiction have been published in numerous journals worldwide while his debut novel, A Book of Death and Fish, was a book of the year choice in The Guardian, The Herald and The Glasgow Review.
Learn more about Ian’s work at www.ianstephen.co.uk
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Our guest this week is Sef Townsend, a brilliant storyteller and musician who has worked on peace and reconciliation projects throughout the world, including in the West Bank, in Armenia-Azerbaijan and Northern Ireland. In our conversation we talk about his travels throughout the world, his unique heritage, his love of language and much more, and he tells a beautiful story.
Learn more about Sef at:
https://seftownsend.co.ukOn Thursday 28th October I’ll be a guest at an online session with Lisnakea Yarnspinners in Northern Ireland. Link:
https://armstory.org.uk/events/lisnaskea-yarnspinners-with-daniel-allison/
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