Our relationship with fire has always been one of awe, of need, of respect. It’s a dance we’ve never fully learned, a mystery we’ve never fully solved. Even now, we sit beside campfires and fireplaces, mesmerised by the flickering, ever-shifting light. Something ancient stirs in us, a memory of stories whispered in the dark. In honour of Bealtaine, the fire festival, we delve into the significance of Fire in Folklore

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S O U R C E S:

• https://thenestcollective.co.uk/blog/fire-folklore
• http://learnreligions.com/fire-element-folklore-and-legends-2561686
• https://www.independent.ie/regionals/kerry/lifestyle/origins-of-bealtaine-festival/29218522.html
• https://www.wisdomlib.org/concept/matarisvan
• https://www.britannica.com/topic/Prometheus-Greek-god

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For as long as women have been having babies, there have been beliefs and superstitions around what the baby will look like, their assigned sex, their temperament, and guarding against defects and miscarriage.

S O U R C E S:

• Pregnancy Superstitions, Richard M. Dorson, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Jan., 1955) pp. 55-56 (2 pages) Published By: Western States Folklore Society
• https://www.britannica.com/story/9-bizarre-myths-about-pregnancy
• https://sholescenter.com/old-wives-tales-about-pregnancy
• https://svarunica.com/pregnancy-and-childbirth-fragments-of-ancient-slavic-traditions-of-the-native-faith/
• https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2024/0424/1445014-ireland-folklore-conception-pregnancy-births-babies-children/

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Discussions of pregnancy, childbirth, pregnancy loss.

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Emily's first episode of Season 3 is a dark history account all about the science (and alleged magic) of midwifery, We delve into how the woman-dominated profession caused jealousy and suspicion from the (male) Church which led to persecution, executions, and a suppression of new knowledge. We learn about the realities of childbirth, how midwives were often blamed for unpreventable losses - and their successes attributed to the devil. Yes, we are ranting again.

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S O U R C E S:

• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0260691723003209
• https://youtu.be/qk3u_7HfrOU?si=U-FUSs4zEvRzlOnf
• Witches, Midwives & Nurses - Barbara Ehrenreich

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The "art or act of enchanting by uttering magical words, with ceremonies supposed to have magical power; the formula of words or the ceremony employed," - late 14th century, The word for incantation comes from 13th century Old French incantacion meaning "spell or exorcism"....

Sexy Voice Emily here to school you.

S O U R C E S:

• https://www.gutenberg.org/files/376/376-h/376-h.htm
• https://www.dictionary.com/e/magic-words/
• https://www.etymonline.com/word/enchantment#etymonline_v_8632

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Season 3 is here! We have a life update for you (including a BBC appearance??) and lay out our new pod focus. Don't worry, all the spooky weirdness and animal lore will still be here, but its time for the ladies.

Niamh kicks off the season with an introduction to Blodeuwedd, a flower goddess from Welsh folklore who has parallels with Eve, Pandora and Lilith. Expect the usual segues into celebrity culture, cathartic rants and all the usual nonsense. Oh and a playlist!

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S O U R C E S:

• https://enchantedlivingmagazine.com/blodeuwedd-the-woman-made-of-flowers/
• https://artuk.org/discover/stories/most-blessed-most-cursed-the-duality-of-blodeuwedd-welsh-goddess-of-flowers
• https://www.twinkl.ie/teaching-wiki/blodeuwedd
• https://jo-blake.co.uk/portfolio/blodeuwedd-untold/
• https://sacred-texts.com/etc/omw/omw54.htm
• https://timelessmyths.com/celtic/otherworld/welsh-deities#Math
• Pagan Portals - Blodeuwedd: Welsh Goddess of Seasonal Sovereignty By Jhenah Telyndru
• Miranda Jane Green – Celtic Myths (1993)
• The Daughters of Modron: Evangeline Walton’s Feminist Re-visioning of the Mabinogi Nicole A. Thomas
• https://feminismandreligion.com/2016/05/25/blodeuwedd-celtic-flower-goddess-by-judith-shaw/

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN, FIENDS! Niamh takes us on a tour of Psychompomps, those figures who transport souls to the afterlife. From Anubis in Egypt to Hermes in Greece, to Epona, the Valkyries, Gwyn Ap Nudd and Azrael, every culture has some form of death shepherd. Thanks so much for sticking with us for Season 2 :)

S O U R C E S:

https://cfa.lmu.edu/labandgallery/exhibitions/pastexhibitions/2017/psychopomp/

Encyclopedia Of World Mythology by Arthur Cotterell

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Azrael

https://www.crowsbone.com/blogarchive/into-the-underworld-psychopomps-and-deities-of-death

https://artsandculture.google.com/story/the-story-of-anubis-american-research-center-in-egypt/3wWRSNl-AUDRvA?hl=en

https://www.psychopomps.org/psychopomp-guide.html

https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/45247581/2015_Mackin_Ellie_1018354_ethesis.pdf

https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/strange-creatures/grim-reaper.htm

https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/enlighten/guiding-souls-psychopomps-in-mythology-a

nd-folklore/

https://phoenixalchemyjewellery.co.uk/gwyn-ap-nudd-my-favourite-welsh-folktale/

https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0308/ch12.xhtml

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For thousands of years, different cultures have personified death in various ways, but few figures are as enduring—or as terrifying—as the Grim Reaper. Cloaked - literally in darkness, skeletal and cold, he’s the one who comes for us all, scythe in hand, to reap our souls when our time has come. But how did this eerie image come to be?

S O U R C E S:

• https://www.britannica.com/story/where-does-the-concept-of-a-grim-reaper-come-from
• The Ritualesque: Festival, Politics, and Popular Culture Western Folklore Vol. 68, No. 1 (Winter 2009), pp. 9-26 (18 pages )
• Communications, Asian Folklore Studies Vol. 49, No. 1 (1990), pp. 135-142 (8 pages)https://www.jstor.org/stable/1177953
• Ships, Fogs, and Traveling Pairs: Plague Legend Migration in Scandinavia Timothy R. TangherliniThe Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 101, No. 400 (Apr. - Jun., 1988), pp. 176-206
• Western Campfire Tales Levette J. Davidson California Folklore Quarterly , Vol. 2, No. 3 (Jul., 1943), pp. 177-190 (14 pages) https://doi.org/10.2307/1495703
• https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/strange-creatures/grim-reaper.htm
• https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/type7080.html#lach-szyrma

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