(S1E7) 🦌 A SLEIGH RIDE THROUGH CHRISTMAS: The Solstice to Santa

12/24/20 • 69 min

Folkways: The Folklore of Britain and Ireland

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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Music by Big Big Sky @big.big.sky | Excluding Many Points of Light by Judson Lee | Christmas piano carols by Roberto Diana

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Music by Big Big Sky @big.big.sky | Excluding Many Points of Light by Judson Lee | Christmas piano carols by Roberto Diana

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(S1E6) 💧 STILL WATERS RUN DEEP, Part 3: Reflections

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

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(S1, E8) Call for Submissions!

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.

FOR ALL FOLKLORE SUBMISSIONS: [email protected] and attach your audio to email (feel free to use file transfer sites too for larger recordings) or alternatively type as text.

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💌 If you have any thoughts on today’s show, please get in contact [email protected]

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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

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