House of Legends: World Myths & Legends

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.
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Our guest this week is Clare Murphy.

Clare has been a storyteller for 14 years. She has performed in more than 20 countries, telling stories for all kinds of audiences. Her performances include shows such as “The King of Lies”; the political folkloric show set in Damascus, and playful pieces like UniVerse which explores where quantum physics, philosophy and mythology meet. She tells the story that is called for in each situation; from telling to the President of Ireland to performing at the Writers room of the Royal Shakespeare Company to working as storyteller in residence for the NHS Leadership academy.

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Our first guest on House of Legends is Martina Pisciali, a young storyteller from Italy whom I was fortunate enough to work with at Storyfest in Singapore.
Martina is a regular performer at Raccontaminuastoria, the International Storytelling Festival of Rome, as well as at international festivals in Sharjah and Bolzano. She is the apprentice of the highly-regarded storytellers Paola Balbi and Davide Bardi and a translator of bilingual performances. Martina's repertoire consists of Greek and Roman myths and global folktales, with a focus on the Middle East and the Mediterranean.
Follow Martina on Instagram at @martinapisciali and catch her live if you can!

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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.
Get my free ebook of Orcadian stories here.
Support the podcast by buying one of my books for the price of a cup of coffee here.
Learn about Myth Singers, my Online Celtic Storytelling Apprenticeship, here.

You can join Daniel Allison and Danica Boyce's 'Cave of Dreams' gatherings (April 27th is the last session of the season) here.
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Get Daniel's free full-colour Celtic Mythology Handbook here.
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The classic Celtic legend of Ossian and Niamh, in which the son of Fionn Mac Cumhaill travels to Tir Nan Nog, Land of the Ever Young.

You can join Daniel Allison and Danica Boyce's 'Cave of Dreams' gatherings (April 27th is the last session of the season) here.
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