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⚡️ Season 4 returns shortly! In the meantime, here's a rare self-indulgent ramble about life at Folkways HQ... 🤝 Become a valued Friend of Folkways: https://bit.ly/34awiDB🎧 Soundtrack by @big.big.sky: https://spoti.fi/47jvok6📺
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...🤝 Become a valued Friend of Folkways: https://bit.ly/34awiDB🎧 Soundtrack by
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
Let's head to Loch Sween, Argyll, Scotland, as we linger by a patch of rocks, rumoured to be an entrance to the Otherworld...🤝 Become a valued Friend of Folkways: https://bit.ly/34awiDB🎧 Soundtrack by @big.big.sky: https://spoti.f
Write to me! 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/3G
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. 📅🤝
What happened in Kersey, Suffolk, October of 1957? Find out in this atmospheric episode for Samhain. 🍂 Plus, the latest almanac!🤝 Become a valued Friend of Folkways: https://bit.ly/34awiDB🎧 Soundtrack by @big.big.sky: https://spot
This month we take a look at Harvest Home festival (ingathering), plus muse over the foraging, moon, and astronomy for the month of September. Not to mention... we visit the otherworldly Dinas Rock, said to be the last haunt of the fairies in W
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.🤝
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.🤝 Become a valued Friend of Folkways: https://bit.ly/34awiDB🎧 Soundtr
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
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 conver
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)🤝 Become a valued
❄️🌞 Enjoy Icebreak in full https://bit.ly/3ljU2NO ❄️🌞🎧 Soundtrack by @big.big.sky📺 Folkways Youtube☕️ Buy me a coffee💌 Get in contact [email protected]👋 Connect with Folkways on Instagram or Twitter @folkwayschannel
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 artist
Welcome to the next episode in our series The Otherworld. Part 3: The Adventures of Cherry of Zennor.✍️ Full episode script + show notes 🤝 Become a valued Friend of Folkways 🎧 Soundtrack by @big.big.sky📺 Folkways Youtube☕️ Buy me a coff
Welcome to the second episode in our series The Otherworld, where we take a cautious step into liminal spaces.✍️ Full episode script + show notes🤝 Become a valued Friend of Folkways 🎧 Soundtrack by @big.big.sky📺 Folkways Youtube☕️ Buy m
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.✍️ Full episode script + show notes🤝 Become a valued Friend of Folkways🎧 Soundtrack by @
Welcome to the first episode in our unique series Folklore (Why Bother?) Part 1: The LandMen who eat Ringforts https://bit.ly/3KysPxT🤝 Become a Friend of Folkways 💎 https://bit.ly/34awiDB🎧 Soundtrack by @big.big.sky https://spoti.fi/3hwj
The show returns with the second instalment of atmospheric folk tale The Bells of Minsmere.Also included is April's mini-almanac, where we wash white lions in the tower of London, buy some striped paint, as well as beg for eggs at our neighbou
A warm welcome to the first episode of Season 2, where we're heading deep into the marshes for the Bells of Minsmere.Also included is March's mini-almanac, where we muse the Spring Equinox, do some 'shriving' and learn the true origin of Mothe
Welcome February 2022! This month we're thinking about Imbolc and St Brigid's Day, Anglo Saxon Aecerbots and much more, plus your usual sun and moon times.🤝 Become a Friend of Folkways 💎 https://bit.ly/34awiDB☕️ Buy me a coffee https://bit.
Waes hael! Wishing you a happy new year and a prosperous 2022. Please enjoy January 2022's Almanac, including a reading from The Magic Apple Tree by Susan Hill.🤝 Become a Friend of Folkways 💎 https://bit.ly/34awiDB☕️ Buy me a coffee https:/
Solstice greetings! The longest night of the year is upon us.To help pass the dark hours, why not listen to this conversation between Folkways and Eerie Essex, in which we contemplate the darker side of this time of year. ☕️ If you enjoyed, f
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 FOLKLO
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