Folkways: The Folklore of Britain and Ireland

Something different! The show has talked a great deal about deity and ancestral veneration in the past tense, with the aim of understanding it within a historical context. But what about those with a living practice today? How does it work? With the intention to banish some winter blues, enjoy this chat with Fiona Aedgar on the old gods and the ancestors.
Who are the old gods?

How do we approach them?

How does an ancestral practice in general fit into this?

What about the ancestors we DON'T want to connect with? 🚫

And most importantly... What's the point? How can this practice improve our lives?

(Video title taken from my favourite Sin Eater tshirt!)

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*Image credit:
Niren Sengupta: Ancestors
Julia Jeffrey (@StoneMaidenArt):
The Tradition
Meetings in the Smoke
Queen of Stones
Arthur Rackham collection
Photographs of London graveyards:
Paul Hudson, David Holt*

Let's explore a mystery that has hovered over the Sussex Downs since the 1970s....

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🐈 Let's take a seasonally-appropriate trip to a mysterious cave in County Roscommon, said to be Ireland's 'gateway to hell', and also the origin of Halloween...
We meet Queen Maeve, monstrous cats, the Morrigan, and of course... the sidhe!

📍 Oweynagat, Co. Roscommon, Ireland

Featuring the texts:

Táin Bó Cúailnge
(1. Queen Medb's Revenge)

Fled Bricrenn / Bricriu's Feast
(2. The Cats' Test)

Echtra Nerai (Adventures of Nera)
(3. Samhain's Threshold)

The Metrical Dindshenchas
(4. Meet the Morrigan)

🌟 Related episode: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠(S4E7) Stone and Sidhe with Thomas Sheridan⁠⁠

💎 Related bonus episodes:
⁠⁠Are The Fairies The Dead⁠⁠?
Norah and the Fairies (specifically the second half looking at the sidhe/sithean)

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Folkways welcomes back esteemed guest Thomas Sheridan! 🍻
Today we talk about the Irish Sidhe, and the stone circles and hills associated with them.

The circle on a roundabout mentioned is The Abbeyquarter stone circle, Sligo.

Featuring Darby O' Gill and the Little People, 1959. A place called Knocknasheega features in the film, which is likely based on the hill Knocknashee (Irish: Cnoc na Sí), county Sligo.

💎 Bonus episode: Thomas and the Sardinian fairy experience

🌟 Related episode: ⁠⁠⁠⁠(S4E4) Christmas Ghost Stories with Thomas Sheridan⁠

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‘Jesters, clowns, shamans and poets belong to this border realm...’
An extract of the introduction to Boundaries and Thresholds, by Hilda Davidson.

📖 Boundaries and Thresholds from The Folklore Society
Davidson, H.E., Stroud, Thimble Press (1993), Boundaries and Thresholds, Papers from a Colloquium of The Katharine Briggs Club

🌟 Related episode: ⁠(S2E5) Places Between Places⁠

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