‘Jesters, clowns, shamans and poets belong to this border realm...’ An extract of the introduction to Boundaries and Thresholds, by Hilda Davidson. 💎 Enjoy bonus episode Are The Fairies The Dead ? 🌟 Recommended: (S2E5) Places Between Places 📖 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 🤝 Become a valued Friend of Folkways : https://bit.ly/34awiDB...
Jun 02, 2025•14 min•Season 4Ep. 6
In 1929 an occultist was drawn to the Scottish Isle of Iona, her eerie story contributing to the island's already substantial mythos. 🌀 Stay tuned until the end of the episode for news on this show's bonus content. 🤝 Become a valued Friend of Folkways : https://bit.ly/34awiDB 🎧 Soundtrack especially scored by @ big.big.sky : https://spoti.fi/47jvok6 📺 F olkways Youtube : https://bit.ly/3rUs9PF ☕️ Buy me a coffee : https://bit.ly/3dxssVw 💌 Get in contac...
Apr 01, 2025•48 min•Season 4Ep. 5
Welcome to the broadcast! Some Lide winds blow the cobwebs away, before we head up into the Curlew Mountains to view some strange lights... 🤝 Become a valued Friend of Folkways : https://bit.ly/34awiDB 📺 Folkways Youtube : https://bit.ly/3rUs9PF ☕️ Buy me a coffee : https://bit.ly/3dxssVw 💌 Get in contact folkwayschannel@gmail.com 👋 Connect with Folkways on Instagram @folkwayspodcast | LINKS + SOURCES | P.H. 'Old English Customs: Extan...
Mar 05, 2025•16 min
Welcome to the broadcast! Let's wander around some places associated with St Brigid, including a very famous street in central London... 🤝 Become a valued Friend of Folkways : https://bit.ly/34awiDB 📺 Folkways Youtube : https://bit.ly/3rUs9PF ☕️ Buy me a coffee : https://bit.ly/3dxssVw 💌 Get in contact folkwayschannel@gmail.com 👋 Connect with Folkways on Instagram @folkwayspodcast | LINKS + SOURCES | P.H. 'Old English Customs: Extant at the ...
Feb 07, 2025•13 min
Welcome to the broadcast! Step back with me into Ordinary Time as we celebrate Twelfth Night... Welsh style! Plus let's pay a visit to Pentre Ifan, said to be the entrance to Annwn... 🤝 Become a valued Friend of Folkways : https://bit.ly/34awiDB 📺 Folkways Youtube : https://bit.ly/3rUs9PF ☕️ Buy me a coffee : https://bit.ly/3dxssVw 💌 Get in contact folkwayschannel@gmail.com 👋 Connect with Folkways on Instagram @folkwayspodcast | LINKS + SOURCES | ...
Jan 05, 2025•18 min
I sit down for the ultimate winter chat with Thomas Sheridan! We discuss everything from Alternative Folklore, Winter liminality, James Joyce, Irish Christmas traditions, The Snowman... to the symbolic murdering of the year! Not under any circumstances to be missed! 🚫 Featuring the end of John Huston's The Dead , 1987 🤝 Become a valued Friend of Folkways : https://bit.ly/34awiDB 🎧 Soundtrack by @ big.big.sky : https://spoti.fi/47jvok6 📺 F olkways Youtube : https://bit.l...
Dec 29, 2024•37 min•Season 4Ep. 3
Please enjoy the original stunning radio play 'Solstice' by Alison Mcleay, first broadcast Sat 21st Dec 1985, 10.30pm on BBC Radio 4. Original blurb: 'It is now the Winter Solstice, the night when the sun dies and is reborn: a night of magic, which has more to do with our traditional Christmas celebrations than people might like to admit. Just for tonight, the Shaman lives...' With the voices of Michael Elder, Diana Olsson and Paul Young. Produced by Patrick Rayner for BBC Scotland. This can add...
Dec 20, 2024•26 min
Welcome to the broadcast! Thinking about Britain's Germanic heritage, this Christmas we raise a glass to the ancient northern spirits: the mothers at Modraniht, and the Norse dísir and their Dísablót. 🌬 Plus December's stargazing and a trip to St Anthony's Well! Happy Jól / Yule! 🎄 | LINKS + SOURCES | P.H. 'Old English Customs: Extant at the Present Time'. (London: Methuen, 1896) https://bit.ly/3vMRKKf Dunlop and Tirion 'Night Sky Almanac: A Stargazer's guider to 2024'. (Glasgow: Collins...
Dec 08, 2024•15 min
Due to the lateness of this episode (extreme tech issues), please enjoy a juicy extra-long section on Halloween 🎃 So... what does romance have to do with All Hallows / Samhain / Calan Gaeaf? ♥️ Find out in this month's broadcast! 🤝 Become a valued Friend of Folkways : https://bit.ly/34awiDB 📺 Folkways Youtube : https://bit.ly/3rUs9PF ☕️ Buy me a coffee : https://bit.ly/3dxssVw 💌 Get in contact folkwayschannel@gmail.com 👋 Connect with Folkways on Instag...
Oct 23, 2024•22 min
🦉 Today the podcast takes a very different approach to last episode, as we head through the trees on a bit of a Cornish epic. We meet different characters amongst the graves, including Tony Doc Shiels, Leonora Carrington... and Ithell Colquhoun! But will they be able to help us...? 🤝 Become a valued Friend of Folkways: https://bit.ly/34awiDB 🎧 Soundtrack by @big.big.sky: https://spoti.fi/47jvok6 📺 Folkways Youtube: https://bit.ly/3rUs9PF ☕️ Buy me a coffee: https://bit.l...
Oct 01, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Season 4Ep. 2
📻 Welcome to the broadcast! This month we talk the Autumnal Equinox, Scottish Selkies and Harvest Supermoons 🌾🌕 📍 PLACE OF THE MONTH: St Trothans or Olrig Kirk , Castletown, Caithness https://bit.ly/3MzlaCZ Become a valued Friend of Folkways : https://bit.ly/34awiDB Soundtrack by @big.big.sky : https://spoti.fi/47jvok6 Folkways Youtube : https://bit.ly/3rUs9PF Buy me a coffee : https://bit.ly/3dxssVw Get in contact folkwaysch...
Sep 08, 2024•12 min
It's the month of Lughnasadh or Lammas, so let's head out into the fields! 🌾 Also talk of August's supermoon and some exquisite verse from Hugo Williams 🤝 Become a valued Friend of Folkways : https://bit.ly/34awiDB 🎧 Soundtrack by @big.big.sky : https://spoti.fi/47jvok6 📺 Folkways Youtube : https://bit.ly/3rUs9PF ☕️ Buy me a coffee : https://bit.ly/3dxssVw 💌 Get in contact folkwayschannel@gmail.com 👋 Connect with Folkways on Instagram @folkw...
Aug 08, 2024•9 min
Get out your sunscreen and Mr Whippy's as we consider what July has in store for us in the heavens and hedgerows, including talk of St Swithin's Day and Sirius, plus Thomas Hardy and some early Irish verse. 🤝 Become a valued Friend of Folkways : https://bit.ly/34awiDB 🎧 Soundtrack by @big.big.sky : https://spoti.fi/47jvok6 📺 Folkways Youtube : https://bit.ly/3rUs9PF ☕️ Buy me a coffee : https://bit.ly/3dxssVw 💌 Get in contact folkwayschannel@gmail.com...
Jul 02, 2024•10 min
🎈 Welcome to Season 4! Today we're plunging into one of the strangest stories in contemporary British folklore... Monsters in the woods at Mawnan, Cornwall. 🤝 Become a valued Friend of Folkways: https://bit.ly/34awiDB 🎧 Soundtrack by @big.big.sky: https://spoti.fi/47jvok6 📺 Folkways Youtube: https://bit.ly/3rUs9PF ☕️ Buy me a coffee: https://bit.ly/3dxssVw 💌 Get in contact folkwayschannel@gmail.com 👋 Connect with Folkways on Instagram @folkwayspodcast #owlman #cryptid...
Jun 17, 2024•39 min•Season 4Ep. 1
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 @big.big.sky : https://spoti.fi/47jvok6 📺 Folkways Youtube : https://bit.ly/3rUs9PF ☕️ Buy me a coffee : https://bit.ly/3dxssVw 💌 Get in contact folkwayschannel@gmail.com 👋 Connect with Folkways on Instagram @folkwayspodcast...
Mar 08, 2024•14 min
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 people listen in the archive, often years later, and the almanac at the end of an episode may not be relevant! 🤝 Become a valued Friend of Folkways : https://bit.ly/34awiDB 🎧 Soundtrack by @big.big.sky : https://spoti.fi/47jvok6 📺 Folkways ...
Feb 05, 2024•13 min
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.fi/47jvok6 📺 Folkways Youtube: https://bit.ly/3rUs9PF ☕️ Buy me a coffee: https://bit.ly/3dxssVw 💌 Get in contact folkwayschannel@gmail.com 👋 Connect with Folkways on Instagram or Twitter @folkwayspodcast THE KIST: The Magazine of the Na...
Jan 14, 2024•45 min•Season 3Ep. 8
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/3GUn7H6 ❄️ SOLSTICE: The Real Story of Yule https://bit.ly/47cjfft ❄️ GHOST STORIES FOR CHRISTMAS https://bit.ly/3vbdq4C
Dec 22, 2023•7 min
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. 📅 🤝 Become a valued Friend of Folkways: https://bit.ly/34awiDB 🎧 Soundtrack by @big.big.sky: https://spoti.fi/47jvok6 📺 Folkways Youtube: https://bit.ly/3rUs9PF ☕️ Buy me a coffee: https://bit.ly/3dxssVw 💌 Get in contact folkwayschanne...
Dec 14, 2023•36 min•Season 3Ep. 7
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://spoti.fi/47jvok6 📺 Folkways Youtube: https://bit.ly/3rUs9PF ☕️ Buy me a coffee: https://bit.ly/3dxssVw 💌 Get in contact folkwayschannel@gmail.com 👋 Connect with Folkways on Instagram or Twitter @folkwayspodcast...
Oct 12, 2023•50 min•Season 3Ep. 6
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. 🤝 Become a valued Friend of Folkways : https://bit.ly/34awiDB 🎧 Soundtrack by @big.big.sky : https://spoti.fi/47jvok6 📺 Folkways Youtube: https://bit.ly/3rUs9PF ☕️ Buy me a coffee : https://bit.ly/3dxssVw 💌 Get in contact folkways...
Aug 25, 2023•27 min•Season 3Ep. 5
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 🎧 Soundtrack by @big.big.sky : https://spoti.fi/47jvok6 📺 Folkways Youtube: https://bit.ly/3rUs9PF ☕️ Buy me a coffee : https://bit.ly/3dxssVw 💌 Get in contact folkwayschannel@gmail.com 👋 Connect with Folkways on Instagram or Twitter ...
Aug 02, 2023•27 min•Season 3Ep. 4
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 the Sea Podcast https://t.ly/KKxZ 📺 Death and the Landscape: Glamorgan and the Llynfi Valley https://t.ly/V98h 🤝 Become a valued Friend of Folkways 🎧 Soundtrack by @big.big.sky 📺 Folkways Youtube ☕️ Buy me a coffee 💌 Get in con...
Jul 13, 2023•44 min•Season 3Ep. 3
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 conversation. BBM's work: 📺 Death and the Landscape: Glamorgan and the Llynfi Valley https://t.ly/V98h 🎧 Spectre of the Sea Podcast https://t.ly/KKxZ 🎧 Eerie Essex Podcast https://t.ly/p8tw 🤝 Become a valued Friend of Folkways 🎧 Soundtrack by @big....
Jun 12, 2023•1 hr•Season 3Ep. 2
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 Friend of Folkways 🎧 Soundtrack by @big.big.sky 📺 Folkways Youtube ☕️ Buy me a coffee 💌 Get in contact folkwayschannel@gmail.com 👋 Connect with Folkways on Instagram or Twitter @folkwayschannel Oss Oss Wee Oss! https://bit.ly/42dLat...
May 03, 2023•48 min•Season 3Ep. 1
❄️🌞 Enjoy Icebreak in full https://bit.ly/3ljU2NO ❄️🌞 🎧 Soundtrack by @big.big.sky 📺 Folkways Youtube ☕️ Buy me a coffee 💌 Get in contact folkwayschannel@gmail.com 👋 Connect with Folkways on Instagram or Twitter @folkwayschannel...
Feb 08, 2023•13 min
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 artistry. This one's for all the dreamers out there... ✍️ Full episode script + show notes 🤝 Become a valued Friend of Folkways 🎧 Soundtrack by @big.big.sky 📺 Folkways Youtube ☕️ Buy me a coffee 💌 Get in contact folkwayschannel@gmail.com 👋 Connect with Folkw...
Oct 15, 2022•34 min•Season 2Ep. 7
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 coffee 💌 Get in contact folkwayschannel@gmail.com 👋 Connect with Folkways on Instagram or Twitter @folkwayschannel | LINKS + SOURCES | Hunt, Robert ' Popular Romances of the West of England' (Palala Press, 2018) Hartland, Edwin Sidney 'English Fairy and Other ...
Sep 09, 2022•44 min•Season 2Ep. 6
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 me a coffee 💌 Get in contact folkwayschannel@gmail.com 👋 Connect with Folkways on Instagram or Twitter @folkwayschannel Additional research this month by Tamsin Howard . | LINKS + SOURCES | Davidson, Hilda 'Boundaries and Thresholds: Papers from the Kathar...
Aug 14, 2022•51 min•Season 2Ep. 5
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 @big.big.sky 📺 Folkways Youtube ☕️ Buy me a coffee 💌 Get in contact folkwayschannel@gmail.com 👋 Connect with Folkways on Instagram or Twitter @folkwayschannel...
Jul 05, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 4
