Originally published: July 14, 2022

Get ready to smell what the Florida Man is cooking in this latest installment of Faecraft! Holly and Chelsea dig into the stinky cryptid prowling Florida from the Everglades to the Keys: the Skunk Ape. They discuss the ape's biggest proponents, Florida's history, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, the correlation between white nationalism and cryptozoology.

Sources:

• Atlanta Daily World, July 21 1977. "Fla. Family Cowers in Fear of Prowling 'Skunk Ape.'"
• Chicago Defender, Jan. 10 1974
• Connolly, Patrick. "Searching for Florida's Skunk Ape: Chasing the Sunshine State's Sasquatch in the Everglades," June 27, 2021 Orlando Sentinel
• Dickinson, Joy Wallace. "Skunk Ape among State's Odd Legends," Oct. 10 2021, Orlando Sentinel
• Knight, Henry. "Savages of Southern Sunshine": Racial Realignment of the Seminoles in the Selling of Jim Crow Florida
• Shealy's Official Skunk Ape Headquarters
• Stromberg, Joseph. "On the Train of Florida's Bigfoot--the Skunk Ape," March 6, 2014
• "The Man Behind Florida's Favorite Cryptid: The Skunk Ape," Atlas Obscura, 2015
• Todd, Verna. "Tribal Beliefs About Bigfoot," The Journal of Chickasaw History and Culture, vol. 13, is. 1 (spring 2012)

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Originally published: July 7, 2022

What does the fox say?!

Holly and Chelsea find out in this week's episode focusing on the Japanese kitsune, or fox god. Hear all about how these adorable, powerful creatures became synonymous with Japanese culture, permeating all areas of life from religion to architecture to literature and more for centuries. 

Sources:

• 5 Great Kitsune Aime for Fans of the Nine-Tailed Fox
• 6 Things to Know About the Inari Fox in Japanese Folklore
• The 10 Best Pokemon, Ranked
• A 'Killing Stone' Broke in Japan. Is a Demon on the Loose? NYTimes article by Mike Ives and Makiko Inoue, March 18, 2022
• All About Kitsune
• Bathgate, Michael. The Fox's Craft in Japanese Religion and Culture: Shapeshifters, Transformations, and Duplicities. Taylor & Francis Group, 2003
• "Inari," Encyclopedia Britannica
• Kitsune- from The Ashgate Encyclopedia of Literary and Cinematic Monsters
• Kitsune in Popular Culture
• Kurama
• Ortabsi, Melek. "(Re)animating Folklore: Raccoon Dogs, Foxes, and Other Supernatural Japanese Citizens in Takahat Isao's Hesei tanuki gassen pompoko," Marvels and Tales, 27.2, 2013
• The Sandman: The Dream Hunters, by Neil Gaiman and Yoshiaka Amano
• "Shinto" and "Buddhism" from The Encyclopedia of World Religions by the Encyclopedia Britannica, 2006

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Originally published: June 30, 2022

Cows! Fertility! Ravens!

This week on the podcast Holly and Chelsea tackle one of their favorite Irish goddesses, the Morrigan. Chelsea goes into the ways this oral tradition was collected and interpretive issues, while Holly looks at how the Morrigan is honored today.

Sources:

• Clark, Rosalind. The Great Queens: Irish Goddesses from the Morrigan to Cathleen Ni Houlihan. Irish Literary Studies 34, Barnes and Noble Books, 1991
• The Hounds of the Morrigan, by Pat O'Shea (Goodreads)
• Mythopedia
• The Morrigan as a "Dark Goddess": A Goddess Re-Imagined Through Therapeutic Self-Narration of Women on Social Media
• The Morrigan - World History
• The Morrigan Goddess - Druidry
• The Morrigan - The Order of the Crows
• Patheon- The Morrigan Calls People in Different Life Situations
• Podcast: Bonfire Bruja. Episode, The Morrigan, Feb. 23 2022
• The Morrighan - learn reliion
• Queer Folklore - The Morrigan is a Goddess for Protest
• Sanctuary - Fata Morgana
• Williams, Mark. Ireland's Immortals: A History of the Gods of Irish Myth. Princeton UP, 2016
• https://wicdiv.fandom.com/wiki/The_Morrigan

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Originally published: June 21, 2022

Hello and welcome to Faecraft, a journey into tales of wonder, whimsy, and woe. Join us, the Burk sisters, for a romp with the Seelie and Unseelie courts in this our very first episode. Chelsea digs into historical research and origins of the magical Scottish courts of lore, while Holly shows us the lasting legacy of these creatures in popular culture.

Sources

• An Encyclopedia of Faeries, Katherine Briggs, 1976
• British Faeries Wordpress, "The Good and the Wicked Wichts; The Seelie and Unseelie Courts; Two Tribes- Good and Bad Fairy Folk"
• "The Cult of Seely Wights in Scotland," Folklore vol 123, no. 2., Julian Goodare, 2012
• The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 1882-1898, Francis James Child, 1882-1898.
• Forgotten Realms Wiki
• Good Faeries, Bad Faeries, by Brian Froud, 1998
• "Seelie," Oxford English Dictionary
• Shadowhunter Wiki
• Writing in the Margins website- The Seelie and Unseelie Courts

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