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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

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. 📅

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What happened in Kersey, Suffolk, October of 1957? Find out in this atmospheric episode for Samhain. 🍂 Plus, the latest almanac!

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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 Wales...

📍 Craig y Ddinas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinas_Rock

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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.

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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.

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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)

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Oss Oss Wee Oss! https://bit.ly/42dLat8

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