Mythos Podcast

Mythos Podcast

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Mythos Podcast episodes

  • S02 Episode 3: Harvest Demon & Wolf Shepherd
    Lady death mowing down a victim with her scythe. A demon of the harvest fields in the shape of a mourning widow. Is it any wonder that folklore symbolically conflates death and the harvest in such potent images when the harvest was the very heart and pulse of the agricultural communities of the ‘folk’? We will encounter these beings whose very nature combines life-giving harvest and death-giving exhaustion from labour - we will encounter harvest demons in the golden wheat fields and the life-stripping heat of the noonday sun in Poland, Russia and Slovenia. We will also meet the wolf-shepherd, an unusual patron to Croatian cattle farmers and their gentle field dwelling bovines.
    All music by Co-Ag Music (available on Youtube)
    37 min
  • S02 Episode 2: Primeval Forest Spirits
    From the last bastion of primeval woodland straddling Poland and Belarus to mountain-top pine forests in the Czech Republic, from swampish realms in aforementioned Polska to Serbian forests ringing with shrill hunting cries, meet the female huntresses, child-snatchers and protective spirits of Slavic lore.
    The vision of Mythos Podcast is to retell stories with a sense of magic, as if they were entirely real. With a brief introduction and analysis, the emphasis is on the stories themselves, with each episode comprised of four tales. Listen and enjoy a fresh take on ancient folklore, complete with immersive narrative, lush music and a dark edge.
    42 min
  • S02 Episode 1: Baba Yaga & Crone Kin
    Variously a mythical wise woman, a witch, a forest spirit or a leader of others in the spirit realm, Baba Yaga’s legacy of lore comes from mixed cultural groups within Eastern Europe and as such a fantastic and horrifying collection of motifs have assembled around the character. Flying through the air in a magical mortar and pestle, she leaves her forest hut which sits astride chicken legs, its keyhole filled with sharp teeth and its land surrounded by a fence of human bones topped with skulls.
    Music by Co Ag Music (available on Youtube)
    42 min
  • S01 Episode 6: Land of the Dead, Part 2

    From the castle haunts of witch hares and rabbit haunted groves in England to fey goat maidens in Scotland and horse-mounted portents of death in Ireland, we will explore stories from that parallel dimension, the land of dead.

    Music by Co-Ag music (available on Youtube)

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    31 min
  • S01 Episode 5: Land of the Dead, Part 1

    From the stately Windsor forest to Scotland’s mist shrouded lochs and streams; from dark and dank Welsh coal mines to barren sandstone hills in Leicestershire, we will explore stories that embody our troubled relationship with our own physical vulnerability - with winter, unknown spiritual forces, with the strains and dangers of manual labour, with geological forces and -ultimately - with the inevitability of death itself.

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    All music by Co-Ag music (available on Youtube)

    28 min
  • S01 Episode 4: Demon Dogs

    From the tor-covered wilds of Dartmoor to the mist-shrouded Scottish Highlands; from the otherworldly black cells of  London’s notorious Newgate Prison to Ireland’s limestone cave entrance to the underworld, in places where the veil is thin between our known world and the fey worlds of spirit and death - there you might hear paws padding along or a heavy bestial breathing from canine nostrils. You might hear the rattling of chains, or perhaps more in the distance, the baying of hounds on the hunt.

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    Music courtesy of Co Ag Music (available on Youtube)

    29 min
  • S01 Episode 3: Prehistoric Sites

    From southern England’s chalk ridges to boggy Scottish headlands overlooking deep and mysterious lochs, there are barrows, megaliths and standing stones of great antiquity. Before the Romans, before the Anglo-Saxons, before the Scandinavian or Norman invasions, there were these weird structures: temple like megalithic standing stones, like the well-known Stonehenge, and large grass covered earthen mounds, man-made earthworks with seemingly subterranean magical intent.

    All music courtesy of Co-Ag Music (available on Youtube and HIGHLY recommended)

    29 min
  • S01 Episode 2: Watery Worlds

    From the deep lochs of Scotland to the murky sylvan ponds of England and then lastly to the other worldly tempestuous coasts of Ireland, these are tales tinged with algae and sea-salt. Experience the dark creatures of the dark depths.

    All music courtesy of Co-Ag Music (available on Youtube and HIGHLY recommended)

    24 min
  • S01 Episode 1: Fey Worlds
    To discover the fey folk, the true fairy of the lore of old, we will travel from the high moorlands of Northumberland, England’s most northern and most sparsely populated county to the verdant hills and wild crags of southwest Ireland; from Scotland’s Orkney Islands, ridden with neolithic sites and gold-white sandstone cliffs, to a sleepy village in Suffolk - these are stories of fey folk and their fey worlds.
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    All music courtesy of Co-Ag Music (available on Youtube and HIGHLY recommended)
    31 min

About Mythos Podcast

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This podcast is a storytelling journey through world-folklore. With brief context and analysis in the introductions, the main focus is the retelling of stories themselves.