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He walks through the fevered cities of medieval Europe - half man, half myth - healing the dying, blessing the dead. A saint, they said… though in the fields and forests, the old women knew better. They left bread for his dog and icons in the wells.

St Roch, or San Rocco, was a medieval nobleman who gave up his wealth and title to care for plague victims. After succumbing to pestilence, some time in exile, and help from a very special dog, his fame evolved into a distinctly witchy practice of iconography, offerings, and ritual not so different from its pagan predecessors...

S O U R C E S:

•  https://jothornely.medium.com/when-the-saints-go-arting-in-roch-1c402639bb0a
• https://reliquarian.com/2020/04/04/saint-roch-the-saint-par-excellence-against-disease/
• https://www.catholiccompany.com/blogs/magazine/st-roch-patron-of-dogs-6114
• https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/salvation-time-plague/2020-05
• "The Golden Legend ," by Jacobus de Voragine, A.D. 1275

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Miss Emily is BACK for our Halloween 2025 episode! Spooktober concludes with Niamh's guided tour of the Afterlife. We look at some comforting imaginings, such as the Egyptian Field of Reeds and the Celtic Tír na nÓg, cut right through Norse Hel and the Greek Underworld to arrive at the ICONIC self-insert fanfiction that is The Divine Comedy and specifically (as you probably know it) Dante's Inferno.. This is a tangenty one, don't say we didn't warn ya.

S O U R C E S

• Attitudes to Death: Some Historical Notes Kenneth Boyd Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Sep., 1977), pp. 124-128 (5 pages)
• https://www.worldhistory.org/article/701/ancient-mesopotamian-beliefs-in-the-afterlife/ 
• https://www.worldhistory.org/Field_of_Reeds/
• https://www.oriire.com/article/the-twelve-gates-of-duat
• https://www.britannica.com/topic/Sukhavati
• https://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Places/The_Underworld/the_underworld.htm
• https://vikingr.org/norse-cosmology/valhallala
• https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/d/the-divine-comedy-inferno/poem-summary
• https://sacred-texts.com/neu/yeats/fip/fip78.htm

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Hidden beneath the living world, beyond the reach of sunlight, lies the sunless kingdom of Hades and Persephone — the Greek Underworld.

It’s not a place of fire and brimstone, but of chill stillness, memory, and silence. The Greeks imagined it as the mirror opposite of life and its inverse state. 

S O U R C E S

• https://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Places/The_Underworld/the_underworld.htm
• Garland, Robert -  The Greek Way of Death
• https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/death-burial-and-the-afterlife-in-ancient-greece
• Homer - The Odyssey, Book 11

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• Clash of the Titans (1981) CharonTheFerryman.mov
• Orpheus & Eurydice - Jim Henson Co.

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Megan is BACK to talk about her experiences with Shadow People - beings at the edge of sight: nothing but an outline, a fast-moving silhouette that may suggest a human or animal but never offers detail. We look at the meaning of shadows across cultures and what they can tell us about ourselves.

S O U R C E S:

• https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3788890/shadows-of-ourselves-the-unexplained-phenomena-of-shadow-people-dead-time/
• https://www.mythweb.com/encyc/gallery/shade_c.html#:~:text=The%20insubstantial%20remains%20of%20the,Hades%2C%20ruler%20of%20the%20Underworld.
• https://marshagomes.wordpress.com/2021/12/12/caribbean-folklore-part-10-the-moongazer-phantom/
• https://hauntedsavannahtours.com/the-mystery-of-shadow-people-stories-theories-and-investigations/#:~:text=Djinn%20(Genies):%20An%20intriguing,while%20others%20are%20merely%20eerie.
• https://www.janetchui.com/astrology-shadow/
• https://time.com/6259846/sleep-paralysis-ghosts/
• https://www.psychologytoday.com/ie/blog/shadow-boxing/201307/shadow-people
• Marie D. Jones, Larry Flaxman - Demons, the Devil, and Fallen Angels 
• Diane Ahlquist - The Complete Idiot's Guide to Life After Death: A Fascinating Exploration of Afterlife Concepts and Experiences 
• Briggs, Katharine Mary An encyclopedia of fairies : hobgoblins, brownies, bogies, and other supernatural creatures
•  Monique Joiner Siedlak · The Shadow Realm: A Journey Into the Mysterious World of Shadow People
• N. V. Shesterkina, Е. N. Vaganova - The Mythological Concept ‘Shadow’ (On The Material Of Folk Riddles)

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“Yesterday, upon the stair,

I met a man who wasn’t there!

He wasn’t there again today,

Oh, how I wish he’d go away!” - Antigonish by William Hughes Mearns

You’ve probably heard these lines before - whispered in a film, included in a book of ghost poems, or even whispered as harmless childhood nonsense..

But there’s something about them - something sticky.

Sixteen lines, no real story, and yet it clings.

Because it names something we all know, but rarely say aloud:

the feeling of not being alone when you should be.

S O U R C E S:

• https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/mysterious-haunting-antigonish-county-macdonald-farm-1.6631829
• https://jayvelosobatista.com/whats-a-vardoger/
• (Used as a recital throughout the episode) I Met a Man Who Wasn't There (Antigonish by Hughes Mearns)
• https://orionphilosophy.com/the-shadow-carl-jung/

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Her right hand traces the fjord in her thigh

She counts the things she is afraid of:

Nothing,

Her own fingers—

Ringed seals

Trapped in the freezing sea.

Sedna by Allyson Young

The legend of Sedna flows through the icy waters of the Arctic, told and retold in many places, bending to each culture. But no matter the version, one thing remains the same: Sedna is the mother of all sea creatures, and as goddess of the deep she decides when the seals, the whales, the walrus, and the fish will rise to meet the hunters of the North.

S O U R C E S:

• https://www.polarlife.ca/traditional/myth/sedna.htm
• https://cmszabo55.medium.com/untangling-suffering-sedna-creatrix-under-the-sea-a11cfc660b51
• https://www.tumblr.com/bestiarium/683396691391561728/the-myth-of-sedna-the-mother-of-the-sea-inuit
• https://guidetogreenland.com/travel-blogs/Christina-gamborg-holm/storytelling-up-north-the-inuit-legend-of-sedna/
• https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/InuitMythology
•  Prokop, Carol Ann - Written in stone : a comparative analysis of Sedna and the Moon Spirit as depicted in contemporary Inuit sculpture and graphics
• Sedna: The Goddess of the Sea & Marine Animals - (Inuit Mythology Explained)

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“Twilight arrives on an Orkney shore. In the space between land and sea, the Finfolk are said to slip silently from their hidden kingdom, seeking humans to drag below the waves.”

The Finfolk are a race unique to Orkney and Shetland, creatures of contradiction much like the islands themselves: part sea, part land, both wild and ordered. Amphibious and powerful, they can step from waves onto shore as they choose, living comfortably between two worlds. .Unlike the mermaids we might picture, Finfolk are fully humanoid - men and women alike -though their daughters sometimes appear with mermaid tails. Their bodies are draped with fins that fall like clothing, making it difficult to tell them from land-dwellers at a distance. Up close, the fins reveal their otherworldly nature. They are strong, athletic, and extraordinary sailors, able to cross the tempestuous North Sea in mere strokes of an oar...

S O U R C E S:

• https://owlcation.com/social-sciences/the-finfolk-of-orkney-folklore
• https://www.orkneyology.com/tales-from-tom2.html
• https://www.northlinkferries.co.uk/orkney-blog/an-orkney-folk-tale-the-mermaid-bride/
• https://archaeologyorkney.com/2021/01/08/finfolk-and-the-odyssey-a-perspective-on-the-north-atlantic-and-the-mediterranean-worlds/
• THE Scottish Antiquary OR Northern Notes and Queries Published Quarterly EDITED BY The Rev. A. W. CORNELIUS HALLEN, 
• https://ztevetevans.wordpress.com/2022/01/20/orkney-folklore-the-strange-story-of-annie-norn-and-the-finfolk/

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Sea-Tember returns! This time Niamh calls in Evan & Chelsea from It Came From The Maritimes to help shed some fascinating insight into the Selkie myth; seals who shed their skins to walk (and dance) upon land. We take a trip through Scotland, Ireland and Iceland, navigating people's problematic attraction to seal-folk. We also learn about the liminality of the shore as well as a certified Creepy B*tch, Selkolla.

Check out It Came From The Maritimes here (and tell 'em we sent ya!). Thank you SO much to Evan & Chelsea for providing a Canadian perspective and being such fun first pod guests!

S O U R C E S:

• THE FOLK-STORIES OF ICELAND Einar Ólafur Sveinsson
• https://legendsoflove.wordpress.com/2022/02/22/selkies-the-magical-seal-people-of-scotland-and-ireland/
• Orkney Folk-Lore W. Traill Dennison
• https://owlcation.com/social-sciences/the-finfolk-of-orkney-folklore
• Perilous Shores: The Unfathomable Supernaturalism of Water in 19th-Century Scottish Folklore
• The Sea Calls: A Selkie's Liminal Existence Frances Avery,
• “The Seal Changes Into a Woman" (Schools Collection,  National Folklore Collection, UCD.)
• The Seal Woman in Its Irish and International Context -Darwin.
• Selkie (Poem) by Brittany E Burns 
• Selkies in Scottish Folk Tale  - Bc. Hana Zámečníčková
• Supernatural Encounters in Old Norse Literature and Tradition Daniel Sävborg, Karen Bek - Pedersen

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The year is 1607.

A child has gone missing from a small English parish. Some whisper he has fallen in the river. Others say he’s been taken. There are no police to search, no telegraph to spread the alarm, no TV bulletin to circulate a picture. His family has nothing but their grief — and their faith.

So they do what countless others did in those years: they carry their question to an astrologer.

We explore the lives and fortunes of John Forman, William Lilly, Nostradamus and Evangeline Evans - controversial figures who made their names as beiing astrological authorities garnering massive followings. But there is a reason that forensic astrology is seen as pseudoscience to our modern eyes...

S O U R C E S:

• Use of Forensic Astrology in Crime Fiction: A study of the works of Manjiri Prabhu Rakshanda Muzafar 
• https://rubedo.press/propaganda/2020/3/26/william-lilly-and-the-plagues-of-london
• History of Astrology 2nd Edn. 2022 by Future Publishing Ltd 
• https://casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk/?
• https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/adams-evangeline-smith-mrs-george-e-jordon-jr-1859-1933
• Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century England Keith Thomas
• https://www.history.co.uk/biographies/nostradamus
• Adams, Evangeline(8 February 1868–10 November 1932) William E. Burns
• William Lilly Great Fire of London
• https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/09/forensic-astrology-crime-solving.html1.

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