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Grab a tea, come hang out, and let us know if YOU came across anything in your infinite scroll sessions. In this outtake from the Sea(tember) floor, we chat about the ethics of meat and taxidermy, how Emily has been since baby no.3 came into the world, plus our spooky season watchlist.

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Seatember is back! And so is Emily! This time we set sail to Japan where we take a quick port stop in Japanese maritime folklore with sea dragons, whale cults and giant ocean monks (don't ask) before getting into the strange yet downright chilling folklore of the Funayūrei. These ships full of drowned sailors want one thing: to add to their crew by any means necessary (including using ladles to sink your ship). Tangents include live autopsies, some gushing about Widow's Bay, and why you shouldn't drive a Tesla through a cemetery.

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S O U R C E S:

• https://yokai.com/funayuurei/?srsltid=AfmBOopjItIBCXyrQJKAaVoWhLn85MU2gOsIEPzLyr5HQ5ZuavFMQVml
• https://www.curiousordinary.com/2022/01/funayurei.html
• Hennessy, K., Mitchell, A., Murrell, V., Plowman, F. and Pyke, V. (eds.) (2020) A History Of Ghosts, Spirits And The Supernatural. DK Publishing.
• https://japanesewithyumiko.com/obon-festival-dead-spirits-ancestors
• https://historyofjapan.co.uk/wiki/funa-yurei/
•  https://hyakumonogatari.com/2013/05/10/bakekujira-and-japans-whale-cults/
• https://hyakumonogatari.com/2010/10/28/funa-yurei/
• https://yokai.com/ryuuguunotsukai/?srsltid=AfmBOopDp0eMbhF4OvdhPqDzqlhr6G32D67Zh-oPBF-XUv4TqrcOGIqq
• https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/long-fish-predicts-earthquake-legend
• https://metropolisjapan.com/water-spirits-japanese-folklore/

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A tiny plaque, carved from mammoth ivory was dated to around 30,000 BCE. On its surface, a human figure stands in a pose that some researchers believe represents the constellation Orion. Deep within caves from that same era, paintings depict other familiar celestial forms, like Taurus, occupying the ancient sky then just as they do now. While it is nearly impossible to trace the exact moment our ancestors first looked up and traced these glowing patterns of light, astrology grew directly out of their deep desire to understand the universe and read the will of the gods. Across the globe, early human cultures interpreted the sky through their own unique lenses - tying starry shapes to local flora and fauna, weaving them into existing folk legends, or building brand new myths around the shapes they saw.

S O U R C E S:

• https://www.aglaiaco.com/en-eu/blogs/magazin-1/the-12-zodiac-signs-and-their-elements-complete-astrology-guidesrsltid=AfmBOordw2RvGcZNFOJIZodN81rS4rORT5iA4gex27pg4Q4-gNCBbUF7
• The Planetary Joys and the Origins of the Significations of the Houses and Triplicities By Chris Brennan https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/history-of-horoscopes
• History of the Zodiac B. L. van der Waerden Archiv für Orientforschung, 16. Bd. (1952-1953), pp. 216-230 (15 pages) https://www.thenightsky.com/blog/astrology-and-the-elements?tnscc=IE
• https://www.theoi.com/greek-mythology/star-myths.html

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This is the second of our Feminist History of Astrology with Niamh's bestie Megan. We recap the ancient astrology covered in Part 1 before getting into where it all went south, starting with the moral panic of the Witchcraft laws in Elizabethan England which led to the infamous Witch Trials, the discreditation of Astrology into a fringe pseudoscience practiced by the lower echelons of society, and right through to how it became reputedly the pasttime of bored houswives and gullible women and LGBTQIA+ people. We then navigate the sience behind both why people connect to astrology and the misconceptions held by the scientists who seek to discredit it.

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S O U R C E S:

• “New Age to Post Modern Age: the cultural location of metaphysical belief” - Fiona Smyth, Dublin City University, 2001
• https://www.thetimes.com/uk/science/article/forget-economics-try-astrology-instead-fmf8dqxnrgx
• https://www.russh.com/feminism-and-astrology/
• https://blackthornandstone.com/2020/06/25/clockwork-sky-astrology-in-early-modern-victorian-england/
• https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/astrology-gen-z-star-signs-moon-b2683469.html
• Age of Aquarius
• The English Witchcraft Act of 1563 Revisited* Alexandra Gajda ,George Southcombe
• https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/divining-the-witch-of-york-propaganda-and-prophecy/
• https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-nancy-reagan-astrology-20160306-story.html
• https://libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/law-witch/england

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The Brothers Grimm are household names: spoken with the same familiarity as Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, or Rapunzel. In German‑speaking Europe, their books were second only to the Bible in popularity, and by the twentieth century they had become the most famous collectors of folk and fairy tales in the western world...

S O U R C E S:

• https://explorethearchive.com/brothers-grimm-fairy-tales
• https://www.neh.gov/humanities/2015/marchapril/feature/how-the-grimm-brothers-saved-the-fairy-tale
• Two Hundred Years After Once Upon a Time: The Legacy of the Brothers Grimm and Their Tales in GermanyJack Zipes Marvels & Tales, Vol. 28, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE: In Honor of Donald Haase (2014), pp. 54-74 (21 pages)
• Critical Observations on Recent Psychoanalytical Approaches to the Tales of the Brothers Grimm Jack Zipes Merveilles & contesVol. 1, No. 1 (May 1987), pp. 19-30 (12 pages)
• Silenced Women in the Grimms’ Tales: The “Fit” Between Fairy Tales and Society in Their Historical Context Chapter Author(s): RUTH B. BOTTIGHEIMER 
• Why Fairy Tales Matter: The Performative and the Transformative Maria Tatar Western Folklore , Vol. 69, No. 1 (Winter 2010), pp. 55-64 (10 pages)

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This is the second of our TWO PARTER with our white knights, Kelsey and Abbie from Fairy Tale Fix! We will continue to deconstruct the Damsels in Distress Archetype and how the influence of Christian and family values have sanitised some of the juciest tales of our youth. We rewind the clock to the Italian origin of Rapunzel - Petrosinella - before having some pop culture chats about our favourite badass women.

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S O U R C E S:

• https://owlcation.com/humanities/mythology-and-archetypes-a-damsel-in-distress
• Feminist Fairy-Tale Scholarship: A Critical Survey and Bibliography Donald Haase, Marvels & Tales, Vol. 14, No. 1, Fairy Tale Liberation—Thirty Years Later (2000), pp. 15-63 (49 pages)
• The Story of Petrosinella
• https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/p/andromeda-the-beauty-of-the-mediterranean
• Rapunzel by the Brothers Grimm
• "Some Day My Prince Will Come": Female Acculturation through the Fairy Tale Marcia R. Lieberman College English, Vol. 34, No. 3 (Dec., 1972), pp. 383-395 (13 pages)
• MICHAEL A. SOLIS THE DAMSEL IN DISTRESS: RESCUING WOMEN FROM AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY 
• https://www.kevindincher.com/2024/08/fairy-tale-damsels-in-distress.html

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This month we have a TWO PARTER and Niamh has called in some white knights, Kelsey and Abbie from Fairy Tale Fix! We will get to know them and all about their fantastic "WTF fairytale podcast" before diving in to the Damsels in Distress Archetype and how it has grown and evolved with society. We pick out our bingo card of DID tropes before hearing the Irish myth, "Deirdre of the Sorrows" and her beautifully tragic ending.

Join us again next week for Part 2 because we just yapped that much!

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S O U R C E S

• https://owlcation.com/humanities/mythology-and-archetypes-a-damsel-in-distress
• Feminist Fairy-Tale Scholarship: A Critical Survey and Bibliography Donald Haase, Marvels & Tales, Vol. 14, No. 1, Fairy Tale Liberation—Thirty Years Later (2000), pp. 15-63 (49 pages)
• https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/p/andromeda-the-beauty-of-the-mediterranean
• "Some Day My Prince Will Come": Female Acculturation through the Fairy Tale Marcia R. Lieberman College English, Vol. 34, No. 3 (Dec., 1972), pp. 383-395 (13 pages)
• https://www.kevindincher.com/2024/08/fairy-tale-damsels-in-distress.html
• https://bardmythologies.com/deirdre-of-the-sorrows/

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There’s a particular joy in beach treasure: a rare shell, a shark’s egg sack, or an interesting rock - but what is extra special is finding a stone steeped in folk belief and holding it up to spy through it to the sea beyond. 

Witch stones, or, as they are commonly called, hag stones, have for centuries been believed to have magical uses. They have been called hex stones, lucky stones, pledge-stones or druid stones. In German, they are Hühnergötter, or "chicken gods,” but in Latin they were called silex pertussis, meaning "perforated flint. “ Some know them as Odin stones or eye stones, Cailleach stones, adder stones, or wish stones.

Names vary from place to place, but they all tie into folk superstitions and beliefs. People felt there was something divine or otherworldly about a stone with a naturally occurring hole, and so they became symbols and tools of magical prowess, protection or warding against witchcraft...

S O U R C E S:

• https://www.thesimplethings.com/blog/hag-stones
• https://www.horniman.ac.uk/story/hag-stones-and-lucky-charms/
• The Witching Stones: The Lore and Craft of the Essential Crystals, Gemstones … By Nicholas Pearson 
• A history of amulets in ten objects By Science Museum Group Journal and Annie Thwaite
• https://thetipperaryantiquarian.blogspot.com/2019/09/hag-stones-are-they-example-of.html
• https://museumofwitchcraftandmagic.co.uk/object/hagstone/
• https://www.learnreligions.com/what-is-a-hagstone-2562519
• https://norse-mythology.org/tales/the-mead-of-poetry/

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This month we have the incomparable Heather, AKA heather.wildflower to talk to us about Megalithic Prehistoric Sites, Standing Stones & Circles, and Ringforts & Cashels. Dotted around the landscape of Ireland, Great Britain and Europe, these surviving remnants of our past have been the subject of folklore and reverence for generations. We get into their astronomical alignment as well as some of the magical experiences Heather has had while visiting them. We also discuss Ley Lines and their controversial reputation among the archeological and scientific community.

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S O U R C E S

• STONE CIRCLES Muiris O'Sullivan, Liam Downey Archaeology Ireland, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Spring 2011), pp. 17-20 (4 pages)
• https://theeverlivingones.blogspot.com/2015/11/shining-stones.html
• Clocha Geala/Clocha Uaisle: White Quartz in Irish Tradition Tok Thompson January 2005 Béaloideas 7 
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/scottishhistory/ancient/features_ancient_stonecircles.shtml
• https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220914-carnac-alignments-brittanys-mysterious-standing-stones
• https://reppinnature.com/blog/f/carnac-the-world%E2%80%99s-largest-collection-of-megaliths-why
• https://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/185805/folklore/clava-cairns
• https://aliisaac.substack.com/p/controversy-at-newgrange
• https://www.knowth.com/tara-earth-energies.htm
• https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/research/spotlight-research/cult-dead-medieval-ireland

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