Hello Hello! We did pledge to keep releasing Pine Cones once a month as our schedules allow.

This one is a primer for our LIVE Instagram event on December 2nd! All the information is here:

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Please get cosy, make a drink and maybe some porridge?? And join us for more ghost stories and fun!

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Emily is back this week with the first of a TWO parter on house spirits. We start with a little frolic though northern Europe and learn why real estate might be abit more compicated. Our Creature Counsel this week is from an ominous road passenger...

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN, NERDS!

We have a bumper, extra long, extra spooky episode to close out the greatest month of the year. Niamh looks into the folklore of Crossroads, including liminal spaces and times, some dark history, and of course Vodou Loa to guide us beyond the veil. Don't forget to stick around to the end for some Creature Counsel and submit your own via our contact details below!

Sources:

• https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/why-were-suicides-supposed-to-be-buried-at-crossroads/
• https://independent-liverpool.co.uk/blog/crossroad-burials/
• https://www.icysedgwick.com/3-weird-things-at-crossroads/
• Pettifer, Ernest (1992). Punishments of Former Days. Winchester: Waterside Press
• https://astonishinglegends.com/astonishing-legends/2019/1/14/a-brief-overview-of-crossroads
• https://owlcation.com/humanities/The-Crossroads-a-liminal-setting-for-occult-and-supernatural-activities
• The Devil's Pact: Diabolic Writing and Oral Tradition - Kimberly Ball, Western Folklore, Vol. 73, No. 4 (Fall 2014), pp. 385-409 (25 pages)
• Neale, Zora “Hoodoo in America” in The Journal of American Folklore, vol. 44 (1931): pp 317-417.
• https://www.britannica.com/topic/Bawon-Samdi
• https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-ancient-traditions/baron-samedi-0016698
• http://faculty.webster.edu/corbetre/haiti/voodoo/biglist.htm
• https://visithaiti.com/festivals-events/photo-journal-fet-gede-day-of-the-dead/
• https://medium.com/@lunionsuite/10-things-we-learned-about-fet-gede-haitian-day-of-the-dead-4a9f3b36c4a3

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Our Spooky Short this week was inspired by the special phenomenon of an OCTOBER Friday the 13th! Where does the superstition - or fear - come from? Emily take us on a trip through history that shows it has to be more than just mere coincidence...

Written, researched and voiced by Emily, edited by Niamh.

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Sources:

https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/2022/05/13/why-is-friday-the-13th-unlucky-the-myths-superstitions-and-stories-behind-the-jinxed-day/

https://www.history.com/topics/folklore/friday-the-13th

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Our Spooky Short this week is a barrelling swoop into the connection between witches and their broomsticks. What were those ladies doing on their sabbath.

Theme song: Creepy Mood by SoulProdMusic on Pixabay.

Script by Emily

With quotes from "The Crucible" by Henry Miller - special thanks to Glen Ridge High School English Dept!

Sources:

• https://inpress.lib.uiowa.edu/feminae/DetailsPage.aspx?Feminae_ID=31909
• https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-ancient-traditions/witches-broomstick-0016883
• https://scientificinquirer.com/2022/10/22/halloween-science-breaking-down-witches-flying-ointments-one-ingredient-at-a-time/
• https://guides.library.uab.edu/c.php?g=1048546&p=7609204

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Spooktober Spectacular brings us Emily's compilation of haunted dolls, from Annabelle and Robert to some lesser known little creeps, plus a new holiday destination.

• https://www.nhregister.com/living/article/Real-Annabelle-story-shared-by-Lorraine-11382545.php

• https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/story-behind-robert-the-doll 

• https://www.ghostsandgravestones.com/key-west/robert-the-doll

• https://www.discovery.com/exploration/the-island-of-the-dolls-has-a-murky-and-terrifying-history

• https://paramuseum.com/pieces/ruby-haunted-doll/

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Spooktober Bonus Content continues with a solo episode from Niamh on Stingy Jack: The Origin of the Jack O'Lantern.

Ever wondered were your pumpkin friend got his name? This could very well be his origin story.

Compiled from folklore sources across the web, written & edited by Niamh.

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Thanks to:

OldSoulArtisan

The Irish Times

Púca Festival

National Geographic

Ani Balan

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Welcome to Rowan & Pine's Spooktober Spectacular! This is the first of our extra content for the greatest season of all, dropping into your feed each Saturday.

Did you have to learn Macbeth's infamous Act IV, Scene I in school? Did you know all was not what it seemed? Those disturbing ingredients may have much more mundane meanings - some of which you can grab right out of your spice rack.

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Macbeth Reading: Librivox Public Domain - https://librivox.org/7488

Sources:

• https://www.gbbg.org/the-witches-garden/https://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/please-pass-me-the-eye-of-newt-whats-really-in-that-witchs-cauldron
• https://nuannaarpoq.wordpress.com/thalassas-herbal/the-herbal-code/
• https://hekint.org/2019/05/30/more-than-toil-and-trouble-macbeth-and-medicine/

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Just a taste of what we have coming up for the Spookiest Season Of All!

First of the Spooktober l content drops tomorrow, Saturday 7th October.

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Niamh rounds off our journey through Appalachia with some of the ghostiest tales from the region - including the infamous Bell Witch Haunting.

Sources: 

Working History podcast https://soundcloud.com/southernlaborstudies/appalachian_reckoning

Appalachian Regional Commission https://www.arc.gov/

EMERGING PATTERNS OF POPULATION REDISTRIBUTION AND MIGRATION IN APPALACHIA  Daniel T. Lichter, Jillian Garratt, Mary L. Marshall, and Michael Cardella Ohio State University

POPULATION GROWTH AND DISTRIBUTION IN APPALACHIA: NEW REALITIES  Kelvin M. Pollard Population Reference Bureau 

In the Mountains: The Scots-Irish heritage in Appalachia https://www.lmc.edu/about/news-center/articles/2022/in-the-mountains-the-scots-irish-heritage-in-appalachia.htm

ACCL Digital Archive http://civicmemory.org

https://horrorobsessive.com/2021/10/11/boo-yall-appalachian-ghost-stories/

https://www.scribd.com/document/7612593/An-Authenticated-History-of-the-Famous-Bell-Witch-by-Martin-Van-Buren-Ingram-1894

https://web.archive.org/web/20030307101405/http://bellwitch02.tripod.com/chapter_2.htm

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