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HAPPY HALLOWEEN, FIENDS! Niamh takes us on a tour of Psychompomps, those figures who transport souls to the afterlife. From Anubis in Egypt to Hermes in Greece, to Epona, the Valkyries, Gwyn Ap Nudd and Azrael, every culture has some form of death shepherd. Thanks so much for sticking with us for Season 2 :)

S O U R C E S:

https://cfa.lmu.edu/labandgallery/exhibitions/pastexhibitions/2017/psychopomp/

Encyclopedia Of World Mythology by Arthur Cotterell

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Azrael

https://www.crowsbone.com/blogarchive/into-the-underworld-psychopomps-and-deities-of-death

https://artsandculture.google.com/story/the-story-of-anubis-american-research-center-in-egypt/3wWRSNl-AUDRvA?hl=en

https://www.psychopomps.org/psychopomp-guide.html

https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/45247581/2015_Mackin_Ellie_1018354_ethesis.pdf

https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/strange-creatures/grim-reaper.htm

 https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/enlighten/guiding-souls-psychopomps-in-mythology-a

nd-folklore/

https://phoenixalchemyjewellery.co.uk/gwyn-ap-nudd-my-favourite-welsh-folktale/

https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0308/ch12.xhtml

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For thousands of years, different cultures have personified death in various ways, but few figures are as enduring—or as terrifying—as the Grim Reaper. Cloaked - literally in darkness, skeletal and cold, he’s the one who comes for us all, scythe in hand, to reap our souls when our time has come. But how did this eerie image come to be?

S O U R C E S:

• https://www.britannica.com/story/where-does-the-concept-of-a-grim-reaper-come-from
• The Ritualesque: Festival, Politics, and Popular Culture Western Folklore Vol. 68, No. 1 (Winter 2009), pp. 9-26 (18 pages )
• Communications, Asian Folklore Studies Vol. 49, No. 1 (1990), pp. 135-142 (8 pages)https://www.jstor.org/stable/1177953
• Ships, Fogs, and Traveling Pairs: Plague Legend Migration in Scandinavia Timothy R. TangherliniThe Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 101, No. 400 (Apr. - Jun., 1988), pp. 176-206
• Western Campfire Tales Levette J. Davidson California Folklore Quarterly , Vol. 2, No. 3 (Jul., 1943), pp. 177-190 (14 pages) https://doi.org/10.2307/1495703
• https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/strange-creatures/grim-reaper.htm
• https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/type7080.html#lach-szyrma

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Thanks so much to Ewan for stepping in to be the Emily of the episode. We trace the origins of zombies back to Haiti and Ewan runs us through zombies in pop culture, namedropping some best known media. Then Niamh brings us through to modern day substance-afflicted zombies recorded in medical journals. Lets not forget the relationship between zombies and revenants in mythology, how they have shown up in Game of Thrones, and how your ancestors buried their dead to ward against them coming back!

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S O U R C E S:

• Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica by Zora Neale Hurston
• https://popular-archaeology.com/article/walking-dead-and-vengeful-spirits/
• A Sorcerer's Bottle: The Visual Art of Magic in Haiti by Eizabeth MacAlister
• https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/31/opinion/a-zombie-is-a-slave-forever.html
• https://amywilentz.com/response-to-i-walked-with-a-zombie/
• Undead (A Zombie Oriented Ontology) -Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
• https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/16bdrve/comment/jzdneav/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
• https://sites.nd.edu/manuscript-studies/2018/03/05/zombies-of-the-frozen-north-white-walkers-and-old-norse-revenants/
• https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/6023
• The Mythical Creatures Bible: The Definitive Guide to Legendary Beings Volume 14 By Brenda Rosen
• https://www.medieval.eu/grettir-and-glam/
• https://sagadb.org/grettis_saga.en
• https://www.historytoday.com/hidden-history-deviant-burials
• https://www.medievalists.net/2011/09/medieval-irish-had-their-own-ways-to-stop-the-undead/
• https://web.archive.org/web/20110612133939/http://blogs.cdc.gov/publichealthmatters/2011/05/preparedness-101-zombie-apocalypse/
• https://www.history.com/topics/folklore/history-of-zombies
• https://mythology.net/mythical-creatures/revenant/

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Deep beneath the surface of the earth, in a realm hidden from the eyes of the living, there exists a place where death itself holds court. The air is cold, the ground unyielding, and at the heart of it all, sits a figure with half a face of life, half a face of decay—this is Hel, the queen of Helheim.

Sources

• https://norse-mythology.org/gods-and-creatures/giants/hel/
• https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hel-Norse-deity
• https://skjalden.com/hel/#
• https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/Hel/314331

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Emily does what she does best and brings us an animal folklore episode all about Ravens and Crows! From their crazy intelligence and fashion sense, to their appearance in dreams, nightmares, fables and creation myths ,we got it all! Bewaare the Nachtkrapp and the Nattramnen, and be sure to befriend your local murder.

Sources:

• “A Cacophony of Corvids” - Pete Jennings
• Crows in hinduism
• https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/soul-search/why-one-should-feed-black-crow-as-per-hindu-shastras/photostory/104703246.cms
• Ravens in native american myth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravens_in_Native_American_mythology 
• Night raven - https://www.reddit.com/r/curiousvideos/comments/16x8i3i/swedish_folklore_nattramnar_the_swedish_night/ 
• Church grim - https://mythus.fandom.com/wiki/Church_grim 
• German https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nachtkrapp#:~:text=In%20most%20legends%2C%20the%20Nachtkrapp,and%20disease%20if%20looked%20at.

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Tonight, we journey deep into the ancient world where gods and monsters ruled the skies. This episode is dedicated to some of the most terrifying creatures in myth: the Harpies, Zeus’ hounds of the wind, feared by mortals and revered by gods.

S O U R C E S:

• https://www.greeka.com/thessaly/pelion/myths/jason-argonauts/
• https://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-a-harpy-in-greek-mythology-definition-origin.html
• Brittanica | Harpies
• Brittanica | Jason & The Argonauts
• https://www.theoi.com/Pontios/Harpyiai.html

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Every winter, the desolate shores of Block Island are shrouded in an unnatural gloom, where the spectral glow of a doomed vessel, the Palatine, haunts the eyes of those brave enough to look upon it.....

For Sea-tember and our TENTH Pine Cones, we bring you on a spooky voyage into the world of ghost ships, bot phantasmal and abandoned.

SOURCES:

• Ghost Ships by Kevin Hile
• https://moonmausoleum.com/baron-falkenberg-that-were-cursed-to-sail-the-sea-for-600-years/
• https://crimereads.com/a-brief-history-of-ghost-ships/
• https://www.npr.org/2011/10/06/141123770/the-story-of-the-flying-dutchman#:~:text=The%20Flying%20Dutchman%20was%20a,to%20stay%20at%20sea%20forever.
• https://k-blogg.se/2016/10/02/nar-fenrir-fick-farg/
• https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/the-legend-of-the-ghost-ship-palatine/

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Niamh is deep in Sea-tember right now with a full length Mermaids episode. We go right back to the beginning with Atorgatis, then take a swim across continents with folk tales about Suvannamaccha, Rusalki, the Renvyle Merrow (Murrough) in Ireland, and how a school of scary ladies held up construction in Zimbabwe. Did you know the bacckgound to the Starbucks "siren"?

Sources:

/www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/what-mermaid

“The Mermaid:” Nead an Iolraigh (roll number 11669) Cloonlooaun, Co. Galway

Teacher: Bríd Ní Chadhain, https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4602688/4595293/4616680?HighlightText=mermaid&Route=stories&SearchLanguage=ga

https://www.britannica.com/topic/rusalka

https://www.culture.ru/s/vopros/rusalki/

https://folklorethursday.com/folktales/top-mermaid-sightings-in-the-last-century-that-are-hard-to-deny/

https://www.majesticwhaleencounters.com.au/fairytales-myths-legends-and-fantasythe-three-most-famous-mermaids-in-history

https://theworld.org/stories/2017/05/13/zimbabwe-mermaids-appeased-traditional-beer-ritual

https://www.worldhistory.org/Melusine/

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We are diving into Sea-tember with a rundown of old Sailor Superstitions. This fascinating custom still somewhat survives in the industry, but hopefully no Scottish people are being dunked?

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Sources:

- https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.maritimemuseum.co.nz/collections/top-20-sailing-superstitions&ved=2ahUKEwj9lIbA4K2IAxXmTkEAHVaeM4YQFnoECBgQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3uElSY_ndhv13Z70ioJ2zT

- https://ussconstitutionmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/List-of-Sailors-Superstitions-Burial-at-Sea.pdf

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Emily talks us through her homegirl Baba Yaga! She is a huge inspiration in Emily's art and is the archetype for that Witch of the Woods figure we all know from folk tales, like Hansel & Gretel (and I guess Throne of Glass???). Expect some rabbit-holing about Canada geese... Also some feminist rants to round out the episode because it's us.

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Sources:

• https://www.britannica.com/topic/Baba-Yaga
• https://www.worldhistory.org/Baba_Yaga/
• https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-enduring-allure-of-baba-yaga-an-ancient-swamp-witch-who-loves-to-eat-people/
• Women Who Run with the Wolves - Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype By Clarissa Pinkola Estés · 1995
• https://reactormag.com/tales-of-the-russian-witch-baba-yaga/

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