Eileen Budd is a professional Scottish storyteller, the host of the Scottish Folk podcast, and an artist & author in Angus, Scotland. After a Halloween reading about skull broth, Eileen describes where she lives in Scotland and the floods they experienced in last year's Storm Babet. Talk of weather and storms brings up the Gaelic mother goddess, the Cailleach.  From these ancestral stories comes a conversation about the diaspora of Scottish people to America aboard "coffin ships" and the suppression of their culture. Turning to the macabre mood of Halloween, we hear of folkloric and historic cannibals, Sawney Bean & the 15th-century butcher, Christie Cleek. Eileen describes what Samhain is - the time-of-the-year when traditional folk commune with the spirits of their ancestors. When it comes to personal stories from a professional storyteller, Eileen tells three haunting supernatural tales, in the best of which, a spirit saves the life of her grandmother. We wrap it up on rural poacher-lore from catching rabbits in nets to a story about a famous folk hunter who passed up a shot on a stag enchanted by fairies. 

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Reading of "The Death Bree" from Scottish Fairy Tales, Folklore & Legends 
 
For Hurricane Helene Flood Relief for Past Podcast Guests:

• Rebecca Beyers of Blood & Spicebush - GoFundMe
• Lupo Passero of Twin Star Tribe - Twin Star South Fundraiser 

Music Credits:

"Bonny at Morn"
Performed by The Whistlebinkies

"The Weary Farmer"
Performed by Tinkler Madgie

"The Sky Fishers Song"
Performed by Jean Redpath

"The Beggar Laddie"
Performed by Jean Redpath

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