The Moon in Carolina

In this episode of The Moon in Carolina, host Shelby Bundy explores three of mythology's great shapeshifters — Circe, Proteus, and the selkie — and the thread they share: the one who changes is the one who sees most clearly. Circe's transformations reveal what was already running beneath the surface of her visitors; Proteus releases the truth only when you hold him through every form he takes; the selkie's two natures are both completely real, and the tragedy is the world's inability to hold them both at once. 

Circe by Madeline Miller- Get it Here

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Production by Julio Montero
Music:  Folklore, by Taizo Audio

In this episode of The Moon in Carolina, host Shelby Bundy explores the night hag — the figure who sits on your chest while you sleep, pins you to the bed, and leaves you certain something was in the room. The experience is one of the most universally reported in human history, and the traditions built around it are remarkably consistent: the Germanic mara, the Newfoundland Old Hag documented by folklorist David Hufford, Queen Mab in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and the Hmong dab tsog — a tradition that became devastatingly relevant when young Hmong refugee men in the United States began dying in their sleep in the late 1970s and 80s. Shelby also traces the figure into contemporary accounts of the Hat Man, and into the folk remedies across every tradition that share the same underlying logic: name the thing, and it loses some of its power. 

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Production by Julio Montero
Music:  Folklore, by Taizo Audio

In this episode of The Moon in Carolina, host Shelby Bundy explores the mythology of the sun — the deities across world traditions who were understood to carry the light, fight for it, and in some cases withdraw it entirely. We look at Ra, the Egyptian sun god who sailed his barque through the underworld each night and battled the serpent Apophis before every dawn could come. At the Greek figures of Helios and Apollo, who represent two very different ideas about what the sun actually means. And at Amaterasu, the Japanese sun goddess whose retreat into a cave plunged the world into darkness — and what it took to bring her back. 

We also look at the tradition that tends to get overlooked: the feminine sun, and the Norse, Celtic, and Baltic goddesses who held the light before the solar mythology we inherited took its current shape. 

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Production by Julio Montero
Music:  Folklore, by Taizo Audio

 In this episode of The Moon in Carolina, host Shelby Bundy explores the origin stories of three of Greek mythology's most feared women — and what those origins reveal about how monsters get made. Circe, the sorceress who transforms men into pigs. Lamia, the child-devouring queen. Scylla, the creature in the strait who drags sailors to their deaths. Each of these figures has a story that predates the monster version, and in each case, the transformation follows a recognizable pattern: a woman who held power, refused a god, or simply existed inconveniently became something to be warned about instead. Shelby traces those original stories, looks at how the retellings worked across centuries, and asks what it means that so many of antiquity's most famous cautionary figures were once just women. 

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Production by Julio Montero
Music:  Folklore, by Taizo Audio

 In episode 74 of The Moon in Carolina podcast, host Shelby Bundy explores the world of anchoresses — medieval women who chose to be walled into a small stone cell attached to a church and spend the rest of their lives there. It was voluntary, sanctioned by the church, and for many of them, genuinely liberating. Inside the cell, they had something almost no woman of their era could access: solitude, time, authority, and a room of their own. This episode looks at why women chose the wall, what life inside it actually looked like, and what it says about the strange places freedom has had to hide throughout history. 

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Production by Julio Montero
Music:  Folklore, by Taizo Audio

 In this episode of The Moon in Carolina, we explore the folklore of stones and soil—the materials beneath our feet that humans have worked with for thousands of years. Across myth and tradition, stones have marked sacred places, protected homes, chosen kings, and stood witness to the passage of generations. Soil, meanwhile, holds the memory of life itself, carrying the traces of forests, animals, and people who have returned to the earth. From Greek mythology and Irish legend to Appalachian folklore, this episode looks at how cultures have understood the land not just as scenery, but as something alive with history and meaning. 

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Production by Julio Montero
Music:  Folklore, by Taizo Audio

In this episode of The Moon in Carolina podcast, host Shelby Bundy explores the long history of people who believed they could speak to and influence the weather — from the Sámi noaidi who sold knotted wind-cords to sailors, to village rainmakers, to the cunning folk who turned storms away from grain fields. Shelby tells the story of Agnes Sampson, a Scottish midwife executed in 1591 whose trial shaped witchcraft law for a century, and traces how weather accusations became one of the most common charges of the witch trial era. The episode closes by bringing it home: how weather still moves through the body, what April specifically asks of us, and a handful of small practices for paying attention to the sky. 

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Production by Julio Montero
Music:  Folklore, by Taizo Audio

Across cultures, myths often explain the hardships of human life through the actions of a single woman. In this first episode of a new series, we explore three of the earliest examples: Pandora, Eve, and Lilith. Each story describes a moment when a woman crossed a boundary, sought knowledge, or refused submission, and the consequences were said to change the world forever. This episode examines the myths themselves and the long tradition of placing the blame for humanity’s struggles on the shoulders of the first women. 

Book Mention: Lilith by Nikki Mamery

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Production by Julio Montero
Music:  Folklore, by Taizo Audio

In this episode of The Moon in Carolina, we explore the stories that move through families across generations. From inherited traditions to emotional patterns shaped by the past, this conversation looks at how the experiences of our ancestors continue to influence the present, and how awareness can help us shape a different path for the generations that follow. 

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Music:  Folklore, by Taizo Audio

 With Ostara approaching and the season shifting toward spring, eggs take center stage as symbols of renewal and new life. In this episode of The Moon in Carolina, we explore egg magick through myth, folklore, and seasonal tradition—from cosmic creation stories to folk practices involving healing, protection, and divination. 

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Production by Julio Montero
Music:  Folklore, by Taizo Audio