Rowan & Pine: A Feminist Folklore & Mythology Podcast

Feb 26 2025 58 ep. 41 mins 19

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Two internet friends (one American, one Irish) talking about folklore, mythology and dark history all through a feminist (and sometimes spooky!) lens. Think goddesses, folk tales, animal symbolism, hauntings, and everything in between...

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Pine Cones: Incantations | Rowan & Pine Shorts

Feb 26 2025 6 mins

The "art or act of enchanting by uttering magical words, with ceremonies supposed to have magical power; the formula of words or the ceremony employed," - late 14th century, The word for incantation comes from 13th century Old French incantacion meaning "spell or exorcism"....Sexy Voice Emily here to school you.S O U R C E S:https://www.gutenberg.org/files/376/376-h/376-h.htmhttps:

Episode Forty-One: Blodeuwedd, Flower Goddess - The power of three will set us free

Feb 11 2025 66 mins

PLEASE LIKE/RATE/SUSBCRIBE or may your hot lover get killed by a magician!!Season 3 is here! We have a life update for you (including a BBC appearance??) and lay out our new pod focus. Don't worry, all the spooky weirdness and animal lore will still be here, but its time for the ladies.Niamh kicks off the season with an introduction to Blodeuwedd, a flower goddess from Welsh folklo

Episode Forty: HALLOWEEN Psychopomps - Hermes and his dorky lil' sandals

Oct 31 2024 71 mins

PLEASE LIKE/RATE/SUSBCRIBE or may your family fail to pay Charon's fee...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

Pine Cones: Grim Reaper | Rowan & Pine Shorts

Oct 24 2024 14 mins

Special thanks to Tony for the suggestion on Discord!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

Episode Thirty-Nine: Zombies & Revenants- zombussy [with Ewan]

Oct 15 2024 66 mins

Please heed the notes at the top of the episode and LIKE/SUBSCRIBE FOR BRAAAINS.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. L

Pine Cones: Hel, Half-dead | Rowan & Pine Shorts

Oct 10 2024 11 mins

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.Sourceshttps://norse-mythology.org/gods-and-creatures/giants/hel/https://www.bri

Episode Thirty-Eight: Ravens & Crows - night crap

Oct 01 2024 42 mins

PLEASE LIKE/RATE/SUSBCRIBE for good karma from your feathery ancestors!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 mu

Pine Cones: Harpies | Rowan & Pine Shorts

Sep 26 2024 10 mins

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-mytholo

Pine Cones: Ghost Ships | Rowan & Pine Shorts

Sep 19 2024 17 mins

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 Hilehttps://moo

Episode Thirty-Seven: Mermaids- Serpent Saturdayyy

Sep 10 2024 47 mins

PLEASE LIKE/RATE/SUSBCRIBE or your wife might turn tail and run!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 y