The Folklore Podcast

Jan 19 2025 227 ep. 46 mins 100.1k
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Folklore: Beliefs, traditions & culture of the people. Traditional folklore themes from around the world. An accessible podcast ranked in the top 0.5% of shows globally, bringing free access to many of the world's experts in folklore, authors, broadcasters and more.

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Episode 168 - THE SEANCE

Jan 19 2025 39 mins  
It all starts when two friends are invited to the home of a mysterious spiritualist medium to experience a seance in their search for evidence of the paranormal. But the medium’s home used to belong to a girl who died there. And that’s never a good combination.So starts the story of 'The Seance', a piece of live theatre written and directed by the guest on this episode of The F

Special Edition - GRADY HENDRIX

Jan 14 2025 64 mins  
In this special edition release of The Folklore Podcast, we chat with the New York Times Bestselling horror author Grady Hendrix about his fiction and non-fiction writing, and about his new book 'Witchcraft for Wayward Girls' which is released on the same day as this episode - January 14th, 2025.Support The Folklore Podcast on Patreon and get extra exclusive content at www.patreon.

Folklore in the Field - CLAIRE BARKER

Jan 11 2025 26 mins  
Folklore in the Field is the bonus episode strand of The Folklore Podcast where we chat with people out on location about their work and interests. No frills. No heavy production. Just conversation.In this episode, Folklore Podcast creator and host Mark Norman chats with children's author Claire Barker about her interests in folklore and her writing, including 'Knitbone Pepper, Gho

Episode 167 - The 10th Kingdom

Jan 04 2025 69 mins  
In this episode, the first show of the 10th anniversary season of The Folklore Podcast, we look at the classic TV mini-series 'The 10th Kingdom' which is celebrating its 25th birthday.Folklore Podcast creator and host Mark Norman gives an overview of some of the content that you can expect during the season. This is followed by an interview with special guest Simon Moore, who wrote

Episode 166 - LOST IRISH FOLKLORE: LIFTING STONES

Dec 22 2024 52 mins  
The old Irish tradition of using enormous stones in the landscape, sometimes known as testing stones, as a feat of strength has been all but lost for generations. Such stones were lifted to honour the dead at funerals, as a rite of passage to adulthood, as a test of suitability for particular jobs or roles, and for many other purposes.There are many such stones still lying in the I

Folklore in the Field - Dr Megan Kenny

Dec 07 2024 20 mins  
In this bonus interview from The Folklore Podcast, recorded live at the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research 40th anniversary conference at Sheffield Hallam University, Dr Megan Kenny sits down to chat with Folklore Podcast host Mark Norman and Perry Carpenter from the Digital Folklore Podcast.Megan is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Sheffield Hallam and talks

Bonus Minisode: THANKSGIVING

Nov 28 2024 7 mins  
As listeners in the US celebrate Thanksgiving, this bonus minisode takes a look at what we actually know about the history of this celebration versus the popular myth.Support the Folklore Podcast via our Patreon page at www.patreon.com/thefolklorepodcas (www.patreon.com/thefolklorepodcas)t for additional content.

Episode 165 - SIDESHOW GEEKS

Nov 23 2024 44 mins  
In this episode of The Folklore Podcast we enter the secretive world of the circus and the carnival sideshow - a community with much tradition and folklore but at the same time many secrets.Our guest Nathan Wakefield, himself a variety performer, uncovers the world of the Sideshow Geek - controversial and eccentric acts which shocked many an audience member in the sideshows of the

Episode 164 - SPELL BOOK: FREYA WALEY-COHEN

Nov 10 2024 46 mins  
We meet musician and composer Freya Waley-Cohen to talk about her work and the ways in which folklore and the occult have inspired her music. In particular, we look at 'Spell Book', a dramatic song cycle which sets spell-poems from Rebecca Tamas' book WITCH to original music.You can visit Freya on the web and learn more about her work at https://www.freyawaleycohen.com/ (https://ww

Episode 163 - LEMURIA

Oct 20 2024 59 mins  
There can be few people who don't have at least a passing awareness of the legend of the lost continent of Atlantis. But probably a significantly smaller number don't know much about Lemuria, another alleged land mass which sunk to the depths and which has since been seized upon by occultists to posit theories about our ancestral past.In this episode of the Folklore Podcast we sort