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11:07 Right back to my childhood with my little sister! We used to go in as far as possible, which was usually as far as our bravery went. Not far! Once there was a noise, suddenly loads of birds flew out 😂 - don't think either of us have run so fast since! And dad loves to reminisce about how hilarious it was to see us pelting around to our towels 😂 Happy days 😊 Thanks for this!

2:00 Same here! 🤣 V for Vendetta 😁

14:56 That's the tale we heard at school! I remember it, even if it was junior school...when you read that, it came to mind. We went on a trip to see her tomb up Bamburgh. It's still in beautiful condition now too, bless her. Thanks Icy...nice to hear some stories from our neck of the woods 😊

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Ummmm.....Hutton is not a very reputable scholars from where I stand. He engages in far too much cherry-picking, misrepresentation of evidence, and flat out lies and obfuscation for me to trust! If you haven't read Ben Whitmore's book, "Trials of the Moon" then I strongly suggest that you do for an exploration of what I mean. In "The Witch" Hutton makes some astonishing conclusion for which there is no evidence, but yet he insists they are factual: 1.) he declares that Carlo Ginzburg now disavows his arguments re: the benandanti (not true!); 2.) he insists that the custom of leaving offerings to the fey was invented by the Church so that wondering friars could have food to eat as they were wondering about (this does not/ cannot account for offerings left inside the home, left at liminal sites, or were only "spiritual consumed," in addition to the Christian prohibition of leaving out offerings to the fey); and 3.) while he insists there could not have been a pagan witch-cut, he now insists that there was a literal, and historic satanic witch-cult! It is time that we STOP looking to Hutton as though he were the definitive source on history and paganism! PS--the sympathetic connection between witches and their animal-doubles is extremely widespread and occurs even within indigenous shamanism! If you harm a shamans animal-double, you also harm the shaman himself or herself. I was surprised that Emma Wilby overlooked that. PPS--Margaret Murray, who was very much the victim of misery and misrepresentation speculated that witches shapeshifter into particular animals so as to be closer to their god. Now, whether or not you agree with Murray (and I am writing a book about her), it is a curious matter that the most common form assumed by witches was the cat and the hare, each of whom was identified with Diana/ Artems, respectively, and who was believed to lead the Wild Hunt as the goddess of witches. Even Aradia contains these curious tea tails which, if it were authored by Leland, would be unlikely since it's relatively little-known folklore.

Brinkburn Priory definitely has an “atmosphere,” though whether that’s from its location, its condition or something else, I don’t know.

I love Rue! It has a very distinctive, unusual scent and flavor. Beautiful video, thank you.

You inspired me to go pick some from the garden. It certainly improves my mood when I drink it in an iced tea. I believe its used in carmelite water as well.

He shows up as god of the womb in other proto indo European stories

This was so interesting. So.. the ultimate question is... What do they look like?

So interesting! Thanks, Icy!

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According to the Anishinaabe (one of these videos: ruclips.net/user/liveZq2njllXgSI?si=Nf1NzDtXWGfbBdBl), you’re only supposed to use the flowers for taking it internally and this is supposed to reduce the interactions with other medications and side effects if that’s a concern. This particularly teacher does talk about the medical research as well though that’s a bit beyond me.

It’s so easy to grow in a pot on my balcony and I do use it in iced teas in the summer. It tastes lovely and does seem to help me relax.

I love the idea of a comparative study of fairy folklore. Almost all cultures have folklore about interacting with other-worldly beings. According to Daniel Everett, even the Pirahã, the famously atheist Amazon people, interact with fairy-like beings on a regular basis.

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If you had this much trouble researching this topic and not finding much literature; your research here is actually really important in bringing together and comparing and compiling the disparate information that is available. I also see some connections to Cernunnos (storycrown YT channel has a great folklore video connecting Cernunnos and the foliate green man of Grain & the green knight) and Professor Ronald Hutton (Gresham college - on RUclips) may well be very interested or have some input. There's a lot of disparate and seeming lacking actual research into Cernunnos, wilderness and fertility foliate gods, pan and the green knight and Jack in the Green, and I for one would love to know so much more, as im sure more can be parsed even from the information and research already done. Great podcast episode, thank you!

a tea made with a good handful of the fresh herb is helpful for mild depression and tastes like ricola cough sweets

The fact that it's related to mint explains why it is taking over one of our raised garden beds, I neglect it all year and it's still lush and taller than my 4 year old haha. I love the smell and make sun tea with it whenever I can (using Lipton bags too but don't judge me haha)

Thankyou for this on sin eating. I remember reading a book a few years ago that it had originated with the Druids and was practiced later on by witches, herbalist, etc. The story I read had a living person going for help from one to take away her sin and punishment but in return she had to give the sin eater something important to her. Interesting stuff for sure

So grateful for this series!

Just popped over after seeing you on The Paranormal Monkey Podcast. Definitely a new sub here! love your work. Congratulations on passing your PHD. Can't wait to dive into your content and books

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I actually use lemon balm on my hives when I am housing swarms and when I am creating tea to mix in with sugar syrup for my bees. It's also good for fussy babies. Lemon balm is also great internally/salves for skin conditions.

This plant has been popping up for me EVERYWHERE, and not just in a target marketing way. I found it growing in my local park and propagated it, and now I’m hearing about it left and right, so I guess I really need it in my life!

Congratulations!

U should show photos on here just been to Belfast

Nice video.

I love shirly poppies

🎉 congratulations on your PhD!❤

Don’t touch or disturb the poppy spirits! Otherwise, they’ll turn purple then go back into the soil then grow back up into huge purple angry monsters

Congratulations 🥳When can we call you Dr Sedgwick?

Congratulations on the PhD!

The owl dancing in the mexico church...

.. they travel out of body and go into the animal. .. maybe because shapeshifting is too known.

Thank you and best of luck on your PhD! You’ve got this!

It's always a good weekend when I can start it with one of your flower folklore! You're going to kill it with your PhD!

Thanks for the post, always love listening to them.

Purple Columbine ! There are some coming into bloom in my garden - other colours too.

Now I can’t wait to visit Vienna! Thanks so much for another great episode - it’s always interesting

I really liked his documentaries, he is so knowledgeable about English folklore! I really hope he becomes more mainstream.

Rock n roll strat fairies of the stream!🤘💓🤣love it x

I so love your channel❤ amazing xx

I love Vienna. I've only been there once, but thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm enjoying this series, and am amazed that I've been to many of the places you're covering.

- BTW, having a longterm interest in shamanic practice, I have read of many societies in which the shaman is the singer of songs learned from the spirits themselves so as to draw in the Power, and/or where that very shaman was forced to live on the edge of town or even isolated in the forest because his people feared that same access to power. (I still think about the poet/musician Prince who lived in a purple mansion somewhere in Minneapolis -- the city where I had attended graduate school -- well-guarded against his own townsfolk.) - Music/meter/poetry originated in Greece from Apollo or elsewhere from similar divine entities. People had good reason to fear the poetry. There are several anecdotes (especially among the Saami) about a person being "called" or "designated" by the spirits to become a shaman, yet the designee tries to avoid the call/curse to be a poet/shaman, until the spirits finally resort to threats and violence to enforce their choice. - They also had good reason to dread their own fellow human beings. The Hebrew Bible shows Elijah, the powerful navi' (better translated as SHAMAN than as "prophet"), winning the contest against the Baal officiants--but still fleeing in terror from Queen Jezebel's threats against his life. Josef Stalin had his men round up countless shamans and then throw them to their death out of airborne helicopters mocking them with shouts of "Fly shaman, fly!" The curse of poetry across history is real and mostly terrible.

- Many thanks for this grand episode! I had been rummaging--as a researcher of Vardøger-Etiäinen-Fylgja phenomena due to family experiences with this back-water type of paranormal event-through further "lore" materials, in view of the rather rich tales I've already read of Scottish "phantasms of the living" and centuries-old Manx tales so closely resembling those Scandinavian accounts. That episode of course led me to your review of "Folklore of Wales: Ghosts." - This in turn reminded me of my walking tour (about 40 years ago by now) inside of the Nidaros Dom (Nidaros Cathedral) in Trondheim, a structure that has been built and rebuilt repeatedly for centuries, occasionally with different floor plans and even different compass/axis orientations of the edifice, yet all of them without exception pivoting around a SACRED WELL from pre-Christian days, which was far behind the main altar (and far from the madding crowd) when I was there. A very quiet spot, a small sacred space in its own right. The ancient Greeks (my own academic history) had many non-building temples to divine spirits, unwalled "temenoi" - sacred precincts in the open air. Later many were in fact built up into shrines, temples, etc. So keep up the good work of reminding us all of these nearly permanent monuments to ancient divine powers and how they somehow capture our interest, our very hearts, even so many millennia afterward.

Two things: 1) The quality of your research is refreshing, a lot of the content with similar subject matter is... Not as reliable. 2) It's good to know that I'm not the only one who thinks of Miranda Richardson when they think of Mab. I'm the only person I know who grew up watching that adaptation of Merlin lol

Great work, I like Jupiter, Was Tarannis originally a celtic diety which the Romans assimilated into Jupiter?, I think they used to burn people in logs as sacrifices to tarannis the thunderer. Which the Romans frowned upon.

These episodes are endlessly fascinating!