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October Almanac: Sensibility
5 oktober 2026 · 35 min
The folklore of October offers us a threshold of tenderness, an opportunity to deepen into maturity and savour the golden sunset of the year.
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Opening theme: Forest March by Sylvia Woods
Buy Sylvia Woods music: https://www.harpcenter.com/
Read the J.R.R. Tolkien poem I shared, Winter Comes to Nagothrond: https://www.eternal-flame.org/library/oldlibrary/nargothrond.html
Pick up Eleanor Parker's excellent book on Anglo-Saxon seasons, Winters in the World: https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/winters-in-the-world Lees meer -
September Almanac - The Last Sheaf
9 september 2026 · 40 min
This episode focuses on the last of the harvest in the month of September, asking what spirit of this summer’s harvest you intend to host over the colder months. Lees meer
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Join my mailing list: https://enthusiastica.substack.com/Music in this episode:
Opening theme: Forest March by Sylvia Woods
Buy Sylvia Woods music: https://www.harpcenter.com/
The Wild Wild Berry by (Stephanie) Hladowski and C(hris) Joynes
Buy their music: https://cjoynes.bandcamp.com/album/the-wild-wild-berry-2012
Lengsel by Sun and Moon Dance
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A felt sense of destiny - 10 years of Fair Folk Podcast
13 april 2026 · 54 min
The story of how I began this podcast out of burnout and illness and began feeling into the path on a different level. Plus a dive into pagan conceptions of destiny and free will from Old Norse and Old English. (Take courage!)
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Learn more about Pagan Camp, July 27-30: https://www.danicaboyce.com/pagan-camp-2026
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Old English poem the Wanderer: http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=get&type=text&id=wdr
Music in this episode:
Weja Ura by Olivia Fern - buy the album: https://oliviafern.bandcamp.com/album/red-thread
Seven Daughters of the Sea by Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin - buy the album: https://www.irishsong.com/shop/seven-daughters-of-the-sea/
Waltz for the Cosmos by Lassi Logrén - buy the album: https://lassilogren.bandcamp.com/album/jouhikko
Theme music is Forest March by Sylvia Woods. Buy Sylvia Woods' music: https://www.harpcenter.com/category/harp-cds Lees meer -
The body keeps the lore: wells, springs, and healing with Veronica Rottman, somatic practitioner
19 januari 2026 · 1 uur 12 min
In this episode, I speak with Veronica Rottman, a somatic practitioner specializing in the female nervous system, about holy well and spring folklore and the ways it resonates with trauma integration and healing. You can sign up for our upcoming collaborative workshop, Sacred Waters: Healing at the Well of Brigid here:
https://waking-womb.com/events/2026/1/24/sacred-waters-healing-at-the-well-of-brigid
Veronica Rottman's website: https://waking-womb.com/
Veronica Rottman's instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wakingwomb
Mentioned in the episode:
Frau or Mother Holle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frau_Holle
Rosaleen Durkin’s Irish sacred wells walking tours: https://visitwicklow.ie/listing/irish-sacred-wells-walking-tours/
Brielle Elise: waking the well: https://www.instagram.com/wakingthewell
The well maidens account in the Elucidation: https://d.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/text/elucidation.html
(Lines 29-132)
A note: birds are associated with the fisher king’s court (and fish) more than other animals, somewhat counter to what I said in the episode.
A special thank you to Sylvia Woods, whose tune Forest March is the intro theme to Fair Folk!
Image: The goose maid at the well by Arthur Rackham
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Irish folk song and the feeling of leaving home - interview with sean nós singer Chan Reid
23 december 2025 · 1 uur 13 min
In this episode I talk with Irish sean nós (old-style) singer Chan Reid about the experience of living as an immigrant far from one’s ancestors, and how experiences of migration and dislocation resonate in the heart of Irish traditional song and music. Chan sings some heart-cracking-open songs, and even obliges me by explaining how Irish traditional singers do the “diddly bits” that make sean nós songs sound so unbelievably cool. Lees meer
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Follow or contact Chan Reid here: https://www.instagram.com/seannossinger
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References:
Joe Heaney for sean nós songs
Irish Traditional Music Archive: https://www.itma.ie/
Scottish sound archive Tobar an Dualchais (Kist o' Riches): https://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/Songs in the episode:
Dooley Gate by John Shiel (sung by Chan Reid)
Here's a Health to the Company, traditional (sung by Chan Reid and Danica)
The Shores of Loch Bran (sung by Chan Reid)Thank you to Sylvia Woods whose tune, Forest March, is the theme music to Fair Folk podcast
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Ancestral Embodiment with Marika Heinrichs
25 juni 2025 · 56 min
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How to embody possibility with abundance paganism
16 juni 2025 · 32 min
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Reclaiming our Magic with Lindsay Mack of Tarot for the Wild Soul podcast
18 mei 2025 · 1 uur 18 min
In this episode I talk with the incredible Lindsay Mack of Tarot for the Wild Soul Podcast and No Bad Cards on Substack!
Sign up for our collaborative workshop Holy Homecoming: Reclaiming Magic in an Age of Illusion on May 25th at 10 am PT, 1 pm ET, 6 pm UK: https://www.tarotforthewildsoul.com/holy-homecoming
Lindsay's podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6AXz5dXTFFceckBMve9vNT?si=48c0a83ff9044a52
Lindsay's Substack, No Bad Cards: https://lindsaymack.substack.com/
Danica's Substack: https://enthusiastica.substack.com/
Intro theme to Fair Folk: "Forest March" by Sylvia Woods Lees meer -
Syncretic saint lore with Polish Folk Witch Joanna Tarnawska
4 maart 2025 · 51 min
In this episode, I welcome Joanna Tarnawska aka Polish Folk Witch to the podcast, who teaches online about Polish folk magic with a syncretic perspective. In this episode she speaks generously with me about her understanding of and experience with saints within the Polish folk tradition, and I respond with my own reflections on engaging with saints with a pagan and animistic lens. Lees meer
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Joanna’s website: https://polishfolkwitch.pl/
Find her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/polish.folk.witch/Image: A wayside shrine
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Wolf at the door - interview w/ Scottish storyteller Dougie Mackay
20 februari 2025 · 59 min
In this episode I speak with Scottish storyteller Dougie Mackay about the troubled relationship between humankind and wolves in the British isles, and how we might revive the days when culture was shared with entertainment and joy at the centre. He shares a moving story from Ireland about a peculiar family a man meets while searching for lost cows, and offers a blessing for the revival of the wolf's vital place in our world. Lees meer
Learn more about the upcoming Wonder Club saints course, starting March 5th: https://www.danicaboyce.com/wonder-club
Sign up for Cave of Dreams - Feast and Fast workshop, February 23: https://www.houseoflegends.me/cave-of-dreams
Learn more about A Song of Oak and Ash retreat, Sept 11-14: https://www.houseoflegends.me/2025-retreatDougie’s Mailing list: sendfox.com/dougiemackaystory
Dougie’s website: storyconnection.org
Dougie’s Podcast: Tales for our Times: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/tales-for-our-times/id1691719370
The Hearthfire sessions: https://scottishstorytellingcentre.online.red61.co.uk/event/913:5916/913:25451/
The Edinburgh Fringe: https://www.edfringe.com/
Dougie’s book, Scottish Tales for Telling: https://dougiemackaystory.bandcamp.com/album/scottish-tales-for-telling -
Towards a metaphysics of neurodivergence
13 januari 2025 · 30 min
In this episode I share my most popular Substack mailing list post from 2024, as well as some ways you can work with me this January.
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Sign up for Entheos workshop: Danicaboyce.com/entheos
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Make a coaching appointment with me: https://www.danicaboyce.com/shop/p/walk-talk-coaching-session
Listen to the Wolf Milk almanac episode from 2023: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5itug3FltIUkTwY29YzP4j?si=c2883a9841cb4a6d
Listen to Craft as pagan devotion with Daniel Allison: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2VT0N5gjTNDOR5Gpifd2pN?si=d86300a4b3754085 Lees meer -
Winterfylleþ - October Almanac
1 oktober 2024 · 48 min
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In this almanac episode, I survey some themes of the folklore of October, from fire rituals to guising, and invite listeners to dream into the relationship they would like to cultivate with the unseen in the winter months of the year. The full moon of October this year is October 17th, from which this episode took its Anglo-Saxon name, Winterfylleþ, winter-full, the full moon marking the start of the winter half of the year.
Music in this episode:
Opening theme: "Forest March" by Sylvia Woods
Buy Sylvia Woods’ music:
www.harpcenter.com/category/harp-cds
"Tam Lin" by Moira Craig
Buy this track: https://music.apple.com/ca/album/tam-lin/1617427959?i=1617427977
"The Foggy Dew" by Ye Vagabonds
Buy it: https://yevagabonds.bandcamp.com/track/the-foggy-dew
"Dromte Mig En Drom I Nat" by Musica Ficta & Bo Holten
Buy this track: https://music.apple.com/ca/album/dromte-mig-en-drom-i-nat/474624260?i=474624262 Lees meerCorrections:
The whales I saw were in fact porpoises, and I was recording near Dunstanburgh Castle, rather than Dunstan Castle -
Haligmonað / Holy Month - September Almanac
10 september 2024 · 1 uur 9 min
In this episode I share about September as harvest month in folklore, Old English names for the month and season, spirits of the grain, the meaning of the equinox in tradition, the upcoming lunar eclipse, and Michaelmas! Lees meer
Sign up for the Cave of Dreams workshop series: https://www.houseoflegends.me/cave-of-dreams
Find me on Substack: https://enthusiastica.substack.com/
September Almanac playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0gajsHJ86ljT3f1TuFtLFI?si=ce9b72a3701d4b77Music in this episode:
Opening theme: "Forest March" by Sylvia Woods
Buy Sylvia Woods’ music:
www.harpcenter.com/category/harp-cds
“Ripest of Apples” by Anna and Elizabeth
Buy Anna and Elizabeth’s music:
https://annaandelizabeth.bandcamp.com/
“Band of Shearers” by Carla Sciaky
Buy Carla Sciaky’s music:
https://carlasciaky.com/index.html#store
“My Son David” by the Brothers Gillespie
Brothers Gillespie tour and music: https://thebrothersgillespie.com/shows
“Apples and Potatoes” by June Tabor
June Tabor tour: https://www.bandsintown.com/a/112582-june-tabor
Instrumental tracks:
“Apples in Winter” by Peter Acty
Buy this track: https://music.apple.com/ca/album/apples-in-winter/1617403163?i=1617403387
“Harvest Home” by Willie Clancy
Buy the album: https://music.apple.com/ca/album/willie-clancy-the-gold-ring/458399572Image: Theodor von Hörmann - Mondaufgang nach der Ernte
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Lughnasadh Special with Scottish storyteller Daniel Allison
7 augustus 2024 · 57 min
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In this episode, Daniel Allison tells the story of the god Lugh (after whom Lughnasadh is named) at the hall of the king Nuada, leading us into a discussion of how we might approach Lughnasadh folklore and mythology now. Then we share what each of us has been up to lately, especially emphasizing the role of pagan devotion in each of our work, and diving into the role of “permission” to embody sacred traditional culture. Lees meer -
The Twelve Days: December Almanac
21 december 2023 · 1 uur 8 min
This episode explores folklore and pagan origins of the 12 days of Christmas, with a focus on the feminine winter figures of Perchta, Holle, and Grýla, featuring a conversation with Jenn Campus, author of A Guide to Celebrating the 12 Days of Yule.
Pagan Ritual Song course: https://f77d9f-2.myshopify.com/products/pagan-ritual-song-course-jan-feb-2024
Buy Jenn Campus’ book, A Guide to Celebrating the 12 days of Yule: jenncampusauthor.com/product/a-guid…-days-of-yule/
Emilia Blom, who shared the solstice wishes ritual with me: www.instagram.com/vildmedicin/
My Big Fat Solstice playlist on Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/2LFjxSU…a743490a69a6459c
Gnome for Christmas Fair Folk episode: open.spotify.com/episode/5ysFM2qu…6172f7663bc0479f
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Resources & references for this episode:
The Stations of the Sun: the ritual year in Britain by Ronald Hutton
"'He met his own funeral procession': The Year walk-ritual in Swedish folk tradition” Tommy Kuusela: www.academia.edu/9403910
The Icelandic Yule Lads poem in English ingebretsens-blog.com/wp-content/upl…-Lads-Poem.pdf
“The Winter Goddess: Percht, Holda, and Related Figures” By Lotte Motz dokumen.tips/documents/motz-lot…s-1985.html?page=5
“Perchta the Belly-Slitter and Her Kin: A View of Some Traditional Threatening Figures, Threats and Punishments” by John B. Smith www.scribd.com/doc/17325747/Perc…itter-and-Her-Kin
‘Grýla, Grýlur, Grøleks and Skeklers: Medieval Disguise Traditions in the North Atlantic?” by Terry Gunnell notendur.hi.is/~terry/articles/T…_and_Skeklers.pdf
Music in this episode:
Opening theme: Forest March by Sylvia Woods Buy Sylvia Woods’ music: www.harpcenter.com/category/harp-cds
Malpas Wassail by the Watersons Buy it: www.amazon.co.uk/music/player/alb…483616862&sr=1-1
Spinn, Spinn, Spinnerinn by Herbergsuche Gruppe Buy it: music.apple.com/ca/album/spinn-sp…55276?i=318155791
Grýlukvaeði by Thrju a Palli Buy it: music.apple.com/ca/album/gr%C3… Lees meer -
Little Christmas: December Almanac
6 december 2023 · 48 min
This episode surveys the folklore of the first half of December, including St. Nicholas' Day on Dec 6th, St. Lucia's day on Dec. 13th, and the solstice. As we approach the darkest point of winter, I ask you to follow the rhythm of nature and turn your gaze to the small, the domestic and the precious. Lees meer
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view.flodesk.com/pages/62d72c01da642d55a9868141Music in this episode:
St. Nicholas by Anúna
Buy this track:
anuna.bandcamp.com/track/st-nicholas-2Luciavisa by Lisa (singer Emma Härdelin)
Buy this track:
https://music.apple.com/ca/album/luciavisa/204432292?i=204434789There is no Rose by the King’s Singers
Buy this track:
https://music.apple.com/ca/album/there-is-no-rose/79623724?i=79623213Orientis Partibus by Trouvere Medieval Minstrels
Buy music by Trouvere Medieval Minstrels here: www.medievalminstrels.com/Kąlėdų rytų saulė pražydo (The Sun Blossomed on Christmas Morning) by Sedula
Buy this track:
https://music.apple.com/ca/album/kal%C4%97d%C5%B3-ryt%C4%85-saul%C4%97-pra%C5%BEydo/1427982403?i=1427982982Rex Tua Nolo Munera by Trouvere Medieval Minstrels
Buy music by Trouvere Medieval Minstrels here: www.medievalminstrels.com/Sources for this episode:
Lyrics to The Sun Blossomed on Christmas Morning by Sedula:
www.mamalisa.com/?t=es&p=5162Some more information about medieval animal carols:
http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/friendly_beasts.htmMore information about medieval carols:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology-south-east/news/2020/dec/evolution-medieval-christmas-carolsThe Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen:
https://americanliterature.com/author/hans-christian-andersen/short-story/the-snow-queen -
The Banquet Beyond the Veil - Halloween Almanac
25 oktober 2023 · 34 min
In this episode I gently interrogate what we mean when we say "the veil is thin" at Halloween, and offer a vision of the whole of winter as a season of hospitality between humans and the otherworld(s) through fire, story, music, and rituals of generosity.
Listen to past Fair Folk episode "All Hallows' Folk Tradition at the Gates of Winter" https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/all-hallows-folk-tradition-at-the-gates-of-winter/id1177770160?i=1000452872493
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Where to find Kirsten Milliken, the storyteller: instagram.com/kirstinmillikenstoryteller
facebook.com/com/kirstinmillikenstoryteller
www.kirstenmilliken.co.uk
Music in this episode:
Opening theme: "Forest March" by Sylvia Woods
Buy Sylvia Woods’ music:
www.harpcenter.com/category/harp-cds
"Réidh Chnoc Mná Duibhe" by Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin
Buy the song: https://music.apple.com/ca/album/re-idh-chnoc-mna-duibhe/1653578592?i=1653581085
Image is Fairy Tale of Kings by Lithuanian painter Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis Lees meer -
Fire & Water: June Almanac
31 mei 2023 · 1 uur 2 min
We have reached the energetic peak of the year. The main ancient and folkloric themes of June ritualise the human relationship to two of our primary life-givers, the sun and water. Our romance with these elements (and one another) reach a peak as the year completes its in-breath around the summer solstice. This episode outlines a faint thematic arc in historical Whitsun practices at the start of June, and Midsummer at the end, focusing especially on the folk rituals and folksong of the Baltic countries, Eastern Europe and Ireland. Lees meer
Purchase my new Gathering the Gods course on Thor, Odin, & Freya: fantastic-hall-390.myflodesk.com/
My excellent Midsummer Solstice / June Almanac playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0gG8z6O83kpkjflUqaSMZc?si=a7a6693c091046ef
The Midsummer Solstice episode of Fair Folk podcast from 2018: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1QZliHXdfHHmSVy0ySfpbv?si=fe6608a7395c4a5e
“Rusalki: Anthropology of time, death, and sexuality in Slavic folklore” by Jiří Dynda
https://www.academia.edu/34620531/Rusalki_Anthropology_of_time_death_and_sexuality_in_Slavic_folklore“The Mythic Sun: An Aerial Perspective” by Thomas Dubois:
https://chs.harvard.edu/chapter/thomas-a-dubois-the-mythic-sun-an-areal-perspective/“Migration of Song Genres: Two Typical Lithuanian Cases” by Rytis Ambrazevičius
https://bop.unibe.ch/EJM/article/view/8335“The Midsummer Solstice As It Was, Or Was Not, Observed in Pagan Germany, Scandinavia and Anglo-Saxon England” by Sandra Billington
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hX0NJJHjoicOq-5VH3kPfsQAX3NTbAtj/view?usp=sharingMusic in this episode:
Opening theme: "Forest March" by Sylvia Woods
Buy Sylvia Woods’ music:
www.harpcenter.com/category/harp-cds“O Na Ivana Na Kupala” by Olexa Kabanov -
Buy it: https://music.apple.com/ca/album/oh-na-ivana-na-kupala/919387915?i=919387973“Švinta Jona Vakaralia” by Nalšia -
Learn more and buy it (scroll down for English): http://www.lnkc.lt/go.php/lit/Kupole-roze-sekminiu-joni… -
Who & What are the Old Norse Gods?: Bonus Intro Unit to Gathering the Gods Course
3 mei 2023 · 33 min
This episode, a bonus introductory unit to my upcoming Gathering the Gods course, introduces Old Norse culture and language, and describes the status of gods in the Old Norse religion and cosmology. This course will give an overview of the surviving historical texts and traces of the gods Thor, Odin, and Freya.
Gathering the Gods begins May 7th! Sign up here: https://fantastic-hall-390.myflodesk.com/
Access the reading and materials for this intro unit: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GPjFkblda1E7NlXrpMCHRa0Q5WWk_JJO?usp=sharing Lees meer -
The Generous Wood: May Almanac
26 april 2023 · 47 min
This episode outlines the key themes of May folklore embodied in the celebrations of May 1st, aka May Day or Beltane: bonfires for purification and protection, veneration of plants and trees, the leading of animals to green pastures, erotic expressions of pleasure, and the blooming promise of earth's abundance. Lees meer
Join the Gathering the Gods course on Thor, Odin, & Freya: https://fantastic-hall-390.myflodesk.com/
Listen to the Big Beltane Spotify playlist (newly updated): https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6UVpAwkdX39Bk5mY1Kd2Xc?si=0f91f96826544081
Big Beltane: May Day Song and Custom episode from 2019: https://open.spotify.com/episode/62jeozEUNP0FFrKKSafLEJ?si=4de8b4c66c284d5b
Music in this episode:
"Don't you Go a Rushing" by Lisa Knapp
https://lisaknapp.bandcamp.com/album/till-april-is-dead-a-garland-of-may"Robin Hood and the Tanner" by Jesse Ferguson
Buy it:
https://music.apple.com/ca/album/folk-favourites/1238844872"Äggavisan" by Folk och Rachare
Buy it: https://music.apple.com/ca/album/%C3%A4ggavisan/1462963060?i=1462963069Opening theme: "Forest March" by Sylvia Woods
Buy Sylvia Woods’ music:
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Bear Culture: Scandinavian bear folklore with Olle Möllervärn
12 april 2023 · 56 min
This episode my guest is Olle Möllervärn, Swedish folklore and paganism researcher and bear nerd! In this episode we discuss animism and how it brings us into more ethical relationship with animals, the connection between human fertility and bears, including human-bear romance, as well as the reason bears are connected with St. Tiburtius' day, April 14th. Lees meer
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Olle Möllervärn on Academia.edu: https://miun.academia.edu/OlleM%C3%B6llerv%C3%A4rn
Norwegian bear dance - skip to 18:00: https://tv.nrk.no/program/FOLA69009669
Opening theme:
Forest March by Sylvia Woods
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Dawn Rising: April Almanac
30 maart 2023 · 1 uur 13 min
This episode outlines the folklore of April in northern Europe: April Fool's day, Palm Sunday, Easter, St. George's day, and the history of gathering greenery for ritual and soups, rising at the dawn to worship a goddess, cuckoo folklore, dragon lore, and lovely spring ritual songs to set the mood! Lees meer
This month's April Almanac Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2AJtQbVqaNJKhwbSNpRqxc?si=4d2dafd206f74a15
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Goddess of the Dawn episode of Fair Folk: https://soundcloud.com/fairfolkcast/goddess-of-the-dawn
Goddess of the Dawn Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37OdQr0zs03bygse4ULS47?si=1dcb8ccce828438e
Resources:
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, chapter: In the Footsteps of Nanabozho: Becoming Indigenous to Place.
A quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7192815-our-immigrant-plant-teachers-offer-a-lot-of-different-modelsMimisbrunnr entry on the Nine Herbs Charm (Nigon Wyrta Galdor): https://www.mimisbrunnr.info/nigon-wyrta-galdor
A nice German nine-herb soup recipe: https://www.kitchenproject.com/german/recipes/Suppe/Grundonnerstagsuppe/index.htm
Music in this episode:
Opening theme: "Forest March" by Sylvia Woods
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www.harpcenter.com/category/harp-cdsKuku Kaki Kultarinta by Honeypaw
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https://honeypawband.bandcamp.com/track/kuku-kaki-kultarintaEdi Beo Thu Hevene Quene by Helena Ek and Goran Mansson
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https://music.apple.com/ca/album/edi-beo-thu-hevene-queene/1625877870?i=1625879088Now the Green Blade Riseth by Caedmon
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https://music.apple.com/ca/album/now-the-green-blade-riseth/1491931796?i=1491932896St. George by Waterson: Carthy
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https://music.apple.com/ca/album/st-george/1280110185?i=1280110191Instrumental track at 54:29: A Madre De Jhesu Cristo by Trouvere Medieval Minstrels
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https://music.apple.com/ca/album/a-madre-de-jhesu-cristo/1346857580?i=1346857906Bright morning star…
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Wolf Milk: February Almanac
31 januari 2023 · 1 uur 13 min
This almanac episode dives into the folklore of February through the lens of the Ancient Roman festival of Lupercalia on February 15th, tracing the themes of birth, milk, wolves, wildness, purification, death, twilight, and thunder through the month’s other pagan holidays, including St. Brigid’s day on February 1st, Candlemas / Gromnica / Perkunas Day on February 2nd, and Scandinavian St. Peter Hotstone on February 22nd. Lees meer
This month’s episode asks what the notion of purification might mean in a pagan context, and suggests it may mean facing the shadow parts of ourselves that we tend to project onto animals (and women) so we can ritually integrate them, clarifying and owning our role as powerfully in-between creatures in a powerfully in-between world.
Important dates:
February 1: Brigid’s Day / Bride (Ireland / Scotland)
February 2: Candlemas (Christian) / Gromnica (Slavic) / Perkunas day (Lithuania) / Perun’s Day (Belarus)
February 14: St. Valentine’s day
February 15: Lupercalia
February 21: Mardi Gras / end of Carnivale / Start of Lent
February 22: St. Peter Hot-stoneListen to the February Almanac playlist on Tidal:
https://tidal.com/browse/playlist/4c148b82-bfe5-46cf-ba26-63b7bc2a7acdListen to the February Almanac playlist on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2QSKLQ8WeAq9v26NWfpTtX?si=33e31c5e2fe74971Music in this episode:
“Lupercalia” by Faun
Buy Faun’s music: https://shop.faun-music.com/“Värgsangen” by Jonna Jinton
More Jonna Jinton music: https://www.youtube.com/user/jonnajinton
Buy Jonna Jinton’s art: https://jonnajintonsweden.com/“Ulvetimme” (The Hour of the Wolf) Maria Franz and Christopher Juul
Buy Heilung’s (Maria Franz and Christopher Juul) music: https://heilung.bandcamp.com/“Mary’s Keen” by Noirin Ni Riain
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Buy Noirin Ni Riain’s music: https://music.apple.com/ca/album/stor-amhran/41446103“Grá” by Wardruna
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Ploughboy's Glory: January Almanac
3 januari 2023 · 1 uur 7 min
In this January almanac episode, I share about how English Plough Sunday and Plough Monday rituals dovetail with pagan midwinter worship of Odin to present a quandary as rich today as ever: Lees meer
How do we hold sacred the human capacity to employ technologies that multiply our power, while dancing on the delicate balance between service and domination?
How do we bless the hard work of human hands where it meets the life of the world?
This episode delves into traditions of chasing out the spirits of Yule, as well as blessing of apple trees, ploughs, and ultimately ploughboys as representatives of the overflow of human passion and physical power.
Sign up for UNEARTHED, my course on the roots of imperialism in the Christian Middle Ages: https://rustic-waterfall-641.myflodesk.com
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Contact me by email fairfolkcast [at] gmail.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danica.boyce/Music in this episode:
January Man by Lau & Karine Polwart
Buy it:
https://lau-music.bandcamp.com/track/january-manApple Tree Wassail by Jon Boden
Buy his albums https://hudsonrecords.co.uk/shopfront/jon-bodenPloughboy’s Dream by Janice Burns and Jon Doran
Buy it:
https://bandcamp.com/download?cart_id=97060025&sig=7770feb4eddf1844063928c397bc5b88&from=checkoutPloughboy’s Glory by Lisa Knapp
Buy it:
https://lisaknapp.bandcamp.com/track/ploughboys-gloryInstrumental track:
St. Agnes’ Eve by Carol Wood
Buy it:
https://music.apple.com/ca/album/st-agnes-eve/130331483?i=130332115Opening theme: Forest March by Sylvia Woods
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www.harpcenter.com/category/harp-cdsSources and Resources for this episode:
Rune Hjarno Rasmussen’s St Knut / Odin parallels video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l99YoPiPLrgThe Nordic Animist Year (book) by Rune Hjarno Rasmussen: https://shop.nordicanimism.com/shop/9-books-and-calendars/9-the-nordic-animist-year/
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The Twelve Days: December Almanac
16 december 2022 · 1 uur 10 min
This episode explores folklore and pagan origins of the 12 days of Christmas, with a focus on the feminine winter figures of Perchta, Holle, and Grýla, featuring a conversation with Jenn Campus, author of A Guide to Celebrating the 12 Days of Yule. Lees meer
Unearthed: medieval imperialism course: https://rustic-waterfall-641.myflodesk.com
Buy Jenn Campus’ book, A Guide to Celebrating the 12 days of Yule for $5: https://jenncampusauthor.com/product/a-guide-to-celebrating-the-12-days-of-yule/
Emilia Blom, who shared the solstice wishes ritual with me: https://www.instagram.com/vildmedicin/
My Big Fat Solstice playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2LFjxSUsJYrJE2S0nuYWdB?si=a743490a69a6459c
Gnome for Christmas Fair Folk episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5ysFM2qushhgWVuEx5kLq1?si=6172f7663bc0479f
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Resources & references for this episode:
The Stations of the Sun: the ritual year in Britain by Ronald Hutton
"'He met his own funeral procession': The Year walk-ritual in Swedish folk tradition” Tommy Kuusela: https://www.academia.edu/9403910
The Icelandic Yule Lads poem in English
https://ingebretsens-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/The-Yule-Lads-Poem.pdf“The Winter Goddess: Percht, Holda, and Related Figures” By Lotte Motz
https://dokumen.tips/documents/motz-lotte-the-winter-goddess-percht-holda-and-related-figures-1985.html?page=5“Perchta the Belly-Slitter and Her Kin: A View of Some Traditional Threatening Figures, Threats and Punishments” by John B. Smith
https://www.scribd.com/doc/17325747/Perchta-the-Belly-slitter-and-Her-Kin‘Grýla, Grýlur, Grøleks and Skeklers: Medieval Disguise Traditions in the North Atlantic?” by Terry Gunnell
https://notendur.hi.is/~terry/articles/TerryGunnell-2001_Gryla,Grylur,Groleks_and_Skeklers.pdfMusic in this episode:
Opening theme: Forest March by Sylvia Woods
Buy Sylvia Woods’ music:
www.harpcenter.com/category/harp-cdsMalp…
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Little Christmas: December Almanac
1 december 2022 · 49 min
This episode surveys the folklore of the first half of December, including St. Nicholas' Day on Dec 6th, St. Lucia's day on Dec. 13th, and the solstice. As we approach the darkest point of winter, I ask the listener to follow the rhythm of nature and turn your gaze to the small, the domestic and the precious. Lees meer
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St. Nicholas by Anúna
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https://anuna.bandcamp.com/track/st-nicholas-2Luciavisa by Lisa (singer Emma Härdelin)
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https://music.apple.com/ca/album/luciavisa/204432292?i=204434789There is no Rose by the King’s Singers
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https://music.apple.com/ca/album/there-is-no-rose/79623724?i=79623213Orientis Partibus by Trouvere Medieval Minstrels
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https://music.apple.com/ca/album/kal%C4%97d%C5%B3-ryt%C4%85-saul%C4%97-pra%C5%BEydo/1427982403?i=1427982982Rex Tua Nolo Munera by Trouvere Medieval Minstrels
Buy music by Trouvere Medieval Minstrels here: https://www.medievalminstrels.com/Sources for this episode:
Lyrics to The Sun Blossomed on Christmas Morning by Sedula:
https://www.mamalisa.com/?t=es&p=5162Some more information about medieval animal carols:
http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/friendly_beasts.htmMore information about medieval carols:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology-south-east/news/2020/dec/evolution-medieval-christmas-carolsThe Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen:
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The Cailleach w/ Scott Richardson-Read
16 november 2022 · 1 uur 3 min
This is a conversation with Scottish folk-magic blogger and social worker Scott Richardson Read about the Gaelic folklore figure called the Cailleach: the old woman known as Scotland’s midwife; landscape shaper, storm-bringer, sovereignty figure, ancestral being, resurrected once and again, and present all through the folk calendar of the year. Lees meer
The Cailleach has been popularly associated with wintertime, which is why I feature her on Fair Folk now, at the beginning of winter.
Transcript of this episode: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12oDeT-0u-0fnnascirU_k5izVU4kQHACj2zqTFI2wGA/
Resources referenced in this episode:
Cailleach’s Herbarium blog, Cailleach article #1
https://cailleachs-herbarium.com/2015/08/the-cailleach-a-tale-of-balance-between-darkness-and-light/Cailleach’s Herbarium blog, Cailleach article #2
https://cailleachs-herbarium.com/2015/08/the-cailleach-a-tale-of-balance-between-darkness-and-light-part-two/Cailleach’s Herbarium blog entry on an animist shrine dedicated to the Cailleach:
https://cailleachs-herbarium.com/2018/01/the-cailleach-scotlands-midwife-tigh-na-bodach/Article: The Cailleach in Place-names and Place-lore by Alasdair C. Whyte:
https://clog.glasgow.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/JSNS/article/view/58/107Mckenzie’s Wonder Tale, Beira, Queen of Winter:
https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/tsm/tsm04.htm9th century poem about the Cailleach, “The Old Woman of Beare”
Audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65CWjdVcBmg
Text: https://www.ronnowpoetry.com/contents/anonymous/OldWomanBeare.htmlSongs in this episode:
Opening theme: “Forest March” by Sylvia Woods
Buy Sylvia Woods’ music:
www.harpcenter.com/category/harp-cds“The Old Woman of the Mill Dust / Cailleach An Dudain” by Alison Kinnair & Christine Primrose
Buy Alison Kinnair & Christine Primrose’s music:
https://guysegers1.bandcamp.com/track/cailleach-an-dudain-the-old-woman-of-the-mill-dust-alison-kinnaird-christine-primrose (album)
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Fox & Goose: November Almanac
31 oktober 2022 · 1 uur 16 min
This episode asks how we can take the natural themes of the month and separate them from the contexts that have framed and sometimes twisted them, so we can use them to empower all beings – especially, this month, foxes and geese. It surveys November droving and pannage traditions, Guy Fawkes Day on November 5th, fox hunting and its complex legacy, St. Martins day on November 11 and its entanglement with goose lore, and St. Catherine’s day on November 25th, which opens the season of the Germanic winter goddesses, whose later folklore connects spinning and wheels, snow, wild animals, flying, geese, and children. Lees meer
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“The Fox” by Laura Viers
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https://lauraveirs.bandcamp.com/track/the-fox“Kadrilaul” by Collage / Choir of Tallin University of Technology
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https://music.apple.com/gb/album/kadriko/1100185926“Martinmas Time” by James Yorkston
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https://www.jamesyorkston.co.uk/shop/“Goose and Common” by the Askew Sisters
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http://www.askewsisters.co.uk/Opening theme:
Forest March by Sylvia Woods
Buy Sylvia Woods’ music:
www.harpcenter.com/category/harp-cdsSome sources for this episode:
The Year in Ireland by Kevin Danaher, 1972.
Folk-Lore and Folk-Stories of Wales by Marie Trevelyan, 1909.
https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book//lookupid?key=olbp54204Article: “The Winter Goddess: Percht, Holda, and Related Figures” by Lotte Motz
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HDXoKGBG3PojPXDJrJXZ3Ae2A7HQCCA7/view?usp=sharingArticle: "Perchta the Belly-Slitter and Her Kin: A View of Some Traditional Thr…
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Rekindle: October Almanac
5 oktober 2022 · 1 uur 38 min
Fair Folk is back in operation after a year's break! This episode shares some of the folkloric themes of October: it's the pagan start of winter, and features spooky post-harvest customs of feeding the dead, love longing, rekindling the community fire, and a cute dose of shoe folklore. Lees meer
Call for key collaborators in the Pagan Monastery Project:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jq9XCt29MqQXEaRNtnoUj4n_5LObtqmWf-F-g8fGdto/edit?usp=sharingListen to the Pagan Monastery Podcast on Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/pagan-monastery-podcast-with-danica-boyce/id1610505250Listen to the Pagan Monastery Podcast on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/7xFdHUx1nJqge8Oq9Bs1GY?si=53d91206134049e8Join the Mailing List:
https://view.flodesk.com/pages/62d72c01da642d55a9868141Listen to the October Almanac playlist on Spotify:
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https://www.patreon.com/fairfolkcastListen to Our Supernatural Landlords: folklorist Terry Gunnell on northern European winter guising traditions:
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/fair-folk-podcast/id1177770160?i=1000501474652Songs featured in this episode:
Tam Lin by Anais Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer
Buy Anais Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer’s album:
https://anaismitchell.ochre.store/release/250476-anas-mitchell-jefferson-hamer-child-balladsCheshire Souling Song by Cantorion CynWrig Singers
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https://music.apple.com/ca/artist/cantorion-cynwrig/156043718Holland Handkerchief by Chris Foster
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https://chrisfoster1.bandcamp.com/musicWho’s Gonna Shoe my Pretty Little Foot by Barbara Dane
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https://barbaradane.bandcamp.com/“Old Jacky Frost” by the Wildness Yet
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https://www.thewildernessyet.com/shop.htmlThe Wilderness Yet on Bandcamp (digital):
https://thewildernessyet.bandcamp.com/Opening theme:
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Do What You Want: Pausing Fair Folk
22 juli 2021 · 16 min
This episode announces that I will not be producing Fair Folk Podcast for the forseeable future. I am deeply grateful for all of the support you have all given me as I have grown this podcast, and I hope you will continue to connect with me in one of the following ways:
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All my love,
Danica Lees meer -
Goddess of the Dawn
15 april 2021 · 38 min
This episode is a road map to the folklore, mythology, songs and rituals of the goddess of the dawn, gathered from the many cultures of the Indo-European language family. It paints the picture of a radiant, dependable, go-getter goddess who is born again with every day and every epoch. The episode ends with my ritual performance of the medieval hymn “Polorum Regina” in an abandoned church on a mountaintop at sunrise. Lees meer
Check out Medieval Hymn to the Dawn Goddess on our new YouTube series! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_moj-dcn5nM
The episode I mentioned: A Priest and a Piper: A Conversation with Ignas Šatkauskas, Pagan Priest of Romuva https://m.soundcloud.com/fairfolkcast/ignas-satkauskas-interview
A great resource for Indo-European mythology, folklore and poetry research that I used for this episode is Indo-European Poetry and Myth by Martin Litchfield West
Episode edited by Quinn McCord.
Thank you very much to Sylvia Woods, whose song Forest March is the opening theme to Fair Folk Podcast!
Image: The Coming of Bride by John Duncan, 1917
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Our Supernatural Landlords: folklorist Terry Gunnell on northern European winter guising traditions
6 december 2020 · 1 uur 4 min
In our second conversation on Fair Folk, folklorist Terry Gunnell and I discuss the northern European folklore of the winter season, especially the tradition of guising and monstrous visitors in pagan and Christian times, and -- getting to the juicy stuff -- how male deities came to dominate the Nordic sphere in the Viking era, when it is rather obvious feminine deities used to play a significantly larger role.
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Some of Terry Gunnell's articles can be downloaded here: https://hi.academia.edu/TerryGunnell Lees meerMusic:
Intro theme: "Forest March" by Sylvia Woods
32:32 “K Viola” by ICP Orchestra
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The Dream Makers: Daniel Allison, Scottish Storyteller & Author
30 oktober 2020 · 55 min
An interview with Daniel Allison, Scottish storyteller and author. We talk about the beginning of the winter season, how he became a storyteller, and how we can make our dreams a reality with the winter dark as our guide and protector. He tells the beautiful story "The Dream Makers" from his book "Scottish Myths and Legends." Lees meer
House of Legends Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/59C6P4JKydqeUoWYhILZBU?si=WqKHjqsTT7i8uZulU5U5aA
Get Daniel's books: https://www.houseoflegends.me/books
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Danica on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danica.boyceMusic in this episode:
Intro theme: "Forest March" by Sylvia Woods
1:30 Untitled Scottish melody by Stephen Arndt
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All Hallows': Folk Tradition at the Gates of Winter
21 oktober 2020 · 46 min
Enjoy this 2019 episode exploring the ancient traditions behind today's favourite Halloween activities: trick-or-treating, jack-o-lantern carving, divination, and... communing with the dead.
This episode's music:
Intro Music: “Forest March” by Sylvia Woods
2:09 “Nöstmo Halvar” by Per O G Runberg
7:04 “King Orfeo” by Alva
13:07 “Samhain” by Ron Allen
14:55 “Punkie Night” by Withe & Stone
17:11 “Tam Glen” by Jean Redpath
22:45 “Colcannon” by The Black Family
26:30 “The Wife of Usher’s Well” by Alfred Deller & The Deller Consort
31:38 “Souling Song” by the Watersons
38:10 “Faithful Johnny” by Bryony Griffith & Will Hampson
42:30 “Lyke Wake Dirge” by the Young Tradition
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In the Cauldron with Danica Boyce - The Heart is a Cauldron Podcast with Kathryn Fink
14 oktober 2020 · 53 min
This is an extremely potent interview of myself by Kathryn Fink, of the Heart is a Cauldron Podcast!
The Heart is Cauldron Podcast: https://kathrynfink.com/the-heart-is-a-cauldron
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Apples & the Gods with Joseph S. Hopkins
29 augustus 2020 · 59 min
In this episode I dive deep into Ancient Germanic apple and tree symbolism with researcher Joseph S. Hopkins of Norse mythology resource mimisbrunnr.info. Lees meer
Links:
Abundance Paganism info and registration: https://fair-folk-media.mykajabi.com/sales-page
Mimisbrunnr.info
About Joseph S. Hopkins: www.mimisbrunnr.info/hopkins
Kvasir Symbols Database entry on apples: https://www.mimisbrunnr.info/ksd-appleMusic:
Intro theme: "Forest March" by Sylvia Woods
"Oj Jabuko" by Ansambl Ladarice
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What is Abundance Paganism?
7 augustus 2020 · 47 min
Abundance paganism is running again in 2026-7 as a workshop series! To sign up: https://danicaboyce.com/abundance-paganism-2026 Lees meer
Join the free Abundance Paganism mini-course Sept 2026: https://danicaboyce.myflodesk.com/q266txu4bb
Sign up for my Pagan Sacred Chant workshops:
https://www.danicaboyce.com/chant-workshops-2026Join my mailing list: www.Enthusiastica.substack.com
Find me on instagram: instagram.com/danica.boyce
This episode introduces the concept of abundance paganism, and announces my offering of a course by the same name!
Topics covered:
*how abundance mentality dovetails with a pagan worldview and pagan practice
*my definition of ancestry
*appropriation and integrity
*the connection between suffering, death, sacrifice and transformation
*what our ancestors were doing most of the time (hint: it wasn’t war)Music:
Fair Folk intro theme: “Forest March” by Sylvia Woods
16:55 “Ia Patonepi” by Imke McMurtrie, Nana Mzhavanadze & Tamar Buadze https://www.amazon.com/Georgian-Songs-Mzhavanadze-Buadze-McMurtrie/dp/B07BJFJLQH
32:00 “Helvegen” by Kalandra (written by Einar Selvik) https://kalandra.bandcamp.com/
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Lughnasadh - bonus almanac re-release
30 juli 2020 · 54 min
This is a re-release of last year's August Fair Folk Almanac for Patreon about the Irish festival of Lughnasadh, its mysterious history, and its afterlife in modern Irish folklore.
This is the feast of the harvest's beginning, of the shining sun, of first precious golden loaf.
In Irish, Lughnasa is a gathering for the god Lugh, who was responsible for teaching the people of Ireland how to harvest the grain, and for maintaining the four quarters of the year, with the harvest at their peak.
Music:
Intro theme: Forest March by Sylvia Woods
10:00 Instrumental track: The Dear Little Isle (air)” by Antóin Mac Gabhann & Caitlín Nic Gabhann with Brian McGrath
18:45 "Corn Rigs" by Us and Them
29:00 "The Band of Shearers" by Carla Sciaky
37:15 "Corn Rigs" by Whirligig
44:30 "The Lammas Tide" by the Corries
51:05 "Corn Rigs" by Whirligig (again)
The book I referenced is "The Festival of Lughnasa" by Máire MacNeill Lees meer -
Wells & Springs Episode 2: Water Of Death
16 juli 2020 · 59 min
This episode witnesses the troubled relationship between the folklore of wells and springs and memories of trauma and violation. It discusses the vulnerability and suffering of women and Jews under medieval Christianity that is symbolized in the image of the well and processed through the embodied act of singing. Lees meer
Links:
Mailing list: https://winter-lion-59052.myflodesk.com/pijrgnu11x
Patreon: www.patreon.com/fairfolkcast.com
Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/yb6cp36hMusic:
1:40 "Gungnir" by Valgaldr (Gøran Hálfdanarson Ellingsen)
9:15 “You are the Field” by Sarah Neufeld
12:30 “The Holy Well” by Jean Ritchie
20:00 “Maria Magdalena” by Vendla Johansson
24:25 “The Well Below the Valley” by Frankie Armstrong and Maddy Prior
30:20 “George Collins” by John Fleagle
38:15 “Per Tyrsons döttrar i Vänge” by Jan Hammarlund
49:30 “Little Sir Hugh” by Alasdair Roberts
58:15 "Herr Töres Döttrar I Vänge" Jan Johansson -
Healing the Wounds of Empire
18 juni 2020 · 50 min
This episode discusses Empire and its deconstruction, and the relationship between healing and learning in life and in this podcast. Lees meer
I speak on abundance and scarcity in the context of European traditional spirituality and culture, and invite listeners to give themselves moments of grace in order to address the work of anti-racism from a place of abundance and love.
Music:
Intro theme: "Forest March" by Sylvia Woods
Instrumental track: "The Warm Shoulder" by Mary Lattimore
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Wells & Springs Episode 1: Water Of Life
16 mei 2020 · 57 min
The first in a series on wells and springs, this episode explores the phenomenon of wells and springs in mythology and spiritual belief and practice. Wells for magic, wells for healing, wells for wisdom and love; wells for the pure awe and wonder of living water.
Bi-weekly Q&A on Patreon, Conjuration Tier: https://www.patreon.com/join/fairfolkcast/ Lees meerMusic:
Intro theme: "Forest March" by Sylvia Woods
"Háleygir" by Valgaldr (instrumental)
“Tobar Tobar” by Marit and Rona
“Nornegaldr” by Runahild
“The Leaves of Yggdrasil” by Myrkur
“My Love is a Well” by Daoirí Farrell
“Туман яром, туман долиною” (Tuman Yarom) by the Veryovka National Folk Choir of Ukraine
“Makosh’ ” by Vedan Kolod
“Čisto Srce Gospod želi” by Grupa Legende
“Nornegaldr” by Runahild -
Faber Horbach of Sowulo Pagan Band
7 april 2020 · 37 min
My interview with Faber Horbach of Sowulo Pagan Band in the Netherlands, June 2019.
Listen to Sowulo's new album and more:
https://www.sowulo.nl/ (Bandcamp)
https://www.facebook.com/Sowulo/ (Facebook)
https://www.instagram.com/sowulo.music (Sowulo Instragram)
https://www.instagram.com/faber.horbach/ (Faber Horbach Instagram)
https://www.facebook.com/amplifiedhistory/ (Heilung Facebook)
Music:
Intro Theme: "Forest March" by Sylvia Woods
2:00 "Wulfwiga" by Sowulo
6:40 "Sol" by Sowulo
11:30 "Slincan Snican" by Sowulo
15:35 "Beltane" by Sowulo
20:25 "Wohs Wildum" by Sowulo
31:45 "Wulfwiga" by Sowulo
This episode edited by Laura Hamill. Lees meer -
A Priest and a Piper: A Conversation with Ignas Šatkauskas, Pagan Priest of Romuva
18 maart 2020 · 55 min
My interview with Ignas Šatkauskas, pagan priest of Romuva, in August 2018
Pagan Ritual Songs from Romuva Camp, playlist on Fair Folk's YouTube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwfbVKoLviE&list=PLDGCg4JtohsA1pJf6bB_pNbmKT_AK0d6W
Fair Folk's YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw5BgVgYLuRWmEs66AHx38A
Music:
Intro Theme: "Forest March" by Sylvia Woods
22:00 ”Kukal, Rože, Ratilio” by Jievaras
26:45 “Improvisation on the Bagpipe” by Skirmantas Sasnauskas
34:50 "Nuslaida Saulala" by Kulgrinda
39:50 “Vakarinė žvaigždelė” by Kulgrinda
46:40 "Turėja liepa” by Vilniaus čiurlionio Mgs Ansamblis Lees meer -
Children of the Sun: Paganism and Folksong in Lithuania - Part Two
27 februari 2020 · 51 min
In Part Two of Children of the Sun episode, I travel to the forests of Dzūkija region with ethnomusicologist Eglė Česnakavičiūtė to meet the elder and traditional singer Elena Česnulytė, and talk folksong politics. I finally wind up at Šatrijos Ugnis, a perpetual flame tended at a hill in a national park in Samogitia, where I decide maybe paganism is not about belonging after all, but rather, more powerfully, about connection. Lees meer
Music
Intro theme: “Forest March” by Sylvia Woods
00:45 “LIV Kompozicija” by Žemyna Trinkūnaitė
3:35 Elena Česnulytė, Žiūrai village, Dzūkija
5:17 “Lyliumoj” by Elena Česnulytė, Žiūrai village, Dzūkija
7:40 “Aš Kelaliu Keliavau” by Žiūrų kaimo folkloro ansamblis / Žurai village folklore ensemble (Dzūkija)
17:00 “Aš Pasėjau Balandėlį” by Obelija
19:55 “Ant Tėvulio Dzidzio Dvaro / In the Father’s Great Manor” by Obelija
22:55 Eglė Česnakavičiūtė
25:45 “LIV Kompozicija” by Žemyna Trinkūnaitė
38:30 “III Kompozicija” by Žemyna Trinkūnaitė
40:45 “Rimo Rimo, Tūto” by Birutė Račkaitienė, Vaidotas Digaitis, and Kęstutis Račkaitis
41:50 “XII Kompozicija” by Žemyna Trinkūnaitė
43:45 “Rimo Rimo, Tūtoj” by Jievaras
47:30 “XII Kompozicija” by Žemyna TrinkūnaitėŠatrijos Ugnis: https://www.facebook.com/SatrijosUgnis/
Obelija’s music can be purchased on bandcamp, or streamed on Spotify. https://obelijaband.bandcamp.com/releases
You can find the amazing Žemyna Trinkūnaitė’s music on Spotify, the itunes store, and streaming at pakartot.lt. You can also email her at zemynat@gmail.com to order a CD by post.
Thank you so much to all the people who helped me in various ways in producing this podcast; your assistance was essential to my understanding. Any factual or pronunciation errors are my own.
Special thanks to Matas Tamsusis Bodrijė for translating endlessly both song lyrics and social norms, and teaching me to dance, all while almost never cracking a smile. -
Children of the Sun: Paganism and Folksong in Lithuania - Part One
24 februari 2020 · 55 min
In this episode I spend a week with pagan religious group Romuva, and reflect on the role of belonging in paganism and folk tradition. Live recordings taken in 2018.
Music:
Intro theme: “Forest March” by Sylvia Woods
4:10 - “XL Kompozicija” by Žemyna Trinkūnaitė
6:57 “Dūno upė” - Romuva camp attendees / Kūlgrinda
9:08 Gabija chant - Romuva camp attendees / Kūlgrinda
10:35 Leliumoj - Romuva camp attendees / Kūlgrinda
13:35 Žemyna chant -Romuva camp attendees / Kūlgrinda
17:35 “XLVI Kompozicija” Žemyna Trinkūnaitė
30:05 “Nuslaide Saulala” by Kūlgrinda
32:40 “XLI kompozicija” by Žemyna Trinkūnaitė
36:30 Inija Trinkūnienė
48:50 “Kompozicija xix” by Žemyna Trinkūnaitė
Thank you so much to all the people who helped me in various ways in producing this podcast; your assistance was essential to my understanding. Any factual or pronunciation errors are my own.
You can find Žemyna Trinkūnaitė’s music on Spotify, the itunes store, and streaming at pakartot.lt. You can also email her at zemynat@gmail.com to order a CD by post.
Kulgrinda can be found at https://www.facebook.com/Kulgrinda Lees meer -
Gnome for Christmas: the Midwinter Household Spirit
17 december 2019 · 48 min
This episode draws on the folklore of the household spirit (gnome, tomte, tonttu, nisse, domovoi, et al)and the folk music of Scandinavia to explore the ancient traditions of animism and ancestor veneration at midwinter. Lees meer
Music:
Intro theme: “Forest March” by Sylvia Woods
“Tomtarnas Julnatt” by Göteborgs Symfonietta (instrumental)
“Nisse-Polka” by Sing Song Sisters
“Winter Darkness (Mørketid)” by Georg Buljo & Nils Økland
“Haugebonden” by Folk Och Rackare
“Tomtarnas” Julnatt by Fem Bobbies
“Tomtehallingen” by Øyonn Groven Myhren
“Tomten” by Kraja
“Hej Tomtegubbar” by Nina Persson & Oscar JohanssonThe book I referred to in the intro:
Gnomes and Secrets of the Gnomes Wil Huygen and illustrator Rien Poortvliet
Resources for this episode:
The Tradition of Household Spirits by Claude Lecouteux
Russian Folk Belief by Linda J. Ivanits
Tomten by Viktor Rydberg (a video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rJ0Ec-jYg8) -
Interview with Eithne Ní Ghallchobhair, Irish Storyteller
2 december 2019 · 44 min
I recorded this conversation last fall with the award-winning Irish storyteller Eithne Ní Ghallchobhair, who lives in Donegal, Ireland, and learned her craft from the last living traditional storytellers in Donegal. Lees meer
Get the Fair Folk tote at my new website www.fairfolkcast.com!
Notes:
*The book Eithne mentions at 39:00, Women Who Run With the Wolves is written by Clarissa Pinkola Estés. It’s available at used and new bookshops all over.
*42:05 the "schools collection" she refers to is part of the National Folklore Collection of Ireland, at University College Dublin
*This episode edited by Laura Hamill of Perennial Collective! http://www.perennialcollective.com/Music:
Intro theme: “Forest March” by Sylvia Woods
“Carolan's Farewell to Music” by Julia Seager-Scott
“Untitled” by Jean Christian
“Carolan - Five Tunes By the Irish Harper: IV. Carolan's Farewell to Music” by Da Camera
“When She Cam Ben” by Da Camera
“Untitled” by Jean Christian
“Carolan's Farewell to Music” by Julia Seager-Scott
“The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry” by Ale Möller & Aly BainImage: Eithne Ní Gullaher on St. Colmcille’s bed at Glencolmcille, Donegal
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All Hallows': Folk Tradition at the Gates of Winter
9 oktober 2019 · 46 min
This episode explores the ancient traditions behind today's favourite Halloween activities: trick-or-treating, jack-o-lantern carving, divination, and... communing with the dead.
This episode's music:
Intro Music: “Forest March” by Sylvia Woods
2:09 “Nöstmo Halvar” by Per O G Runberg
7:04 “King Orfeo” by Alva
13:07 “Samhain” by Ron Allen
14:55 “Punkie Night” by Withe & Stone
17:11 “Tam Glen” by Jean Redpath
22:45 “Colcannon” by The Black Family
26:30 “The Wife of Usher’s Well” by Alfred Deller & The Deller Consort
31:38 “Souling Song” by the Watersons
38:10 “Faithful Johnny” by Bryony Griffith & Will Hampson
42:30 “Lyke Wake Dirge” by the Young Tradition
Image: Witch plate. Fancy dresses described, or, what to wear at fancy balls, Arden Holt, 1882. Lees meer -
Outi Pulkkinen, Finnish Runo-Singer and Jouhikko Player
17 september 2019 · 45 min
An astounding performance and conversation with Finnish expert runo-singer and jouhikko player, Outi Pulkkinen. Pulkkinen is a Doctor of Music specializing in runo-singing and holistic improvisation with voice, movement and speech. She also works with several bands, eg. the female a cappella groups MeNaiset and Pulkkinen-Räss-Sadovska. She is currently researching archaic music through a shamanistic approach, and she teaches folk music, voice training and holistic improvisation at University of the Arts Helsinki. Lees meer
She has released three solo albums, which you can purchase here: http://shop.digeliusmusic.mycashflow.fi/search/?q=Outi+pulkkinen
You can also listen to her music on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/outipulkkinen
Find her group MeNaiset on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-505647846
The MeNaiset album Kelu can be purchased here: https://www.kansanmusiikkiliitto.fi/nettiputiikki/aanitteet/menaiset-kelu
MeNaiset has recorded another album, which will be released next year, so keep your eyes open for that!
Pulkkinen can also be contacted directly by email: outipulkkinen10@gmail.comThe intro theme to Fair Folk is “Forest March” by Sylvia Woods
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Interview with Nigel Pennick, Author of The Pagan Book of Days
9 augustus 2019 · 42 min
Nigel Pennick is the author of over fifty books, on topics ranging from paganism and folk magic to geomancy and divination with the runes.
His book The Eldritch World will be available soon in an American edition, produced by Arcana Europa. You can read the preface here: https://arcanaeuropamedia.com/blogs/arcana-blog/preface-for-nigel-pennicks-the-eldritch-world
Many of Pennick's past and future books can be found at Inner Traditions, including the soon-to-be-released Operative Witchcraft: https://www.innertraditions.com/author/nigel-pennick/
Music:
"Edith Swan-Neck" by Paddon and Pennick
"Ellacombe (Berthon)" by Nigel Pennick
"Ground Hog Blues" by John Lee Hooker
"Fairy Bells" by Nigel Pennick
"The Outlandish Knight" by Will Noble
"The Bobtail Mare" by Nigel Pennick
The image Nigel mentioned of the sorceror's apprentice is here: https://tinyurl.com/yy53sg4x
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