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Episode Thirty: Celtic Witchcraft - Counter fairy attacks
Season 2, Ep. 30
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The Witchcraft series continues with Witchcraft of the Celtic world! From natural paganism, sacred trees to scruffy druid men and the goddess Brigid (hay gurl). Cursing, folk healing, wise women and fairy mischief have been a huge part of Irish and Manx culture right through Christian influence. We also have tales of a modern Bean Feasa, Biddy Early who was loved and feared in equal measure.. Audio at the beginning is from the RTÉ documentary "Was Biddy Early a Witch or a Fairy?", credit to CR's Video Vaults on YouTube; Fair use, we own nothing.
Sources:
- The Witch, the Béan Feasa, and the Fairy Doctor in Irish Culture - Morgan Daimler
- IRISH CURSING AND THE ART OF MAGIC, 1750–2018 Thomas Waters Past w Present, Volume 247, Issue 1, May 2020, Pages 113–149, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtz051
- NON-SOVEREIGNTY QUEEN ASPECTS OF THE OTHERWORLD FEMALE IN IRISH HAG LEGENDS: THE CASE OF CAILLEACH BHEARRA - GEAROID 0 CRUALAOICH
- https://loraobrien.ie/medieval-marriage-in-ireland/
- Cursing Stones of Ireland: When Christianity and Pagans Pooled Their Sacred Water | Ancient Origins fancient-origins.net)
- The Life of the Death of 'The Fighting Fairy Woman of Bodmin' Storytelling around the Museum of Witchcraft HELEN CORNISH
- The folklore of the Isle of Man by Killip, Margaret
- From Acceptance to Assimilation: The Changing Role of Travellers in the (Re)Creation of Irish National Identity, 1920s-1960s by Erin Gurski
- Patronage & Devotion in Ancient Irish Religion by Dáithí Ó hÓgáin
- The Druids of Ireland by Julius von Pfluck-Harttung
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