Rowan & Pine: A Feminist Folklore & Mythology Podcast

WELCOME TO THE HAGSTONE COVEN.He walks through the fevered cities of medieval Europe - half man, half myth - healing the dying, blessing the dead. A saint, they said… though in the fields and forests, the old women knew better. They left bread for his dog and icons in the wells.St Roch, or San Rocco, was a medieval nobleman who gave up his wealth and title to care for plague victims. After succumbing to pestilence, some time in exile, and help from a very special dog, his fame evolved into a distinctly witchy practice of iconography, offerings, and ritual not so different from its pagan predecessors...S O U R C E S: https://jothornely.medium.com/when-the-saints-go-arting-in-roch-1c402639bb0ahttps://reliquarian.com/2020/04/04/saint-roch-the-saint-par-excellence-against-disease/https://www.catholiccompany.com/blogs/magazine/st-roch-patron-of-dogs-6114https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/salvation-time-plague/2020-05"The Golden Legend ," by Jacobus de Voragine, A.D. 1275C O N T A C T:https://linktr.ee/rowanandpinerowanpinepod@gmail.comTheme: Creepy Mood by SoulProdMusicAdditional Sounds: PixabayPart of @Podmoth Media NetworkCheck out more PodMoth podcasts here: https://podmoth.network/Additional sounds from PixabayFeatured:The Ugly Radio

This is the audio of our Ghost Story Spooktacular from Instagram - for those of you too scared of social media....

PLEASE like/comment/rate/subscribe, or we will hang you over a trench by your naughty bits.Miss Emily is BACK for our Halloween 2025 episode! Spooktober concludes with Niamh's guided tour of the Afterlife. We look at some comforting imaginings, such as the Egyptian Field of Reeds and the Celtic Tír na nÓg, cut right through Norse Hel and the Greek Underworld to arrive at the ICONIC self-insert fanfiction that is The Divine Comedy and specifically (as you probably know it) Dante's Inferno.. This is a tangenty one, don't say we didn't warn ya.S O U R C E SAttitudes to Death: Some Historical Notes Kenneth Boyd Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Sep., 1977), pp. 124-128 (5 pages)https://www.worldhistory.org/article/701/ancient-mesopotamian-beliefs-in-the-afterlife/ https://www.worldhistory.org/Field_of_Reeds/https://www.oriire.com/article/the-twelve-gates-of-duathttps://www.britannica.com/topic/Sukhavatihttps://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Places/The_Underworld/the_underworld.htmhttps://vikingr.org/norse-cosmology/valhallalahttps://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/d/the-divine-comedy-inferno/poem-summaryhttps://sacred-texts.com/neu/yeats/fip/fip78.htmC O N T A C Trowanandpinepod@gmail.comhttps://linktr.ee/rowanandpinePart of @Podmoth Media NetworkCheck out more PodMoth podcasts here: https://podmoth.network/Additional sounds from PixabayFeatured: Thick Thighs & Creepy Vibes

Hidden beneath the living world, beyond the reach of sunlight, lies the sunless kingdom of Hades and Persephone — the Greek Underworld.It’s not a place of fire and brimstone, but of chill stillness, memory, and silence. The Greeks imagined it as the mirror opposite of life and its inverse state. S O U R C E Shttps://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Places/The_Underworld/the_underworld.htmGarland, Robert -  The Greek Way of Deathhttps://www.metmuseum.org/essays/death-burial-and-the-afterlife-in-ancient-greeceHomer - The Odyssey, Book 11Sampled Audio (We own nothing):Clash of the Titans (1981) CharonTheFerryman.movOrpheus & Eurydice - Jim Henson Co.C O N T A C T:https://linktr.ee/rowanandpinerowanpinepod@gmail.comTheme: Creepy Mood by SoulProdMusicAdditional Sounds: PixabayPart of @Podmoth Media NetworkCheck out more PodMoth podcasts here: https://podmoth.network/Additional sounds from PixabayFeatured: Thick Thighs & Creepy Vibes

“Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there! He wasn’t there again today, Oh, how I wish he’d go away!” - Antigonish by William Hughes MearnsYou’ve probably heard these lines before - whispered in a film, included in a book of ghost poems, or even whispered as harmless childhood nonsense..But there’s something about them - something sticky. Sixteen lines, no real story, and yet it clings. Because it names something we all know, but rarely say aloud: the feeling of not being alone when you should be.S O U R C E S:https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/mysterious-haunting-antigonish-county-macdonald-farm-1.6631829https://jayvelosobatista.com/whats-a-vardoger/(Used as a recital throughout the episode) I Met a Man Who Wasn't There (Antigonish by Hughes Mearns)https://orionphilosophy.com/the-shadow-carl-jung/C O N T A C T:https://linktr.ee/rowanandpinerowanpinepod@gmail.comTheme: Creepy Mood by SoulProdMusicAdditional Sounds: PixabayPart of @Podmoth Media NetworkCheck out more PodMoth podcasts here: https://podmoth.network/Additional sounds from PixabayFeatured: Thick Thighs & Creepy Vibes

Her right hand traces the fjord in her thighShe counts the things she is afraid of:Nothing,Her own fingers—Ringed sealsTrapped in the freezing sea.Sedna by Allyson YoungThe legend of Sedna flows through the icy waters of the Arctic, told and retold in many places, bending to each culture. But no matter the version, one thing remains the same: Sedna is the mother of all sea creatures, and as goddess of the deep she decides when the seals, the whales, the walrus, and the fish will rise to meet the hunters of the North.S O U R C E S:https://www.polarlife.ca/traditional/myth/sedna.htmhttps://cmszabo55.medium.com/untangling-suffering-sedna-creatrix-under-the-sea-a11cfc660b51https://www.tumblr.com/bestiarium/683396691391561728/the-myth-of-sedna-the-mother-of-the-sea-inuithttps://guidetogreenland.com/travel-blogs/Christina-gamborg-holm/storytelling-up-north-the-inuit-legend-of-sedna/https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/InuitMythology Prokop, Carol Ann - Written in stone : a comparative analysis of Sedna and the Moon Spirit as depicted in contemporary Inuit sculpture and graphicsSedna: The Goddess of the Sea & Marine Animals - (Inuit Mythology Explained)C O N T A C T:https://linktr.ee/rowanandpinerowanpinepod@gmail.comTheme: Creepy Mood by SoulProdMusicAdditional Sounds: PixabayPart of @Podmoth Media NetworkCheck out more PodMoth podcasts here: https://podmoth.network/Additional sounds from PixabayFeatured: Getting Down and Wordy

“Twilight arrives on an Orkney shore. In the space between land and sea, the Finfolk are said to slip silently from their hidden kingdom, seeking humans to drag below the waves.”The Finfolk are a race unique to Orkney and Shetland, creatures of contradiction much like the islands themselves: part sea, part land, both wild and ordered. Amphibious and powerful, they can step from waves onto shore as they choose, living comfortably between two worlds. .Unlike the mermaids we might picture, Finfolk are fully humanoid - men and women alike -though their daughters sometimes appear with mermaid tails. Their bodies are draped with fins that fall like clothing, making it difficult to tell them from land-dwellers at a distance. Up close, the fins reveal their otherworldly nature. They are strong, athletic, and extraordinary sailors, able to cross the tempestuous North Sea in mere strokes of an oar...S O U R C E S:https://owlcation.com/social-sciences/the-finfolk-of-orkney-folklorehttps://www.orkneyology.com/tales-from-tom2.htmlhttps://www.northlinkferries.co.uk/orkney-blog/an-orkney-folk-tale-the-mermaid-bride/https://archaeologyorkney.com/2021/01/08/finfolk-and-the-odyssey-a-perspective-on-the-north-atlantic-and-the-mediterranean-worlds/THE Scottish Antiquary OR Northern Notes and Queries Published Quarterly EDITED BY The Rev. A. W. CORNELIUS HALLEN, https://ztevetevans.wordpress.com/2022/01/20/orkney-folklore-the-strange-story-of-annie-norn-and-the-finfolk/C O N T A C T:https://linktr.ee/rowanandpinerowanpinepod@gmail.comTheme: Creepy Mood by SoulProdMusicPart of @Podmoth Media NetworkCheck out more PodMoth podcasts here: https://podmoth.network/Additional sounds from PixabayFeatured: Getting Down and Wordy

Sea-Tember returns! This time Niamh calls in Evan & Chelsea from It Came From The Maritimes to help shed some fascinating insight into the Selkie myth; seals who shed their skins to walk (and dance) upon land. We take a trip through Scotland, Ireland and Iceland, navigating people's problematic attraction to seal-folk. We also learn about the liminality of the shore as well as a certified Creepy B*tch, Selkolla.Check out It Came From The Maritimes here (and tell 'em we sent ya!). Thank you SO much to Evan & Chelsea for providing a Canadian perspective and being such fun first pod guests!S O U R C E S:THE FOLK-STORIES OF ICELAND Einar Ólafur Sveinsson https://legendsoflove.wordpress.com/2022/02/22/selkies-the-magical-seal-people-of-scotland-and-ireland/Orkney Folk-Lore W. Traill Dennison https://owlcation.com/social-sciences/the-finfolk-of-orkney-folklorePerilous Shores: The Unfathomable Supernaturalism of Water in 19th-Century Scottish Folklore The Sea Calls: A Selkie's Liminal Existence Frances Avery,“The Seal Changes Into a Woman" (Schools Collection,  National Folklore Collection, UCD.)The Seal Woman in Its Irish and International Context -Darwin. Selkie (Poem) by Brittany E Burns Selkies in Scottish Folk Tale  - Bc. Hana ZámečníčkováSupernatural Encounters in Old Norse Literature and Tradition Daniel Sävborg, Karen Bek - Pedersen C O N T A C Trowanandpinepod@gmail.comhttps://linktr.ee/rowanandpinePart of @Podmoth Media NetworkCheck out more PodMoth podcasts here: https://podmoth.network/Additional sounds from PixabayFeatured: Getting Down and Wordy