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Podcast 56 – Harvest Home

Summary:

This episode looks at various harvest festivals, including Michaelmas, Mid-Autumn Festival, and Thanksgiving. It includes poems, songs, stories, and a pair of essays. Enjoy!

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Poems

“To Autumn,” William Blake
“Gathering Leaves,” Robert Frost
“To Autumn,” John Keats
“After Apple-Picking,” Robert Frost

Stories & Essays

“Michaelmas,” by Cory
“Corn Mother,” a Penobscot Legend found in American Indian Myths & Legends
“Corn,” by Cory (from the blog)
“Two Accounts of the First Thanksgiving”

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Promos & Music
Title music: “Homebound,” by Jag, from Cypress Grove Blues. From Magnatune.

Song List:

“Autumn Time,” LIbana
“Lillibulero,” Shira Kammen
“Harvest Hymn,” The Revels
“John Barleycorn,” Jack Montgomery
“Darkness,” Cynthia McQuillen
“White Mare/Hoof & Horn,” Pagan Carolers

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Podcast 44 – American Holidays

Summary
Today we’re looking at the “American wheel of the year” and at developing your own magical calendar.

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Our two main sources are the article “The Eight Great American Sabbats,” by Jason Mankey (at Patheos.com) and Jack Santino’s book All Around the Year.

Some other neat holiday-centered items:

R. Burns “Halloween” poem
Arlo Guthrie, “Alice’s Restaurant” (a main tradition for Cory’s Thanksgiving)
Leprechaun lore from the Yeats/Gregory collection Fairy & Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry
A little bit on the connection between Paganism & Easter from religioustolerance.org
The Wikipedia article on Dia de Muertos
A fun recipe for the Ossa di Morti cookies Cory mentions

Also check out the Holidays page at New World Witchery to explore this topic further, including episodes on Groundhog Day, Walpurgisnacht, and St. John’s Eve.

Cory will have a horror story about rabbits (of course) coming out through Misanthrope Press and their magazine Title Goes Here in the Fall (that’s sort of Halloween and Easter, right?).

And definitely check out all the details on Pagan Podkin Super Moot no. 3, happening in San Francisco on Oct. 6^th!

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Promos & Music
Title music: “Homebound,” by Jag, from Cypress Grove Blues. From Magnatune.

Promo 1 – Eat My Pagan A$$ Podcast
Promo 2 – HP Lovecraft Live Podcast
Promo 3 – Iron Powoqa Radio