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Podcast 50 – Mountain Magic

Summary
Watch out for the Hill Witch! Today we look at magical lore from the mountains (Ozarks and Appalachians). We’ll have discussion, stories, and even some music!

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Download: Episode 50 – Mountain Magic

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Podcast 47 – Yultide Greetings! 2012

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Summary

This is our annual holiday special, featuring music, poetry, stories, and recipes! Here’s wishing you all the best for your holiday season and a happy new year to come!

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Download: Episode 47 – Yuletide Greetings 2012

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Stories & Poetry:

“Susie’s Letter from Santa Claus,” by Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
“The Goblins Who Stole a Sexton,” by Charles Dickens
“The Boy Who Laughed at Santa Claus,” by Ogden Nash
A history of the Christmas candle in the window, from Fantasy-Ireland.com

Recipes (All cocktails this year):
After Five – Cory
Amber Dream/Winterbeer – Cory
Egg Nog, extra fancy – Laine

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Promos & Music

All songs used with permission/license, from Magnatune and MusicAlley, except as noted.

Playlist:

“All Hayle to the Days, To Drive the Cold Winter Away,” Harper’s Hamper
“Dancing Day I – A Virgin Most Pure,” Steven Potvin & Con Brio Choir
“O Come Emmanuel,” Mary Ellen Kirk
“A v Jerusalime,” Kitka
“Rise Up Bright Sun,” Leslie Fish*
“The Huron Carol,” Tracy Helen
“Green Grow’th the Holly,” Pagan Carolers
“The Holly Bears a Berry,” Shira Kamen
“The Holly/Witches Dance,” Harper’s Hamper
“I Saw Three Ships,” Dusty Hughes
“Tapster Drynker,” Shira Kamen
“Wassail,” In Nova Cantica
“Tsarko Momche…,” Kitka
“Chestnut, Daphne, Scotch Cap,” Music for a Winter’s Eve
“The Blood-red Rose at Yule,” Music for a Winter’s Eve
“Nu zit Wellekome,” Ralph Rousseau Muelenbroeks
“We Three Kings,” Jennifer Avalon
“The Wheel of the Year,” Shira Kamen
“Patapan,” Fugli
“Twelfth Eve, Christmas Cheer, Chestnut Vagary,” Harper’s Hamper
“Le Brandevin,” Shira Kamen
“Da Day Dawn,” Samantha Gillogly*

Underscoring music is “We Three Kings,” by Two Harps, and “Ding Dong Merrily on High,” by Tracy Helen, both from MusicAlley.

*Used by permission of the artist.

Summary
Laine triumphantly returns in this show about all sorts of monsters and cryptids. We’ll be looking at creatures from folklore to netlore, and figuring out which beasties are our favorites along the way.

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Download: Episode 46 – Monsters

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Only one book referenced tonight, Daniel Cohen’s Encyclopedia of Monsters
Here’s a link to the (now discredited) series of post-tsunami sea creature photos Cory mentioned. The critters are real, but the story associated with them is not.
If you’re fascinated by the netlore Laine shares, particularly that of the Slender Man, check out the “Marble Hornets” web series

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Promos & Music
Title music: “Homebound,” by Jag, from Cypress Grove Blues. From Magnatune.
Promo 1-Celtic Myth Podshow
Promo 2-Transitioning Pagan

Podcast Special – Zombies

SHOWNOTES FOR PODCAST SPECIAL – ZOMBIES

Summary
Tonight we celebrate everyone’s favorite Deadite, the zombie:

We begin with “Chapter 13: Zombies,” from Tell My Horse, by Zora Neale Hurston
Then we hear a short story from Voodoo: Strange & Fascinating Tales & Lore, edited by John Richard Stephens
A selection of text from Maya Deren’s Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti finishes the show.

Apologies for the audio glitches near the middle of the episode!

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Special Episode – Zombies

Music
“Grifos Muertos” by Jeffery Luck Lucas, from his album What We Whisper, on Magnatune.com

Incidental Music: “Ouch” (Be Your Own PET); “Play with Fire” (Cobra Verde); “Sixteen Shells from a Thirty-Ought-Six” (Tom Waits); “John the Revelator” (Blind Willie Johnson); “This Old World is Going Down” (The Modulations)

Podcast Special – American Devils

SHOWNOTES FOR PODCAST SPECIAL – AMERICAN DEVILS

Summary
This evening we hear two tales about diabolical creatures from American folklore:

First we hear “Goatman,” an original tale based on lore from Prince George’s County, Maryland.
Second, we’ll hear about the famous “Jersey Devil,” based on accounts from the Burlington, NJ Tourism Board and S. E. Schlosser’s AmericanFolklore.net site.

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Special Episode – American Devils

Music
“Grifos Muertos” by Jeffery Luck Lucas, from his album What We Whisper, on Magnatune.com

Podcast Special – Native Creatures

SHOWNOTES FOR PODCAST SPECIAL – NATIVE CREATURES

Summary
Tonight we hear three tales from Native American sources about strange and unusual creatures:

The Mannegishi, from the Ojib-Cree people, adapted by Cory from a tale found at NativeWeb
Achaanwaapush: The Cannibal Rabbit – adapted by Cory from a Cree-Cherokee tale told by John Petagumskum at FirstPeople.us
The Wampus Cat – An Appalachian tale read from Spooky South, by S.E. Schlosser

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Special Episode – Native Creatures

Music
“Grifos Muertos” by Jeffery Luck Lucas, from his album What We Whisper, on Magnatune.com

Podcast Special – Hairy Men and Bloody Bones

SHOWNOTES FOR PODCAST SPECIAL – HAIRY MEN & BLOODY BONES

Summary
In our first Halloween storytelling episode, we look at two folktales: “WIley & the Hairy Man,” (as retold by Diane de las Casas) and “Raw Head & Bloody Bones” (as retold by S.E. Schlosser)

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Speical Episode – Hairy Men and Bloody Bones

Music
“Grifos Muertos” by Jeffery Luck Lucas, from his album What We Whisper, on Magnatune.com

Podcast Special – Learning Witchcraft

Podcast Special – Learning Witchcraft

Summary: In this episode, I’ll be telling stories from American folklore about how people learn witchcraft. We’ll hear tales of initiation and apprenticeship, solitary witches, witch apprenticeships, and find out just what witches do.

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Download: New World Witchery Special – Learning Witchcraft

Stories:

Examination of Tituba recorded by Ezekiel Cheever in Witches of the Atlantic World, Elaine Breslaw, ed. (p. 377-80)
Hubert J. Davies – “Delivered Up to the Devil,” from The Silver Bullet (p. 20-25)
Patrick Gainer – a story from Witches, Ghosts, & Signs (p. 164-5)
Jim Edmonds’ short tale in Foxfire 2 (p. 355)
Vance Randolph – from Ozark Magic & Superstition (p. 265-8)
Account of traiteurs – Dorson/Brandon in Buying the Wind (p. 265-6)
Zora N. Hurston – from Mules & Men, recounting her initiation by Rev. Joe Watson (p. 215-7)
Timothy Knab – from A War of Witches (p. 4-11 excerpts)

Promos & Music
“Grifos Muertos” by Jeffery Luck Lucas, from his album What We Whisper, on Magnatune.com

All incidental music comes from the group Falling You, from the album Touch, on Magnatune. Songs include:

“Sadness of the Witch”
“The Art of Possession”
“Less Likely to Believe”
“Something About Eve”
“Reading the Leaves”

Podcast Special – Magical Saints

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Summary
In our only June 2012 episode (sorry! I’ll be back from school soon!) Cory tells a few tales of magical saints. The saints range from canonical choices to folk tales to at least one very American folk saint.

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Download: Special Episode – Magical Saints