Episode 237 – Yuletide Cheer! 2023

It’s time for our annual lessons and carols with music, poetry, and more!

Merry Happy and Fa La La La La to You!

Summary: It’s our annual “lessons and carols,” with holiday music, a poem, some alternative holiday traditions, and just a general holly jolly good time.

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Our holiday playlist this year is:

  • “We Three Kings (Acoustic),” Mark Petrie – Audiosocket
  • “Yorkshire Wassail,” by the Pagan Carolers (Archive.org)
  • “Carol of the Bells,” Ivan Luzan – Pixabay
  • “Un Flambeau Jeanette Isabella,” Emma Wallace – Audiosocket
  • “Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy” – Western Horizon Productions – Audiosocket
  • Incidental Music: “We Wish You a Merry Christmas (Music Box Version)” – WaveMaster from Pixabay
  • “Sing We Noel Once More,” by the The Harmony Choristers (Archive.org)
  • “Pat-a-Pan,” by the Concordia Choir (Archive.org)
  • “Wassail Wassail,” Panorama Jazz Band – Audiosocket
  • “Mrs Fogerty’s Christmas,” Trillium – Audiosocket
  • Incidental Music: “In the Bleak Midwinter” – Julius H. from Pixabay
  • “Good King Wenceslas,” by the US Army Band (Archive.org/Public Domain)
  • “Soul Cake,” the Pagan Carolers
  • “O Christmas Tree,” Mike Cole from Pixabay
  • “Silent Night” – Zakhar Valaha – Pixabay
  • Incidental Music: “The Holly and the Ivy” – Leigh Robinson from Pixabay
  • “Da Day Dawn,” by Samantha Gillogly (artist permission)

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Transcripts are available on our Transcripts page (NOTE: No transcript available for this episode)

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Promos and Music: All music is licensed from Audio Socket, Pixabay, or the Public Domain, with the exception of “Da Day Dawn,” by Samantha Gillogly (used with artist permission).

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Episode 180 – Yuletide Cheer! 2020

Summary:
It’s our annual tradition! We share some old blessings for the new year in song, conversation, and charms this time. Welcome Yule!
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Producers for this show: Heather, WisdomQueen, Jennifer, Jen Rue of Rue & Hyssop, Little Wren, Khristopher, Tanner, Fergus from Queer as Folk Magic, Achija of Spellbound Bookbinding, Johnathan at the ModernSouthernPolytheist, Catherine, Payton, Carole, Stephanie, Kat, Breanna, Staci, Montine, Vic from the Distelfink Sippschaft of Urglaawe, Moma Sarah at ConjuredCardea, Jody, AthenaBeth, Bo, Scarlet Pirate, Tim, Bill, Leslie, Sherry, Jenna, Jess, Laura, Abbi, Nicole, AromaG’s Botanica, & Clever Kim’s Curios (if we missed you this episode, we’ll make sure you’re in the next one!). Big thanks to everyone supporting us!
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Playlist:

  1. Welcome Winter & Soul Cake – Pagan Carolers (Artist Permission)
  2. I Saw Three Ships/Kerry Jig – Morrison Players (AudioSocket)
  3. Miss Fogerty’s Christmas – Trillium (AudioSocket)
  4. Good King Wenceslas – Matthew Ried (AudioSocket)
  5. Deck the Halls – Pagan Carolers (Artist Permission)
  6. O Tennenbaum – Nebbe Quartet (FMA)
  7. O Yerusalayme – Ukrainian Village Singers (FMA)
  8. Bring a Torch Jeanette, Isabella – Emma Wallace (AudioSocket)
  9. In Praise of Yule & Yuletide Carol – Pagan Carolers (Artist Permission)
  10. Gloucester Wassail & Boar’s Head Carol – Pagan Carolers (Artist Permission)
  11. Here We Come A-Wassailing – Emma Wallace (AudioSocket)
  12. Frosty Morning/Full Rigged Ship – Trillium (AudioSocket)
  13. Silent Night – Emma Wallace (AudioSocket)
  14. Auld Lang Syne – Mike Strickland (AudioSocket)
  15. Da Day Dawn – Samantha Gillogly (Artist Permission)

All music sourced with artist permission (as noted), or from Audio Socket (with license), or from Free Music Archive (CC 2.0 License).

Plough Monday Charms are sourced from Nigel Pennick’s Field & Fen.

You can now also pre-order Cory’s forthcoming book, New World Witchery: A Trove of North American Folk Magic! (also available from Amazon)

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Promos and Music:

Incidental Music:

“Silent Night,” by Paul Frietas (AudioSocket); “The Christmas Waltz,” by Scott Kinsey (AudioSocket); “Jingle Bells” and “God Rest Ye,” by Phil Symonds (AudioSocket); “Coventry Carol,” by Jonathan Still (AudioSocket)

All music sourced with artist permission (as noted), or from Audio Socket (with license), or from Free Music Archive (CC 2.0 License).

Our immense thanks to Leigh Ann Hussey, Eli Goldberg, Prometheus Music, and the Pagan Carolers for letting us use their work in this episode.

Special thanks as well to Samantha Gillogly, whose “Da Day Dawn” has become our personal annual tradition.

Please consider supporting us by purchasing our promotional items in the New World Witchery Threadless shop or by joining our Patreon supporters.

If you like us AND you like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, you will love our new show: Myth Taken: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast, now available through all the podcatchers!

Please think about checking out our Audible Trial program. Visit Audibletrial.com/newworldwitchery to get your free trial of Audible, where you can download over 180,000 titles (including some narrated by Cory). Your purchases help support this show, and there’s no obligation to continue after the free trial