Tales of Britain and Ireland

Tales of Britain and Ireland.

A storytelling and folklore podcast: famous British and Irish myths, legends and folktales.

  • 42 minutes 12 seconds
    53: More like Croglin Strange, am I right?!

    A bonus Halloween episode featuring a very well known terrifying tale of a supernatural encounter in Cumbria.

    Featuring: Victorians!  A perfectly named gothic villain, who is not a villain! A surprising Irish detour! Unnecessary speculation and intimation on my behalf! And an image which has haunted the nightmares of generations of English children. Or at the very least... mine.

    Have a great Halloween and Samhain everyone, hope you enjoy this trip to the incredibly pleasing to say... Croglin Grange.

    Musical credits and sources at: Tales of Britain and Ireland: Croglin Grange


    #Folklore #Myths #Legends #Storytelling

    28 October 2024, 8:49 pm
  • 1 hour 40 minutes
    52: Giants

    This time we've an appropriately huge episode of tales about British Giants - all stuck together with a vague framing narrative involving the surprising return of one of the podcasts greatest villains/misunderstood just getting on with his life dudes to date.

    On the way we'll take in tiny elephants, wulvers, a mermaid, simps, cobblers, tall tales, unfortunate seagulls and slave driving saints in an episode suitably scaled for the topic.

    For sources and more visit the episode page on the website: https://talesofbritainandireland.com/episode-52-Giants/

    #mythology #folkore #legends #folktales # Legends

    9 September 2024, 7:41 pm
  • 1 hour 20 minutes
    51: Boggart discussion with Dr. Simon Young

    A very special episode - the podcast's first ever expert discussion section! An interview with the world's leading boggart expert Dr Simon Young answering questions like what are boggarts, where would you find them, why do they look nothing like what we think of as Boggarts today?

    Followed by a very short story section about a boggart that isn't really a boggart. Just to round things off.

    Sources, musical credits and boggart artwork on the website https://talesofbritainandireland.com/episode-50-boggarts/

     

    #Folklore #Mythology

    2 June 2024, 9:59 am
  • 1 hour 20 minutes
    50: Boggarts

    The 50th episode! A huge milestone for me and I'm using it to concentrate on one of my favourite topics I've only touched on so far: Boggarts. 

    Boggarts abound in this selection of accounts featuring a surprising variety of supernatural sights - shrieking spectres, ghostly geese, inflatable sheep, ineffective graves and much much more. 

    Come to Boggartdom, meet the feeorin and found out more synonyms for terror than you ever thought you'd need! 

    Sources, musical credits and boggart artwork on the website https://talesofbritainandireland.com/episode-50-boggarts/

    #folklore #storytelling

    7 May 2024, 8:54 pm
  • 1 hour 27 minutes
    49: Childe Rowland

    This episode we've a nice normal fairy story about Elves, and one boy's bloody Tarantino-esque quest to get his ball back (and maybe something else as well? I forget.)

    For sources and more visit the episode page on the website: https://talesofbritainandireland.com/episode-49-Childe-Rowland/

     

    #mythology #folkore #legends #folktales

    29 January 2024, 10:22 pm
  • 1 hour 24 minutes
    48: Glasgow - Gold, Green and Iron

    This episode we're off to Glasgow - the largest city in Scotland, for stories about Saints and Monsters set along the river, by turns in a Dear Green Place and a gritty, deadly urban sprawl.

    Hear stories involving necromantic powers, cuckolding, fish, school children, dental operations gone wrong and all the other usual suspects.

    For sources and more visit the episode page on the website: https://talesofbritainandireland.com/episode-48-glasgow-gold-green-and-iron/

     

    #mythology #folkore #legends #folktales

    10 December 2023, 5:25 pm
  • 1 hour 46 minutes
    47: The Witch of Eagle’s Crag

    This episode we have a tale featuring Lancashire Witches, phenomenal cosmic power, a sort of gap year/nature documentary, an unexpected promotion and a story mash up that almost works if you squint, coming from the pen of Lancashire folklore's most unreliable narrator, 

    For musical credits, sources and more visit the website: https://talesofbritainandireland.com/episode-47-the-witch-of-eagles-crag/ 

    #Myths #Legends #Folklore #Witches #Lacanshirefolklore

    29 August 2023, 3:59 pm
  • 58 minutes 10 seconds
    46: The Hobyahs

    A fairy tale like story that's meant for children... and may be the most traumatic and violent I've covered yet.

    Meet the family: an old woman, an old man and a little girl living in a remote valley with their dog Turpie. Awww!

    Meet the Hobyahs - numerous terrible monsters that live all around the valley. Less awww.



    For musical credits, sources and more visit the website: https://talesofbritainandireland.com/episode-46-the-hobyahs/

    #Myths #Legends #Folklore #Folkstories #FairyTales

    20 June 2023, 9:13 pm
  • 1 hour 37 minutes
    45: Third Branch of the Mabinogi(on) - Manawydan

    Branch Three of the Mabinogi(on) featuring marrying mothers, misty magic, market disruption, mice, milquetoast Manawydan and much much more!

    For musical credits, sources and more visit the website: https://talesofbritainandireland.com/episode-45-third-branch-of-the-mabinogion-manawydan/

    #WelshMythology #Mabinogion #Mabinogi #Folklore #Myth

    21 April 2023, 3:43 pm
  • 1 hour 9 minutes
    44: Petticoat Loose

    A collection of stories telling the life and active afterlife of one of Ireland's most notorious and corporeal ghosts, with a rather unusual nickname.

    A woman, evil in life, who was graciously rewarded with the opportunity to continue being evil after death. 

    Sometimes being evil is its own reward it seems.

    For musical credits, sources and more visit the website: https://talesofbritainandireland.com/episode-44-the-life-and-afterlife-of-petticoat-loose/

    #Myths #Folklore #Ghosts

    8 January 2023, 8:53 pm
  • 1 hour 17 minutes
    43: The Lad of the Skins (Fenian Cycle Pt 5.)

    A tale of Fionn and the Fianna featuring heroism (maybe), murder (definitely), theft, even more animal transformations and other laddish pursuits. Stick around for the post credit sequence!

    For musical credits, sources and more visit the website: https://talesofbritainandireland.com/episode-43-fionn-pt-5-the-lad-of-the-skins/

    #myth #mythology #folklore #Feniancycle #IrishMythology #FionnMacCumhaill

    20 November 2022, 1:06 pm
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