Roots of Lore

Caitlin Brehm

Roots of Lore is a podcast from Caitlin Brehm that explores the roots of fairy tales and folklore to ponder the messages and morals they offered in times past and dig into the medicine they survived to offer us today.

  • 1 hour 17 minutes
    S2E6 - Journey to the Underworld

    As equinox tips us once more into the dark half of the year (here in the northern hemisphere), the season of story, we journey to the underworld with the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone, and we finish our exploration of Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen.

    Featuring Dr. Helene Foley, professor of Classics at Columbia University and Barnard College.

     

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    26 September 2020, 6:19 am
  • 1 hour 12 minutes
    S2E5 - East of the Sun and West of the Moon

    We've been exploring "The Snow Queen" all season, but in this episode of Roots of Lore, let's explore Hans Christian Andersen in a bit more depth. We're getting a sense of who he was and the context of his fairy tales, and then taking a look at a potential source of inspiration: East of the Sun and West of the Moon as collected by Norwegian folktale scholars, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe.

    Featuring Dr. Sara Cleto and Dr. Brittany Warman of the Carterhaugh School of the Folklore and the Fantastic, and Sarah N. Lawson.

     

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    27 February 2020, 11:54 pm
  • 1 hour 7 minutes
    S2E4 - Brigid and the Cailleach

    We are at a threshold time. Last week marked the midway point between Winter solstice and spring equinox. Now you might be feeling the stirrings of Spring. Depending on where you are, it might even already look like Spring. And it might be tempting to want to rush through this liminal tension and get Winter over with already, but here I’m inviting you to pause and be here at this threshold.

    There are stories to be found here.

    In this episode, we’re diving into some Irish Celtic folklore through two figures that represent both sides of this seasonal threshold: Brigid and the Cailleach.

     

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    13 February 2020, 2:40 am
  • 1 hour 12 minutes
    S2E3 - The Omen Days of Wyrd

    Happy New Year! We are standing at the portal between one year and the next, and you may be thinking of New Year's Resolutions or goals to hit the ground running here at the beginning of the year.

    In this episode of Roots of Lore, we're exploring some different ways of leaning into the excitement of the new year that allow us to be more in flow with this story time of year: The Omen Days and the Web of Wyrd.

     

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    1 January 2020, 8:00 am
  • 45 minutes 58 seconds
    S2E2 - The Saturnalia

    It's the season of celebration and in this episode of Roots of Lore, we explore The Saturnalia.

     

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    25 December 2019, 8:00 am
  • 53 minutes 38 seconds
    S2E1 - The Season of Story

    The nights grow long and dark. And from them spring holidays, rituals, celebrations, and stories. Now perhaps more than any other time of year, we find ourselves craving a slow-down to wrap ourselves in tradition, in familiarity, in comfort, and in meaning.

    So let us begin with the Winter Solstice, a point in the cycle of the year around which so many cultures around the world held celebration, ritual, and wove their stories.

     

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    18 December 2019, 8:05 am
  • 27 minutes 10 seconds
    Happy Birthday, Roots of Lore!

    It's the one year anniversary of the first episode of Roots of Lore.

    This one is just a mini episode to keep the podcast alive on this auspicious day, explore some birthday folklore, and hint at season two which is coming very, very soon!

     

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    5 December 2019, 11:58 pm
  • 1 hour 1 minute
    S1E9 - Cinderella: Glass Slippers & Ancestors

    Cinderella is the fairy tale that, perhaps more than any other, sets our standard for how we expect a fairy tale to behave. But this story tells us more than what happens if you have some fancy shoes and a fairy godmother on your side. In this episode, let's explore the Cinderella of Charles Perrault as well as the Cinderella version of the Grimms—how these stories might give us hints of ancestral practices, and then how we equate shoes and lust with Ye Xian from China.

     

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    8 March 2019, 10:17 pm
  • 1 hour 22 minutes
    S1E8 - Riquet with the Tuft: of Beauties and Beasts

    What would you choose if you had to pick one: beauty or intelligence? In this episode of Roots of Lore, we're exploring two stories that test what qualities are most important in love: Riquet with the Tuft (of Charles Perrault and Catherine Bernard) and Beauty and the Beast (of Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont) plus taking it back to some lovers of mythology: Cupid and Psyche.

     

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    20 February 2019, 11:24 pm
  • 1 hour 11 minutes
    S1E7 - The Fairies and the Enchantments of Eloquence

    Sometimes stories serve as lessons for children, but in Perrault's day, sometimes fairy tales were a manners guide for adults. This episode explores "The Fairies" (Les Fées)—sometimes known as "Diamonds and Toads"—by Charles Perrault, "The Enchantments of Eloquence" by Marie‐Jeanne Lhéritier, and the story of Frau Holle.

     

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    2 February 2019, 3:04 am
  • 49 minutes 3 seconds
    S1E6 - Puss in Boots: The Animal as Helper

    Animals appear often in fairy tales and folklore, and the most famous Animal as Helper is perhaps none other than our favorite booted feline, Puss in Boots (or The Master Cat). In this episode, let's start with Charles Perrault's version of "The Master Cat" to examine what this story meant in 17th century France, then we'll hear the story that inspired it, "Costantino Fortunato," and finally, explore the animal-human connection with "The Prince Who Befriended the Beasts."

     

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    16 January 2019, 11:11 pm
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