
CW: Death of a WWII Spy
Last story of the year from Noor Inayant Khan's Twenty Jataka Tales.
Twenty Jataka Tales
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/444183.Twenty_Jataka_Tales
Noor Inayant Khan's wikipedia page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noor_Inayat_Khan
A Call to Spy IMBD
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7698468/
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Dec 31, 2022
9 min

CW: Child Abuse
A favourite story of mine, the very dark, very Grimm, The Juniper Tree.
This story has been told before way back in episode 2 about Step Mother's in fairytales https://soundcloud.com/user-695593213/sounds-from-the-shadows-ep-2-step-mothers
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Dec 30, 2022
19 min

CW: Second story contains reference to suicide.
There will be 3 episodes before the end of the year and this is the first of them!
Two stories about spider's webs, the Christmas Spider, and the Story of Arachne.
Wicked Makers' tutorial on making a Christmas Spider https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6V5ioN2pdU
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Dec 29, 2022
21 min

Part 3 of 3 Halloween Episodes
Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost.
Text of The Canterville Ghost
https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/14522/pg14522-images.html
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Oct 31, 2022
1 hr 14 min

Part 2 of 3 Halloween Episodes
CW: Child Abuse
The second spooky story this October, and Estonian fairytale about a haunted woods, a living doll, and a little child who found happily ever after.
This story comes from the Violet Fairy Book by Andrew Lang and Leonora Blanche Alleyne, available on Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/641/641-h/641-h.htm
Video Easy on Changelings by Hog and Dice
https://youtu.be/s_F5VecpO-Y
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Oct 30, 2022
22 min

Part One of Three Halloween Episodes.
Let us begin with witches, cats, and singing mice.
Jenny Nimmo;
jennynimmo.me.uk/ThewitchesAndTheSingingMice.html
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Oct 21, 2022
21 min

Includes the Story of the Two Swine Heards.
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Some of the source I’m drawing on;
The Tain: Translated from the Irish Epic Tain Bo Cuailnge: From the Irish epic Táin Bó Cuailnge, Thomas Kinsella
The Táin: Translated from the Old Irish Epic Táin Bó Cúailnge, Cairan Carson
Cuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster, Lady Gregory
Candlelit Tales candlelittales.ie
Shadow of the Táin, Candlelit Tales Candlelittales – Episode01-shadowsofthetain-part1_whelanslive
Story Archaeology, storyarchaeology.com
storyarchaeology.com/feed/podcast/
Hog and Dice
hoganddice.com
And almost every other Irish Storyteller I’ve met or heard.
Oct 10, 2022
12 min

CW: Rape, forced marriage, death of children.
Including the return of Fergus's promise, the boys brigade, and Deirdre of the Sorrows.
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Some of the source I’m drawing on;
The Tain: Translated from the Irish Epic Tain Bo Cuailnge: From the Irish epic Táin Bó Cuailnge, Thomas Kinsella
The Táin: Translated from the Old Irish Epic Táin Bó Cúailnge, Cairan Carson
Cuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster, Lady Gregory
Candlelit Tales candlelittales.ie
Shadow of the Táin, Candlelit Tales Candlelittales – Episode01-shadowsofthetain-part1_whelanslive
Story Archaeology, storyarchaeology.com
storyarchaeology.com/feed/podcast/
Hog and Dice
hoganddice.com
And almost every other Irish Storyteller I’ve met or heard.
Feb 7, 2022
27 min

CW: Death and Violence
Includes Ferdiad at the Ford
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Some of the source I’m drawing on;
The Tain: Translated from the Irish Epic Tain Bo Cuailnge: From the Irish epic Táin Bó Cuailnge, Thomas Kinsella
The Táin: Translated from the Old Irish Epic Táin Bó Cúailnge, Cairan Carson
Cuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster, Lady Gregory
Candlelit Tales candlelittales.ie
Shadow of the Táin, Candlelit Tales Candlelittales – Episode01-shadowsofthetain-part1_whelanslive
Story Archaeology, storyarchaeology.com
storyarchaeology.com/feed/podcast/
Hog and Dice
hoganddice.com
And almost every other Irish Storyteller I’ve met or heard.
Dec 25, 2021
19 min

CW; Killing of a child
Including Fergus's promise, Cu Chulliann and the Morrigan, and The Morrigan's Child.
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Some of the source I’m drawing on;
The Tain: Translated from the Irish Epic Tain Bo Cuailnge: From the Irish epic Táin Bó Cuailnge, Thomas Kinsella
The Táin: Translated from the Old Irish Epic Táin Bó Cúailnge, Cairan Carson
Cuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster, Lady Gregory
Candlelit Tales candlelittales.ie
Shadow of the Táin, Candlelit Tales Candlelittales – Episode01-shadowsofthetain-part1_whelanslive
Story Archaeology, storyarchaeology.com
storyarchaeology.com/feed/podcast/
Hog and Dice
hoganddice.com
And almost every other Irish Storyteller I’ve met or heard.
Nov 8, 2021
19 min
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