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by Icy Sedgwick
Fabulous Folklore will give you your weekly fix of fabulous folklore in fifteen minutes (or less)! Hosted by fantasy and Gothic horror writer, Icy Sedgwick, the podcast explores folklore, legends, superstitions, mythology, and all things weird, occult and unusual.
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- 1 weeks ago32 min
Three Guest Ghost Stories for Halloween
May I wish you the happiest of Halloweens - if, indeed, a happy Halloween is something we can achieve! As this is the opening day of a series of days devoted to the dead, which in my view culminates on 2 November with All Soul's Day, I think we can all think about the importance of community - whether that is community with each other, or community with those who have gone before. And in the spirit, pun not intended, of community, I've invited three of my podcasting pals to entertain you with tales suitable for this Halloween season. You'll hear from Amon Mazingo, host of the Afro Tales podcast, Owen Staton, host of the Time Between Times podcast, and Thersa Matsuura, host of Uncanny Japan. Enjoy! Find Afro Tales: https://www.afrotalescast.com/ Find Time Between Times: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/time-between-times-storytelling-with-owen-staton/id1573244734?i=1000736679563 Find Uncanny Japan: https://uncannyjapan.com/ Get your free guide to home protection the folklore way here: https://www.icysedgwick.com/fab-folklore/ Find the Fabulous Folklore Bookshop, details of talks, Icy's social media links, and other useful bits at: https://icysedgwick.com/start-here Become a member of the Fabulous Folklore Family for bonus episodes and articles at https://patreon.com/bePatron?u=2380595 Get weekly articles and bonus content at Substack: https://fabulousfolklore.substack.com/ Buy Icy a coffee or sign up for bonus episodes at: https://ko-fi.com/icysedgwick
- 1 weeks ago58 min
US Folk Horror with Candice Bailey and Gavin Lees
This month on Fabulous Folklore Presents, I'm joined by Candice Bailey and Gavin Lees, the co-editors of the Crossroads folk horror zine. Candice also writes for the folk horror blog The Harvest Maid's Revenge, and is a native Alabamian with an MFA in poetry. Gavin is also a writer and calligrapher who lives in the Pacific Northwest, who has been published by the likes of Centipede Press, Fantagraphics Books, Hwæt! and Abhartach. We chat about American folk horror, how it differs from its European counterpart, the conditions required for folk horror to emerge, and the presence (real or imagined) of the Devil in American folklore. Find Crossroads on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crossroads.folkhorror/ And on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/crossroadsfolk.bsky.social Order your copy: https://linktr.ee/crossroads.folkhorror Get your free guide to home protection the folklore way here: https://www.icysedgwick.com/fab-folklore/ Find the Fabulous Folklore Bookshop, details of talks, Icy's social media links, and other useful bits at: https://icysedgwick.com/start-here Become a member of the Fabulous Folklore Family for bonus episodes and articles at https://patreon.com/bePatron?u=2380595 Get weekly articles and bonus content at Substack: https://fabulousfolklore.substack.com/ Buy Icy a coffee or sign up for bonus episodes at: https://ko-fi.com/icysedgwick
- 2 weeks ago16 min
Three More Female Ghosts from North East England
It is the month of Halloween so welcome to the Fabulous Folklore Fireside, for we shall have some more ghostly tales this week! Unlike my usual episodes, which feature some kind of dissection of the stories, this episode will entertain you with three stories from north east England. These stories are from More Ghosts and Legends of Northumbria. I’ve given them a bit of a polish, but also be aware that these are ghost stories, so they do include murder, if that’s something you don’t want to listen to with young ones around. But the last one also features a benevolent ghost! Enjoy... Find the images and sources used on the associated blog post: https://www.icysedgwick.com/three-female-ghosts-from-north-east-england/ Buy my book, Ghostlore: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/12992/9780241726204 Get your free guide to home protection the folklore way here: https://www.icysedgwick.com/fab-folklore/ Find the Fabulous Folklore Bookshop, details of talks, Icy's social media links, and other useful bits at: https://icysedgwick.com/start-here Become a member of the Fabulous Folklore Family for bonus episodes and articles at https://patreon.com/bePatron?u=2380595 Get weekly articles and bonus content at Substack: https://fabulousfolklore.substack.com/ Buy Icy a coffee or sign up for bonus episodes at: https://ko-fi.com/icysedgwick
- 3 weeks ago1h 36m
Three Ghosthunters and a Podcast with Rob Kirkup and Wayne Gilbert
For this special Spooky Season episode of Fabulous Folklore, I'm joined by my very good friends Rob Kirkup from the How Haunted? podcast, and Wayne Gilbert from the Eerie Edinburgh podcast. Both have been on the podcast before, but here we are, chatting about the scariest places we've been, our dream ghosthunting locations, and the inevitable Halloween conversation topic, Ghostwatch... Find Rob at How Haunted: https://www.how-haunted.com/ Find Wayne at Eerie Edinburgh: https://eerieedinburgh.com/ Get your free guide to home protection the folklore way here: https://www.icysedgwick.com/fab-folklore/ Become a member of the Fabulous Folklore Family for bonus episodes and articles at https://patreon.com/bePatron?u=2380595 Get weekly articles and bonus content at Substack: https://fabulousfolklore.substack.com/ Buy Icy a coffee or sign up for bonus episodes at: https://ko-fi.com/icysedgwick Find the Fabulous Folklore Bookshop, Icy's social media links, and other useful bits at: https://icysedgwick.com/start-here
- 4 weeks ago18 min
3 Ghostly Tales from North East England for Halloween
It is the month of Halloween so welcome to the Fabulous Folklore Fireside, for we shall have some ghostly tales this week! Unlike my usual episodes, which feature some kind of dissection of the stories, this episode will entertain you with three stories from north east England, involving shades seeking recognition from beyond the grave. Our first story comes from Rambles in Northumberland and on the Scottish Border by William Andrew Chatto, while the second and third stories are from Ghosts and Legends of Northumbria. I’ve given them a bit of a polish, but also be aware that these are ghost stories, so they do include murder, if that’s something you don’t want to listen to with young ones around. Enjoy... Find the images and sources used on the associated blog post: https://www.icysedgwick.com/three-ghostly-tales-from-north-east-england-for-halloween/ Buy my book, Ghostlore: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/12992/9780241726204 Get your free guide to home protection the folklore way here: https://www.icysedgwick.com/fab-folklore/ Find the Fabulous Folklore Bookshop, details of talks, Icy's social media links, and other useful bits at: https://icysedgwick.com/start-here Become a member of the Fabulous Folklore Family for bonus episodes and articles at https://patreon.com/bePatron?u=2380595 Get weekly articles and bonus content at Substack: https://fabulousfolklore.substack.com/ Buy Icy a coffee or sign up for bonus episodes at: https://ko-fi.com/icysedgwick
- Oct 3, 20261h 22m
Phantom Cubes and Spectral Smells: Ghost Stories with Three Ravens
Welcome to Spooky Season! I'm talking to Eleanor Conlon and Martin Vaux from the Three Ravens podcast about ghost stories! We talk about the fascination we have for ghost stories, what ghost stories need to be creepy, what kinds of ghosts really need to make a comeback in ghostly fiction, and whether it even matters if a place is haunted, or we just think it is! Eleanor Conlon and Martin Vaux are the brains behind the Three Ravens podcast, and they are a real life couple, based in Sussex. Eleanor has a background in theatre, while Martin has a background in writing, teaching, and English literature. Buy their book, The Three Ravens Ghost Tales: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/12992/9781837052929 Visit the Three Ravens Podcast website: https://www.threeravenspodcast.com/ Get your free guide to home protection the folklore way here: https://www.icysedgwick.com/fab-folklore/ Become a member of the Fabulous Folklore Family for bonus episodes and articles at https://patreon.com/bePatron?u=2380595 Get weekly articles and bonus content at Substack: https://fabulousfolklore.substack.com/ Buy Icy a coffee or sign up for bonus episodes at: https://ko-fi.com/icysedgwick Find the Fabulous Folklore Bookshop, Icy's social media links, and other useful bits at: https://icysedgwick.com/start-here
- Sep 26, 202619 min
Very Very Frightening: The Folklore of Thunder and Lightning
Thunder and lightning offer one of nature's more cinematic spectacles, so it's unsurprising they would accrue a degree of folklore. The danger that lightning particularly poses sees a range of practices to ward off storms, while other traditions offer a way to predict events using storms. Thunder and lightning also work together, as the Met Office explains: "When the electrical current from a lightning strike passes through the air, it heats the surrounding air rapidly—up to 30,000°C. This sudden heating causes the air to expand explosively, creating a shockwave that we hear as thunder. [...] A sharp crack indicates a nearby strike, while a low rumble suggests the lightning occurred farther away". Many cultures also have storm deities, such as Thor, Perun, Ọya, Jupiter, Set, Susanoo-no-Mikoto, and Taranis, among others. Yet as fascinating and complex as they are, we're going to focus on the folklore around the storms, rather than those who control them. So what does folklore tell us about storms, thunder, and lightning? Let’s find out in this week's episode of Fabulous Folklore! Find the images and sources used on the associated blog post: https://www.icysedgwick.com/thunder-and-lightning/ Get your free guide to home protection the folklore way here: https://www.icysedgwick.com/fab-folklore/ Become a member of the Fabulous Folklore Family for bonus episodes and articles at https://patreon.com/bePatron?u=2380595 Get weekly articles and bonus content at Substack: https://fabulousfolklore.substack.com/ Buy Icy a coffee or sign up for bonus episodes at: https://ko-fi.com/icysedgwick Find the Fabulous Folklore Bookshop, Icy's social media links, and other useful bits at: https://icysedgwick.com/start-here
- Sep 19, 202621 min
The Folklore of the Autumn Equinox: Marking the Sun's Path
The autumn equinox falls on 23 September in the UK in 2026. This marks the definite slide towards the winter solstice! In terms of folklore, there are many articles about the autumn equinox from a neopagan perspective. Yet the festival only gained the name 'Mabon' in the 1970s, named by American Aidan Kelly. He chose 'Mabon' from Mabon ap Modron, who appears in Welsh mythology, though there is little in Mabon's story to link him with the autumn equinox. There's little evidence that anyone celebrated the equinox in the same way they might celebrate the winter solstice. Instead, this period of the year is traditionally a time of harvest festivals. But as we’re looking at the Folklore of the Skies this month, I wanted to know: is there anything folklore about the autumn equinox in an astronomical sense? Let’s find out in this week's episode of Fabulous Folklore! Find the images and sources used on the associated blog post: https://www.icysedgwick.com/autumn-equinox/ Get your free guide to home protection the folklore way here: https://www.icysedgwick.com/fab-folklore/ Become a member of the Fabulous Folklore Family for bonus episodes and articles at https://patreon.com/bePatron?u=2380595 Get weekly articles and bonus content at Substack: https://fabulousfolklore.substack.com/ Buy Icy a coffee or sign up for bonus episodes at: https://ko-fi.com/icysedgwick Find the Fabulous Folklore Bookshop, Icy's social media links, and other useful bits at: https://icysedgwick.com/start-here
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