Earth Lore: The Underworld
Here is the Russian tale of Ivan Bears-Son. With origins in a cave and what seems to be a fated encounter with darkness and then an underwor...
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Mythos Podcast
This podcast is a storytelling journey through world-folklore. With brief context and analysis in the introductions, the main focus is the retelling of stories themselves. From saucer-eyed s...
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20 of 37 episodesEarth Lore: In the Beginning, Part 2
It is a strange thing to think of death as nutritious, that death can make living things into the elemental stuff of life. But as summer’s v...
Earth Lore: In the Beginning, Part 1
Eggs are an ancient symbol. The magical properties, burial rites and folk beliefs surrounding eggs are many. In this first episode of Earth...
S04 Episode 8: Tales from the Amber Sea Part 2 - The Magic Bird
In Baltic folklore, birds are mediators of heaven and earth, between the living and the dead. Their music is heraldic and their song a proph...
S04 Episode 7: Mothers of the Underworld
October, in much lore, is a spiritually potent time and the oft stated idea that the veil between worlds is thin at this time holds true in...
S04 Episode 6: Tales from the Amber Sea Part 1, The Sea Queen & The Fisherman
The mythic origin tales of Baltic amber are full of magic, and the pre-history of the golden-umber resin-stone is no less awe-inspiring. Thi...
S04 Episode 5: The Washerwoman and the Lake Spirits
In this episode, we journey again to Lithuania: we will go to the noble hall of an ignoble count and to a sylvan lake, to meet a washerwoman...
S04 Episode 4: Eglė, Queen of the Serpents
In this episode’s panorama of ancient woodland, northern seas and shamanic underworlds, the world-traversing magic of the grass snake clashe...
S04 Episode 3: Goddaughter of the Rock Maidens
Goddaughter of the Rock Maidens. The name of the story lit up my imagination, as did the brief outline of a plot in W.F Kirby’s 1895 English...
S04 Episode 2: The Night People & The Time of Souls
It is November in an Estonian village and it is the Time of Souls, when dead ancestors return and roam, visiting homes and enjoying the plea...
Season 4: The Baltic States Introduction
A quick introduction to the Baltic States and why a journey into the folkloric realms of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania is well worth your ti...
S04 Episode 1: The Wood of Tontla
Welcome to episode 1 of 'Folklorica Baltica ' - the fourth season of Mythos focusing on The Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia....
Story Therapy: The Shrouded Sun
Welcome to Story Therapy, a Mythos mini-series exploring the relationship between narrative and mental health, particularly traditional tale...
Kosodate Ame: A Japanese Tale of the Weird
This short episode is a part of the Lockdown Lore series - a short story published bi-weekly for a bit of escape and respite. Listen to Dan...
Lost Lady of the Pines
This short episode is a part of the Lockdown Lore series - a short story published bi-weekly for a bit of escape and respite. The story was...
Story Therapy: Gathering in Grief
Welcome to Story Therapy, a Mythos mini-series exploring the relationship between narrative and mental health, particularly traditional tale...
The Dragon & the Three Soldiers
This short episode is a part of the Lockdown Lore series - a short story published bi-weekly for a bit of escape and respite. In this Polish...
S03 Ep 7 Reindeer Herders, Soul Travelers & Trappers: Sami Stories
The Sami are the Nordic region's indigenous people: though they share a similar ethnic identity, they inhabit a vast geographical area - fro...
S03 Episode 6: Summer Wilds
From Norway’s verdant mountain pastures where lonely dairymaids tend the seter, or summer farm, to the shadowed forests of Sweden and Denmar...
S03 Episode 5 Trolls of the Northlands
In Scandinavia’s most ancient literature, there exists primordial giants whose actions - and very being - are identified with the origin and...