59: Guy of WarwIIck - Part 2
Part 2 of Guy of Warwick - After the events of part one Guy's gone back to England to get married. So this episode is probably just a sedate...
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A podcast telling some of the famous and not so famous myths, legends, stories and folklore of the British Isles in a haphazard order. Coming direct from South Yorkshire it is currently regu...
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58: Guy of Warw1ck - Part 1
This first episode in the beginning (the beguyinning?) of my telling of one of England's formerly most popular legends. This episode feature...
57: The Ghosts of Donaldgowerie House
A Ghost Story episode for Christmas from the pen of.... well not the master teller of ghost stories. In 1911 Elliot O'Donnell released Scott...
56: Peak District Mermaids
Tales of Mermaids in the Peak District - notably far from the sea, also featuring Sailors, Witches and Watches, discussions of mermaid biolo...
55: Gold-tree and Silver-tree
A bloody Scottish tale featuring a locked room mystery, something fishy, unusual naming conventions (women only), and a little ENM to top it...
54: The Knife against the Wave
Returning with a splash, this episode I'm telling one of my favourite Irish tales. We're on the west coast and knives are out, the waves are...
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 perfe...
52: Giants
This time we've an appropriately huge episode of tales about British Giants - all stuck together with a vague framing narrative involving th...
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 Y...
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: Boggart...
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 somethi...
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 D...
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 prom...
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 wom...
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!...
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...
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 pur...
42: Cornish Wrecking
Storms, shipwrecks, salvaging, surprising donkeys and satanic forces all feature in two tales of wrecking on the Cornish Coast. For musical...
41: Irish Fairylore 2 - Fairymore?
The second of two episodes on Irish fairy lore with three more tales of the Aos Sí. Featuring a new trendy get rich quick scheme (robbery),...
40: Irish Fairylore 1 - Aos Sí what you did there
The first of two episodes on Irish fairy lore - featuring three tales of the Aos Sí and there's not a pair of gossamer wings in sight. Disco...