Christmas Special 2025 - The Mistletoe Bride

Welcome to the 2025 Folklore Podcast Christmas Special. Folklorist Mark Norman, the creator and host of The Folklore Podcast for the last 10 years, relates the legend of the Mistletoe Bride and provides a rare look at a very obscure reference to what is probably the earliest version of the tale in print, from 1809, placing the story in Germany and not England at all. The episode is rounded off with a performance of the song which popularised the legend, 'The Mistletoe Bough' given exclusively for the audience of the podcast by critically acclaimed English folk singer Jackie Oates. Visit Jackie's website at Support The Folklore Podcast on Patreon for extra content at

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Christmas Special 2025 - The Mistletoe Bride is an episode from The Folklore Podcast by Mark Norman.

This episode is 0:13:24 long.

This episode was published on Dec 22, 2025.

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