Rowan & Pine: A Feminist Folklore & Mythology Podcast

CW - Mention of suicide
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This month we have a TWO PARTER and Niamh has called in some white knights, Kelsey and Abbie from Fairy Tale Fix! We will get to know them and all about their fantastic "WTF fairytale podcast" before diving in to the Damsels in Distress Archetype and how it has grown and evolved with society. We pick out our bingo card of DID tropes before hearing the Irish myth, "Deirdre of the Sorrows" and her beautifully tragic ending.
Join us again next week for Part 2 because we just yapped that much!

WELCOME TO THE HAGSTONE COVEN.

MENTIONED
The Girl who Pretended To Be A Boy -AKA The Princess Who Would Be A Prince Andrew Lang collection
A Choice of Magic by Ruth Manning Sanders

S O U R C E S

https://owlcation.com/humanities/mythology-and-archetypes-a-damsel-in-distress
Feminist Fairy-Tale Scholarship: A Critical Survey and Bibliography Donald Haase, Marvels & Tales, Vol. 14, No. 1, Fairy Tale Liberation—Thirty Years Later (2000), pp. 15-63 (49 pages)
https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/p/andromeda-the-beauty-of-the-mediterranean
"Some Day My Prince Will Come": Female Acculturation through the Fairy Tale Marcia R. Lieberman College English, Vol. 34, No. 3 (Dec., 1972), pp. 383-395 (13 pages)
https://www.kevindincher.com/2024/08/fairy-tale-damsels-in-distress.html
https://bardmythologies.com/deirdre-of-the-sorrows/

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WELCOME TO THE HAGSTONE COVEN.

There’s a particular joy in beach treasure: a rare shell, a shark’s egg sack, or an interesting rock - but what is extra special is finding a stone steeped in folk belief and holding it up to spy through it to the sea beyond.
Witch stones, or, as they are commonly called, hag stones, have for centuries been believed to have magical uses. They have been called hex stones, lucky stones, pledge-stones or druid stones. In German, they are Hühnergötter, or "chicken gods,” but in Latin they were called silex pertussis, meaning "perforated flint. “ Some know them as Odin stones or eye stones, Cailleach stones, adder stones, or wish stones.
Names vary from place to place, but they all tie into folk superstitions and beliefs. People felt there was something divine or otherworldly about a stone with a naturally occurring hole, and so they became symbols and tools of magical prowess, protection or warding against witchcraft...

S O U R C E S:

https://www.thesimplethings.com/blog/hag-stones
https://www.horniman.ac.uk/story/hag-stones-and-lucky-charms/
The Witching Stones: The Lore and Craft of the Essential Crystals, Gemstones … By Nicholas Pearson
A history of amulets in ten objects By Science Museum Group Journal and Annie Thwaite
https://thetipperaryantiquarian.blogspot.com/2019/09/hag-stones-are-they-example-of.html
https://museumofwitchcraftandmagic.co.uk/object/hagstone/
https://www.learnreligions.com/what-is-a-hagstone-2562519
https://norse-mythology.org/tales/the-mead-of-poetry/

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This month we have the incomparable Heather, AKA heather.wildflower to talk to us about Megalithic Prehistoric Sites, Standing Stones & Circles, and Ringforts & Cashels. Dotted around the landscape of Ireland, Great Britain and Europe, these surviving remnants of our past have been the subject of folklore and reverence for generations. We get into their astronomical alignment as well as some of the magical experiences Heather has had while visiting them. We also discuss Ley Lines and their controversial reputation among the archeological and scientific community.

Find links to Heather's socials and other work here.

S O U R C E S
STONE CIRCLES Muiris O'Sullivan, Liam Downey Archaeology Ireland, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Spring 2011), pp. 17-20 (4 pages)
https://theeverlivingones.blogspot.com/2015/11/shining-stones.html
Clocha Geala/Clocha Uaisle: White Quartz in Irish Tradition Tok Thompson January 2005 Béaloideas 7
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/scottishhistory/ancient/features_ancient_stonecircles.shtml
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220914-carnac-alignments-brittanys-mysterious-standing-stones
https://reppinnature.com/blog/f/carnac-the-world%E2%80%99s-largest-collection-of-megaliths-why
https://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/185805/folklore/clava-cairns
https://aliisaac.substack.com/p/controversy-at-newgrange
https://www.knowth.com/tara-earth-energies.htm
https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/research/spotlight-research/cult-dead-medieval-ireland
C O N T A C T
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It has finally arrived. The formal beginning of the lighter half of the year, Bealtaine 2026, heralded the rise of the Flower moon, This name was originally given by the Algonquin people to the full moon in May thanks to the abundance of blooming flowers. Other names include the hare moon, the corn planting moon, and the milk moon. But this month has another, more significant moon to watch out for - the Blue moon.
A Blue Moon is different from the monthly or seasonal moon names like the flower moon - it isn't restricted to a time of year. It is a movable feast.
A full lunar cycle is a little over 28 days long. However, a calendar year is 365 days, which means that during some years, you may end up with thirteen full moons instead of twelve, depending on where in the month the lunar cycle falls. This is the Blue Moon.
S O U R C E S:
https://www.learnreligions.com/what-is-blue-moon-2561873
https://vocal.media/history/myths-and-folklore-surrounding-the-blue-moon-yanq0729
https://www.farmersalmanac.com/blue-moon
https://www.ips-planetarium.org/page/a_hiscock1999
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/witchonfire/2019/01/blue-moon-debate-astrological-april-2019/
https://www.kasamba.com/lp/2015/07/article/
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Well, we made it to Episode 50! Emily gets one last episode in before she embarks on her new era of motherhood, and we are ANNOYED.
The Divine Feminine has been co-opted poorly by the Conservative Trad Wife movement, which is nefariously convincing young women to be complicit in their own loss of autonomy. We talk about what Divine Femininity REALLY means - the strength, nourishment and community that complement the structure of the Divine Masculine, which exists in all of us. We then talk about women's intuition and tap into some divination practices as a means of connecting with our inner selves. This one is more of a chat than a structured facts piece, but we hope you enjoy before it's back to mythology and folklore next month!

S O U R C E S/ C L I P S
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWSJJ9NgNPo/?igsh=MWIweXUyczQ4dTlwbg==
https://youtube.com/shorts/fFOmb_H85rU?is=WBbRnd8gKVNtKTFn
https://helenaaeberli.substack.com/p/the-modern-myth-of-the-divine-feminine
https://digmedia.lucdh.nl/2023/12/11/divine-feminine-and-tradwives-the-rise-of-anti-feminist-female-influencers/
Judy Tobler Goddesses and Women's Spirituality: Transformative Symbols of the Feminine in Hindu Religion
Marsha Aileen Hewitt DO WOMEN REALLY NEED A "GOD/ESS" TO SAVE THEM? AN INQUIRY INTO NOTIONS OF THE DIVINE FEMININE Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, Vol. 10, No. 2 (1998), pp. 149-156 (8 pages)
Robbie Davis-Floyd,Elizabeth Davis Intuition as Authoritative Knowledge in Midwifery and Homebirth Medical Anthropology Quarterly, New Series, Vol. 10, No. 2, The Social Production of Authoritative Knowledge in Pregnancy and Childbirth (Jun., 1996), pp. 237-269 (33 pages)
https://gendersociety.wordpress.com/2015/04/01/feeling-the-gendered-labor-of-fortunetelling/

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