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Flowers for Emmrich

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Late 60s early 70s medieval revival Part 2

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OK time to gather together more podcast episodes! here's a grab bag! Haven't listened to these all yet, but I am excited to dive into as many of them as i can...

A Very Local Christmas - podcast miniseries from last year all about the Sheffield carols

A Shropshire Christmas with John Kirkpatrick - Folk on Foot

The Cherry Tree Carol - Biblical Fanfic - Handed Down folk podcast

The Wexford Carol - Old Singing Traditions - Handed Down folk podcast

A Latin American Christmas - Composer of the Week

The Christ Child Lullaby (Tàladh Chrìosda) - a Christmas Eve Special - Handed Down folk podcast

The Old Songs Podcast: Se2Ep7 – ‘The Gloucestershire Wassail / The Wassailing Song’, ft. Jon Wilks

6: Christmas and New Year with Magda Kevlishvili - Voices of the Ancestors podcast

Episode 41: Japanese Christmas Folk Music - Holly Jolly X'masu Podcast

Folk Files #12 - Of All The Trees

Folk Files #2 - A-Wassailing

Early Music for Christmas Eve

Carols, carouses, and ceasefires: Christmas special

Wassailing, Folk Art And Grandma’s Potato Candy, Inside Appalachia

Words Christmas Gave Us - The Endless Knot Podcast (not music)

NORTHERN SPIRITS: December 2024 Almanac | Christmas, Yule - Folkways podcast (also not music)

enough to be going on with for now, i think!

i come bearing two podcast episode recommendations for anyone who is interested in christmas, folklore, and (rare) carols.

first up is the fair folk episode on rarer carols, described as so:

This episode features some of the more ancient and obscure midwinter traditions that have endured alongside Christmas, as well as some lesser-known carols of this festival, many of which are pagan in origin. Content warning for animal sacrifice and general heathen revelry.

next up is the folk on foot episode on the Sheffield Carols:

In search of the festive spirit of Christmas – and bearing gifts -  we travel to the Peak District and Sheffield to hear the area’s unique local carols. Along the way we collect music from Jon Boden, Bella Hardy, The Melrose Quartet and the singers of the villages of Dungworth and Hathersage. We hear how the traditional carols written and sung by working people were thrown out of the church – and had to find a new home in the village pubs. Put on your Santa hat, reindeer antlers or Christmas jumper, get yourself a glass of mulled wine and a mince pie and join us.  

i love these both very much. if you like these, there is more to dig into in the back catalogue of each podcast - fair folk covers mostly european folk traditional music, largely focusing on northern and eastern europe, whereas folk on foot features british musicians for the most part. 

some other winter/christmas-related episodes of fair folk include:

Saints & Demons of December

Winter Solstice, Queen of Feasts

All Hallows’: Folk Tradition at the Gates of Winter (OK this one is more autumn but, gates of winter!)

Gnome for Christmas: the Midwinter Household Spirit

Our Supernatural Landlords: folklorist Terry Gunnell on northern European winter guising traditions

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HAPPY ST LUCIE'S DAY

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Home in Suffolk, UK

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Waiting for his turn

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do you ever book to see a film showing in rep without reading reviews first and then the day before the showing you look it up and people on Letterboxd are all saying things like “this is the most emotionally devastating thing I’ve ever seen and I watched all nine hours of Shoah”. anyway happy Christmas to me

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they don't want you to know this but being weird and staying silly really helps you feel young forever

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Ludwig Bemelmans (Austria-Hungary 1898-1962 USA) Untitled (Children and Horse) c. 1961 watercolour and gouache on board 100.3 x 66.7 cm

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Finished playing 30 Birds today — it’s a new indie game based on Persian mythology/poetry (specifically the Conference of the Birds). It’s so much fun and it truly looks like nothing else. Recommend it very highly. The puzzles largely involve playing little synthesiser mini games and painting… just can’t recommend it enough.

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BBC's Ghost Stories for Christmas: Lost Hearts (1973)

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard art book - some Lucanis Dellamorte pages

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ok but is IS funny that I saw a post on here (or maybe twitter idk) yesterday that listed different types of criminalised work to show that sex work isn’t unique. a premise i don’t disagree with btw. and then the list of types of criminalised work included “con artistry”

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Late 60s Early 70s medieval revival part 1

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Masculine cape made of green silk velvet with golden embroidery. Years 1651-1675.

Source: Museu Virtual de la Moda de Catalunya [Fashion Virtual Museum of Catalonia]. Kept in Museu del Disseny [Design Museum] in Barcelona, Catalonia.

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after her spaying my mum used to take poppy’s cone off a few times every day so she could eat, then she’d put it back on after.

when the wound had healed and mum took the cone off poppy didn’t understand and was meowing at her to put the cone back on 😭

Belphie is still begging for his medicine every day. I'm sorry boy, you're better now......you don't need it.....