Lost in the Rabbit Hole
10 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis is a podcast about some of the lesser known things, maybe-hidden things, found deep inside of tales that we give over to our children sometimes without even thinking about it. Join me as I travel over, under, around, and through some of the better and some of the lesser known folktales. You may be surprised about what you hear!
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Her Eyes Held all The Mourning of the Darkest Sea
March 04, 2021 19:00 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MBIn this episode we wander along the coastlines of many Northern places; these are often stark and lonely places, the people who live there quiet to outsiders, but somehow a tale is always shared around a campfire as the whiskey passes from hand to hand. The tales of of the SEAL PEOPLE, the special magical selkies sometimes called silkies, sometimes thought to be quite different from the seals you normally see tearing apart your fishing nets. Don't run afoul of these beings or you might rue...
Her Eyes Held all The Mourning of the Darkest Sea
March 04, 2021 19:00 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MBIn this episode we wander along the coastlines of many Northern places; these are often stark and lonely places, the people who live there quiet to outsiders, but somehow a tale is always shared around a campfire as the whiskey passes from hand to hand. The tales of of the SEAL PEOPLE, the special magical selkies sometimes called silkies, sometimes thought to be quite different from the seals you normally see tearing apart your fishing nets. Don't run afoul of these beings or you might rue...
And They Ride, And We Hide (Part One)
December 31, 2020 21:00 - 19 minutes - 13.6 MBWelcome to another two-part episode of LOST IN THE RABBIT HOLE -- this is PART ONE. In this episode, we cover just some of the variants of The Wild Hunt tales, which come from Europe, but can also be found in some form all over the world. The Wild Hunt is a tale of a pack of spectral beings riding horses, sometimes flying, late at night. Sometimes there are demon dogs, or other packs of animals. These tales are moral tales, with the riders or hunters presaging something really bad -- war, ...
And They Ride, And We Hide (Part Two)
December 31, 2020 21:00 - 28 minutes - 19.3 MBWelcome to PART TWO, or another two-part episode of LOST IN THE RABBIT HOLE. In this episode, we cover just some of the variants of The Wild Hunt tales, which come from Europe, but can also be found in some form all over the world. The Wild Hunt is a tale of a pack of spectral beings riding horses, sometimes flying, late at night. Sometimes there are demon dogs, or other packs of animals. These tales are moral tales, with the riders or hunters presaging something really bad -- war, plague,...
PART ONE: And They Ride, And We Hide
December 31, 2020 21:00 - 19 minutes - 13.6 MBWelcome to another two-part episode of LOST IN THE RABBIT HOLE -- this is PART ONE. In this episode, we cover just some of the variants of The Wild Hunt tales, which come from Europe, but can also be found in some form all over the world. The Wild Hunt is a tale of a pack of spectral beings riding horses, sometimes flying, late at night. Sometimes there are demon dogs, or other packs of animals. These tales are moral tales, with the riders or hunters presaging something really bad -- war, ...
PART TWO: And They Ride, And We Hide
December 31, 2020 21:00 - 28 minutes - 19.3 MBWelcome to PART TWO, or another two-part episode of LOST IN THE RABBIT HOLE. In this episode, we cover just some of the variants of The Wild Hunt tales, which come from Europe, but can also be found in some form all over the world. The Wild Hunt is a tale of a pack of spectral beings riding horses, sometimes flying, late at night. Sometimes there are demon dogs, or other packs of animals. These tales are moral tales, with the riders or hunters presaging something really bad -- war, plague,...
PART TWO: Getting Lost, Being Found
December 05, 2020 20:00 - 24 minutes - 17.1 MBAre you ready for PART TWO, where we continue the tale of the abandoned children, "Little Brother and Little Sister", aka Hansel and Gretel? "Tale Types: Abandoned Children What’s always so fun about these tales is to see how they are often mash-ups of other sorts of tales, but with a core narrative running through. For many of these abandoned children tales, we have three recurrent patterns: the children are lost in some manner in a forest, they meet an ogre, there’s a “show me how”...
PART ONE: Getting Lost, Being Found
December 05, 2020 20:00 - 24 minutes - 17.1 MBThis is HUGE! For the month of DECEMBER the LOST IN THE RABBIT HOLE podcast will be a TWO PARTER! Join me as I delve into the variant tales of abandoned children. Hansel and Gretel are only a part of this story. We begin: "Long, long ago, beside one such Winter forest there lived a poor woodcutter with his wife and their two children – a little boy and a little girl. They lived humbly in a house made of wattle and daub, all snug together under their thatch roof. There was a little coop ar...
Here, In the Dappled Shadows
November 05, 2020 02:00 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MBIn this episode we are lost in the dark woods, the enchanted forests, and we come upon the sleeping beauty. How many times have we walked through a small grove or copse of trees and been startled from a rattle just off to our right? Was it a little bird, or maybe a squirrel? But when you looked, nothing else moved. Except the shadows; shadows don’t make any noise. Do they? Angela Carter tells us how “The woods enclosed. Like a net, like a cage.” She says, “There is no way through the woo...
Here We Go, Into the Woods
October 09, 2020 18:00 - 23 minutes - 15.9 MBIn this episode, we explore "Little Red Riding Hood," the origins, but also some of the lesser known grotesqueries, naughty bits, and other things. QUOTABLES: In The Grandmother’s Tale, when our girl says, “"I'll take the Path of Pins.” The bzou replies, "Why then, I'll take the Path of Needles, and we'll see who gets there first." The bzou follows her to the banks of the river and demand that the washerwomen help him cross. They agree, but once he is halfway across the river, they drown ...