The beach was loud. Not with music blaring from phone speakers, people having picnics, children squealing with laughter, or any of that kind of thing. It wasn’t that sort of beach. Not today. Today the sky was grey, and so
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#3 – “Hawthorne”
In 1990 work on the Limerick to Galway motorway halted. A lone tree stood in its way. The Hawthorne, according to tradition, belonged to the Sidhe (Ireland’s Fairies). Disturbing such sites is forbidden. A curve was added. The road snaking
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Owl Pellets – read by Gav Cross
Gav Cross. Storyteller, Theatre Maker, and Teacher. Twitter twitter.com/gavcross Instagram instagram.com/gavcross Facebook Facebook.com/gavcrossstoryteller YouTube YouTube.com/user/gavcross
#2 – “Blackberries”
Brambles grow wild across the UK. Their thorny vines bring forth sweet Summer fruit. The berries must never be picked after October 11th. This is when Lucifer fell from Heaven, landing in a blackberry bush. In revenge, he spoiled the
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Owl Pellets
Jen didn’t like the owls. She didn’t like the noise they made. That Jurassic World screech. It was a horrible, greedy sound. A wicked sound. “Get some exercise“, meant that Jen should go and wear herself out for an hour
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#52 – “Return”
The isle of the Gods and Goddesses, of heroes and heroines; a realm beyond time and death, where the bravest and the boldest live out their eternities. The winterless Blessed Isles of Ancient Greek mythology, where those heroes who chose
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#1 – “Island”
Many old stories tell of sailors landing on mysterious islands, out in the open sea. There they make their camp, and light their fires. Then the island sinks down fast. The drowned become its food. The island is not an
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#49 – “Fafrotskies”
Charles Fort Christened them “Fafrotskies” – a contraction of “falls from the skies”. Frogs, coins, spiders, even blood have been recorded raining down for millennia. In Yoro, Honduras, fish fall so regularly that the Festival de Lluvia de Peces is
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#51 – “Selkie”
The selkie fowk (“seal people“) are shapeshifters of Scottish folklore. The merrow (“moruach” – “sea-maid“) of Irish mythology is sometimes also regarded as a seal-woman, as opposed to the more common notion of a mermaid. The 19th-century Scottish Folklorist Walter
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Folklore Thursday: Ocean
And we’re coming to the end, so time to revisit some old friends 😛 The look of the selkies here is a bit of fail on my part (seeing how the sausage is made is what you expect from me,
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