363: Ravens

Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore

Multitude

Myths, Folklore, Society & Culture, Alcohol, Legends, Learning, Urbanlegends, Mythology, Comedy, History, Education, Gods, Educational, Drunkhistory

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Once upon a midnight dreary, we recorded an episode about ravens! There’s so many stories featuring ravens from across the world, from the raven’s feast to creating the world and everything in between.

Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of death, war, heteronormativity, fire, defecation, decapitation, and animal death.

Housekeeping

- Recommendation: This week, Julia recommends Fall of the House of Usher on Netflix!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Oh, Welcome to Spirit's
0:29.4	Spirit's podcast, a Boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore.
0:33.0	Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world.
0:37.0	I'm Amanda. And I'm Julia.
0:38.0	And Amanda, if I was to say to you,
0:41.0	once upon a midnight dreary.
0:43.6	While I pondered weak and weary over many equating curious
0:46.6	volume of forgotten lore, while I nodded, Julia,
0:49.7	nearly napping.
0:51.1	Suddenly there came a tapping, as of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber
0:55.6	door.
0:56.6	Tis some visitor, I muttered, tapping out my chamber door, only this and nothing more.
1:00.8	Distinctly, I remember, it was in the bleak December, and each separate dying Amber wrought
1:04.3	its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wish the morrow.
1:07.3	For vainly, I had sought to borrow from my books, surcease of sorrow.
1:11.1	Sorrow for my lost Lenore, for the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore.
1:17.0	Nameless here, forevermore.
1:20.0	Listeners, Amanda did that off the dome in case you didn't know that Amanda has that full poem memorized but
1:25.6	Amanda what poem was that?
1:27.4	That's The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe and the next dance begins with perhaps my favorite line.
1:32.0	The Silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain filled me,
1:35.6	thrilled me with fantastic terror I had never felt before.
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