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The Grimerica Show

#749 - Annie Cuglas Humphrey, PhD | Norse-Gaelic Paganism, Viking and Irish Myth and Magic

The Grimerica Show

Darren Grimes

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Interview starts at 34:10
Annie Cuglas Humphrey, PhD joins us to chat about the Norse and Gaelic Paganism were synchronized into a set of spiritual practices outside of the Roman influence.
We chat about the Isle of Mann, Bernard Cromwell series, the Irish Sea God, Midsummer - Druids cutting mistletoe, folklore, the settlement of Iceland, the Vikings, the difference in slavery, the New Age reclamation, the summer warriors, the lost city of Ze, the difficulty with the academic study of heathenism, 19th century nationalism, mumming, Balder, battle myths and the great deluge.
 
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0:00.0

If more of you supported the show, it would be less sick a podcast.

0:03.7

I'm going to go back. Goodbye. Butter need breaths of deep gratitude and prayers for guidance and protection.

0:22.6

And put on a didgeridoo and shamanic drumming track, shivers or vibrations and stuff like that. Grimerica.

0:38.3

Okay, guys, welcome back to the Gramerica Show coming at you this week with Annie Couglas Humphrey talking about hagging stuff and some Irish stuff, kind of more...

1:08.0

Norse.

1:09.5

Yeah, Norse, not super ancient, but like mid-ancient, you know?

1:13.3

I guess like actual history, not pre-history.

1:16.7

Yeah.

1:17.5

It seems like they even got that messed up.

1:20.3

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1:21.5

She really tries to show the syncretization of the Norse and the Gaelic.

1:26.8

Was it Gaelic? Gaelic. Norse and the the Gaelic was it Gaelic gaelic gaelic Norse and Gaelic that um that sort of um

1:34.9

stayed outside of Roman influence so it's pretty it is pretty interesting yeah it's a fun chat

1:42.9

definitely was a fun chat people Definitely was a fun chat.

1:44.7

People should check out the book.

1:47.7

There's another one from Inner Traditions, but it's, we got a few, we got another one coming

1:54.6

up with Scott Crichton's coming back on the show, who just came up.

1:58.3

I sent you the thing for his video, right?

2:03.0

The, that Graham Hancock shares yeah yeah is there about pyramids or something it's about the pyramids i haven't watched

2:09.6

it yet i'm trying to remember what her episode was about i couldn't remember it was about uh the

2:15.7

asyra shaft i think what about it? I don't know. Sometimes I just have these blanks with the old episodes. That's just what it was titled, The Osirish Shaft. I think that's what his book was called. It must have been before we went there then. This must have been a long time. Oh, this is like 2014 oh that all right that's why okay

2:37.4

probably 12 years ago 11 years ago interesting okay so he's got another a book out or still going after

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