Deer Woman
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2018
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This week, we read some first-person accounts about the Deer Woman, a spirit in several indigenous North American cultures that punishes the wicked and protects women. We discuss imperialism, weird rules in fairy tales, the flaws in studying history, and how the woods seems (depends on where you’re at).
Read the first-person accounts we reference and many more: The Lakota Deer Woman, Mythic Passages, Deer Woman: An Anthology.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirits Podcast, episode 61, dear woman. |
| 0:03.6 | Yeah, this is an episode topic that I've been meaning to do for a very long time with, |
| 0:09.0 | but I also wanted to be very cautious with it because we are white women. |
| 0:12.2 | We are not native. |
| 0:13.5 | We are not indigenous. |
| 0:14.6 | So I wanted to make sure that I handled it with a lot of research and delicacy, which hopefully I did. |
| 0:19.9 | I think you did. |
| 0:20.5 | I had a really, |
| 0:21.1 | really good time learning about it and talking about it. I think more than usual. So I'm hopeful |
| 0:25.9 | that folks really enjoy it as well. Yeah, I'm, I'm hoping so. And do you know who we enjoy very much? |
| 0:31.6 | That would be our patrons. Our patrons. And welcome to our newest members. These are people who |
| 0:36.4 | support us on Patreon who give as little |
| 0:38.2 | as $1 to see like behind the scenes notes and photos and live streams and some of them get physical |
| 0:44.0 | stuff. It's so cool. So welcome to Petra, Noelle, Tracy, Emily, Kat, Leslie, and Rachel Don |
| 0:51.0 | and Rachel Don is. It's Don is. Happy birthday. |
| 0:55.2 | We love you. |
| 0:56.0 | We love you. |
| 0:56.8 | Good job. |
| 0:58.5 | Good job living this long. |
| 0:59.8 | Absolutely. |
| 1:03.1 | And also good job to our supporting producer level patrons. |
| 1:06.7 | Cammy, Neil, Chandra, Philip, Julie, Sarah, Christina, |
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