DruidCast - A Druid Podcast Episode 95

Druidcast - The Druid Podcast

Order of Bards Ovates and Druids

Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.9 • 765 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2015

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Shownotes for DruidCast Episode 95

History of Faerietales - Joanna Coleman - www.joannacoleman.co.uk

DruidCast theme - Hills they are Hollow - Damh the Bard - www.paganmusic.co.uk

Background music for Druid story - Making the Mead - Paul Newman - www.storyfolksinger.co.uk

For more information on the Druid tradition - www.druidry.org

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello there. This is just to let you know that you're about to listen to an edited version of Druid cast.
0:06.5	Some of our archived episodes have been edited to make sure they comply with international copyright laws.
0:13.6	All of the talky bits remain unchanged, but you might notice some of the music has been removed as a precaution.
0:20.3	Enjoy the show. You're listening to Druidcast Episode 95
0:50.5	You're listening to Druidcast episode 95. Thank you Hello everyone and welcome to Druidcast episode 95.
1:17.4	I am your host Dave the Bard and Druidcast is brought to you as ever by the order of
1:21.7	bards, ovates and druids. Opening the show, you heard the hurlers from Seth Lakeman from his album, Poor Man's
1:29.8	Heaven, a song all about the hurler's stone circle down in Cornwall and the way that they
1:36.2	were turned to stone for dancing on the Sabbath. And that really sets the scene for this
1:43.0	month's show.
1:50.6	Ladies and gentlemen, we are going to spend the next hour exploring story and fairy tales.
1:59.5	The talky bit this month is a recording of the talk given by Joanna Coleman from this year's Anderidafest Conference that happened at the end of January.
2:06.0	Joanna is doing a PhD in fairy Tales and her talk takes what many of us think of as kind of pithy children bedtime story and or Disney film fodder I guess and opens our
2:12.8	eyes to the truth behind these stories that many of us know and love.
2:25.3	Music the truth behind these stories that many of us know and love. So three years ago, I started a PhD in fairy tales and fantasy.
2:37.0	I'm looking at the shape shifting myth and the way it's retold in contemporary stories.
2:45.0	And when I started my PhD, I wanted to, I sort of made the decision to keep my faith out of it.
2:55.6	I wanted to be, you know, serious academic and to be taken seriously.
2:59.6	When I talk about magic to my colleagues, I'm talking about the kind of magic that you get in a fairy tale rather than that I would do, for example, in a ritual.
3:12.7	But gradually, as I got deeper and deeper into the stories, I began to see that something that the
3:22.3	stories are saying, and maybe something that we're all saying actually,
3:27.0	is that sometimes there isn't so much difference
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