Ep 226: Irish Vampires and Other Celtic Monsters

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David Flora

Science, Social Sciences, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 29 March 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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More like Vampireland! Season 8 kicks off with the fine tradition of Irish folklore, as Flora takes you through some Irish vampires and other Celtic monsters! They might not be the first thing that comes to mind for the emerald isle, but Irish vampires and other Celtic monsters have a worthy pedigree in the folklore there. As the new season kicks off, David toasts to your health and celebration for a fun edition of "Slurry Photos." While Fae Folk usually take center stage, the evil Abhartach, Dearg Due, and Leannan Sidhe play supporting roles. They aren't the only dark things to beware, however, and David rolls through several fascinating entities such as Bocanagh, Fear Gorta, the Sluagh, and the Coiste Bodhar. Pour a tall, cold Guinness and sit back for a story-filled ride through Ireland's dark night on this episode of Blurry Photos! Music Myst on the Moor, Danse Macabre - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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0:00.0	This episode sponsored by Cards Against Humanity. They asked me not to read an ad.
0:06.0	Enjoy the show! In 2005, an archaeological project was begun in Kiltecian, County Roscommon, Ireland. The goal was to find the ecclesiastical complex of a
0:26.8	medieval bishop somewhere in the fields of Katition. Instead, the team involved made a chilling discovery.
0:37.4	Buried beneath some unremarkable flagstones of a ruined building in a lonely little
0:42.4	field, where the crushed and splintered bones of almost
0:47.0	3,000 human skeletons. While unexpected, the find wasn't totally surprising, as mass graves from battles or the Black
0:58.9	Death were not unheard of. An additional find, however, cast the manner of their burial in a more sinister
1:08.8	light. Toward the edge of the field, the team found two more corpses buried not far apart in a manner
1:18.2	that historians have come to call deviant burials.
1:24.1	Reserved for the worst offenders of mankind,
1:27.4	the deviant burials were meant to ensure
1:29.9	the living would not have to deal with such sinners ever again.
1:35.2	The team found the bones of the perpetrator's arms, legs, hands, and feet, broken,
1:41.7	twisted, bent and bound around large boulders.
1:47.0	To top it off, literally, large rocks had been forcibly wedged into their mouths, almost to the point of jaw snapping.
2:00.0	This type of burial served several reasons for the medieval populace of the undeceased persuasion.
2:07.0	The boulders weighed down the corpses, the broken bones made movement difficult at best. and the stones
2:15.0	stones kept the mouths from closing on unsuspecting victims and blocked the
2:20.0	soul from re-entering the body after death. The thought that the dead could return to terrorize
2:27.1	the living was very real, and these special precautions helped mitigate that.
2:34.0	No one wanted the evil dead to come knocking at the door demanding blood,
2:39.0	like in the stories of old.
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