Episode #071: The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries

Brothers of the Serpent

Society & Culture, History, Philosophy

4.8 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2018

⏱️ 134 minutes

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Summary

After our normal SpaceWeatherNews update and some pontificating about quantum mechanics and other things we completely do not understand, we spend the rest of the show going through a selection of fairy folklore tales from the excellent book "The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries" by W. Y. Evans-Wentz, and discussing the many connections to other mythologies, both ancient and modern.

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0:00.0	Hi, Longheads. We know you're listening. This is Brothers of the Serpent podcast.
0:19.2	And welcome back. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls girls angels and demons and monsters and monsters to
0:24.1	the serpents to brothers of the serpent podcast coming to you not live from the 10 by 10 by 10
0:28.4	tangent cube of science nestled amongst the dusty bones of an ancient sea bed high atop the
0:32.6	edward's plateau which is being in the process of being flooded yeah turning it back into his
0:37.1	sea bring it on soon we'll just be a which is being in the process of being flooded. Yeah. Turning it back into his sea.
0:39.3	Bring it on.
0:42.5	Soon we'll just be a collection of islands.
0:45.7	That would be awesome.
0:47.3	Yeah, that would be cool.
0:50.0	So we got a great episode for you today.
0:56.4	Going to be about a whole bunch of, I've been doing all this research on the, the, what's called the fairy faith in Celtic countries.
0:58.6	It's a, it's a massive book that was written in the 1900s.
1:02.0	But first, as always, we are joined by our good friend and longhead, Mr. Brett England
1:07.0	from deep beneath his secret space station, out in matter space.
1:09.4	How are you doing, buddy?
1:16.3	Doing well, man. I'm, I'm, I'm super excited for this show. It's something that I know just enough about to be interested, but not really enough to claim that I know anything
1:23.0	about it. So the fairy fate stuff? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it is, it is a fascinating subject that touches on many of the things, the topics that we talk about on this show.
1:32.2	The pay pop.
1:33.5	Yeah, the pay.
1:34.6	Way do you guys get a load of my, like, terrible accents.
1:37.2	I'm going to throw in when I'm reading these stories.
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