Fireside Folklore: Cursed Cows

Stories of Scotland

Annie and Jenny

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8 • 728 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Are you concerned about your cow companions? Do you want to protect your bovine besties from evil enchantments?Welcome to Fireside Folklore, a fun wee episode, where Annie and Jenny try to understand the mysterious phenomenon of cow cursing. After noticing cursed cows turn up in multiple episodes, Annie and Jenny try to understand why cursed cows appear so frequently in Scottish folklore. What do these stories tell us about Scottish culture and values?Independently made in the Highlands, Stories of Scotland is gratefully funded through listener support on Patreon. www.patreon.com/storiesofscotland. Get bonus content on Patreon

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this fireside folklore episode of Stories of Scotland.
0:16.0	I'm Annie, a beautiful cow.
0:18.9	And I'm Jenny a curse.
0:21.3	And in this episode, we're looking at how to curse and uncurce your cow.
0:26.7	I feel like if we had a bingo card for this podcast,
0:31.2	every square would just be about cow cursing.
0:35.5	It actually would be as well.
0:37.6	It'd be like cow cursing and the dolphin noise.
0:43.0	For anyone new to the podcast, it's part of the lore.
0:47.6	When I first met Jenny, her only strong point that she could offer me was this dolphin
0:52.3	noise.
0:53.4	And it got me a podcast, so I don't know what you're complaining about.
0:57.4	It's worked for me so far.
1:00.2	Up until a few hundred years ago, rural Scotland just seemed to be all about casting spells on livestock.
1:09.1	Abra Cowdabra.
1:11.3	It's music.
1:14.8	I'm about to hoof it off this show.
1:20.5	We came across this first piece of folklore
1:23.5	whilst researching our last fireside folklore episode on fairy dogs. Annie, what can I do with a gold
1:30.9	ring, a silver coin and the tooth of a fairy dog? You can make some jewelry to sell on your Etsy.
1:39.1	Unfortunately, no, I got banned from Etsy, but not to worry, for these are the ingredients for a magic
1:46.3	spell that will lift a curse on sick cattle. That would have been my second guess,
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