Ghosts of the Old Gods
Young Heretics
Spencer Klavan
4.9 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
At the turning of the year, as fall passes into winter, the world hovers for an instant between past and future in the "otherworld," the space between life and death. And that is where we meet the Aes Sidhe, fearsome people of the hollow hills, who roam the earth each year in what has become Halloween. In this holiday special, Spencer dives into the haunted history of the enchanted world.
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| 0:00.0 | And now for some pseudo-Buddist clap trap. |
| 0:05.0 | We are the Cosmos, dreaming of itself. |
| 0:09.0 | It's simply a dream that I think is my life every time but I'll forget this I always do I always forget my dreams |
| 0:29.9 | Okay welcome back to Young Heretics, Halloween Edition. This is a long-standing Young Hertics tradition from October through to the end of the year. I like to do some specials where we do holiday themed episodes just because the holidays that we celebrate this time of year. We think of them usually as kind of just par for the course they're part of the year |
| 0:45.8 | that what we do but festivals always have rich and deep cultural significance and |
| 0:51.6 | in the West they usually come buried over with all |
| 0:54.8 | these sedimentary layers of different historical periods of the rise of |
| 0:59.1 | Christianity and the transformation of the world in the wake of |
| 1:02.4 | evangelism and all of this the transformation of the world in the wake of |
| 1:02.7 | evangelism and all of this fascinating stuff. |
| 1:06.4 | So this is a good moment. |
| 1:07.5 | Plus, it's just fun. |
| 1:08.6 | I love Halloween. |
| 1:09.8 | I love Thanksgiving. |
| 1:10.6 | I love Christmas. |
| 1:11.3 | So we're gonna do Halloween, and Christmas episodes. |
| 1:15.2 | And this one is coming out on October 31st, which is the day of Halloween, and we'll talk shortly |
| 1:20.2 | about why we're doing this episode now and not on All Saints Day, which is also |
| 1:25.5 | coming up. |
| 1:26.6 | But I started off by reading a monologue, those of you that watch Netflix might remember this |
| 1:31.0 | monologue from Mike Flanagan's midnight mass. |
| 1:35.0 | And I've been thinking about Flanagan a lot recently, which is why I wanted to start with |
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