Part One: Druids: Because the Past is Metal as Hell

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🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Margaret talks to Sophie about the philosophers of the celts.

Sources:

https://irishfolklore.wordpress.com/2017/03/13/blacksmiths-and-the-supernatural/
https://folklorethursday.com/folklore-of-archaeology/ferrous-friend-foe-iron-became-enemy-fairy-folk/
https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/28y8zwazfxaq2tsb933b54wf0slfcj

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/05/02/woodhenge-is-just-as-fascinating-and-mysterious-as-its-famous-neighbor-stonehenge/

https://irishmyths.com/2022/04/29/female-druids/

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:04.6	Malcolm Gladwell here.
0:05.9	This season on Revisionous History, we're going back to the spring of 1988 to a town in northwest Alabama,
0:11.8	where a man committed a crime that would spiral out of control.
0:15.6	And he said, I've been in prison 24, 25 years.
0:18.3	That's probably not long enough.
0:20.3	I didn't kill them.
0:22.1	From Revisionous History, this is The Alabama Murders.
0:26.4	Listen to Revisionous History, the Alabama murders on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,
0:32.0	or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:36.1	Call Zone Media
0:37.3	Hello, and welcome to cool people who did cool stuff. You're... podcast. Cool Zone Media.
0:41.1	Hello, and welcome to cool people who did cool stuff.
0:45.0	Your once a year reminder that I like talking about spooky stuff kind of all the time, but I am absolutely willing to do the thing where I take the end of October to do
0:49.8	something that I find spooky and interesting.
0:53.2	I'm your host, Margaret Kiljoy.
0:54.6	And my guest and my producer is Sophie Ray Lichtenman.
1:00.3	Hi, how are you?
1:01.6	You know, I'm excited.
1:03.7	We're doing Spooky Week.
1:05.5	I'm with you.
1:06.7	That's always good.
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