Song of the Sea | Myth Movie Night
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2019
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
We’re revamping our Myth Movie Nights by revisiting a Spirits favorite - selkies! We’re doing a deep dive (get it?) into the Celtic stories of ‘Song of the Sea,’ featuring: summer stones, storm hags, where a selkie coat comes from, and being kind to yourself.
This week, Amanda recommends Goliath by Matt Stoller.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about death/disappearance, drowning, animal death, implied emotionally abusive relationships, birth and birth complications, loss/grief, and mental health struggles.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirits Podcast, a boosy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. Every week, we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. I'm Amanda. And I'm Julia. And this is episode 156, myth movie night, Song of the Sea. Yes, I'm very excited because we are kind of revamping our myth movie nights to focus less on the movie itself and more on the mythology behind it. |
| 0:23.7 | Yes. And we also know that this is a great film and we definitely recommend you rent it. So what we did |
| 0:27.8 | is we just recapped the plot at the beginning of the episode, but we tell you where it is. So if you |
| 0:32.1 | want to skip forward about two minutes and decide to watch the movie for yourself, that's the only place where |
| 0:37.9 | spoilers happen. Yeah, it's exactly two minutes. We count it down. I made Amanda set a timer |
| 0:43.1 | and then recap the story. And I was like, it's Irish and I have a lot of feelings. Yes. But it was a |
| 0:48.7 | great movie, Julia. I think he did a wonderful job. We really get into the mythology and folklore |
| 0:53.5 | of the characters we meet. |
| 0:55.4 | And we would love to know your thoughts about this slightly revamped myth movie night format. |
| 0:59.8 | Yeah. Thank you, bud. I appreciate that you said I did good. And you know who else did real good? |
| 1:05.8 | Is it our newest patrons? Yes. We're actually recording this a little early, so the newest patrons will get a thank |
| 1:12.6 | you after the Thanksgiving break. |
| 1:14.6 | But we just want to say, we're thankful for all of you. |
| 1:17.3 | We're going to add special compliments for you next week. |
| 1:19.7 | We absolutely are, and we are joined this and every week by our supporting producer level |
| 1:23.9 | patrons, Philip, Julie, Hannah, Alpha Dogs, Deborah, Molly, Megan, Skyla, Samantha, |
| 1:28.8 | Sammy, Josie, Neal, Jessica, and Phil Fresh. Yeah, as well as our legend level patrons. |
| 1:34.5 | They are also made of stone in our mountains. Morgan, Emily, James, B. Me Up, Scotty, Audra, |
| 1:39.6 | Chris, Mark, Aela, Cody, Mr. Folk, Sarah, and Jack Marie. Indeed they are, Julia. |
| 1:44.7 | Indeed they are. |
| 1:47.1 | Will you remind us what we were drinking this episode? |
| 1:55.9 | Yeah, so I actually made a cocktail that's kind of inspired by the original cocktail we made for our Selkie episode, the salty dog. |
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