Spirit of Christmas | Myth Movie Night
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Did we use a cheesy Christmas movie as an excuse to talk about ghost stories and haunted houses during Christmas time? We sure did. Amanda and Julia both brought the research this episode, talking about the tradition of telling ghost stories around Christmas and how hauntings are way less romantic that Hallmark would make you believe.
This week, Amanda recommends The Repair Shop on Netflix.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about murder, complications with childbirth, death, undead/revenants, mental illness (“driven mad”), animal death, and possession.
If you’d like to read more of the articles we quoted, you can find them below:
- Why Do People Tell Ghost Stories on Christmas?
- Christmas ghost stories: A history of seasonal spine-chillers
- A Plea to Resurrect the Christmas Tradition of Telling Ghost Stories
- Ghosts of Christmas Past: Christmas Ghost Stories, Scandinavian Revenants, and the Medieval Dead in England
- Ghosts on the Nog
- Haunting experiences: ghosts in contemporary folklore
- Recap: The Spirit of Christmas (2015)
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Spirits was created by Julia Schifini, Amanda McLoughlin and Eric Schneider. We are founding members of Multitude, a production collective of indie audio professionals. Our music is "Danger Storm" by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spirreth podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:03.8 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:07.7 | And I'm Julia. |
| 0:08.7 | And this is episode 160, Myth Movie Night, the Spirit of Christmas, a buck wild rom-com streaming movie. |
| 0:16.1 | Yeah, happy holidays. |
| 0:17.7 | We gave you a real doozy. |
| 0:20.1 | I know, happy belated Hanukkah, happy Kwanza to any who celebrate. And we hope that this gets you really in the spirit to like drink or otherwise, you know, self-medicate and self-care your way through the holidays. |
| 0:32.3 | Yes. We, we picked a dozy of a drink for this episode. I made hanky-pankies and you'll find out, one, |
| 0:39.2 | what that is and two, why later on in the episode? It was extremely on the nose in a way that I |
| 0:46.1 | really enjoy. Thank you. And again, we are recording this a little bit early as we are doing |
| 0:50.8 | various kinds of traveling and family time this week that you're listening to it. |
| 0:55.2 | So we just have one new patron to thank Torbin, who joins the ranks of our supporting producer-level patrons. |
| 1:00.9 | Philip, Megan, Deborah, Molly, Skyla, Samantha, Sammy, Josie, Neil, Jessica, and Phil Fresh. |
| 1:06.6 | As well as our legend-level patrons, Kylie, Charlotte, Kylo the Husky, Morgan, Emily, beam me up, Scotty, Audra, Chris, Mark, Cody, Mr. Folk, Sarah, and Jack Marie. |
| 1:16.9 | They always make the best prohibition-style cocktails at your holiday party. |
| 1:23.3 | And, Julie, can I tell you how I am prioritizing, you know, solo time, my family of choice time, and just general rest this holiday season? |
| 1:32.5 | As you well deserve. Do it up. Thank you. I am spending a lot of time at home watching my favorite genre of show, which is completely devoid of plot with my very patient and indulgent |
| 1:45.1 | partner, Eric Silver, who knows but still pays attention to shows that have absolutely no plot, |
| 1:50.6 | which I love a ton. And the repair shop is a British restoration barn where a bunch of |
| 1:57.5 | lovely, patient, supportive co-workers together restore antiques. So there's like |
| 2:02.9 | a woodworking guy, an upholstery guy, a ceramics lady, a watch and clockmaker guy, a like iron |
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