Fascinating, though the the focus on folklore to the exclusion of all else is frustrating. In 1975, then 18, I had a bizzare experience similar to several described here during broad daylight. I was crossing a field that I crossed twice daily over several years. I had no knowledge at all of the 'stray sod' nor belief in anything at the time. No alcohol nor anything else taken. A very strange experience.

Really interested in that first audio account played on the programme from Mattie Seaver because I actually know that road he's talking about. I never really thought about North Dublin (Fingal) as having much in the way of belief in Fairies, and Mattie seems to confirm that, but it makes me wonder if anyone had similar experiences in that spot. How did that interview come about, I wonder, and what was the wider nature of the topics brought up?

Keep these podcasts coming Jonny or we'll all end up on a stray sod in search of our ourselves, our people and our place.

There are numerous accounts in tradition of wayfarers who suffer fits of confusion and disorientation while traversing the natural landscape. Such bouts were at times attributed to the influence of the fairies (who would set wanders astray for their own amusement) or the power of the stray sod (an enchanted sod of earth which set those who trod upon it astray). While the accounts vary, these occurrences involve situations in which individuals are forced to navigate a landscape characterised by its sudden shift into unfamiliarity and strangeness. Tilled fields that are worked by day become unnavigable and impassable by night. Well-worn and intimately known paths, crossroads and laneways are rendered odd, unknown and eerie all at once. The landscape at times becomes unrecognisable, indefinite and nameless. Landmarks are erased, inverted or otherwise replaced with new and unidentified features. Grand residences and strange houses appear on the side of hitherto barren hills. Impenetrable fogs, mists and coloured hazes descend and disorientate. Rivers, ditches, woods and walls appear to block all progress through the land. Lights rise and float in the distance and familiar reference points fall away, leaving the experiencer to navigate strange and foreign scenery which is at once indeterminate and unknown, with disenchantment coming at the dawn, leaving the exhausted wayfarer to suddenly realise their location, often only short distance from their homes.

For episode 30 of Blúiríní Béaloidis Jonny traverses fields, hedges, ditches and heights examining narratives concerning stray sod and 'seachrán sí' (fairy straying) traditions; from the graves of unbaptised children to illusions and phantasms appearing in the natural landscape, and from spirits of the dead refused entry to either heaven or hell, to workings of the fairy host, join us as we explore the liminal personae who inhabit those isolated and unknown portions of the landscape.

Blúiríní Béaloidis 30 - The Stray Sod

Testing out one of several surprisingly effective Feedback model DCS297C Balanced-Modulators orginally designed for educational use to demonstrate data-modulation techniques.  The units were modified for creative studio use at Hideaway including an internal PSU.  The DCS297C is based around the same Motorola MC1496 balanced-modulator chip as the Maestro RM-1 but you get two of them in the one box :-)

In this case the A input was fed with a basic sustained pad from a Peavey SpectrumSynth whilst the B input was fed from a swept sine-wave generated by a WaveTek Model 193 modulated waveform generator.

The resulting output was fed through a gorgeous 1960s all-tube Krohn-Hite laboratory filter to take out some of the harsher upper harmonics.

Recording Copyright D.A.Wilson, Hideaway Studio, 2022.

Feedback DCS297C Balanced-Modulator: Metallic Monster..

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New album "drops" will be released in November 2022.

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Silver

L-event

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This episode looks at the ballad Molly Bawn aka Polly Vaughn aka The Shooting of His Dear aka The Fowler aka Peggy Baun aka Molly Bond aka Molly Banding aka Molly Vaughan aka At the Setting of the Sun aka The Shooting of His Dear aka As Jimmy Went A-Hunting.

Tracklist:

John Maguire – Molly Bawn Lowry
Elizabeth Cronin – Molly Bawn
Séamus Ennis – Molly Bawn
Robin Roberts – Molly Bawn
The Dubliners – Molly Bawn
The Swinging Swan – Molly Bawn
Harry Cox – The Fowler
Phoebe Smith – Molly Vaughan
Anne Briggs – Polly Vaughan
The Furrow Collective – Polly Vaughn
Marlais – Polly Vaughan
The Dillards – Polly Vaughn
Peter, Paul & Mary – Polly Von
Sally Sloan – Molly Baun Lavery

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Molly Bawn

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el sample del tema es la bata de "recuerdos fragmentados" de dojo
aguante dosho meli sos mi idola

la letra:
viste? leí tu carta
ella dijo:
quiero recuperarte
aunque el amor no exista más

aunque no exista mas/

Easily buy 'Vacate' here:

https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/vacate-2

CHEER-ACCIDENT "Range" from "Vacate" (Cuneiform Records

Amery - Mountain FM (from Continue As Amery)

esta pieza fue creada para el compilado de "Feminoise México" : 

https://sisterstriangla.bandcamp.com/album/compilado-feminoise-m-xico-3

fotografía de portada de Kevin Frank

Grandes Pasos A Ningun Lugar -  Feminoise México

Bluiríní Béaloidis is the podcast from The National Folklore Collection, University College Dublin, and is a platform to explore Irish and wider European folk tradition across an array of subject areas and topics. Host Jonny Dillon hopes this tour through the folklore furrow will appeal to those who wish to learn about the richness and depth of their traditional cultural inheritance; that a knowledge and understanding of our past might inform our present and guide our future.

Podcasts are available for download directly from SoundCloud or via iTunes.

Blúiríní Béaloidis 30 - The Stray Sod

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