The shadows are back! This time with some stories of Loathful Ladies.

Akidwa and FGM https://akidwa.ie/female-genital-mutilation/
Emily's Hair Cut https://youtu.be/TjxH8G0Bdr4
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Ep 45, Loathful Ladies

A new version of an old story, I hope you enjoy!

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mini Ep 13, Little Red and the Hungry One

A new storytelling series were Emily tries to Tackle to Táin.

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Some of the source I’m drawing on;

The Tain: Translated from the Irish Epic Tain Bo Cuailnge: From the Irish epic Táin Bó Cuailnge, Thomas Kinsella
The Táin: Translated from the Old Irish Epic Táin Bó Cúailnge, Cairan Carson
Cuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster, Lady Gregory 

Candlelit Tales https://candlelittales.ie
Shadow of the Táin, Candlelit Tales https://soundcloud.com/candlelittales/episode01-shadowsofthetain-part1_whelanslive

Story Archaeology, https://storyarchaeology.com
https://storyarchaeology.com/feed/podcast/

Hog and Dice
http://hoganddice.com

And almost every other Irish Storyteller I’ve met or heard.

Tackling the Táin ep0

First episode of a new series of telling the Irish epic of the Táin. Episode 1 features the 'Pillow Talk of Meadh and Ailill' and 'The Children of Clothru'.
TW; themes of murder, incest, death in childbirth.


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Some of the source I’m drawing on;

The Tain: Translated from the Irish Epic Tain Bo Cuailnge: From the Irish epic Táin Bó Cuailnge, Thomas Kinsella
The Táin: Translated from the Old Irish Epic Táin Bó Cúailnge, Cairan Carson
Cuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster, Lady Gregory

Candlelit Tales candlelittales.ie
Shadow of the Táin, Candlelit Tales Candlelittales – Episode01-shadowsofthetain-part1_whelanslive

Story Archaeology, storyarchaeology.com
storyarchaeology.com/feed/podcast/

Hog and Dice
hoganddice.com

And almost every other Irish Storyteller I’ve met or heard.

Tackling the The Táin Ep 1

Second episode of a new series of telling the Irish epic of the Táin. Episode 2 features the Messengers from Connacht, The Story of Nassa, Rise of Conchobar, and The Marriage of Meadb and Conchobar.
TW: Rape, Murder

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Some of the source I’m drawing on;

The Tain: Translated from the Irish Epic Tain Bo Cuailnge: From the Irish epic Táin Bó Cuailnge, Thomas Kinsella
The Táin: Translated from the Old Irish Epic Táin Bó Cúailnge, Cairan Carson
Cuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster, Lady Gregory

Candlelit Tales candlelittales.ie
Shadow of the Táin, Candlelit Tales Candlelittales – Episode01-shadowsofthetain-part1_whelanslive

Story Archaeology, storyarchaeology.com
storyarchaeology.com/feed/podcast/

Hog and Dice
hoganddice.com

And almost every other Irish Storyteller I’ve met or heard.

the táinirishEpicStorytellingoralmythFemaleincestmurderwarsexjealousywealthcattlecowsFolkloreStory

Tackling the Táin Ep 2

CW: still-birth

Episode 3 includes Fergus and Medb, and The Curse of Macha.

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Some of the source I’m drawing on;

The Tain: Translated from the Irish Epic Tain Bo Cuailnge: From the Irish epic Táin Bó Cuailnge, Thomas Kinsella
The Táin: Translated from the Old Irish Epic Táin Bó Cúailnge, Cairan Carson
Cuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster, Lady Gregory

Candlelit Tales candlelittales.ie
Shadow of the Táin, Candlelit Tales Candlelittales – Episode01-shadowsofthetain-part1_whelanslive

Story Archaeology, storyarchaeology.com
storyarchaeology.com/feed/podcast/

Hog and Dice
hoganddice.com

And almost every other Irish Storyteller I’ve met or heard.

Tackling The Tain Ep 3

Episode 5, including Aillill's Jealousy, and The Fighting at the Ford 



CW: Blood and Battle



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Some of the source I’m drawing on;

The Tain: Translated from the Irish Epic Tain Bo Cuailnge: From the Irish epic Táin Bó Cuailnge, Thomas Kinsella
The Táin: Translated from the Old Irish Epic Táin Bó Cúailnge, Cairan Carson
Cuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster, Lady Gregory

Candlelit Tales candlelittales.ie
Shadow of the Táin, Candlelit Tales Candlelittales – Episode01-shadowsofthetain-part1_whelanslive

Story Archaeology, storyarchaeology.com
storyarchaeology.com/feed/podcast/

Hog and Dice
hoganddice.com

And almost every other Irish Storyteller I’ve met or heard.

Tackling The Táin ep 5

This culture night the shadows are delighted to be preforming in Ballyroan Library along side and exhibition of work by Ariyana Ahmad.  This story is inspired by her work and the Malay folktale of the Seri Gumum Dragon.

Ariyana Ahmad's instagram if you would like to see her work https://www.instagram.com/arifookitty/?hl=en
Including  one of her illustration of the Puteri Sri Gumum and Putera Kemboja story https://www.instagram.com/p/CNzn4VJnYLA/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

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Mini Ep 14, Culture night 2021, The Two Naga of the Lake

CW; Killing of a child

Including Fergus's promise, Cu Chulliann and the Morrigan, and The Morrigan's Child.


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Some of the source I’m drawing on;

The Tain: Translated from the Irish Epic Tain Bo Cuailnge: From the Irish epic Táin Bó Cuailnge, Thomas Kinsella
The Táin: Translated from the Old Irish Epic Táin Bó Cúailnge, Cairan Carson
Cuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster, Lady Gregory

Candlelit Tales candlelittales.ie
Shadow of the Táin, Candlelit Tales Candlelittales – Episode01-shadowsofthetain-part1_whelanslive

Story Archaeology, storyarchaeology.com
storyarchaeology.com/feed/podcast/

Hog and Dice
hoganddice.com

And almost every other Irish Storyteller I’ve met or heard.

Tackling the Tain ep 6

CW: Death and Violence

Includes Ferdiad at the Ford

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Some of the source I’m drawing on;

The Tain: Translated from the Irish Epic Tain Bo Cuailnge: From the Irish epic Táin Bó Cuailnge, Thomas Kinsella
The Táin: Translated from the Old Irish Epic Táin Bó Cúailnge, Cairan Carson
Cuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster, Lady Gregory

Candlelit Tales candlelittales.ie
Shadow of the Táin, Candlelit Tales Candlelittales – Episode01-shadowsofthetain-part1_whelanslive

Story Archaeology, storyarchaeology.com
storyarchaeology.com/feed/podcast/

Hog and Dice
hoganddice.com

And almost every other Irish Storyteller I’ve met or heard.

Tackling the Tain ep 7

CW: Rape, forced marriage, death of children.

Including the return of Fergus's promise, the boys brigade, and Deirdre of the Sorrows. 

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Some of the source I’m drawing on;

The Tain: Translated from the Irish Epic Tain Bo Cuailnge: From the Irish epic Táin Bó Cuailnge, Thomas Kinsella
The Táin: Translated from the Old Irish Epic Táin Bó Cúailnge, Cairan Carson
Cuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster, Lady Gregory

Candlelit Tales candlelittales.ie
Shadow of the Táin, Candlelit Tales Candlelittales – Episode01-shadowsofthetain-part1_whelanslive

Story Archaeology, storyarchaeology.com
storyarchaeology.com/feed/podcast/

Hog and Dice
hoganddice.com

And almost every other Irish Storyteller I’ve met or heard.

Tackling the Tain ep 8

Includes the Story of the Two Swine Heards.

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Some of the source I’m drawing on;

The Tain: Translated from the Irish Epic Tain Bo Cuailnge: From the Irish epic Táin Bó Cuailnge, Thomas Kinsella
The Táin: Translated from the Old Irish Epic Táin Bó Cúailnge, Cairan Carson
Cuchulain of Muirthemne: The Story of the Men of the Red Branch of Ulster, Lady Gregory

Candlelit Tales candlelittales.ie
Shadow of the Táin, Candlelit Tales Candlelittales – Episode01-shadowsofthetain-part1_whelanslive

Story Archaeology, storyarchaeology.com
storyarchaeology.com/feed/podcast/

Hog and Dice
hoganddice.com

And almost every other Irish Storyteller I’ve met or heard.

Tackling the Tain ep 9

Part One of Three Halloween Episodes.

Let us begin with witches, cats, and singing mice.

Jenny Nimmo;

jennynimmo.me.uk/ThewitchesAndTheSingingMice.html

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Ep 46, The Three Dark Sisters and the Singing Mice

Part 2 of 3 Halloween Episodes

CW: Child Abuse


The second spooky story this October, and Estonian fairytale about a haunted woods, a living doll, and a little child who found happily ever after.



This story comes from the Violet Fairy Book by Andrew Lang and Leonora Blanche Alleyne, available on Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/641/641-h/641-h.htm

Video Easy on Changelings by Hog and Dice 

https://youtu.be/s_F5VecpO-Y


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Ep 47, Tontlawald

Part 3 of 3 Halloween Episodes

 Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost.

Text of The Canterville Ghost 
https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/14522/pg14522-images.html

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The Canterville Ghost

CW: Second story contains reference to suicide. 


There will be 3 episodes before the end of the year and this is the first of them! 

Two stories about spider's webs, the Christmas Spider, and the Story of Arachne. 

Wicked Makers' tutorial on making a Christmas Spider https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6V5ioN2pdU

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Ep 48, Spider's Webs

CW: Child Abuse

A favourite story of mine, the very dark, very Grimm, The Juniper Tree.

This story has been told before way back in episode 2 about Step Mother's in fairytales   https://soundcloud.com/user-695593213/sounds-from-the-shadows-ep-2-step-mothers

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Ep 49. The Juniper Tree

CW: Death of a WWII Spy

Last story of the year from Noor Inayant Khan's Twenty Jataka Tales.

Twenty Jataka Tales
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/444183.Twenty_Jataka_Tales
Noor Inayant Khan's wikipedia page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noor_Inayat_Khan
A Call to Spy IMBD 
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7698468/

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The Swan with the golden feathers

In this episode the shadow girls talk about changelings, people stolen and replaced by the fairies.

Featuring Emily Collins, Sionnán Ní Nualláin, and Georgia May Doorley.

ep.1 Changelings

The Shadow Girls go under the sea for a conversation about mermaids and merrows.

featuring Emily Collins, Orla Devlin, and Georgia May Doorley.

Sounds from the Shadows ep. 3, Merrows

The days are getting shorter, the nights are getting longer. Perfect time to start talking about ghosts! The shadow gals talk about some of there favourite ghost stories that they feel a connection to.

Featuring Emily Collins, Orla Devlin, and Georgia May Doorely.

ep 11 ghost stoires

The shadow gals pour a drink and chat about Blood Suckers!

Featuring Emily Collins, Orla Devlin, and Georgia May Doorley

ep. 13 Blood Suckers

When is a cattle-raid not a cattle raid? In this episode we're talking about a táin but it's not THE táin. This story involves Fraech the utterly gorgeous, a salmon, and 50 faerie women. all dressed in green.

Featuring Emily Collins and Paudie Holly

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Ep 18, The Cattle-Raid of Fraech

On the darkest night the shadow girls get together to share some food, a ghost story, and talk about some of the solstice traditions around the world. 

Featuring Emily Collins and Georgia May Doorley 

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Ep 19, Solstice

We're as happy as a pig in muck to talk about pigs and why these clever creatures have got a bit of a bad rap in western folklore.

Feature Emily Collins, Georgia Doorley, and Orla Devlin.

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ep 29, Pigs

More talking about the one whom the slipper fits.

Featuring Emily Collins, Deirdre Quinn, and Georgia Doorley.


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Ep 33, Cinderella part 2

Here's a spooky mini episode for Halloween!

This is a Japanese legend which was adapted into a bunraku play (puppets, no wonder we're drawn to it.) The it features a Yurei, a particular type of Japanese female ghost normally dressed in white with trailing black hair, possibly of the Onryo subset as she is on the vengeful side. As you'll recognise, this story has had a huge influence of horror both within and outside pf Japan.

Emily alters the ending in this version, let us know what you think of her ending, and maybe if you'd like more Yurei stories (there as so many and they are so terrifying!)


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Mini Episode 7, Bancho Sarayashiki/The Ghost of the Ten Plates

Emily tells the story of the Night of the Horned Women

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Mini ep 8, Night of the Horned Women

Georgia and Emily travel back in time and to france to look at the creation of Literary Fairytale in the paris salons, and the story of Belle-Belle, or The Chevalier Fortuné.

Vault Tickets https://vaultfestival.com/whats-on/wilde-tales/

Melissa Ashely Article https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/11/the-first-fairytales-were-feminist-critiques-of-patriarchy-we-need-to-revive-their-legacy

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Ep 35, Belle-Belle and the Proto-Feminist Fairytales of France

"I forbid you maidens all that wear gold in your hair, to come or go to Carter Hall, for young Tam Lin is there."

Emily retells the famous tale of Tam Lin, or Brave Janet.

Sionnan telling stories at Unlicensed Oral Arts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMjbvAxyELw&t=104s

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Ep 44, The Ballad of Tam Lin

On the second day of christmas my truelove sent to me two turtle loves.

Emily brings you the story of The Dove.

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12 Stories of Christmas- Day 2- The Dove

On the fourth day of christmas my truelove sent to me four molly birds.

A Colly Bird is a Black Bird. Emily shares the story of snow White.

CW for little ears (and the parents there of); blood and violence.


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12 Stories of Christmas- Day 4- Snow White

A podcast about stories and storytelling.

Folklore, fairie tales, and strange stories. The Shadow Girls get together, tell, talk and explore all things to do with stories.

New Episode once a Forth Night

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