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Rowan & Pine: A Feminist Folklore & Mythology Podcast

Emily & Niamh

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Frequency: 1 episode/17d. Total Eps: 91

Two internet friends (one American, one Irish) talking about folklore, mythology and dark history all through a feminist (and sometimes spooky!) lens. Think goddesses, folk tales, animal symbolism, hauntings, and everything in between...

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🎙️Proud member of the Creators Collective of spooky podcasts.

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🗓 1 main episode & 1 whimsical short per month.

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🇬🇧 Great Britain - history
27/08/2026
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🇺🇸 USA - history
27/08/2026
#90

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Episode Fifty-Three: Astrology Pt.2 [With Megan] - Whimsigoths

Season 3 · Episode 53

Wednesday, August 12, 2026 • Duration 01:25:23

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This is the second of our Feminist History of Astrology with Niamh's bestie Megan. We recap the ancient astrology covered in Part 1 before getting into where it all went south, starting with the moral panic of the Witchcraft laws in Elizabethan England which led to the infamous Witch Trials, the discreditation of Astrology into a fringe pseudoscience practiced by the lower echelons of society, and right through to how it became reputedly the pasttime of bored houswives and gullible women and LGBTQIA+ people. We then navigate the sience behind both why people connect to astrology and the misconceptions held by the scientists who seek to discredit it.

WELCOME TO THE HAGSTONE COVEN

S O U R C E S:

“New Age to Post Modern Age: the cultural location of metaphysical belief” - Fiona Smyth, Dublin City University, 2001
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/science/article/forget-economics-try-astrology-instead-fmf8dqxnrgx
https://www.russh.com/feminism-and-astrology/
https://blackthornandstone.com/2020/06/25/clockwork-sky-astrology-in-early-modern-victorian-england/
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/astrology-gen-z-star-signs-moon-b2683469.html
Age of Aquarius
The English Witchcraft Act of 1563 Revisited* Alexandra Gajda ,George Southcombe
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/divining-the-witch-of-york-propaganda-and-prophecy/
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-nancy-reagan-astrology-20160306-story.html
https://libguides.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/law-witch/england

MENTIONED:

Penn Badgley vs Matt Rife

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C O N T A C T

rowanandpinepod@gmail.com

https://linktr.ee/rowanandpine

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Rowan & Pine: A Feminist Folklore & Mythology Podcast Trailer

Thursday, August 6, 2026 • Duration 00:57

Hi! We have recently had a few changes behind the scenes at R&P, mainly that we have switched podcast networks. Our new network, the Creators Collective, can be found here - (and in the podcast bio). Please check out the hige selection of amazing spooky podcasts!

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BONUS: Ghost Story Spooktacular | Appalachian Witch, The Black-Eyed Children

Friday, October 31, 2025 • Duration 20:42

This is the audio of our Ghost Story Spooktacular from Instagram - for those of you too scared of social media....

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Episode Forty-Nine: HALLOWEEN Dante's Inferno - The ghost co-host 👻

Season 3 · Episode 49

Friday, October 31, 2025 • Duration 01:36:32

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Miss Emily is BACK for our Halloween 2025 episode! Spooktober concludes with Niamh's guided tour of the Afterlife. We look at some comforting imaginings, such as the Egyptian Field of Reeds and the Celtic Tír na nÓg, cut right through Norse Hel and the Greek Underworld to arrive at the ICONIC self-insert fanfiction that is The Divine Comedy and specifically (as you probably know it) Dante's Inferno.. This is a tangenty one, don't say we didn't warn ya.

S O U R C E S

Attitudes to Death: Some Historical Notes Kenneth Boyd Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Sep., 1977), pp. 124-128 (5 pages)
https://www.worldhistory.org/article/701/ancient-mesopotamian-beliefs-in-the-afterlife/
https://www.worldhistory.org/Field_of_Reeds/
https://www.oriire.com/article/the-twelve-gates-of-duat
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Sukhavati
https://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Places/The_Underworld/the_underworld.htm
https://vikingr.org/norse-cosmology/valhallala
https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/d/the-divine-comedy-inferno/poem-summary
https://sacred-texts.com/neu/yeats/fip/fip78.htm

Pine Cones: The Greek Underworld | Rowan & Pine Spooky Shorts

Season 3.5 · Episode 24

Tuesday, October 28, 2025 • Duration 16:18

Hidden beneath the living world, beyond the reach of sunlight, lies the sunless kingdom of Hades and Persephone — the Greek Underworld.

It’s not a place of fire and brimstone, but of chill stillness, memory, and silence. The Greeks imagined it as the mirror opposite of life and its inverse state.

S O U R C E S

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C O N T A C T:

https://linktr.ee/rowanandpine

rowanpinepod@gmail.com

Theme: Creepy Mood by SoulProdMusic

Additional Sounds: Pixabay

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Episode Forty-Eight: Spooky Shadow People - The Feeur (with Megan)

Season 3 · Episode 48

Wednesday, October 22, 2025 • Duration 01:19:14

Megan is BACK to talk about her experiences with Shadow People - beings at the edge of sight: nothing but an outline, a fast-moving silhouette that may suggest a human or animal but never offers detail. We look at the meaning of shadows across cultures and what they can tell us about ourselves.

S O U R C E S:

https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3788890/shadows-of-ourselves-the-unexplained-phenomena-of-shadow-people-dead-time/
https://www.mythweb.com/encyc/gallery/shade_c.html#:~:text=The%20insubstantial%20remains%20of%20the,Hades%2C%20ruler%20of%20the%20Underworld.
https://marshagomes.wordpress.com/2021/12/12/caribbean-folklore-part-10-the-moongazer-phantom/
https://hauntedsavannahtours.com/the-mystery-of-shadow-people-stories-theories-and-investigations/#:~:text=Djinn%20(Genies):%20An%20intriguing,while%20others%20are%20merely%20eerie.
https://www.janetchui.com/astrology-shadow/
https://time.com/6259846/sleep-paralysis-ghosts/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/ie/blog/shadow-boxing/201307/shadow-people
Marie D. Jones, Larry Flaxman - Demons, the Devil, and Fallen Angels
Diane Ahlquist - The Complete Idiot's Guide to Life After Death: A Fascinating Exploration of Afterlife Concepts and Experiences

Pine Cones: The Man Who Wasn't There | Rowan & Pine Spooky Shorts 🎃

Season 3.5 · Episode 23

Friday, October 17, 2025 • Duration 11:56

“Yesterday, upon the stair,

I met a man who wasn’t there!

He wasn’t there again today,

Oh, how I wish he’d go away!” - Antigonish by William Hughes Mearns

You’ve probably heard these lines before - whispered in a film, included in a book of ghost poems, or even whispered as harmless childhood nonsense..

But there’s something about them - something sticky.

Sixteen lines, no real story, and yet it clings.

Because it names something we all know, but rarely say aloud:

the feeling of not being alone when you should be.

S O U R C E S:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/mysterious-haunting-antigonish-county-macdonald-farm-1.6631829
https://jayvelosobatista.com/whats-a-vardoger/
(Used as a recital throughout the episode) I Met a Man Who Wasn't There (Antigonish by Hughes Mearns)
https://orionphilosophy.com/the-shadow-carl-jung/

C O N T A C T:

https://linktr.ee/rowanandpine

rowanpinepod@gmail.com

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Pine Cones: Sedna | Rowan & Pine Shorts

Season 3.5 · Episode 22

Friday, September 26, 2025 • Duration 11:46

Her right hand traces the fjord in her thigh

She counts the things she is afraid of:

Nothing,

Her own fingers—

Ringed seals

Trapped in the freezing sea.

Sedna by Allyson Young

The legend of Sedna flows through the icy waters of the Arctic, told and retold in many places, bending to each culture. But no matter the version, one thing remains the same: Sedna is the mother of all sea creatures, and as goddess of the deep she decides when the seals, the whales, the walrus, and the fish will rise to meet the hunters of the North.

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Pine Cones: Finfolk | Rowan & Pine Shorts

Season 3.5 · Episode 21

Wednesday, September 17, 2025 • Duration 18:00

“Twilight arrives on an Orkney shore. In the space between land and sea, the Finfolk are said to slip silently from their hidden kingdom, seeking humans to drag below the waves.”

The Finfolk are a race unique to Orkney and Shetland, creatures of contradiction much like the islands themselves: part sea, part land, both wild and ordered. Amphibious and powerful, they can step from waves onto shore as they choose, living comfortably between two worlds. .Unlike the mermaids we might picture, Finfolk are fully humanoid - men and women alike -though their daughters sometimes appear with mermaid tails. Their bodies are draped with fins that fall like clothing, making it difficult to tell them from land-dwellers at a distance. Up close, the fins reveal their otherworldly nature. They are strong, athletic, and extraordinary sailors, able to cross the tempestuous North Sea in mere strokes of an oar...

S O U R C E S:

https://owlcation.com/social-sciences/the-finfolk-of-orkney-folklore
https://www.orkneyology.com/tales-from-tom2.html
https://www.northlinkferries.co.uk/orkney-blog/an-orkney-folk-tale-the-mermaid-bride/
https://archaeologyorkney.com/2021/01/08/finfolk-and-the-odyssey-a-perspective-on-the-north-atlantic-and-the-mediterranean-worlds/
THE Scottish Antiquary OR Northern Notes and Queries Published Quarterly EDITED BY The Rev. A. W. CORNELIUS HALLEN,
https://ztevetevans.wordpress.com/2022/01/20/orkney-folklore-the-strange-story-of-annie-norn-and-the-finfolk/

Episode Forty-Seven: Selkies (collab with It Came From The Maritimes) - weird uncle stories

Season 3 · Episode 47

Wednesday, September 10, 2025 • Duration 54:06

Sea-Tember returns! This time Niamh calls in Evan & Chelsea from It Came From The Maritimes to help shed some fascinating insight into the Selkie myth; seals who shed their skins to walk (and dance) upon land. We take a trip through Scotland, Ireland and Iceland, navigating people's problematic attraction to seal-folk. We also learn about the liminality of the shore as well as a certified Creepy B*tch, Selkolla.

Check out It Came From The Maritimes here (and tell 'em we sent ya!). Thank you SO much to Evan & Chelsea for providing a Canadian perspective and being such fun first pod guests!

S O U R C E S:

THE FOLK-STORIES OF ICELAND Einar Ólafur Sveinsson
https://legendsoflove.wordpress.com/2022/02/22/selkies-the-magical-seal-people-of-scotland-and-ireland/
Orkney Folk-Lore W. Traill Dennison
https://owlcation.com/social-sciences/the-finfolk-of-orkney-folklore
Perilous Shores: The Unfathomable Supernaturalism of Water in 19th-Century Scottish Folklore
The Sea Calls: A Selkie's Liminal Existence Frances Avery,
“The Seal Changes Into a Woman" (Schools Collection, National Folklore Collection, UCD.)

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