Spelade
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This episode explores some of the better and lesser known celebrations and songs of the midsummer solstice in Europe. In the process it addresses some of the perennial questions of this holiday, like: What is a maypole? Why are all of those Russians bathing together? And how can I find buried treasure when all I’m wearing is this garland of mugwort? And what’s all this about human sacrifice?
Music:
Intro: "Forest March" by Sylvia Woods
"Sumer Is Icumen In" by Shelley Phillips
"Helan går" by Polyteknikkojen Kuoro
"The Fiddle: Kvitbergjen, springleik" by Petters Erik Eriksson, Hans Brimi, Mauno Jarvela & Levy Wilsen
"I denna ljuva sommartid" by Frifot
"Set Dance: King of the Fairies" by Tom McHaile
"Oro Mo Bhaidin" by In Harmony's Way
"Tansys Golowan (Midsummer Bonfire)" by Dalla
"Sumer Is Icumen In" by Trouvere Medieval Minstrels
"Ivan Na Rada (Ivan spoke to Rada)" by Donka Paneva and Mitka Petkova from Malomir Village, Yambol District
"Ligojati, Ligojati" by Skandinieki
"Midsummer Song" by Stalti Family
"Kupala" by Tim Rayborn
"Porushka" by Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble
"Summer Solstice/Kupala Na Ivana" by Zeellia
"Fern Flower" by Nutopia
"Celies, Brālīti" by Skandinieki
Image: Ivan Sokolov, Night of Ivan Kupala
Some articles I used for this episode:
Leslie Ellen Jones, “Hi, My Name’s Fox”?: An Alternative Explication of “Lindow Man’s” Fox Fur Armband and Its Relevance to the Question of Human Sacrifice among the Celts” http://celtic.cmrs.ucla.edu/22papers/jones.pdf
Sandra Billington, “The Midsummer Solstice As It Was, Or Was Not, Observed in Pagan Germany, Scandinavia and Anglo-Saxon England” http://anthreligion.commons.uaa.alaska.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/67/2015/10/Midsummer-solstice.pdf -
This episode of Fair Folk you’ll hear about how an early modern Scottish king literally wrote the book on witchcraft, making Harry Potter possible for future generations, I’ll tell you about the Swedish Queen who is revered to this day for murdering her suitors, and you’ll hear some of the very best folk songs about witches.
Music:
Opening Theme - "Forest March" by Sylvia Woods
"I Once Lived in Service" by The Witches of Elswick
"La Harpe et l'Enfant" by Alan Stivell
"Willie's Lady" by Anaïs Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer
"Martinmas Time" by Andy Irvine and Paul Brady
"The Witch of the Westmoreland" by Stan Rogers
"Mammy Redd" by John Allison
"The Death of Goody Nurse" by John Allison
"The Broomfield Hill" by Malinky
"Alison Gross" by Dave & Toni Arthur
"Come, Witches, to the Dance" by Lady Isadora with Lord Pan
"Witches Reel" by Green Crown
"The Brown Girl" by Frankie Armstrong
