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Podcast: Fair Folk Podcast
Episode: The Cailleach w/ Scott Richardson-Read
Description: This is a conversation with Scottish folk-magic blogger and social worker Scott Richardson Read about the Gaelic folklore figure called the Cailleach: the old woman known as Scotland’s midwife; landscape shaper, storm-bringer, sovereignty figure, ancestral being, resurrected once and again, and present all through the folk calendar of the year.
The Cailleach has been popularly associated with wintertime, which is why I feature her on Fair Folk now, at the beginning of winter.
Transcript of this episode: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12oDeT-0u-0fnnascirU_k5izVU4kQHACj2zqTFI2wGA/
Resources referenced in this episode:
Cailleach’s Herbarium blog...