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Podcast: Fair Folk Podcast
Episode: All Hallows': Folk Tradition at the Gates of Winter
Description: This episode explores the ancient traditions behind today's favourite Halloween activities: trick-or-treating, jack-o-lantern carving, divination, and... communing with the dead.
This episode's music:
Intro Music: “Forest March” by Sylvia Woods
2:09 “Nöstmo Halvar” by Per O G Runberg
7:04 “King Orfeo” by Alva
13:07 “Samhain” by Ron Allen
14:55 “Punkie Night” by Withe & Stone
17:11 “Tam Glen” by Jean Redpath
22:45 “Colcannon” by The Black Family
26:30 “The Wife of Usher’s Well” by Alfred Deller & The Deller Consort
31:38 “Souling Song” by the Watersons
38:10 “Faithful Johnny” by Bryony Griffith & Will Hampson
42:30 “Lyke Wake Dirge” by the Young Tradition
Image: Witch plate. Fancy dresses described, or, what to wear at fancy balls, Arden Holt, 1882.