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Podcast: Fair Folk Podcast
Episode: Rarer Carols
Description: This episode features some of the more ancient and obscure midwinter traditions that have endured alongside Christmas, as well as some lesser-known carols of this festival, many of which are pagan in origin.
Content warning for animal sacrifice and general heathen revelry.
Music:
Intro theme - "Forest March" by Sylvia Woods
"Christmas Is Now Drawing Near at Hand" by Norma Waterson
"Bonny At Morn / Hunting the Cutty Wren" by Clive Williams & Mark Prescott
"Nou Is Yole Comen" by Shira Kammen
"The Boar's Head Carol" by The Young Tradition, Shirley Collins & Dolly Collins
"Wexford Mummer's Song" by Mary O'Hara
"Gloomy Winter"...