Fabulous Folklore with Icy Icy Sedgwick

As May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, I'm pleased to introduce you to Kamuela Kaneshiro, who was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii and is host of the Legends from the Pacific podcast. 


Legends from the Pacific utilises Kamu’s cultural knowledge, and television/film background to craft stories of people, beliefs, and traditions to help promote Pacific cultures. He is also a descendant of the Hawaiian Chief Ka'iana.


Kamu obtained a BA & MA in Communication from Hawaii Pacific University, studied at the University of Hertfordshire, and has appeared multiple times at San Diego Comic-Con as an invited professional panellist. He's lectured on film, television, and Batman, and wrote the “I Didn't Mean to” series, and “Genre Analysis: The Gangster, The Evolved Detective, and The Dark Knight”. He is also a magician member of the Magic Castle.


We get into some Hawaiian legend, meet Samoa's goddess of bats, and talk about how popular culture can and does meet a cultural need for gods - even when people don't realise that's what they're looking for!


Find Legends from the Pacific here: https://legendsfromthepacific.com/


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Austrian capital Vienna has a long history, dating back to the 1st century CE Roman military camp of Vindobona. It's been home to some pretty big names over the centuries. Mozart, Beethoven, Sigmund Freud, Gustav Klimt, Hedy Lamarr, Marie Antoinette and Erwin Schrödinger, among many others, have all lived in the city.


Yet it's also got a darker side. Its vast Central Cemetery is a testament to the Viennese fascination with death. Empress Elisabeth of Austria, nicknamed Sissi, apparently had a fascination with the supernatural, and some say she still roams the hallways of the Hofburg palace.


Let's find out more in this week's episode of Fabulous Folklore!


Find the images and references on the blog post: https://www.icysedgwick.com/vienna-legends/


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Helsinki has a lengthy history, dating back to at least the Bronze Age. Parts of the city even stand on old cemeteries. 


It's bound to have a few ghost stories and folklore, surely? Indeed it does! We're talking haunted theatres, headless ghosts, ghosts with habits, and Finnish epics.


Let's find out more in this week's episode of Fabulous Folklore!


Find the images and references on the blog post: https://www.icysedgwick.com/helsinki-legends/


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Robin Hood is perhaps the most recognisable figure in English folklore, darting through legend in Sherwood Forest. 


Yet discussions in the past tried to claim Robin as an ancient god, recast as a literary outlaw, or as one of the Good Folk, whether a local sprite or Robin Goodfellow himself.


How did these writers draw the conclusion that Robin Hood was anything other than a leading character in a series of medieval ballads? 


Let's find out in this week's episode of Fabulous Folklore!


Find the images and references on the blog post: https://www.icysedgwick.com/robin-hood-myths/


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The Queen of the Fairies is sometimes named Queen Mab, depending on the source material. She's also known as the Queen of Elfland, the Queen of Elphame, and Titania. 


So who is Mab? Does she come from English folklore, or is Mab the name given by playwrights and poets to the Queen in folklore? 


Let's find out in this week's episode of Fabulous Folklore!


Find the images and references on the blog post: https://www.icysedgwick.com/queen-mab/


Fairy Queens: Meeting the Queens of the Otherworld by Morgan Daimler: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/12992/9781785358333


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For this month's episode of Fabulous Folklore Presents, I'm thrilled to bring you a chat with Rose Aurora!


Rose is a fairy seer & sorceress, specializing in Faery, Elf, and Troll-related issues & spiritual needs. She is honoured to be part of a spiritual lineage of Celtic origin, but she is also trained in other spiritual traditions including Trolldom, of which she is a certified apprentice of Johannes Gårdbäck. Rose is a professional spiritual worker, conducting readings, spellwork, scrying coaching, and ongoing mentorship in the magical arts. She has also presented at the 2024 Salem Witch Fest. 


In this conversation, we chat about elves in Germanic folklore, the links between elves and fairies in wider folklore, and how our mental image of elves is often shaped by the work of Tolkien.


Buy Rose's talk on elves in Scandinavia lore here: https://www.salemwitchfest.com/product-page/in-the-mounds-of-the-stars-the-elves-in-scandinavian-lore-practice-myth


Find Rose at her website here: https://www.roseauroras.com/


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