Rowan & Pine: A Feminist Folklore & Mythology Podcast

Emily & Niamh

Two internet friends (one American, one Irish) talking about folklore, mythology and dark history all through a feminist (and sometimes spooky!) lens. Think goddesses, folk tales, animal symbolism, hauntings, and everything in between... 🦋 Proud member of Podmoth Media Network. 🎶 Theme - Allegretto Autunnale by Dee Yan Key 🗓 1 main episode & 1 whimsical short per month. Get early, ad-free & bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 6 days ago

    Episode Fifty-One: Monuments & Ley Lines w/Heather Wildflower

    PLEASE LIKE/RATE/SUSBCRIBE or we'll make you walk across the burial ground of your supposed ancestors. This month we have the incomparable Heather, AKA heather.wildflower to talk to us about Megalithic Prehistoric Sites, Standing Stones & Circles, and Ringforts & Cashels. Dotted around the landscape of Ireland, Great Britain and Europe, these surviving remnants of our past have been the subject of folklore and reverence for generations. We get into their astronomical alignment as well as some of the magical experiences Heather has had while visiting them. We also discuss Ley Lines and their controversial reputation among the archeological and scientific community. Find links to Heather's socials and other work here. S O U R C E S STONE CIRCLES Muiris O'Sullivan, Liam Downey Archaeology Ireland, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Spring 2011), pp. 17-20 (4 pages)https://theeverlivingones.blogspot.com/2015/11/shining-stones.htmlClocha Geala/Clocha Uaisle: White Quartz in Irish Tradition Tok Thompson January 2005 Béaloideas 7 https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/scottishhistory/ancient/features_ancient_stonecircles.shtmlhttps://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220914-carnac-alignments-brittanys-mysterious-standing-stoneshttps://reppinnature.com/blog/f/carnac-the-world%E2%80%99s-largest-collection-of-megaliths-whyhttps://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/185805/folklore/clava-cairnshttps://aliisaac.substack.com/p/controversy-at-newgrangehttps://www.knowth.com/tara-earth-energies.htmhttps://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/research/spotlight-research/cult-dead-medieval-irelandC O N T A C T rowanandpinepod@gmail.com https://linktr.ee/rowanandpine Part of @Podmoth Media Network Additional sounds from Pixabay Featured Podmoth pod: The Lost Signal Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1hr 43min
  2. Pine Cones: Blue Moon 🌑 | Rowan & Pine Shorts

    29 May

    Pine Cones: Blue Moon 🌑 | Rowan & Pine Shorts

    It has finally arrived. The formal beginning of the lighter half of the year, Bealtaine 2026, heralded the rise of the Flower moon, This name was originally given by the Algonquin people to the full moon in May thanks to the abundance of blooming flowers. Other names include the hare moon, the corn planting moon, and the milk moon. But this month has another, more significant moon to watch out for - the Blue moon. A Blue Moon is different from the monthly or seasonal moon names like the flower moon - it isn't restricted to a time of year. It is a movable feast.  A full lunar cycle is a little over 28 days long. However, a calendar year is 365 days, which means that during some years, you may end up with thirteen full moons instead of twelve, depending on where in the month the lunar cycle falls. This is the Blue Moon. S O U R C E S: https://www.learnreligions.com/what-is-blue-moon-2561873https://vocal.media/history/myths-and-folklore-surrounding-the-blue-moon-yanq0729https://www.farmersalmanac.com/blue-moonhttps://www.ips-planetarium.org/page/a_hiscock1999https://www.patheos.com/blogs/witchonfire/2019/01/blue-moon-debate-astrological-april-2019/https://www.kasamba.com/lp/2015/07/article/C O N T A C T: https://linktr.ee/rowanandpine rowanpinepod@gmail.com Theme: Creepy Mood by SoulProdMusic Additional Sounds: Pixabay Part of @Podmoth Media Network Check out more PodMoth podcasts here: https://podmoth.network/ Additional sounds from Pixabay Featured:The Ugly Radio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    9 min

  3. 14 May

    Episode Fifty: The Divine Feminine & Divination - Trad wife trash talk

    Well, we made it to Episode 50! Emily gets one last episode in before she embarks on her new era of motherhood, and we are ANNOYED. The Divine Feminine has been co-opted poorly by the Conservative Trad Wife movement, which is nefariously convincing young women to be complicit in their own loss of autonomy. We talk about what Divine Femininity REALLY means - the strength, nourishment and community that complement the structure of the Divine Masculine, which exists in all of us. We then talk about women's intuition and tap into some divination practices as a means of connecting with our inner selves. This one is more of a chat than a structured facts piece, but we hope you enjoy before it's back to mythology and folklore next month! S O U R C E S/ C L I P S https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWSJJ9NgNPo/?igsh=MWIweXUyczQ4dTlwbg==https://youtube.com/shorts/fFOmb_H85rU?is=WBbRnd8gKVNtKTFnhttps://helenaaeberli.substack.com/p/the-modern-myth-of-the-divine-femininehttps://digmedia.lucdh.nl/2023/12/11/divine-feminine-and-tradwives-the-rise-of-anti-feminist-female-influencers/Judy Tobler Goddesses and Women's Spirituality: Transformative Symbols of the Feminine in Hindu ReligionMarsha Aileen Hewitt DO WOMEN REALLY NEED A "GOD/ESS" TO SAVE THEM? AN INQUIRY INTO NOTIONS OF THE DIVINE FEMININE Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, Vol. 10, No. 2 (1998), pp. 149-156 (8 pages)Robbie Davis-Floyd,Elizabeth Davis Intuition as Authoritative Knowledge in Midwifery and Homebirth Medical Anthropology Quarterly, New Series, Vol. 10, No. 2, The Social Production of Authoritative Knowledge in Pregnancy and Childbirth (Jun., 1996), pp. 237-269 (33 pages)https://gendersociety.wordpress.com/2015/04/01/feeling-the-gendered-labor-of-fortunetelling/ C O N T A C T rowanandpinepod@gmail.com https://linktr.ee/rowanandpine Part of @Podmoth Media Network Check out more PodMoth podcasts here: https://podmoth.network/ Additional sounds from Pixabay Featured Podmoth pod: Bad Acts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1hr 40min
  4. Pine Cones: The Plague Cult of St. Roch | Rowan & Pine Shorts

    14/11/2025

    Pine Cones: The Plague Cult of St. Roch | Rowan & Pine Shorts

    WELCOME TO THE HAGSTONE COVEN. He walks through the fevered cities of medieval Europe - half man, half myth - healing the dying, blessing the dead. A saint, they said… though in the fields and forests, the old women knew better. They left bread for his dog and icons in the wells. St Roch, or San Rocco, was a medieval nobleman who gave up his wealth and title to care for plague victims. After succumbing to pestilence, some time in exile, and help from a very special dog, his fame evolved into a distinctly witchy practice of iconography, offerings, and ritual not so different from its pagan predecessors... S O U R C E S:  https://jothornely.medium.com/when-the-saints-go-arting-in-roch-1c402639bb0ahttps://reliquarian.com/2020/04/04/saint-roch-the-saint-par-excellence-against-disease/https://www.catholiccompany.com/blogs/magazine/st-roch-patron-of-dogs-6114https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/salvation-time-plague/2020-05"The Golden Legend ," by Jacobus de Voragine, A.D. 1275 C O N T A C T: https://linktr.ee/rowanandpine rowanpinepod@gmail.com Theme: Creepy Mood by SoulProdMusic Additional Sounds: Pixabay Part of @Podmoth Media Network Check out more PodMoth podcasts here: https://podmoth.network/ Additional sounds from Pixabay Featured:The Ugly Radio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    15 min
  5. BONUS: Ghost Story Spooktacular | Appalachian Witch, The Black-Eyed Children

    31/10/2025 ·  Bonus

    BONUS: Ghost Story Spooktacular | Appalachian Witch, The Black-Eyed Children

    This is the audio of our Ghost Story Spooktacular from Instagram - for those of you too scared of social media.... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    21 min

  6. 31/10/2025

    Episode Forty-Nine: HALLOWEEN Dante's Inferno - The ghost co-host 👻

    PLEASE like/comment/rate/subscribe, or we will hang you over a trench by your naughty bits. Miss Emily is BACK for our Halloween 2025 episode! Spooktober concludes with Niamh's guided tour of the Afterlife. We look at some comforting imaginings, such as the Egyptian Field of Reeds and the Celtic Tír na nÓg, cut right through Norse Hel and the Greek Underworld to arrive at the ICONIC self-insert fanfiction that is The Divine Comedy and specifically (as you probably know it) Dante's Inferno.. This is a tangenty one, don't say we didn't warn ya. S O U R C E S Attitudes to Death: Some Historical Notes Kenneth Boyd Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Sep., 1977), pp. 124-128 (5 pages)https://www.worldhistory.org/article/701/ancient-mesopotamian-beliefs-in-the-afterlife/ https://www.worldhistory.org/Field_of_Reeds/https://www.oriire.com/article/the-twelve-gates-of-duathttps://www.britannica.com/topic/Sukhavatihttps://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Places/The_Underworld/the_underworld.htmhttps://vikingr.org/norse-cosmology/valhallalahttps://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/d/the-divine-comedy-inferno/poem-summaryhttps://sacred-texts.com/neu/yeats/fip/fip78.htm C O N T A C T rowanandpinepod@gmail.com https://linktr.ee/rowanandpine Part of @Podmoth Media Network Check out more PodMoth podcasts here: https://podmoth.network/ Additional sounds from Pixabay Featured: Thick Thighs & Creepy Vibes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1hr 37min
  7. Pine Cones: The Greek Underworld | Rowan & Pine Spooky Shorts

    28/10/2025

    Pine Cones: The Greek Underworld | Rowan & Pine Spooky Shorts

    Hidden beneath the living world, beyond the reach of sunlight, lies the sunless kingdom of Hades and Persephone — the Greek Underworld. It’s not a place of fire and brimstone, but of chill stillness, memory, and silence. The Greeks imagined it as the mirror opposite of life and its inverse state.  S O U R C E S https://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Places/The_Underworld/the_underworld.htmGarland, Robert -  The Greek Way of Deathhttps://www.metmuseum.org/essays/death-burial-and-the-afterlife-in-ancient-greeceHomer - The Odyssey, Book 11Sampled Audio (We own nothing): Clash of the Titans (1981) CharonTheFerryman.movOrpheus & Eurydice - Jim Henson Co. C O N T A C T: https://linktr.ee/rowanandpine rowanpinepod@gmail.com Theme: Creepy Mood by SoulProdMusic Additional Sounds: Pixabay Part of @Podmoth Media Network Check out more PodMoth podcasts here: https://podmoth.network/ Additional sounds from Pixabay Featured: Thick Thighs & Creepy Vibes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    16 min

  8. 22/10/2025

    Episode Forty-Eight: Spooky Shadow People - The Feeur (with Megan)

    Megan is BACK to talk about her experiences with Shadow People - beings at the edge of sight: nothing but an outline, a fast-moving silhouette that may suggest a human or animal but never offers detail. We look at the meaning of shadows across cultures and what they can tell us about ourselves. S O U R C E S: https://bloody-disgusting.com/editorials/3788890/shadows-of-ourselves-the-unexplained-phenomena-of-shadow-people-dead-time/https://www.mythweb.com/encyc/gallery/shade_c.html#:~:text=The%20insubstantial%20remains%20of%20the,Hades%2C%20ruler%20of%20the%20Underworld.https://marshagomes.wordpress.com/2021/12/12/caribbean-folklore-part-10-the-moongazer-phantom/https://hauntedsavannahtours.com/the-mystery-of-shadow-people-stories-theories-and-investigations/#:~:text=Djinn%20(Genies):%20An%20intriguing,while%20others%20are%20merely%20eerie.https://www.janetchui.com/astrology-shadow/https://time.com/6259846/sleep-paralysis-ghosts/https://www.psychologytoday.com/ie/blog/shadow-boxing/201307/shadow-peopleMarie D. Jones, Larry Flaxman - Demons, the Devil, and Fallen Angels Diane Ahlquist - The Complete Idiot's Guide to Life After Death: A Fascinating Exploration of Afterlife Concepts and Experiences Briggs, Katharine Mary An encyclopedia of fairies : hobgoblins, brownies, bogies, and other supernatural creatures Monique Joiner Siedlak · The Shadow Realm: A Journey Into the Mysterious World of Shadow PeopleN. V. Shesterkina, Е. N. Vaganova - The Mythological Concept ‘Shadow’ (On The Material Of Folk Riddles)C O N T A C T rowanandpinepod@gmail.com https://linktr.ee/rowanandpine Part of @Podmoth Media Network Check out more PodMoth podcasts here: https://podmoth.network/ Additional sounds from Pixabay Featured: Thick Thighs & Creepy Vibes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1hr 19min
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Two internet friends (one American, one Irish) talking about folklore, mythology and dark history all through a feminist (and sometimes spooky!) lens. Think goddesses, folk tales, animal symbolism, hauntings, and everything in between... 🦋 Proud member of Podmoth Media Network. 🎶 Theme - Allegretto Autunnale by Dee Yan Key 🗓 1 main episode & 1 whimsical short per month. Get early, ad-free & bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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