Tales of Britain and Ireland Tales of Britain and Ireland.

A very special episode - the podcast's first ever expert discussion section! An interview with the world's leading boggart expert Dr Simon Young answering questions like what are boggarts, where would you find them, why do they look nothing like what we think of as Boggarts today?Followed by a very short story section about a boggart that isn't really a boggart. Just to round things off.Sources, musical credits and boggart artwork on the website https://talesofbritainandireland.com/episode-50-boggarts/
 
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The 50th episode! A huge milestone for me and I'm using it to concentrate on one of my favourite topics I've only touched on so far: Boggarts. 
Boggarts abound in this selection of accounts featuring a surprising variety of supernatural sights - shrieking spectres, ghostly geese, inflatable sheep, ineffective graves and much much more. 
Come to Boggartdom, meet the feeorin and found out more synonyms for terror than you ever thought you'd need! Sources, musical credits and boggart artwork on the website https://talesofbritainandireland.com/episode-50-boggarts/#folklore #storytelling

This episode we've a nice normal fairy story about Elves, and one boy's bloody Tarantino-esque quest to get his ball back (and maybe something else as well? I forget.)For sources and more visit the episode page on the website: https://talesofbritainandireland.com/episode-49-Childe-Rowland/
 
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This episode we're off to Glasgow - the largest city in Scotland, for stories about Saints and Monsters set along the river, by turns in a Dear Green Place and a gritty, deadly urban sprawl.
Hear stories involving necromantic powers, cuckolding, fish, school children, dental operations gone wrong and all the other usual suspects.For sources and more visit the episode page on the website: https://talesofbritainandireland.com/episode-48-glasgow-gold-green-and-iron/
 
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This episode we have a tale featuring Lancashire Witches, phenomenal cosmic power, a sort of gap year/nature documentary, an unexpected promotion and a story mash up that almost works if you squint, coming from the pen of Lancashire folklore's most unreliable narrator, 
For musical credits, sources and more visit the website: https://talesofbritainandireland.com/episode-47-the-witch-of-eagles-crag/ #Myths #Legends #Folklore #Witches #Lacanshirefolklore

A fairy tale like story that's meant for children... and may be the most traumatic and violent I've covered yet.
Meet the family: an old woman, an old man and a little girl living in a remote valley with their dog Turpie. Awww!
Meet the Hobyahs - numerous terrible monsters that live all around the valley. Less awww.
For musical credits, sources and more visit the website: https://talesofbritainandireland.com/episode-46-the-hobyahs/#Myths #Legends #Folklore #Folkstories #FairyTales