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**Rowan & Pine: A Feminist Folklore & Mythology Podcast**

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…

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🎙️Proud member of the Creators Collective of spooky podcasts.

🎶 Main Theme – *Allegretto Autunnale* by Dee Yan Key

🗓 1 main episode & 1 whimsical short per month.

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Pine Cones: Sedna | Rowan & Pine Shorts Sep 26, 2025

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Her right hand traces the fjord in her thigh

She counts the things she is afraid of:

Nothing,

Her own fingers—

Ringed seals

Trapped in the freezing sea.

Sedna by Allyson Young

The legend of Sedna flows through the icy waters of the Arctic, told and retold in many places, bending to each culture. But no matter the version, one thing remains the same: Sedna is the mother of all sea creatures, and as goddess of the deep she decides when the seals, the whales, the walrus, and the fish will rise to meet the hunters of the North.

S O U R C E S:

C O N T A C T:

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Pine Cones: Finfolk | Rowan & Pine Shorts Sep 17, 2025

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“Twilight arrives on an Orkney shore. In the space between land and sea, the Finfolk are said to slip silently from their hidden kingdom, seeking humans to drag below the waves.”

The Finfolk are a race unique to Orkney and Shetland, creatures of contradiction much like the islands themselves: part sea, part land, both wild and ordered. Amphibious and powerful, they can step from waves onto shore as they choose, living comfortably between two worlds. .Unlike the mermaids we might picture, Finfolk are fully humanoid - men and women alike -though their daughters sometimes appear with mermaid tails. Their bodies are draped with fins that fall like clothing, making it difficult to tell them from land-dwellers at a distance. Up close, the fins reveal their otherworldly nature. They are strong, athletic, and extraordinary sailors, able to cross the tempestuous North Sea in mere strokes of an oar...

S O U R C E S:

https://owlcation.com/social-sciences/the-finfolk-of-orkney-folklore
https://www.orkneyology.com/tales-from-tom2.html
https://www.northlinkferries.co.uk/orkney-blog/an-orkney-folk-tale-the-mermaid-bride/
https://archaeologyorkney.com/2021/01/08/finfolk-and-the-odyssey-a-perspective-on-the-north-atlantic-and-the-mediterranean-worlds/
THE Scottish Antiquary OR Northern Notes and Queries Published Quarterly EDITED BY The Rev. A. W. CORNELIUS HALLEN,
https://ztevetevans.wordpress.com/2022/01/20/orkney-folklore-the-strange-story-of-annie-norn-and-the-finfolk/

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Episode Forty-Seven: Selkies (collab with It Came From The Maritimes) - weird uncle stories Sep 10, 2025

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Sea-Tember returns! This time Niamh calls in Evan & Chelsea from It Came From The Maritimes to help shed some fascinating insight into the Selkie myth; seals who shed their skins to walk (and dance) upon land. We take a trip through Scotland, Ireland and Iceland, navigating people's problematic attraction to seal-folk. We also learn about the liminality of the shore as well as a certified Creepy B*tch, Selkolla.

Check out It Came From The Maritimes here (and tell 'em we sent ya!). Thank you SO much to Evan & Chelsea for providing a Canadian perspective and being such fun first pod guests!

S O U R C E S:

THE FOLK-STORIES OF ICELAND Einar Ólafur Sveinsson
https://legendsoflove.wordpress.com/2022/02/22/selkies-the-magical-seal-people-of-scotland-and-ireland/
Orkney Folk-Lore W. Traill Dennison
https://owlcation.com/social-sciences/the-finfolk-of-orkney-folklore
Perilous Shores: The Unfathomable Supernaturalism of Water in 19th-Century Scottish Folklore
The Sea Calls: A Selkie's Liminal Existence Frances Avery,
“The Seal Changes Into a Woman" (Schools Collection, National Folklore Collection, UCD.)
The Seal Woman in Its Irish and International Context -Darwin.
Selkie (Poem) by Brittany E Burns
Selkies in Scottish Folk Tale - Bc. Hana Zámečníčková
Supernatural Encounters in Old Norse Literature and Tradition Daniel Sävborg, Karen Bek - Pedersen

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Pine Cones: Judicial Astrology | Rowan & Pine Shorts Aug 31, 2025

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The year is 1607.

A child has gone missing from a small English parish. Some whisper he has fallen in the river. Others say he’s been taken. There are no police to search, no telegraph to spread the alarm, no TV bulletin to circulate a picture. His family has nothing but their grief — and their faith.

So they do what countless others did in those years: they carry their question to an astrologer.

We explore the lives and fortunes of John Forman, William Lilly, Nostradamus and Evangeline Evans - controversial figures who made their names as beiing astrological authorities garnering massive followings. But there is a reason that forensic astrology is seen as pseudoscience to our modern eyes...

S O U R C E S:

Use of Forensic Astrology in Crime Fiction: A study of the works of Manjiri Prabhu Rakshanda Muzafar
https://rubedo.press/propaganda/2020/3/26/william-lilly-and-the-plagues-of-london
History of Astrology 2nd Edn. 2022 by Future Publishing Ltd
https://casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk/?
https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/adams-evangeline-smith-mrs-george-e-jordon-jr-1859-1933
Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century England Keith Thomas
https://www.history.co.uk/biographies/nostradamus
Adams, Evangeline(8 February 1868–10 November 1932) William E. Burns
William Lilly Great Fire of London
https://slate.com/human-interest/2020/09/forensic-astrology-crime-solving.html1.

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Spill the Tea Leaves #3 |Astrology Birth Chart Bonding Aug 21, 2025

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This is an Episode 46 outtake where Megan ~G~, the Astrology believer, reads our birth charts for Niamh, the sceptic (and for all you sucka MCs...) and delves into our Big 3 - Sun, Ascendant, Moon. This reading gives insight into personality traits, life mapping, strengths and weaknesses as well as why we make such a great friendship combo! The information was taken from:

https://cafeastrology.com/free-natal-chart-report.html

Our signs are:

Niamh

Sun - Capricorn
Ascendant - Virgo
Moon - Taurus

Megan

Sun - Scorpio
Ascendant - Gemini
Moon - Gemini

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Episode Forty-six: Astrology Part 1 - Final Boss Scorpio (with Megan) Aug 13, 2025

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PLEASE LIKE/RATE/SUSBCRIBE or Megan will predict your date of death and tell your enemies!

Please welcome Megan to her first ever podcast appearance! As an Astrology believer, Niamh has roped her in to explain to her sceptic ass all those common terms and misconceptions about the practice. Niamh will then take it right back to the (literal) beginning with a deep historical dive on how Astrology went from Mesopotamian star charts on stone tablets, to Greek belief in determinism, a tool of Roman emperors and Egyptian mystics, to Rennaisance-era christian secret. Keep an eye out for a special bonus chat where Megan reads Niamh's birth chart to absolute filth on your feeds next...

https://music.apple.com/ie/playlist/rowan/pl.u-jV890dkTDE5YzgW?ls

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C O N T A C T

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Pine Cones: Corpse Roads | Rowan & Pine Shorts Jul 25, 2025

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Corpse roads, also known as coffin roads, lych ways, bier ways, or burial paths, were historic routes used to carry the dead from rural homesteads to churches with burial rights. Born of necessity in remote parts of medieval Europe, these sombre trails wove through moor and woodland, over streams and stiles, the last journey of the dead.

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Episode Forty-Five: Inanna, The Final Girl - Full bush/no bush (with Ewan) Jul 09, 2025

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PLEASE LIKE/RATE/SUSBCRIBE or we'll nominate you in our place to decend to the Great Below...

Niamh is carrying the torch without Emily for the foreseeable and of course that means a Ewan episode! We take a hard look at the Final Girl trope - that horror genre staple that sees the underestimated, underskilled, underappreciated female protagonist left standing alone, covered in blood and forever changed at the end of the story. As with all stories, there is a mythical origin - specifically the Mespotamian goddess Inanna, AKA Ishtar: goddess of love and war, patroness of sexworkers, scorned woman and feminine icon. We contrast Inanna with her modern counterparts: Ripley (Alien), Sidney (Scream), and Sarah (The Descent) - full spoilers for all those movies herein!

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S O U R C E S:

Men,Women & Chainsaw - Carol J Clover
Good for Her: A Contemporary Analysis of the Final Girl Trope Through the Lens of Neoliberal Feminism Fujii, Kylie M. San Diego State University ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2022. 29212908.
What's the Story, Mother?: The Mourning of the Alien Stephen Scobie Science Fiction Studies, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Mar., 1993), pp. 80-93 (14 pages)
https://people.uncw.edu/deagona/myth/descent%20of%20inanna.pdf
https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/amgg/listofdeities/inanaitar/
https://www.worldhistory.org/Inanna/
Alien (IMDB)
Scream (IMDB)
The Decent (IMDB)

C O N T A C T

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Pine Cones: Witch Bottles | Rowan & Pine Shorts Jun 27, 2025

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There’s something unsettling about a sealed room, especially one hidden inside a home. In 1976, a phone call to the National Museum of Ireland reported the discovery of a “cave” during construction work outside Wicklow Town. Dr Joseph Raftery, Keeper of Irish Antiquities, sent young archaeologist Eamonn Kelly t to investigate, on what would turn out to be his first ever fieldwork assignment. The report was misleading: it wasn’t a cave, or even a souterrain, but a sealed-up brick oven connected to a fireplace in Coolbeg House. The structure had been blocked off in the early twentieth century.

Inside that bricked-up oven was a strange and silent cache.

SOURCES:

https://daily.jstor.org/is-there-a-witch-bottle-in-your-house/
TRAPPING WITCHES IN WICKLOW Eamonn P. Kelly Archaeology Ireland, Vol. 26, No. 3 (Autumn 2012), pp. 16-18 (3 pages)
An American Witch Bottle M.J. Becker Archaeology, Vol. 33, No. 2 (March/April 1980), pp. 18-23 (6 pages)
https://blackthornandstone.com/2020/09/02/witch-bottles-hidden-curses-objects-of-protection-objects-of-vengeance/
The Material Culture of Ritual Concealments in the United StatesM. Chris Manning Historical Archaeology, Vol. 48, No. 3, MANIFESTATIONS OF MAGIC: THE ARCHAEOLOGY AND MATERIAL CULTURE OF FOLK RELIGION (2014), pp. 52-83 (32 pages)
https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/good-and-evil-witch-bottles-countermagical-devices-through-history-006649
https://mysticaltimesblog.com/the-dymock-curse-gloucestershire/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

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Freaky Folklore 1: Bigfoot Boss | NSFW Patreon Preview Jun 22, 2025

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Welcome to our inaugural Smutty Summer offering of Freaky Folklore! This episode Niamh recaps and reviews Bigfoot Boss by Luna Cantrip: a fun, smutty monster romance with surprising depth (if questionable clothing choices).This content is firmly NSFW and is posted with full respect and love to the monster smut community <3

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