#scottish folklore
I’ve had messages from people asking me to upload the recorded bedtime stories I made for my friends kids and I thought they were just being nice…
But would anyone be interested in hearing traditional Scottish bedtime stories?
Ok, I got surprisingly good responses to this so I’m gonna look into the best way to make it happen cause the videos I have rn name my friends kids so ill need to re-record.
Anyone have suggestions for how to do it? Should I make a Spotify podcast or…?
Update!
I made a soundcloud, and am starting to review which stories might be right as well as looking into usage rights to make sure I don’t step on any toes. However, as these will largely be older, Scottish folk tales I don’t anticpate any issues. Hoping to record the first story this month!
One of my darker pieces from Folktale Week.
Kelpies are Scottish shape-shifting fey of lakes and rivers. Sometimes a man and sometimes a horse and never to be trusted.
I’ve had messages from people asking me to upload the recorded bedtime stories I made for my friends kids and I thought they were just being nice…
But would anyone be interested in hearing traditional Scottish bedtime stories?
Focusing on Folklore
We started 2021 in the kitchen and around the hearth, baking and cooking and exploring the things that we can make with our hands. As we move into a new book, we will be looking back on histories and traditions.
Liber Coven’s March/April book is The Silver Bough Vol 1: Scottish Folklore and Folk-Beliefs by F. Marian McNeill.
“The Silver Bough is an indispensable treasury of Scottish culture, universally acknowledged as a classic of literature.”
With the book we chose, we will be exploring the hills and mountains of Scotland and the Druids, Celtic gods, and Scottish Druidism that influence modern culture through rhymes, magic, superstitions, and more.
“The Silver Bough is a large and important work which involved many years of research into both living and recorded lore. Its genesis lies, perhaps, in the author’s subconscious need to reconcile the old primitive world she had glimpsed in childhood with the sophisticated modern world she later entered.”
We cooked and created our way into this year. Now, we are taking a trip back into the past to better understand the present.
While we have chosen to look at Scottish folklore in particular over the next couple of months, we would be disappointed not to mention other books that were suggested and voted on for our next read.
- Voices of the Winds: Native American Legends by Margot Edmonds
- Superstitions by D.R. McElroy
- Southern Cunning : Folkloric Witchcraft in the American South by Aaron Oberon
Want to read The Silver Bough with us? Join the conversation here: https://discord.gg/3Vhz8DW
Last post inspired by “Why am I like this??”
wolf lesbians!!! Previously featured in bad wolf, best wife
Technically lyal isnt a werewolf, she’s based on various black dog creatures in scottish folklore but whatever her and fiona are in LOVE
