Rekindle: October Almanac

Fair Folk is back in operation after a year's break! This episode shares some of the folkloric themes of October: it's the pagan start of winter, and features spooky post-harvest customs of feeding the dead, love longing, rekindling the community fire, and a cute dose of shoe folklore.

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Songs featured in this episode:

Tam Lin by Anais Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer

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Cheshire Souling Song by Cantorion CynWrig Singers

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Holland Handkerchief by Chris Foster

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Who’s Gonna Shoe my Pretty Little Foot by Barbara Dane

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“Old Jacky Frost” by the Wildness Yet

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Opening theme:
Forest March by Sylvia Woods

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Some sources for this episode:

Andreas Nordberg “Ritual Time and Time Reckoning.” The Pre-Christian Religions of the North: History and Structures, Volume ii, 725

On Shoes in walls: ztevetevans.wordpress.com/2020/08/12/strange-f…

For more info on boots and shoes and Hedwig: taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/978…

Recipe for Hedwigsohlen (Hedwig's soles pastries): catholiccuisine.blogspot.com/2014/10/soles-of-…

British Calendar Customs: England (1942)

Polish Customs, Traditions and Folklore. 1996.

Kevin Danaher. The Year in Ireland. 1972.