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Rowan & Pine: A Feminist Folklore & Mythology Podcast

Rowan & Pine: A Feminist Folklore & Mythology Podcast

Emily & Niamh 85 episodes Latest Jun 10, 2026

Two internet friends, one American and one Irish, explore folklore, mythology, and dark history through a feminist and sometimes spooky lens. Topics include goddesses, folk tales, animal symbolism, hauntings, and more. The podcast releases one main episode and one whimsical short per month, with bonus content available on Patreon.

Episodes

Episode Fifty-One: Monuments & Ley Lines w/Heather Wildflower Jun 10, 2026 1:43:00 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 sub
Pine Cones: Blue Moon 🌑 | Rowan & Pine Shorts May 29, 2026 8:32 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
Episode Fifty: The Divine Feminine & Divination - Trad wife trash talk May 14, 2026 1:39:40 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 t
Pine Cones: The Plague Cult of St. Roch | Rowan & Pine Shorts Nov 14, 2025 15:18 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 succumb
BONUS: Ghost Story Spooktacular | Appalachian Witch, The Black-Eyed Children Oct 31, 2025 20:42 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.
Episode Forty-Nine: HALLOWEEN Dante's Inferno - The ghost co-host 👻 Oct 31, 2025 1:36:32 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 fan
Pine Cones: The Greek Underworld | Rowan & Pine Spooky Shorts Oct 28, 2025 16:18 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 Shttps://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Places/The_Underworld/the_underworld.htmGarland,
Episode Forty-Eight: Spooky Shadow People - The Feeur (with Megan) Oct 22, 2025 1:19:14 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-pheno
Pine Cones: The Man Who Wasn't There | Rowan & Pine Spooky Shorts 🎃 Oct 17, 2025 11:56 “Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there! He wasn’t there again today, Oh, how I wish he’d go away!” - Antigonish by William Hughes MearnsYou’ve probably heard these lines before - whispered in a film, included in a book of ghost poems, or even whispered as harmless childhood nonsense..But there’s something about them - something sticky. Sixteen lines, no real story, and yet i
Pine Cones: Sedna | Rowan & Pine Shorts Sep 26, 2025 11:46 Her right hand traces the fjord in her thighShe counts the things she is afraid of:Nothing,Her own fingers—Ringed sealsTrapped in the freezing sea.Sedna by Allyson YoungThe 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 goddes
Pine Cones: Finfolk | Rowan & Pine Shorts Sep 17, 2025 18:00 “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
Episode Forty-Seven: Selkies (collab with It Came From The Maritimes) - weird uncle stories Sep 10, 2025 54:06 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 Cree

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