An Acallam na nÉces Samhain Special
In this seasonal special, the Story Archaeologists compare two stories of Samhain. It’s a time for ghosts and ghouls and things that go bump in the night… but what could such stories tell us about life 100 or even 1,000 years ago?
Find out as the Story Archaeologists go digging one dark night.
Music: “Tam Lin” by Gian Castello.
References from the Episode
- http://archive.org/details/legendsofsaintss00hyde – Legends of Saints and Sinners (Douglas Hyde).
- http://archive.org/details/fairyandfolktale33887gut – Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (W. B. Yeats).
- http://www.celt.dias.ie/publications/celtica/c21.html – Celtica Vol. 21. The journal of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies; School of Celtic Studies (includes the article Echtrae Nerai and its analogues by Seán Ó Coileáin pp. 427–440).
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Hi Story Archaeologists :) Can you tell me where the ancestor veneration part of Samhain comes from? Is it from a collection of folk trad stuff? or Medieval lit. maybe? Ive always heard about it but I havent come across it myself in life and Id like to research it a bit.
Is it a mix of the fairy folklore with the ghost stories? A confusion of the two…