Episode 105: Don’t Mess with the Fairies

Forget Tinkerbell or those Victorian illustrations of spritely pixies with wings. Authentic fairy folklore is much darker and weirder. Irish storytellers Philip Byrne, Helena Byrne, Eddie Lenihan, and professor Martha Bayless discuss how fairy folklore dominated Celtic culture for centuries, and why belief in fairies is not an unreasonable way of understanding the world.  

Transcript of Don’t Mess with the Fairies

MUSIC LIST

• Aporia by Phantom Fauna

• ​Grinding Steam by Phantom Fauna

• Imaginary Mixdown by Phantom Fauna

• ​Imaginary Sunrise by Alexis Cuadrado

• Lingering Waterdrop by Per-Anders Nilsson