Story Archaeology

Story Archaeology


Samhain Special: Corpse Carrying For Beginners

October 31, 2024

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.

By The Story Archaeologists.

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).