<p>🐈 Let&#39;s take a seasonally-appropriate trip to a mysterious cave in County Roscommon, said to be Ireland&#39;s &#39;gateway to hell&#39;, and also the origin of Halloween...</p><p>We meet Queen Maeve, monstrous cats, the Morrigan, and of course... the sidhe!</p><p><br></p><p>📍 <em>Oweynagat, Co. Roscommon, Ireland</em></p><p><br></p><p>Featuring the texts:</p><p><br></p><p><em>Táin Bó Cúailnge </em></p><p>(1. Queen Medb&#39;s Revenge)</p><p><br></p><p><em>Fled Bricrenn / Bricriu&#39;s Feast</em></p><p>(2. The Cats&#39; Test)</p><p><br></p><p><em>Echtra Nerai (Adventures of Nera)</em></p><p>(3. Samhain&#39;s Threshold)</p><p><br></p><p><em>The Metrical Dindshenchas</em></p><p>(4. Meet the Morrigan)</p><p><br></p><p>🌟 Related episode: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠<a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/2R9QWcy2lHbM5ITorC2cwS?si=07c1d7c901db4102" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">(S4E7) Stone and Sidhe with Thomas Sheridan⁠⁠</a></p><p><br></p><p>💎 Related bonus episodes:</p><ol><li> <a href="https://buymeacoffee.com/folkways/bonus-are-the-fairies-the-dead" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">⁠⁠Are The Fairies The Dead⁠⁠</a>?</li><li><a href="https://buymeacoffee.com/folkways/bonus-episode-are-the-fairies-the-dead" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Norah and the Fairies</a> (specifically the second half looking at the sidhe/sithean)</li></ol><p><br></p><p>🤝 Become a valued ⁠⁠⁠<a href="https://bit.ly/34awiDB" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Friend of Folkways⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a>⁠⁠⁠: https://bit.ly/34awiDB</p><p>🎧 Soundtrack by ⁠⁠⁠@<a href="https://spoti.fi/47jvok6" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠big.big.sky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a>: https://spoti.fi/47jvok6</p><p>📺 <a href="https://bit.ly/3rUs9PF" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">⁠⁠⁠F⁠⁠⁠</a><a href="https://bit.ly/3rUs9PF" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠olkways ⁠⁠⁠Youtube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a>: ⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/3rUs9PF</p><p>☕️ ⁠⁠⁠<a href="https://bit.ly/3dxssVw" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Buy me a coffee⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a>⁠⁠⁠: https://bit.ly/3dxssVw</p><p>💌 Get in contact [email protected]</p><p>👋 Instagram and X 👉 @folkwayspodcast</p><p><br></p>