<p>🐈 Let's take a seasonally-appropriate trip to a mysterious cave in County Roscommon, said to be Ireland's 'gateway to hell', 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's Revenge)</p><p><br></p><p><em>Fled Bricrenn / Bricriu's Feast</em></p><p>(2. The Cats' Test)</p><p><br></p><p><em>Echtra Nerai (Adventures of Nera)</em></p><p>(3. Samhain'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
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