New Episodes
What new topics and themes will be tickling your earbuds in the next few minutes or so? Take a look at recent episodes!
Phantom Cubes and Spectral Smells: Ghost Stories with Three Ravens
Welcome to Spooky Season! I’m talking to Eleanor Conlon and Martin Vaux from the Three Ravens podcast about ghost stories! We...
Very Very Frightening: The Folklore of Thunder and Lightning
Thunder and lightning offer one of nature’s more cinematic spectacles, so it’s unsurprising they would accrue a degree of folklore. The...
The Folklore of the Autumn Equinox: Marking the Sun’s Path
The autumn equinox falls on 23 September in the UK in 2026. This marks the definite slide towards the winter solstice!...
Sticking to the Faery Rules with Charlie Creed
In this episode of Fabulous Folklore Presents, I’m joined by writer Charlie Creed, to chat about his new book, The Faery...
Moon Folklore: The Monthly Phases and their Superstitions
Much online discussion of the moon focuses on the new and full moons, especially when it comes to setting intentions and...
The Aurora Borealis: The Beautiful Northern Lights in Folklore and Myth
As we’re focusing on the Folklore of the Skies this month, it seemed only right to start with a celestial phenomenon...
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Icy Sedgwick
Icy is a folklore blogger and host of the Fabulous Folklore podcast. She is based in the north east of England, where she was born and raised amid the folk tales and legends of Tyneside and Northumberland. Icy is fascinated by history, cinema, art, and the occult, and griffins will always be her favourite mythical beast. She also writes dark fantasy novellas, Gothic short stories and the occasional weird Western, and she holds a PhD in Film Studies!
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