Season 3 Episode 4: The Dreadful Wind & Rain - Weather Folklore

Merry Met virtual traveller and welcome to Stories From Lore. A monthly podcast that invites you to ‘Rewild Yourself Through Story,‘ by exploring nature, folklore and the stories it inspires. My name is Dawn Nelson and I am an author and professional storyteller.

‘The Dreadful Wind & Rain' is this month’s theme and for this episode I have some nature journaling notes for you, a ballad named ‘Windy Old Weather’, the folklore of rain, rainbows, fog, mist and storms and I'm telling the story of ‘The Boy Who Went To the North Wind’, collected by Asbjornsen & Moe.

My friend Clare Mansell, who has many years experience in audio, has been helping me with production this series and for this episode she's had some fun adding sound effects to the story, so listen out for those and let me know what you thinkl 

A Little Note - On occasion there are dark folkloric characters explored in this podcast and so, as always,  I would recommend that you should listen through first before listening with younger members of your household.

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References

Books

Crumley, Jim, (2018) The Nature Of Winter, Saraband

Dent, Susie (2018) Brewers Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (29th Edition), Brewers, Edinburgh

Kirkwood, Carol, (2017) And Now, The Weather, BBC Books.

Simpson, Jaqueline & Roud, Steve (2000) A Dictionary of English Folklore, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Stephenson, Tom, The Countryside Companion, Odhams Press LTD, London

Struthers, Jane (2009) Red Sky At Night: The Book Of Lost Countryside Wisdom, Ebury Press

Websites:

Weather Lore Sayings - https://www.nps.gov/grte/learn/education/classrooms/upload/Weather-Lore-Sayings.pdf

Hether Blether: The Hidden Isle - http://www.orkneyjar.com/folklore/finfolk/hether.htm

Dark Mist Descending - Radio Bulgaria - https://bnr.bg/en/post/100220934/a-dark-mist-descending

Magical Veils of Mist and Smoke in Folklore -

https://signemaene.com/2020/12/17/magical-veils-of-mist-and-smoke-in-folklore/

Credits & Music Attribution:

 Intro & Outro Music: Midnight Tale by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) licensed under Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Music leading into the story: ‘Reflections Of Winter by Nature’s Eye via Pixabay licensed under Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Sound Effects via www.orangefreesounds.com, www.freesound.org and https://pixabay.com/sound-effects/

Fire sound effect - ‘Fireplace’ by Leosalom via Freesound.org,  licensed under Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

With thanks to Clare Mansell for assistance with production. 

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