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Wearing different clothing from story to story, but nevertheless you recognise they are archetypes, we recognise archetypes. But that is actually that whole question of how do we prepare, how do we do a kind of Vision Quest for Elderhood is something that we’re going to be looking at in the course of the year long membership program that I’m running around Hagitude. A Serving of Crime with a Difference - You May Just Discover Something Unique, Different, or Unusual in These 20 Crime Novels. And to put it very briefly, I’d say by certainly by us providing inspiration from what we do, by making them aware, the wider culture aware, of stories which can provide inspiration and myths which can provide inspiration.

But with that caveat, comes here to be something, to reflect something, sometimes even perhaps to do something, but with a gift to give the world.To the podcast where we believe that another world is still possible and that together we can make it happen. And yet, that kind of… And she’d been told all of this… The person, a figure who in fact rescued her from the well was a wise old woman, a sort of a Baba Yaga kind of a figure. I would have liked to hear about women in lower classes and how they connect to nature and their truest selves while juggling two jobs or going through poverty struggles. And that is, you know, very much what my own situation was about, I think, and that passage through illness and looking death in the face was very much about trying to marry those two things. For a regular supply of ideas about humanity's next evolutionary step, insights into the thinking behind some of the podcasts, early updates on the guests we'll be having on the show - AND a free Water visualisation that will guide you through a deep immersion in water connection.

Sharon: It’s incredibly difficult to trace things back in the oral tradition by definition, because it is the oral tradition where we are very fortunate in this part of the world, as in Ireland certainly,the stories began to be written down for the first time, you know, back in the in the seventh century.So, yes, there’s such a wide variety of different types of folktale and different types of fairy story, even within the same tradition that it’s incredibly hard to overgeneralise. Which is why I liked in the book, providing the templates if you like, over so many different archetypes. There can be a certain perverse pleasure, as well as a sense of rightness and beauty, in insisting on flowering just when the world expects you to become quiet and diminish.

It was really interesting just giving shape to words that felt as if somehow they resonated in my DNA. So there were lots of examples of the Cailleach and I began to be very interested, inevitably, in her folklore and in those places. In our culture,” she says, “old women are mostly ignored, encouraged to be inconspicuous, or held up as objects of derision and satire. And because we have stopped largely the oral tradition ourselves, these stories have become kind of static.And it was what the Warriors, Lakota Warriors would say as they staked themselves out to face the enemy. When you first went there, you say in the book that one of the old farmers came to visit you and said something along the lines of, so do you follow the faith of the faery? Everyone has different experiences of womanhood that doesn’t make any experience less or more valuable, nor does it exclude. Not the creator and shaper of the world, because we don’t unfortunately have a creation myth left to us, but the creator and shaper of the land, and particularly in the rocky and wild places.