Three Ravens Podcast
@threeravenspod.bsky.social
A history, mythology and folklore podcast. Gather round the campfire and listen in! https://linktr.ee/threeravenspodcast
We also run the old Twitter hashtag #FolkyFriday - new themes each week, so do join in!
We also run the old Twitter hashtag #FolkyFriday - new themes each week, so do join in!
On this week's episode of Local Legends we have a real treat for you: Martin's good long chat with the truly brilliant @mharastarling.bsky.social - The Welsh Witch! 🖤
Listen to our chat all about the magical island of #Anglesey and Mhara's amazing career wherever you get your podcasts!
#folklore
Listen to our chat all about the magical island of #Anglesey and Mhara's amazing career wherever you get your podcasts!
#folklore
November 29, 2025 at 12:39 PM
On this week's episode of Local Legends we have a real treat for you: Martin's good long chat with the truly brilliant @mharastarling.bsky.social - The Welsh Witch! 🖤
Listen to our chat all about the magical island of #Anglesey and Mhara's amazing career wherever you get your podcasts!
#folklore
Listen to our chat all about the magical island of #Anglesey and Mhara's amazing career wherever you get your podcasts!
#folklore
Count your ammunition and watch your sight-lines as the moon is full, werewolves are abroad, and for this month's Film Club episode we're talking all about Neil Marshall's Dog Soldiers - OUT NOW! 🖤
#dogsoldiers #werewolf #werewolves #folkhorror
#dogsoldiers #werewolf #werewolves #folkhorror
November 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Count your ammunition and watch your sight-lines as the moon is full, werewolves are abroad, and for this month's Film Club episode we're talking all about Neil Marshall's Dog Soldiers - OUT NOW! 🖤
#dogsoldiers #werewolf #werewolves #folkhorror
#dogsoldiers #werewolf #werewolves #folkhorror
For this month's episode of Magus we're chatting about the magical life of a genuine icon of esoterica and the occult, Doctor John Dee! 🖤
Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts - or through the link in our bio!
#FolkloreThursday #DoctorDee #JohnDee #History #Folklore #Magic #Podcast #Occult
Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts - or through the link in our bio!
#FolkloreThursday #DoctorDee #JohnDee #History #Folklore #Magic #Podcast #Occult
November 27, 2025 at 12:14 PM
For this month's episode of Magus we're chatting about the magical life of a genuine icon of esoterica and the occult, Doctor John Dee! 🖤
Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts - or through the link in our bio!
#FolkloreThursday #DoctorDee #JohnDee #History #Folklore #Magic #Podcast #Occult
Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts - or through the link in our bio!
#FolkloreThursday #DoctorDee #JohnDee #History #Folklore #Magic #Podcast #Occult
Our final County Episode for 2025 is OUT NOW! 🖤
This week we're headed over one of the oldest suspension bridges in the world to explore the #history and #folklore of magical #Anglesey!
Enriched by extracts from this Saturday's Local Legends chat with @mharastarling.bsky.social it's a corker!
This week we're headed over one of the oldest suspension bridges in the world to explore the #history and #folklore of magical #Anglesey!
Enriched by extracts from this Saturday's Local Legends chat with @mharastarling.bsky.social it's a corker!
November 24, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Our final County Episode for 2025 is OUT NOW! 🖤
This week we're headed over one of the oldest suspension bridges in the world to explore the #history and #folklore of magical #Anglesey!
Enriched by extracts from this Saturday's Local Legends chat with @mharastarling.bsky.social it's a corker!
This week we're headed over one of the oldest suspension bridges in the world to explore the #history and #folklore of magical #Anglesey!
Enriched by extracts from this Saturday's Local Legends chat with @mharastarling.bsky.social it's a corker!
For our final Live Show release of 2026 we have a Live Q&A hosted by the one and only @treadwells-books.bsky.social OUT NOW! 🖤
In case you're unfamiliar, Treadwell's is an esoteric bookshop in London specializing in occult and spiritual topics like magic, witchcraft, and world religions.
Enjoy!
In case you're unfamiliar, Treadwell's is an esoteric bookshop in London specializing in occult and spiritual topics like magic, witchcraft, and world religions.
Enjoy!
November 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
For our final Live Show release of 2026 we have a Live Q&A hosted by the one and only @treadwells-books.bsky.social OUT NOW! 🖤
In case you're unfamiliar, Treadwell's is an esoteric bookshop in London specializing in occult and spiritual topics like magic, witchcraft, and world religions.
Enjoy!
In case you're unfamiliar, Treadwell's is an esoteric bookshop in London specializing in occult and spiritual topics like magic, witchcraft, and world religions.
Enjoy!
Our new Local Legends interview episode is OUT NOW! 🖤
This week Eleanor has spoken with the wonderful #storyteller Deborah Winter about the #folklore of her home county of Pembrokeshire, a land of mermaids, pirates and the cry of the raven...
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!
This week Eleanor has spoken with the wonderful #storyteller Deborah Winter about the #folklore of her home county of Pembrokeshire, a land of mermaids, pirates and the cry of the raven...
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!
November 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Our new Local Legends interview episode is OUT NOW! 🖤
This week Eleanor has spoken with the wonderful #storyteller Deborah Winter about the #folklore of her home county of Pembrokeshire, a land of mermaids, pirates and the cry of the raven...
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!
This week Eleanor has spoken with the wonderful #storyteller Deborah Winter about the #folklore of her home county of Pembrokeshire, a land of mermaids, pirates and the cry of the raven...
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts!
From what point in the year is it acceptable to put up your #Yuletide Decorations? 🖤
When they go up and when they come down always used to have meanings behind them, with #Christmas being a hefty old period of feasting and jollity!
So, what are your own traditions?
#Folklore
When they go up and when they come down always used to have meanings behind them, with #Christmas being a hefty old period of feasting and jollity!
So, what are your own traditions?
#Folklore
November 18, 2025 at 12:15 PM
From what point in the year is it acceptable to put up your #Yuletide Decorations? 🖤
When they go up and when they come down always used to have meanings behind them, with #Christmas being a hefty old period of feasting and jollity!
So, what are your own traditions?
#Folklore
When they go up and when they come down always used to have meanings behind them, with #Christmas being a hefty old period of feasting and jollity!
So, what are your own traditions?
#Folklore
This week the good ship Three Ravens is pulling into port in the south-westerly Welsh county of Pembrokeshire! 🖤
Packed with history and folklore, it also includes Eleanor's story for this week, "The Toads of Nevern" which features some sinister, hopping enemies of the church.
Hope you enjoy!
Packed with history and folklore, it also includes Eleanor's story for this week, "The Toads of Nevern" which features some sinister, hopping enemies of the church.
Hope you enjoy!
November 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This week the good ship Three Ravens is pulling into port in the south-westerly Welsh county of Pembrokeshire! 🖤
Packed with history and folklore, it also includes Eleanor's story for this week, "The Toads of Nevern" which features some sinister, hopping enemies of the church.
Hope you enjoy!
Packed with history and folklore, it also includes Eleanor's story for this week, "The Toads of Nevern" which features some sinister, hopping enemies of the church.
Hope you enjoy!
Our Patreon Exclusive episode for November 2025 all about The Gunpowder Plot came out just yesterday! 🖤
The episode takes a strangely personal approach, as Martin's ancestors, the Vaux family of Northamptonshire, were involved in the plot!
Listen to the whole story on our Patreon now!
The episode takes a strangely personal approach, as Martin's ancestors, the Vaux family of Northamptonshire, were involved in the plot!
Listen to the whole story on our Patreon now!
November 16, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Our Patreon Exclusive episode for November 2025 all about The Gunpowder Plot came out just yesterday! 🖤
The episode takes a strangely personal approach, as Martin's ancestors, the Vaux family of Northamptonshire, were involved in the plot!
Listen to the whole story on our Patreon now!
The episode takes a strangely personal approach, as Martin's ancestors, the Vaux family of Northamptonshire, were involved in the plot!
Listen to the whole story on our Patreon now!
For our 50th Local Legends interview episode we've rustled up author and award-winning storyteller Michael Harvey, and made him talk about the extremely dreamy Welsh county of #Radnorshire! 🖤
If you didn't hear our main Radnorshire episode, it came out last Monday.
GROOOONK!!!
If you didn't hear our main Radnorshire episode, it came out last Monday.
GROOOONK!!!
November 15, 2025 at 10:58 AM
For our 50th Local Legends interview episode we've rustled up author and award-winning storyteller Michael Harvey, and made him talk about the extremely dreamy Welsh county of #Radnorshire! 🖤
If you didn't hear our main Radnorshire episode, it came out last Monday.
GROOOONK!!!
If you didn't hear our main Radnorshire episode, it came out last Monday.
GROOOONK!!!
This month's episode of the Three Ravens Bestiary is all about one of our favourite topics - Wargs and #Werewolves! 🖤
We're chatting about everything from J.R.R. Tolkien's impact on werewolf beliefs to the first "man beast" in recorded mythology - it's a howlin' good time!
Listen now!
#Folklore
We're chatting about everything from J.R.R. Tolkien's impact on werewolf beliefs to the first "man beast" in recorded mythology - it's a howlin' good time!
Listen now!
#Folklore
November 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This month's episode of the Three Ravens Bestiary is all about one of our favourite topics - Wargs and #Werewolves! 🖤
We're chatting about everything from J.R.R. Tolkien's impact on werewolf beliefs to the first "man beast" in recorded mythology - it's a howlin' good time!
Listen now!
#Folklore
We're chatting about everything from J.R.R. Tolkien's impact on werewolf beliefs to the first "man beast" in recorded mythology - it's a howlin' good time!
Listen now!
#Folklore
Today's #WyrdWednesday theme is “Once and Future Kings & Queens!” 🖤
King Arthur fans, check out our lore-rich 25-part comic retelling of Gawain and the Green Knight released last December.
Here it is on Spotify:
open.spotify.com/playlist/3At...
Start now and you might be finished by Christmas!
King Arthur fans, check out our lore-rich 25-part comic retelling of Gawain and the Green Knight released last December.
Here it is on Spotify:
open.spotify.com/playlist/3At...
Start now and you might be finished by Christmas!
November 12, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Today's #WyrdWednesday theme is “Once and Future Kings & Queens!” 🖤
King Arthur fans, check out our lore-rich 25-part comic retelling of Gawain and the Green Knight released last December.
Here it is on Spotify:
open.spotify.com/playlist/3At...
Start now and you might be finished by Christmas!
King Arthur fans, check out our lore-rich 25-part comic retelling of Gawain and the Green Knight released last December.
Here it is on Spotify:
open.spotify.com/playlist/3At...
Start now and you might be finished by Christmas!
On this week's episode of The Three Ravens #Podcast we're discussing the history and #folklore of the least populated historic county of #Wales, Radnorshire on the Welsh Marches! 🖤
From Sin Eating to the Radnor Dragon, Spirit Nights to the Llandrindod Sheela Na Gig, it's OUT NOW so have a listen!
From Sin Eating to the Radnor Dragon, Spirit Nights to the Llandrindod Sheela Na Gig, it's OUT NOW so have a listen!
November 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
On this week's episode of Local Legends Eleanor is joined around the campfire by storyteller priestess Christine Watkins to talk all about her home county of Monmouthshire! 🖤
Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts!
Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts!
November 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
On this week's episode of Local Legends Eleanor is joined around the campfire by storyteller priestess Christine Watkins to talk all about her home county of Monmouthshire! 🖤
Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts!
Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts!
Hooray! It's the weekend! And what better thing to do of a cold and gloomy November evening than watch this month's Three Ravens Film Club pick, Dog Soldiers?! 🖤🐺
Email us your thoughts about the film by Monday 24th November then we'll include them in this month's episode!
Email us your thoughts about the film by Monday 24th November then we'll include them in this month's episode!
November 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Hooray! It's the weekend! And what better thing to do of a cold and gloomy November evening than watch this month's Three Ravens Film Club pick, Dog Soldiers?! 🖤🐺
Email us your thoughts about the film by Monday 24th November then we'll include them in this month's episode!
Email us your thoughts about the film by Monday 24th November then we'll include them in this month's episode!
Our new episode of Magic and Medicines is out now, and we're talking all about Reiki! 🖤
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.
November 6, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Our new episode of Magic and Medicines is out now, and we're talking all about Reiki! 🖤
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.
Happy November 5th - a.k.a. Bonfire Night! 🖤
Marked with fires and fireworks for over 400 years, on this day in 1605 Guido Fawkes was arrested attempting to blow up the Houses of Parliament - though he was but one member of the broader Catholic conspiracy...
#WyrdWednesday
Marked with fires and fireworks for over 400 years, on this day in 1605 Guido Fawkes was arrested attempting to blow up the Houses of Parliament - though he was but one member of the broader Catholic conspiracy...
#WyrdWednesday
November 5, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Happy November 5th - a.k.a. Bonfire Night! 🖤
Marked with fires and fireworks for over 400 years, on this day in 1605 Guido Fawkes was arrested attempting to blow up the Houses of Parliament - though he was but one member of the broader Catholic conspiracy...
#WyrdWednesday
Marked with fires and fireworks for over 400 years, on this day in 1605 Guido Fawkes was arrested attempting to blow up the Houses of Parliament - though he was but one member of the broader Catholic conspiracy...
#WyrdWednesday
#FairyTaleTuesday One of the first stories we told on the podcast was "The Sockburn Worm" from County Durham.
The stone under which the beast is buried can still be seen at Sockburn, as can the sword the Viking warrior used - the Conyers Falchion which hangs in Durham Cathedral!
The stone under which the beast is buried can still be seen at Sockburn, as can the sword the Viking warrior used - the Conyers Falchion which hangs in Durham Cathedral!
November 4, 2025 at 10:25 AM
#FairyTaleTuesday One of the first stories we told on the podcast was "The Sockburn Worm" from County Durham.
The stone under which the beast is buried can still be seen at Sockburn, as can the sword the Viking warrior used - the Conyers Falchion which hangs in Durham Cathedral!
The stone under which the beast is buried can still be seen at Sockburn, as can the sword the Viking warrior used - the Conyers Falchion which hangs in Durham Cathedral!
Today's #FairyTaleTuesday theme is Norse Tales!
Vikings didn't just raid Britain and Ireland - they settled here, including as the 'Normans.'
Consequently, many counties in the east of England and Ireland and west coast of Scotland and Wales are highly Norse influenced!
Vikings didn't just raid Britain and Ireland - they settled here, including as the 'Normans.'
Consequently, many counties in the east of England and Ireland and west coast of Scotland and Wales are highly Norse influenced!
November 4, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Today's #FairyTaleTuesday theme is Norse Tales!
Vikings didn't just raid Britain and Ireland - they settled here, including as the 'Normans.'
Consequently, many counties in the east of England and Ireland and west coast of Scotland and Wales are highly Norse influenced!
Vikings didn't just raid Britain and Ireland - they settled here, including as the 'Normans.'
Consequently, many counties in the east of England and Ireland and west coast of Scotland and Wales are highly Norse influenced!
It's that time again - a new month means a new Three Ravens newsletter, brimming over with folky goodness! 🖤
We hope that everyone on the Three Ravens Patreon enjoys it - and if you would like to read it and aren't a member then do please sign up!
We hope that everyone on the Three Ravens Patreon enjoys it - and if you would like to read it and aren't a member then do please sign up!
November 2, 2025 at 5:57 PM
It's that time again - a new month means a new Three Ravens newsletter, brimming over with folky goodness! 🖤
We hope that everyone on the Three Ravens Patreon enjoys it - and if you would like to read it and aren't a member then do please sign up!
We hope that everyone on the Three Ravens Patreon enjoys it - and if you would like to read it and aren't a member then do please sign up!
For our final Local Legends interview of Haunting Season 2025, Eleanor speaks with Tony Walker, author and host of the Classic Ghost Stories podcast, a.k.a. @classicghost.bsky.social! 🖤
It's a great chat to round out spooky season - listen now wherever you get your podcasts or via our bio!
It's a great chat to round out spooky season - listen now wherever you get your podcasts or via our bio!
November 1, 2025 at 11:08 AM
For our final Local Legends interview of Haunting Season 2025, Eleanor speaks with Tony Walker, author and host of the Classic Ghost Stories podcast, a.k.a. @classicghost.bsky.social! 🖤
It's a great chat to round out spooky season - listen now wherever you get your podcasts or via our bio!
It's a great chat to round out spooky season - listen now wherever you get your podcasts or via our bio!
To wish everyone a very happy Halloween, we warmly present a reading of Oscar Wilde's classic ghost story, The Canterville Ghost. 🖤
Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts!
Artwork by Iva Mykhailian.
Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts!
Artwork by Iva Mykhailian.
October 31, 2025 at 12:23 PM
To wish everyone a very happy Halloween, we warmly present a reading of Oscar Wilde's classic ghost story, The Canterville Ghost. 🖤
Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts!
Artwork by Iva Mykhailian.
Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts!
Artwork by Iva Mykhailian.
Keep your Jack O'Lantern lit and always check your candy, as our Haunting Season Film Club episode for October 2025 is OUT NOW and all about Michael Dougherty's Trick 'r Treat! 🖤
Listen now exclusively on our Patreon - sign up for ad free listening and tonnes of other exclusive content!
Listen now exclusively on our Patreon - sign up for ad free listening and tonnes of other exclusive content!
October 30, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Keep your Jack O'Lantern lit and always check your candy, as our Haunting Season Film Club episode for October 2025 is OUT NOW and all about Michael Dougherty's Trick 'r Treat! 🖤
Listen now exclusively on our Patreon - sign up for ad free listening and tonnes of other exclusive content!
Listen now exclusively on our Patreon - sign up for ad free listening and tonnes of other exclusive content!
On this month's Haunting Season-themed episode of Magus we're digging into the gory life story of "The Beast" himself, Aleister Crowley! 🖤
Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts!
Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts!
October 30, 2025 at 9:27 AM
On this month's Haunting Season-themed episode of Magus we're digging into the gory life story of "The Beast" himself, Aleister Crowley! 🖤
Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts!
Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts!
As part of Haunting Season 2025, Eleanor had the pleasure of interviewing @fiona_dodwell__ , author of A Cursed Collection of Haunted Dolls.
The perfect spooky season listen, out now on our Patreon!
The perfect spooky season listen, out now on our Patreon!
October 29, 2025 at 11:58 AM
As part of Haunting Season 2025, Eleanor had the pleasure of interviewing @fiona_dodwell__ , author of A Cursed Collection of Haunted Dolls.
The perfect spooky season listen, out now on our Patreon!
The perfect spooky season listen, out now on our Patreon!