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KnotWork Myth & Storytelling

On KnotWork, we explore the mythology and folklore of Ireland, and beyond. Episodes begin with a story, followed by a deep dive conversation about how this age-old tale still resonates today. Our guests include oral storytellers, writers, artists, musicians, and spiritual leaders. Occasionally, in our Myth Workers and Culture Makers series, our guest offers a song, a meditation, or another bit of creative magic. We talk about what it means to live a myth-inspired life. These conversations

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The Buried Moon with Mitlé Southey | S7Ep20

KnotWork Myth & Storytelling ·

2026/10/08

OUR STORYWe return to the archives for a story of the Fens of East Anglia, retold by Mitlé Southey.The moon becomes trapped in a marsh pool. Without her light, the bogles and beasts of the darkness take over the Fens. Through a combination of community care and the wisdom of the old woman at the edge of the bog, the local people finally find and liberate the moon.OUR GUESTMitlé is a Circle Holder walking the ancient path whilst contributing to a modern movement. The founder of Circle School, she

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Not End Times, But Mountain Time | S7Ep19

KnotWork Myth & Storytelling ·

2026/10/01

OUR STORYMis staggers away from a gruesome battle on Kerry’s Dingle coast and finds a home in the mountains. Over 200 years, she becomes at one with the wild, covered in feathers and living completely apart from the human world. Eventually, the harper Dubh Ruis finds a gentle way to bring her home.HEAR THE WHOLE STORYThis preview episode is part of our Turas series.Upgrade your membership to support KnotWork Myth & Storytelling and unlock your access to Turas, the subscriber-only podcast series,

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From the Archives: The Driftwood Man with Dee...

KnotWork Myth & Storytelling ·

2026/09/24

OUR STORY“Driftwood Man” is a timeless tale of longing and belonging, existential homesickness and ultimately coming home that’s at once deeply Irish and unmistakably global. This original story emerged as artist-performer-activist Dee Mulrooney emigrated from Dublin to Berlin and speaks of the longing for home, land, and belonging.OUR GUESTBased in Berlin, Dee Mulrooney weaves a rich tapestry of experiences, emotions, and insights into her creative practice. Rooted in the complexities of inhabiting

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The Reddest Red & the Brightest Sun with Matthew...

KnotWork Myth & Storytelling ·

2026/09/17

OUR STORYNobody believes Phaeton's claim to divine heritage: Helios, the sun god, is his father. The boy sets out on a quest to find his dad, and when they're finally united, Helios promises to fulfill one wish. Phaeton asks to drive the chariot of the sun for a day. It all ends in fire, ruin, and a geomyth.OUR CONVERSATIONMatthew opens with Z.R. Ghani's poem "The Reddest Red." Full text of poem. Ovid's telling of Helios and Phaeton as a geomyth, a story that may preserve the memory of a real meteor

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08:06

Because She Could Not Stop for Death: An Irish...

KnotWork Myth & Storytelling ·

2026/09/10

OUR STORYAccording to traditional Irish myth, Tailtiu, the foster mother of Lugh of the Tuatha Dé Danann, uproots a vast forest with an axe and her own two hands. The plains she clears become the site of the great festival of Lughnasadh and once the people begin planting crops on these vast fields, agriculture comes to Ireland. She wasn't there to see it. She died from exhaustion, having done all the work alone.One source says that Tailtiu was in bondage to the men of Ireland, but what does that

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Grandmother Spider: Trusting the Threads with Kara...

KnotWork Myth & Storytelling ·

2026/09/03

Join Us at the Retreat!Meaning-Making: Claiming & Interpreting SignsNovember 6-8, 2026, near PhiladelphiaKara will lead us over a weekend of asking for, recognizing, and trusting in the signs that the universe is constantly sending your way. Marisa joins as a guest facilitator teaching about Myth Working for Meaning Makers.Space is limited. Learn more and register now: www.joyfulresonance.com/retreatOUR STORYA raven, a spider, a river. Kara Simons shares the story of a visionary journey that

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From Anu to Saint Anne: Stories of Grandmother Wisdom...

KnotWork Myth & Storytelling ·

2026/08/27

IN THIS EPISODEPerdita Finn returns to KnotWork for the third time to talk about the grandmothers, the mothers behind the mothers. She shares a story told in her latest book, Mothers of Magic: Summoning the Wisdom of Our Ancestors: discovering a hilltop church built by 19th century Irish immigrants and dedicated to St. Anne, the mother of Mary who holds the magic of being mother to us all.OUR GUESTPerdita Finn is the co-founder, with her husband Clark Strand, of the feral fellowship The Way of the

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The Eagle Remembers: A Bardic Vision for Lughnasadh...

KnotWork Myth & Storytelling ·

2026/07/30

OUR STORY“Lugh was a new type of hero, a hero that was needed then, a hero that is needed now. A hero who listens to everyone and anyone, and never strikes unless it's a just cause and never from anger or from revenge, but for the benefit of the whole.”In celebration of the festival of Lughnasadh, we receive a story of the god of the Tuatha Dé Danann, Lugh. Our storyteller, Jonathon Huet, steps into the role of Tuan mac Cairill, the seanchaí of old to unfold this tale.OUR GUESTJonathon Huet is a

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37:25

All Ground Is Sacred Ground, A Story and Conversation...

KnotWork Myth & Storytelling ·

2026/07/23

"If you want to save the planet, then start with your own patch of it."OUR GUESTMary Reynolds is a reformed landscape designer who launched her international career by winning a gold medal for garden design at the Chelsea Flower Show in London in 2002. That story was later told in the movie, Dare to Be Wild. She is a bestselling author, activist, speaker, writer, RTÉ Guide columnist, and occasional television presenter. She is the founder of the global movement "We Are the ARK – Acts of Restorative

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May the Roads Rise to Meet You: Following Macha’s...

KnotWork Myth & Storytelling ·

2026/07/16

"The moment she reached the shoreline, she began walking, walking, walking. She didn't need a road, not when she had a stride this purposeful and undeterred."That's Macha, goddess and woman of the Sídhe, arriving in Ireland from her home in the Otherworld. It's the start of the terrible, fascinating tale from Irish mythology about the pregnant woman forced to race against the king's horses, and it's the heart of Marisa's latest full-length Turas episode, May the Roads Rise to Meet You: Following

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47:28

To Fall from the Sky, To Cross Over the Sea: Stories...

KnotWork Myth & Storytelling ·

2026/07/02

OUR STORYIn the Potawatomi origin story, the pregnant Sky Woman, Giizhgokwe, falls from Sky World. She is caught by a flock of geese and lowered onto mshiké, Turtle, whose back becomes this continent we know as Turtle Island (known in Potawatomi as Mshike Minis).Our guest, Kaitlin Curtice weaves her ancestral story with her own story. As a young mother, walking a trail outside Atlanta while nursing her baby, she felt the presence of her ancestors. These were the women who had walked before her,

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The Village Beyond The Dunes | S7 Ep9

KnotWork Myth & Storytelling ·

2026/06/25

It's the middle of the night. A wealthy woman sits alone by the fire, carding wool, when the first knock comes at the door.Open! Open! I am the Witch of One Horn!This is the opening of The Twelve Horned Women,” from Lady Jane Wilde's folklore collection Ancient Legends of Ireland. It’s one of several stories that Marisa weaves together in our latest full-length Turas episode, The Village Beyond the Dunes, available exclusively to paid members of Myth Workers' Hearth over on Substack.The Twelve

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Choosing the Mystery with Perdita Finn | S7 Ep8

KnotWork Myth & Storytelling ·

2026/06/18

Our StoryThe rosary has long been used to shame women and restrain sexuality, but what if it is actually the umbilical cord that connects us to The Mother?When the rosary emerged in the 11th or 12th century, the Church offered a narrative that began with Eve’s sin and ended with apocalypse. Ordinary women were living and telling a different story. Theirs was a story that was expressed in a great circle, not in a straight line of patriarchal history.Perdita Finna unfolds the mysteries of the rosary,

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A Tale of Two Poets with Kate Chadbourne | S7 Ep7

KnotWork Myth & Storytelling ·

2026/06/11

This episode is a medieval Irish permission slip for every creative who has ever felt too raw, too unformed, or too messy to call themselves a writer. It’s for anyone whose inner critic has tried to kill the emerging work before it could grow.OUR STORYFrom the Book of Leinster (c. 1160): a strange, silent boy who hasn't spoken in fourteen years. A blacksmith father who knows how to protect what isn't ready yet. And the chief poet of Ireland, who recognizes genius before anyone else does — and has to

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Island Consciousness | S7 Ep6

KnotWork Myth & Storytelling ·

2026/06/04

OUR STORYThe shoreline is a threshold. When we stand at the place where the ocean meets the land, we know we’re standing in between the worlds.In this preview of S7 Ep6, Marisa tells the story of King Canute, the Anglo-Danish king whose famous confrontation with the tide has been misread for centuries. His real message–about faith and hubris and our relationship to the power of the elements–turns out to be more urgent now than it ever was.But the Canute story is just the doorway. The full Turas

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Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll: Cú Chullain, the...

KnotWork Myth & Storytelling ·

2026/05/28

OUR STORYCú Chullain is Ireland’s most renowned mythological hero, and his story comes what’s seen as the greatest of Irish epics, the Táin Bo Cualigne. And yet, we’ve never told his story on KnotWork.Clearly we were waiting for the right storyteller. In this episode, Peter Wucherpfennig offers an outsider perspective on Cú Chullain’s early life told through a modern frame: a young Phil Lynnot, front man of the iconic 70s band Thin Lizzy conjures the elements of myth. You’ll also hear WB Yeats’s "An

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We Are the Grandchildren of the Selkies Who Stayed |...

KnotWork Myth & Storytelling ·

2026/05/21

OUR STORYThe selkie story is one of the most enduring tales in the Celtic imagination. A woman caught between two worlds, a stolen skin, and the impossible choice between the sea and the shore.But what if the story doesn't end when she slips beneath the waves? What if it lives on in her descendants, in us?Hear the myth on KnotWork Myth & Storytelling: KnotWorkStorytelling.com or wherever you listen to podcasts. The full Turas episode is available exclusively to paid subscribers of Myth Workers’

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The Silver Wheel with Jen Murphy | S7 Ep3

KnotWork Myth & Storytelling ·

2026/05/14

OUR STORYJen Murphy tells us the core tales Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi, the great epic of Welsh mythology, beginning with King Math and his Goewin, his “virgin footholder” and concluding with the story of Arianrhod.Jen concludes her telling with Blodeuwedd, who you met in S7 Ep 1.OUR GUESTJen Murphy is an Irish mythologist, anthropologist and founder of The Celtic Creatives. A Dubliner born and bred, from the time she could talk, Jen's grandmother Frances O'Sullivan filled her ears with tales

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The Invitation to Tir na mBan, the Land of Women | S7...

KnotWork Myth & Storytelling ·

2026/05/07

OUR STORYWe’ve told the story of King Bran and the silver branch several times on KnotWork. This time, we the woman’s story, the story of the Bean Sídhe who speaks her fifty quatrains of poetry and invites us all across the sea to Tír na mBan, the Island of Women.ABOUT THE NEW SERIES: TURASTuras, the Irish word for journey, is a paid subscriber series within KnotWork Myth & Storytelling. Each episode takes us deeper into the imaginal landscape of Tír na mBan, the Island of Women from Irish

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The Fires of Bealtaine and Eros with Robert Mulhall |...

KnotWork Myth & Storytelling ·

2026/04/30

OUR STORYJust in time for Bealtaine, the Irish festival of fertility and new life, we explore the erotic energy at the heart of all creation, specifically in the context of Celtic mythology.We open with a brief retelling of the story of the woman made of flowers Blodeuwedd, which appears in the fourth branch of the Welsh mythological epic, the Mabinogi. You’ll hear an excerpt of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill’s Irish language poem, “Blodeuwedd,” and the translation by John Montague.OUR GUESTRobert brings two

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