Roleplaying games from historical research
This is a story by Lucy Clifford which reminds me of a faerie, lacking a soul but having enough cognisance to know that she’s not fitting her role. *** She wandered about in the sunshine all the day long, over the fields and in the woods, picking the flowers and listening to the birds, and…
Read MoreHere’s the link for the February 2018 transcripts. One episode went live early, so there’s an extra in there.
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Scilly was one of the last holdouts of the Priscillian heresy. It was linked to Manicheanism, sorcery and astrological demons. A covenant of Criamon astrologers disappeared from the islands after a great magical event. These things seem to be connected. Let’s look at the history of the heretical community. In this post, I’ll be using…
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This is a traditional story, retold here by Lucy Clifford. It was a source for Neil Gaiman’s “Coraline”. It has two faeries contesting for a pair of feral children. The first mother has a series of prohibitions and she vanishes when they are broken, like a selkie wife, so the temptation to say she is…
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The Worm and the Angel As he crawled from the tombs of the fallen a worm met with an angel. And together they looked upon the kings and kingdoms, and youths and maidens and the cities of men. They saw the old men heavy in their chairs and heard the children singing in the fields.…
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What follows is the text of a pamphlet published in 1674, probably in London. It is usually called “A Full and True Account of the Strange Monster: or, Wonderful Fish Lately taken in Ireland.” but because I love how different this is to the modern day, indulge my quotation of the full title A true…
Read MoreIt’s late: sorry all. I’m in Australia, we are having a heat wave and my computer isn’t in an air-conditioned room. GFF Jan 2019 is go.
I wasn’t going to write in detail about Cornish smuggling, because its golden age is three centuries beyond the game period. If you go onto Wikipedia, as it reads while I write, it says that there was no smuggling before Edward I established customs payments in 1275. That sounds plausible. On a whim I followed…
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This episode went live early. Here’s a transcript of the episode as recorded. I may take a second bite at the cherry and write up the mystagogic path for the monthly collation. Why do faeries teach Mysteries? I was reading a story the other day which suggested that it was because it makes the acolyte…
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This week another story from E.F. Benson. E.F. Benson has only provided one story for this podcast previously: it was “The Room in the Tower” which provided the revener of Julia Stone. I wanted to share with you a different Benson story that would link into our Cornwall material. It’s been in the public domain…
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Games From Folktales 