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Ars Magica Podcast transcriptsDecember 13, 2019January 13, 2020

Man – The Old Christmas

This week another one of our folktales from Man by Sophia Morrison. This is The Old Christmas, which was read into the public domain through LibriVox by Larry Wilson. Thanks to him and his production team at LibriVox. I just like to stress that this folktale comes from at least the Sixteenth Century because the…

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Ars Magica Podcast transcriptsDecember 1, 2019January 13, 2020

Man: The City Under the Sea

Apologies: I hadn’t noticed this transcript wasn’t live. The episode says its the final Morrison folktale from the Isle of Man, but it isn’t. After recording them I swapped the order to put the Christmas traditions into December. “The City Under The Sea” is a folk tale from a later time, where a person is…

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Ars Magica Podcast transcriptsNovember 2, 2019January 13, 2020

Man: The Buggane of Saint Trinian’s

This week one of our Isle of Man episodes: the Buggane of the broken church of St Trinian’s. The recording used came from the book by Sophia Morrison and was released into the public domain through LibriVox by Kurt from Tucson. A long time ago there came some monks to the broad, rough meadow, which…

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Ars Magica Podcast transcriptsSeptember 23, 2019January 13, 2020

Man – The Witch of Slieu Wallian

One of our Isle of Man episodes. This story was originally collected by Sophia Morrison and was recorded into the public domain by Andrew Calvillo. Thanks to Andrew and all the people at LibriVox. After the story I’ll be popping up with a few observations. It was Midsummer Day, and the Peel Herring Fleet, with…

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Ars Magica Podcast transcriptsSeptember 10, 2019January 13, 2020

Man – The Black Dog of Peel Castle

A quick episode this week, which is from our Isle of Man series, in which we learn the valuable lesson to not mock hellhounds. The recording which follows was released into the public domain by Larry Wilson through LibriVox: thanks to Larry and all the LibriVox. See a few plot hooks at the end ***…

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Ars Magica Podcast transcriptsAugust 22, 2019January 13, 2020

Man: The Wizard’s Palace

This week, one of our Isle of Man episodes. If your characters want to found a covenant they need somewhere that has an aura. Maybe this folktale can provide them with the perfect place and, if they can find the right spells to counter the Faerie Wizard’s petrification magic, they might have some brave and…

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Ars Magica Podcast transcriptsJuly 20, 2019January 13, 2020

Man : The Faerie Pig

A Manx story about treating elfstroke

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Ars Magica Podcast transcriptsJune 22, 2019January 13, 2020

Man – The Enchanted Isle

I’ve been talking with Ben from Sub Rosa about whether it would be useful to create some background information for an adventure, and record it as an audio episode, so that players on their way to a convention could absorb the background information while they’re driving. That reminded me of this little story, which I…

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Ars Magica Podcast transcriptsJune 22, 2019January 13, 2020

Man – Mannanan MacLir

This is a bonus episode. In following months we’ll be moving on from “The Stories of a Chinese Studio” by Pu to “Manx Fairy Tales” by Sophia Morrison. Morrison is kind of like the Brothers Grimm for Manx fairy tales: if you’ve heard manx fairy tales, you have heard her work. She also acted as…

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