Yuletide and House Spirits with Sarah Jezebel Wood

What this episode covers

Multimedia artist, candle-maker, dancer, and sorceress Sarah Jezebel Wood joins the pod for a special solstice episode on the yuletide season. Sarah beautifully outlines some of the key motifs of the death and rebirth of the sun's light and the spirits, oaths, and magical practices that accompany it. Drawing on her extensive knowledge of Finnish folklore, she introduces us to the mischievous world of the tonttu and nisse, as well as even more varied forms of ancestral spirits of house, home, hearth, and sauna, and opens the floor to a rich cross-cultural discussion of land pacts, ambient dead, and negotiations within multivalent spiritual communities. See more of Sarah's work here:https://linktr.ee/sarahjezebelhttps://sarahjezebelwood.com/https://loviartes.com/https://www.instagram.com/sarahjezebelhttps://www.instagram.com/loviartesSupport us on patreon.com/TheFrightfulHowls .

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