Rowan & Pine: A Feminist Folklore & Mythology Podcast - Episode Twenty-Five： House Spirits Pt.1 - I'll get into your van, Witchy Woman

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00:01:01.580 that good okay start the intro music welcome people hello everyone hello november it's november

00:01:16.740 now remember october that's gone now it's november yeah r.i.p october r.i.p october it's

00:01:23.440 scorpio season it feels like it feels like it flew by because we were so busy we just had stuff going

00:01:29.420 on constantly yeah it's you know what it was really weird um to not have something to edit

00:01:34.820 there for like a week i was like normally in the back of my mind i'm like i have to edit

00:01:38.980 i'm just waking up in the middle of the night what do i do what am i editing just recording

00:01:44.520 voice clips and like editing them just for something to do you know editing for the sake

00:01:48.420 of editing yeah scratch that itch also everybody everybody clap for neve because she's the editor

00:01:54.220 and she's the best i'll clap for myself because otherwise it just sounds like awkward silence

00:01:59.100 everyone's like not clapping people are driving their cars and clapping i know they are it's like

00:02:05.700 locked out all over again when people were clapping for nurses and yeah healthcare workers

00:02:10.140 because that was a lot easier than giving them a pay rise yeah well there's only so much us people

00:02:15.860 in our little houses can do about that i know so the least we could do was clap for them yeah

00:02:22.020 i was sad that i didn't live in a place where that happened i mean like did i it happened

00:02:26.380 downtown but i'm like not downtown so yeah it was like it feels like a faux pas to say but

00:02:35.180 do you ever get like nostalgic for certain parts of lockdown

00:02:38.640 when like you knew you weren't missing anything because everybody was at home to be

00:02:44.780 oh yeah i guess maybe a little bit of that but i don't i'm not i'm not nostalgic for it like

00:02:54.360 in general yeah the whole like fearing for our lives and our family's lives and um all of the

00:03:00.200 conflict that was going on between ideologies that was shit but oh yeah it was um it was kind 0.66

00:03:07.000 of nice to uh see everybody else was in the exact same situation that you were you know what i mean 0.94

00:03:11.980 yeah it ruined my wedding that's true that that still made me bitter somebody I don't remember

00:03:18.040 who it was but people recently were talking about like their weddings and like it was kind of like

00:03:25.000 oh yeah blah blah blah and I feel like they kind of like looked at us and then it was like we don't

00:03:31.200 remember that because we didn't have a wedding yeah and then I just get like bitter about it all

00:03:37.720 over again I'm like I just don't even want to talk about the fact I'm like we're married there was no

00:03:41.640 wedding it just it is it just happened one day we were married or we were not married and now we

00:03:49.420 are yeah i think it's like it's the thing too that's like there's so much build-up before a

00:03:54.860 wedding so that when yeah like it's sort of anticlimactic like yours was like that's really

00:04:01.480 hard to deal with yeah and i spent so much time planning i feel like we've talked about this

00:04:07.960 before on the show it's like clearly that i need to i mean i have talked about it in therapy but

00:04:12.580 maybe i need to revisit it it's just always coming up remember my wedding but like i don't know if we

00:04:21.240 said this on the show before though but i am of the opinion that like there's no such thing as a

00:04:26.920 bridezilla like this whole thing of like oh she's such a bridezilla because she's been demanding and 0.99

00:04:32.380 all of this kind of stuff fair enough some people can be kind of like bitches like i was gonna say 0.98

00:04:38.920 are you sure about well well maybe it's not that there's no such thing as a bridesmaid but it's 0.96

00:04:44.240 that like what do you expect when you socialize little girls to be told that this is the biggest

00:04:50.320 day of their life yeah their their entire childhood and it's like going to be the best

00:04:55.020 thing that'll ever happen to them and their whole life will change on this one day yeah and

00:05:00.260 so she's trying to have a little bit of control over it and then when things aren't going to plan

00:05:06.480 she doesn't take it well like what do you expect you know yeah that's true especially if you come

00:05:13.300 from like a really conservative background i think where you know your whole like existence 0.98

00:05:18.700 is to serve your husband or whatever crap that to become a man's property yes shattles yikes

00:05:27.100 yeah did we get onto this i don't know the runs have started early it's five minutes in my i don't 0.97

00:05:36.420 know if you saw it on my face but my brain just went into like all these different directions

00:05:41.440 about like the patriarchy and weddings and i just like short-circuited i was just like oh god

00:05:48.600 i will say though like i remember before gay marriage was legalized there was this like

00:05:54.560 very famous tumblr post that was going around and they're like it was like right at the tail

00:05:59.200 end of the recession and it's like we have two words that will solve the economy gay wedding

00:06:06.020 that would just be so fabulous you're right my brain just went in in more directions too i was

00:06:16.680 just like wow yeah thinking about the recession and thinking about how awful everything was

00:06:21.140 and how it was like nobody had any money oh yeah and it was a weird time to be like in your early

00:06:26.940 20s during that too like in my hometown so in ireland you you can't buy like tall boys in a bar

00:06:34.880 like tall boy cans of beer or anything like that i don't know if you can where you are i know you

00:06:39.020 can in canada or in ontario anyway and you could just drink cans of beer in a bar which is very

00:06:44.360 strange but um in my hometown we had a place called the recession bar and it was basically

00:06:51.900 like oh no a carry out off license with like fridges and they just had benches outside

00:06:56.820 because they knew that people couldn't afford to pay pub prices but they would pay like off

00:07:02.020 license like retail prices so you could just go buy like a bag of cans and like just sit with

00:07:07.880 your friends drinking at the recession bar hilarious wow it was also like a fun pun because

00:07:13.540 the irish like term for drinks and like having like kind of like an informal party is a session

00:07:22.120 so that whole thing was the recession that is really funny what a coincidence

00:07:27.820 yeah it was like we invented it yeah there was also this whole thing like we're going to session

00:07:33.460 through the recession that was like a catchphrase too oh no it's because like you could go out and

00:07:39.100 get drunk like on like 25 euro and yeah still have like money for like your chips at the end

00:07:45.760 of the night or whatever the hell it was that's the funny thing i could get drunk for 25 euro

00:07:49.920 that's the funny thing about it is that like nobody had any money and everybody wanted to

00:07:56.500 drink because they had no money yeah it's like what else are we gonna do we can't go like on

00:08:02.280 like a holiday we can't like you know buy a house or anything let's just like go get drunk with our

00:08:07.300 friends yeah that would have been so nice to buy a house at that moment oh yeah imagine such a shame

00:08:14.360 when it has like poor quintupled in price by now right oh my god anywho we should probably talk

00:08:22.120 about um that's actually a good segue because my episode today is about house spirits oh

00:08:28.840 so i wonder how those house spirits were doing in the recession

00:08:33.340 if you couldn't tell from my uh my noise i didn't know what her episode title was i thought you did

00:08:40.240 no you didn't tell me and i was like you know what i'm not gonna ask her because i like to be

00:08:44.400 surprised secrets so house spirits for the recession was probably it actually probably

00:08:49.900 affected them a lot because i bet a lot of people were buying fixer uppers you're right and then

00:08:55.420 they needed house spirits to help them yeah and they're like why are these people moving into my

00:09:01.160 shack that's my hole in the attic stop covering it up do you know anything about house spirits

00:09:08.240 no oh really no you're saying that like you're going way in the wrong direction do you actually

00:09:15.460 know anything about this no it sounded like you knew what you were talking about so i was like

00:09:19.500 oh maybe she knows a lot about this no no well this is good

00:09:23.780 let me tell you uh i messed this up unforgivable this is life

00:09:30.900 imagine oh my god we would be a mess i would be a mess for sure i would be a mess when people do

00:09:40.240 like sometimes i'll listen to podcasts and it's very clear that they did no editing they just

00:09:45.720 like talked and i'm like how i have to cut out all my awkward laughs yeah i have to and i just

00:09:51.680 like every time i fumble because i we talked about this how you more like write bullet points

00:09:58.460 and i write like what i'm going to say because otherwise i will get lost i'll be like what wait

00:10:05.460 what i do bullet points and pull quotes but i think that goes back to like giving presentations

00:10:10.760 in college yeah because my lectures used to be like don't write everything it more pertains to

00:10:19.000 like if you're standing in front of people like right presentation right you don't want to just

00:10:22.420 like read read it yeah yeah my yeah the lectures used to be like don't put the whole paragraph on

00:10:27.660 your slide or else you'll just stand there with your back to everybody reading it so i think that's

00:10:31.840 i just got used to bullet points then yeah that's so nice i wish i could do that i just don't have

00:10:36.800 confidence at all we're gonna build up your confidence everybody write to emily and say

00:10:40.700 she's great she's not though it's fine a house spirit or a household deity is a common belief

00:10:47.520 in paganism and in various countries all over the world the belief is that there is a spirit

00:10:52.920 whether someone who is deceased or a spirit who never inhabited a physical form who protects the

00:10:57.740 household or certain parts of the household such as the kitchen or livestock did you hear like a

00:11:03.120 is that you yeah it was my house spirit it was you and going to the bathroom oh that's so funny

00:11:12.760 because as as you'll learn a lot of these house spirits do make like knocking noises on doors

00:11:18.620 and stuff to get the attention of the people in the house so that's really interesting

00:11:23.160 so household spirits are generally generally benevolent though sometimes a house spirit can

00:11:29.520 be an agent of chaos though they typically act out if they're not being treated well or offered

00:11:35.120 food or gifts me too there are also some who believe that the house itself has a soul and

00:11:40.220 that you must respect it speak to it and perform certain rituals to express gratitude 0.98

00:11:44.580 i also act out if i'm not treated well or giving gifts or food yes definitely me damn it 0.64

00:11:53.500 i used to like not think that i got hungry and then like at like my old job where it would be

00:12:00.340 like say we get really busy and it would be lunchtime and i'd find myself just absolutely

00:12:04.920 like flying off the handle at the most basic innocent request from a customer right and i

00:12:09.940 would just be like maybe maybe you should have lunch well yeah when your basic needs aren't

00:12:14.920 being met it's hard to be a person yeah turn into a different person right what's i gonna say one of

00:12:22.180 my favorite podcasts she has um she started dating this guy and she was like he's so sweet and stuff

00:12:28.860 like that and like i'll be acting and like acting out and crying and stuff and getting really upset

00:12:33.440 about things and then he'll just be like hey like it's okay like i think you maybe just need a snack

00:12:40.200 and she was like if anybody else said that to me i would get so pissed off she was like but he just

00:12:46.980 like would realize that maybe i'm actually just hungry and that's why i'm getting upset

00:12:51.200 and she was like and it works every time 0.59

00:12:53.360 yeah it's annoying when they're right right it's like damn it you were right i did need a snack 0.65

00:13:01.540 yeah i am just cranky because i'm tired yeah like an infant yeah so the first house spirit 0.81

00:13:10.740 that i want to talk about is called the domovoi the domovoi is a household spirit in slavic

00:13:16.240 mythology and it has roots in ancestor worship sometimes it appears as an old man or woman

00:13:21.820 other times he appears as cats bears or other creatures that are considered protectors in

00:13:27.440 slavic folklore okay big difference between old man and a bear right i know some of these are like

00:13:33.980 it could be like this or it could be like this completely other unrelated thing it's like okay

00:13:39.340 or you're like oh no it's okay the bear is going through our trash but it's it's the

00:13:44.200 high spirit isn't it just a bear yeah just could smell dinner their house spirit who just wants

00:13:50.540 some snacks he's angry he might also look like the founder of the household or most significant

00:13:58.100 ancestor but oftentimes the domovoi appears as a gnome-like creature with big eyes a long gray

00:14:04.040 beard and hair his clothing is often indicative of local traditions he is said to also be very

00:14:09.940 hairy with hair everywhere even on the palms of his hands and the soles of his feet the only spot

00:14:15.780 that's not covered in hair is the space around

00:14:17.900 his eyes and nose. Oh.

00:14:19.700 He's a hairy boy.

00:14:22.260 He's a hairy boy. 0.83

00:14:23.980 Imagining just like a pair of eyes looking at you.

00:14:26.260 Yeah. From the end of your bed.

00:14:28.400 Inside of a mop.

00:14:30.180 Oh god.

00:14:31.840 Yeah, you open the closet to get your like a hoover

00:14:33.860 right and you're like, whoa, there he is.

00:14:37.260 His hair.

00:14:38.220 A whole hairball. Yeah.

00:14:39.940 Clogging up your drains.

00:14:43.080 So if

00:14:43.880 there are no men in the house 0.97

00:14:45.780 or if the head of the household is a woman

00:14:47.560 then the Domovoi is represented as a 0.90

00:14:49.840 woman. So a hairy 0.99

00:14:51.860 woman I guess. Hairy woman. 1.00

00:14:54.080 Good for her. 1.00

00:14:55.720 Hairy woman. 1.00

00:14:59.040 Haunting 1.00

00:14:59.600 around my house. Hairy woman. 1.00

00:15:02.560 I'll leave some biscuits 1.00

00:15:03.720 out. Hairy woman. 1.00

00:15:07.760 That was a good one. 1.00

00:15:11.100 It is

00:15:11.840 believed that in many families that

00:15:13.740 the domovoi is the soul of all of the deceased family members and that like all of them uh at

00:15:19.840 once so that when a family member would build a new house the eldest family member would go in

00:15:25.020 first because the first to enter the house would be the first to die so they would become the domovoi

00:15:31.460 i don't think they would die right away but they would be the first one to

00:15:36.180 kick the bucket in the household so like i suppose like it's it's logical and it's rational

00:15:41.980 because you're like that's the way you hope that these things happen but it's also like right

00:15:45.460 there you go granny i was gonna say grandma you're going in going to walk around and she's like 0.96

00:15:50.880 fine i'm definitely haunting your ass but it also like it's a lot of pressure on your on the real 0.98

00:15:56.280 estate agents because like your your family's gonna haunt whatever house they help you buy 0.99

00:16:02.280 for generations so you better like it yeah you can't be like this was this was our second choice

00:16:11.360 we didn't even like it but now we're stuck here yeah and grandma's gonna die and become the dome

00:16:17.660 of voice it said though to prevent um somebody dying the family would often sacrifice a goat

00:16:25.340 fowl or lamb and bury it under the first stone or log set for the house and then they would go out

00:16:31.000 go without a dome of boy when the oldest member of the family eventually died they became the

00:16:36.320 domovoi for the house yeah she's gonna say it's just our usual animal cruelty just sacrificing

00:16:43.500 animals sacrificing animals all for this all for the sake of saving your grandparent yeah

00:16:50.160 well depends how nice the grandparent is otherwise you just take the chance

00:16:54.820 i loved all of my grandparents so i don't have any left they're all dead so are mine

00:17:03.300 oh rp i love them although well one of them i never really met but my dad tells me i would

00:17:09.920 have really liked him so i believe him anyway um the domo boy never leaves the boundaries of the

00:17:17.920 household and often stays in the hearth under the doorstep or near the oven when the family

00:17:23.240 moved from one house to another they would rake out the fire and put the ashes into a jar and

00:17:27.840 bring it with them saying welcome grandfather to the new but if a house was abandoned even if it

00:17:34.100 was burned to the ground the domovoi remained behind to reject or accept the next occupants

00:17:39.300 oh this is sad yeah i wonder is that part of like the you know the survey that you have done when

00:17:46.540 you're about to buy a house like um just the structural survey and they're like yes the roof 0.95

00:17:53.800 tiles are fine the plumbing's good but there is a dumb boy he keeps throwing coal at me

00:18:02.160 uh you might want to get somebody out to look at that yeah i like how you call it a survey 0.90

00:18:08.280 we call it an inspection here oh well same thing yeah same thing just different names

00:18:14.120 that was like a survey yeah it sounds like they're standing outside the front door going

00:18:18.500 do you like this house what about you guys across the street do you like this house

00:18:22.980 i was thinking they're like and what do you think of the door on a scale of one to five

00:18:29.120 please follow this link to survey monkey the dome of way is generally considered a benevolent spirit

00:18:36.160 working to protect the people of the household but this doesn't stop the dome of way from

00:18:41.140 expressing his displeasure with the choices that the family are making the dome of way likes a

00:18:46.180 clean and organized house he also doesn't appreciate not being asked when anyone decides

00:18:50.960 to rearrange the furniture this will make him play pranks or lash out at family members

00:18:55.980 he will also cause problems with the livestock or cause strange knocks or grating noises in the house

00:19:02.200 though there are theories that the knocking noises that come from the domovoi are actually

00:19:06.460 him trying to amuse himself as he can be entertained easily so he's like a baby that's

00:19:13.880 what i'm thinking like it made me think of my daughter so much i'm just like oh he's just

00:19:17.520 sitting like knock knock the other day she was playing with her toys and then she got like really

00:19:24.540 quiet and i like went to like check on her and she was just laying like looking at the palm of

00:19:30.520 her hand and then flipping it and looking at the back of her hand and then looking at the palm of

00:19:34.740 her hand i was like yeah that's your hand very interesting this is also giving me the vibes of

00:19:43.640 i don't know what the hell it's from but have you ever seen that like it's from like an old it must

00:19:47.700 be like an old gentleman's manual or something and it's just you may fascinate a woman with a

00:19:51.540 piece of cheese which yeah fair enough i mean you're not wrong we do like pieces of cheese

00:19:59.660 my therapist was just telling me about because like i'm not supposed to have milk products

00:20:06.540 and he was telling me about a co-worker who was pregnant and became lactose intolerant

00:20:11.420 and he was like he was like she had the best quote where she said

00:20:15.260 i would rather have never known cheese than to have lost cheese

00:20:19.760 oh my god i totally agree with her that would be awful yeah i feel that because

00:20:27.120 i'm not supposed to eat any milk products and it's so hard anywho

00:20:32.540 the domovoi is the guardian of the guardian of the family and their wealth but he prefers people

00:20:39.500 who are hardworking and trustworthy family members will leave food near the stove for

00:20:44.180 the domovoi as well as keep the house clean so as not to upset him in slavic folklore it is

00:20:49.820 believed that the domovoi is one of the hardest working spirits that if you take good care of

00:20:54.180 him he will work hard to protect you and to fend off forest spirits from playing pranks on the

00:20:59.380 family and witches from stealing the cows oh i didn't know witches were known for that

00:21:04.140 i said i'm like witches steal cows i mean what are they doing frying up some tenderloins 1.00

00:21:09.920 getting a good sear they're making some delicious gouda yeah to fascinate some other women into 1.00

00:21:17.560 being witches we've cracked the code we have we figured it all out if like some like goth looking 0.96

00:21:24.960 woman came up to me and she's like i got some really good cheese and i'm like your makeup is 0.97

00:21:29.660 amazing yes i'm coming with you she goes would you like to try this monster you're like yeah 1.00

00:21:34.760 yes i would i'll go into your van witchy woman 0.88

00:21:39.080 so what we're getting at here is i'm easy to kidnap oh my god i just love the quote i'll go

00:21:47.080 into your van witchy woman that could be the title of the episode on march 30th of each year

00:21:53.600 the dome of white turns malicious from dawn until midnight and he must be bride with food

00:21:58.140 such as little cakes or a pot of stewed grain also sounds like you yeah or me yeah i think

00:22:06.360 i'm a double boy tiny cakes yes please yeah also do you have cream of wheat in ireland

00:22:12.540 uh can you describe it it's like porridge it's like is it like a the only thing i'm thinking of

00:22:18.940 is like a rice pudding obviously is yeah it's sort of like that but it's made with just like

00:22:23.780 i don't like ground up wheat and is it like warm or cold um warm sounds a little bit like

00:22:31.460 ready brick which is kind of like a porridge that you feed to babies but it is super like

00:22:37.880 thin and ground up like it's almost like you know the way porridge can have like little lumps

00:22:42.820 right um it's more like baby food sort of texture it's so good yeah that's what the the cream of

00:22:50.140 wheat is really good i'm not like the only person i know who eats it everybody else is like are you

00:22:54.600 80 hey you like what you like i wonder if i was alive in a different time i'm gonna because i do

00:23:02.300 like look up cream of wheat certain things yeah please do is this like an american thing is it

00:23:07.560 a minnesota thing i'm thinking it's like maybe a scandinavian okay because clearly somebody has

00:23:12.740 been googling this because the top thing is cream of wheat ireland where to find somebody's like i

00:23:18.040 need some you can buy it on americanfood.ie perfect yeah that looks almost exactly like

00:23:23.520 ready brick do you know what that is is it like rice based or i would have i actually because

00:23:28.260 always thought ready brick was just like a finely milled porridge but maybe it's not okay but what

00:23:33.180 is porridge is it like oatmeal yeah okay so ready brick has now rebranded where it actually says

00:23:39.920 on the front super smooth porridge oats so that's what it is just finely milled porridge for babies

00:23:46.160 well i don't know like i used to eat it when i was like very small yeah so i don't know if it's

00:23:51.420 for babies or maybe i was just given it that's what i have for our baby it's just

00:23:54.900 like we call it oatmeal but it's just super super finely grated yeah like the the ready

00:24:00.540 break slogan when i was a kid was central eating for kids because it used to like you know you

00:24:05.020 have it in the morning and it would keep your tummy warm it's like central eating is that

00:24:08.740 similar to central heating that was the pun oh my god yeah now i want ready break but apparently

00:24:14.040 it's full of sugar so i shouldn't have it this episode had me looking up porridge recipes because

00:24:20.460 it's like i never knew that i liked porridge but i like oatmeal and i like cream of wheat and i like

00:24:26.460 all the porridgey things and then all of a sudden i was like oh shit i love porridge i'm looking at

00:24:33.800 porridge versus oatmeal i know i've definitely looked at this up looked at this up what look

00:24:38.260 this up porridge versus oatmeal you guys have weed a bix too yeah porridge is made with a variety

00:24:44.920 of whole grain cereal or legumes and oatmeal is made just with oats so they threw a load of extra 0.95

00:24:50.640 shit in the porridge this is probably like going back to victorian times and they used to put sawdust 0.94

00:24:55.080 in the bread and all that it's like just throw whatever's in there yeah or like the right they're 0.99

00:24:59.300 just the very definition of an irish stew is literally just whatever you have i wish i was

00:25:04.240 the type of cook who could do stuff like that where it's just like you just throw a bunch of 0.72

00:25:07.600 shit together and like make something but that's i feel like i fall apart i'm like oh god what can 0.51

00:25:12.720 i do that's my special talent weirdly enough like you and he's always like he'll be like there's 0.86

00:25:17.300 nothing for dinner and then i'll put something together he's like wow you're like and a can of

00:25:22.180 corn i'm putting everything in this omelette anyway anyway if you are to move from one household to

00:25:28.120 another you are supposed to ask the domovoi to come with you the people who believe in the domovoi

00:25:33.180 believe that he can foresee the future because of this when they hear sobbing or groaning they

00:25:38.160 believe this means that bad things are on their way if the domovoi is especially happy he will

00:25:43.360 sing and dance this makes people believe that good things usually money are coming it is also

00:25:50.160 said that if you see a domovoi you will die soon oh i hate everything about disembodied sobbing

00:25:58.560 We know this from our Bellwitch episode. 0.53

00:26:00.400 I hit any disembodied mouth noises.

00:26:04.020 All right.

00:26:04.840 Next up on our list, we have the Koti Haltia, which is from Finland.

00:26:10.660 This one was crazy to try to research because I felt like I did not understand what was happening.

00:26:17.840 But then I did.

00:26:18.480 Did you try to learn Finnish?

00:26:20.180 I did not try to learn Finnish.

00:26:22.780 It's like the episode's delayed.

00:26:24.260 Emily's learning Finnish.

00:26:25.740 Yeah.

00:26:26.300 BRB.

00:26:28.560 In common Finnish, depending on the context, Haltia means holder, occupant, lord, master, owner, possessor, or bearer.

00:26:38.160 So the term Haltia encompasses various supernatural beings associated with different aspects of nature, including forests, bodies of water, trees, rocks, mountains, countrysides, caves, and homes.

00:26:51.600 The Koti Haltia is the spirit that oversees the house.

00:26:54.760 The most common and well-known type of Haltia is the Tantu.

00:26:57.900 The Tantu is a creature deeply rooted in Finnish mythology.

00:27:02.320 It belongs to the genus of household elves or dwarves and shares spiritual kinship with English brownies and German gnomes, which are nature spirits.

00:27:11.220 You following me?

00:27:12.360 Oh, we talked about brownies before.

00:27:14.620 Yeah. 0.99

00:27:15.920 Taking it back to the brownies. 0.99

00:27:18.320 Yeah.

00:27:19.020 They always just, I just hear brownies and then I want a brownie.

00:27:22.260 Yeah, I actually have some brownies in the other room.

00:27:24.560 I'm just thinking about that.

00:27:25.560 Medardo ate the last brownies.

00:27:27.000 I made some last week and then he ate

00:27:28.760 The last two

00:27:29.900 Okay, Madardo, you need to stop making it so hard

00:27:33.180 For me to call you Disney Prince

00:27:34.440 It's getting harder and harder 1.00

00:27:36.940 Eating brownies is not Disney Prince behavior

00:27:39.320 Eating the last ones

00:27:41.980 Yeah, specifically

00:27:42.960 The last two, he didn't even leave one for me

00:27:45.140 Okay, anyway

00:27:48.360 I'm over it, I'm over it

00:27:49.980 The Tantu are often 0.98

00:27:53.040 Depicted as small, bearded, gnome-like 1.00

00:27:55.040 Humanoids 1.00

00:27:55.700 a tantu is a supernatural being with a strong connection to nature the word tantu is a word

00:28:02.240 that was adopted and altered slightly from the swedish word tamta which i will cover later in

00:28:06.960 this episode along with the tantu the norwegian and danish cultures also have the domestic dwarves

00:28:12.520 called the nisa tantu is a word derived from the finnish word tanti and the swedish word tamt

00:28:18.860 both meaning plot as in a plot of land where family would build their house

00:28:23.080 no you following i am following so it's yeah it shows that that's like they're environmental based

00:28:30.700 rather than the last one it was like based on families like right it was the family

00:28:37.040 yeah i thought you said incestual i was like whoa also that

00:28:42.620 ancestral yeah um and then if like it only became tied to the land when they had you know

00:28:50.240 laid the first brick of their family home

00:28:52.980 but this is clearly to do

00:28:55.220 with the, it's almost like they're older

00:28:57.000 than the land or older than

00:28:59.080 what the land is being used for

00:29:00.840 Yeah, it's sort of like they're a part of nature

00:29:02.500 and then you build your house there and then

00:29:04.940 they inhabit your house 1.00

00:29:06.040 Squatters 1.00

00:29:08.120 Freeloaders

00:29:12.080 You just find them yelling squatters rights

00:29:14.300 Hicking up to your electricity

00:29:17.340 Steaming your wifi

00:29:18.180 jesus in in finnish folklore there are different haltia for different locations or specific

00:29:26.280 purpose purposes for example the myla tantu oversees the work of the mill ensuring that

00:29:32.200 the mill operates correctly the tali tantu takes care of the stable and the barn while the kirkot

00:29:37.900 tantu has duties associated with the church kotihaltia which is a home elf or gnome is the

00:29:44.020 word for tantu who lives in every home to protect it it can also be known as the kotitantu which

00:29:50.360 can be used interchangeably with the more simple word of tantu so the kotihaltia or what i'm now

00:29:57.460 gonna call the tantu is sort of what you'd expect a house elf or gnome to look like it's a little

00:30:03.200 old man with a long white beard a knit hat and a traditional and traditional finnish clothing

00:30:08.480 these elves however do not have pointy ears as elves are often depicted pretty interesting so

00:30:13.680 It's not Dobby.

00:30:16.340 That's the Harry Potter one, right?

00:30:18.040 Mm-hmm.

00:30:18.660 Okay.

00:30:19.160 And he has pointy ears.

00:30:20.980 So it's not Dobby.

00:30:24.340 Pointy ears?

00:30:25.200 No, no. 0.97

00:30:27.040 The Tantu are said to live near the hearth or fireplace, on top of the stove, or behind it.

00:30:32.600 They were also said to reside on top of a brick oven, making friends with the house cat who acted as the Tantu's eyes and ears. 0.98

00:30:40.200 Which is pretty funny. 0.99

00:30:41.240 all of these creatures love like hanging around the fireplace

00:30:44.420 I guess those are like the heart of the home

00:30:46.540 I suppose and the kitchen is usually

00:30:48.360 the central part of the home

00:30:49.800 yeah that's what I thought was so interesting

00:30:52.260 is like all of these are like oh yeah they're like

00:30:54.420 in the fireplace or in the kitchen

00:30:55.960 or like behind the stove

00:30:58.600 so they perform various tasks

00:31:02.160 such as assisting with chores

00:31:03.680 helping with the animals on the property

00:31:05.740 and guarding the household

00:31:06.960 they are often characterized as grumpy and independent creatures

00:31:09.780 and because of their temperament they command respect and fear from those living within the

00:31:14.120 household yeah you don't want to piss anything off that's going to be like hanging out near your food

00:31:19.560 right or possibly your laundry the one who's in charge of like helping you take care of your 0.73

00:31:24.960 household uh-huh and who has control of your cat yeah the cat the eyes and ears the tantu are

00:31:33.640 generally helpful working to protect the family at the residence and bringing good fortune if they

00:31:38.460 are treated well most would set a place at the table for the tantu and offer it the first serving

00:31:43.820 of food some would even have an entire room dedicated to the tantu oh so those are the rich

00:31:50.200 people right this is our tantu room yeah a whole room dedicated to a spirit you can't sit there

00:31:58.680 some people have a games room um the tantu need to be treated with respect a family must build a

00:32:05.300 relationship with them by offering it food being friendly toward it and not arguing because the

00:32:10.560 tantu like quiet to most people the tantu is invisible but they reveal themselves at night

00:32:16.820 when they come out to assist with household chores they carry a lantern while they do this

00:32:21.480 cute right good luck trying to get your kid to bed when it thinks there's going to be elves coming

00:32:26.480 out i would definitely have wanted to stay up and see that that was my parents had the hardest time

00:32:34.860 getting me to sleep

00:32:37.040 on Christmas Eve because I wanted so badly

00:32:39.400 to meet, stay up and meet Santa

00:32:41.320 yeah

00:32:43.280 my parents had to tell me he was invisible

00:32:45.180 and then

00:32:47.520 somebody in my class said they saw him and I was like

00:32:49.420 well you're lying because he's invisible

00:32:51.220 so well my mom

00:32:53.500 and dad said yeah

00:32:54.640 my mom said he's invisible so

00:32:56.960 that's so funny

00:32:58.600 my mom got mad too because

00:33:01.080 um there was one Christmas

00:33:03.480 eve where i like i like tied string up and the string like matched the carpet in my bedroom and

00:33:10.240 i was trying to like trip santa claus so that like i had it all like rigged where it would like knock

00:33:15.220 over this little coat rack that i had in my room wow you're in your like home alone era yeah pretty

00:33:21.340 much i was like i will catch santa historical folklore ascribed some malicious traits to taunt

00:33:29.440 do elves as well. Traditionally, they were regarded as guardians of domestic morals,

00:33:34.840 protectors of property, and helpers within the living space. But if mistreated or witnessed

00:33:39.920 to intentional human abuses, a Tantu would become punishing, frightening, or even violent. 0.99

00:33:45.840 They were known to destroy crops, bring impoverishment to the family, or leave the 0.98

00:33:49.860 homestead. In folklore, it is believed that the Tantu are the true owners of a homestead and that

00:33:55.560 they would appear when the first fire was lit some legends even suggest that the tantu were

00:34:00.800 the first fire maker or the original settler had you ever heard of the first fire maker no me either

00:34:07.560 but i really like that me too it's super cool because then i like of course then i went on a

00:34:12.180 tangent and was like reading about it and it's like you know it's like the person who kind of

00:34:15.960 like establishes the house by like building the first fire it's pretty cool yeah i wish i could

00:34:22.440 have built the first fire in my house but this house was here long before i ever was there is

00:34:28.140 also belief that the tantu was the first relative to pass away within the premises of the home

00:34:32.780 in certain folklore accounts tantu elves were believed to possess and retain the property and

00:34:37.800 management rights of a residential house the human residents were considered occupants while

00:34:43.040 the tantu held true ownership during the construction of a new house the tantu was

00:34:48.240 believed to be born when a wooden cross was erected the cross remained until the walls were

00:34:53.340 raised at which point it was pulled down and chopped into smaller pieces the taming of a

00:34:59.580 newly born or recruited tantu often involved making sacrifices offering gifts or performing

00:35:05.080 rituals to establish a bond these offerings were seen as the purchase price of the land

00:35:10.400 given by the humans to the tantu creating an implicit contract between the human occupants

00:35:16.200 and the specific Tontu.

00:35:18.560 If someone were to see a Tontu,

00:35:20.220 it was often considered an omen,

00:35:22.720 symbolizing fortune or misfortune,

00:35:24.860 and sometimes even foreshadowing death,

00:35:26.980 which was similar to the Domovoi.

00:35:29.080 I also like how they're like

00:35:30.260 basic common law landlords.

00:35:33.500 They just,

00:35:34.480 this isn't your land, this is our land.

00:35:36.360 You better give us offerings and stuff.

00:35:38.940 Treat us well.

00:35:40.060 Yeah, I actually own this, so be nice to me.

00:35:42.180 I'm just letting you be here.

00:35:43.800 due to society and culture evolving the finnish have found themselves not needing the tontu as

00:35:50.260 much the invention of radiators and the lack of farming have caused the tontu to retire to live

00:35:56.320 with santa claus and korvantunturi a finnish equivalent of the north pole though they aren't

00:36:02.340 present in people's homes they are still celebrated around christmas time appearing on cards wrapping

00:36:07.640 paper and sometimes people will create a small shrine in their house putting out food and gifts

00:36:12.960 for the Tontu. That's cute.

00:36:14.960 So like Finnish people, they're like 1.00

00:36:16.880 we're not gonna let these 1.00

00:36:18.980 foreign elves be the ones 1.00

00:36:20.940 helping Santa. 0.99

00:36:23.960 They're good old Finnish 0.99

00:36:25.160 elves. 1.00

00:36:29.860 Sorry, I did that right

00:36:31.000 as you were drinking.

00:36:32.720 It's okay. 1.00

00:36:35.320 Not these foreigners

00:36:36.420 coming in and taking our jobs. You're taking our jobs. 1.00

00:36:38.860 Yeah, we want native elves. 1.00

00:36:41.100 Jinx. 1.00

00:36:41.580 oh my gosh

00:36:43.880 so the next house elves

00:36:46.120 on here are the Nisa

00:36:47.580 which are from Norway and the Tamta

00:36:50.080 which are from Sweden these are probably the most

00:36:52.280 well known

00:36:53.000 I feel like you've mentioned Tamta

00:36:56.100 like last season on the podcast

00:36:58.780 do they have little red hats

00:37:00.360 yeah

00:37:01.060 I think we mentioned it somewhere around our

00:37:04.400 Christmas episodes maybe 0.53

00:37:06.300 was it when I said stop appropriating gnome culture

00:37:08.760 maybe

00:37:10.060 so a nissa which is usually norwegian and a tamta which is usually swedish

00:37:19.340 are similar characters also similar to to the domovoi and the tantu or the kotihaltia

00:37:25.500 the tamta and the nissa are both solitary mischievous domestic spirits responsible for

00:37:31.680 the protection and welfare of the farmstead and its buildings tamta's translation means homestead 0.64

00:37:37.940 man and, as I stated before, comes from the word tomte, which means a plot of land that would be

00:37:44.480 used to build a homestead. Nisa is derived from the name Nils, which is the Scandinavian form

00:37:51.480 of Nicholas. A tomte is described as looking like a small, older man, about the size of a young

00:37:57.340 child. He wears tattered, old clothes, usually gray or navy in color, and wears a bright red

00:38:03.480 pointed cap this is gnome culture yes when people picture a gnome or see the now popularized gnome

00:38:10.580 imagery that appears on products especially around christmas time that is the image of the tomta

00:38:15.760 wow appropriation of gnome culture i'm also surprised that like there aren't because one

00:38:23.760 thing i noticed i showed you a video of like the scottish baby boxes before didn't i no so

00:38:30.760 it sounds weird so like in scotland whenever you have a baby um the government sends you this giant

00:38:37.540 box that's big enough for the baby to sleep in and it's full of like formula and um nappies and

00:38:44.540 blankets and little teddy bears and like just basically everything that you a baby would need

00:38:50.560 for the first like three months of life i think you i think you actually did i think you told me

00:38:55.300 about it but i haven't seen one but the one thing that i've noticed those went like sort of a little

00:39:00.500 bit viral lately every time i see a video about the scottish baby box because it's like scottish

00:39:05.940 women just showing like oh like let me show you what's in my baby box the comments are

00:39:10.540 overwhelmingly finished people going we've had that in finland since the 50s that's been a thing

00:39:15.020 in finland since the 50s we invented that that's been a thing in finland since the 50s like yeah

00:39:18.960 we get it okay you guys are great this is scotland it's wonderful can you let it move to the west a

00:39:24.460 little bit and specifically this side of the atlantic that would be really nice yeah like

00:39:29.500 it's it's such a beautiful idea i think they're doing it like a pilot scheme here um and it looks

00:39:34.960 like it's identical to the scottish ones because the boxes are like they're kind of like they've

00:39:39.740 got like um pictures on the outside of them that like as the baby gets older they can color it in 0.97

00:39:45.080 just sweet as well oh cute well i'm jealous sorry i didn't get shit from my government

00:39:51.020 i just got some stitches and bills yeah basically that's the name of emily's rappel 0.99

00:39:56.380 Here you fucking go. 0.98

00:39:57.580 Stitches and bills. 1.00

00:40:00.600 Strassbet motherhood. 1.00

00:40:04.300 Lots of stitches. 1.00

00:40:06.060 So, the Tamta lives in a barn or a pantry to watch over the household or the animals. 1.00

00:40:11.520 The Tamta and Nyssa are very hard workers and do not appreciate interference. 0.94

00:40:16.780 If someone had a clean and orderly home, it is believed that a household spirit, such as the Nyssa or the Tamta, resided there. 0.86

00:40:23.520 They do not need much help from humans. 0.97

00:40:25.180 the tamta only want respect and trust from the people in charge of the farmer household

00:40:30.300 and a bowl of eulagrat with butter on christmas eve the nisa also want to be respected and they

00:40:36.300 also want lots of butter for their porridge if they're not treated with respect they will leave

00:40:41.220 the homestead causing the farm to fall apart and the family to become impoverished there's also a 0.86

00:40:46.480 tale about a nisa and his lack of butter on his christmas porridge wow they took here we go seriously

00:40:52.780 yeah they were serious about that christmas porridge i'm mostly curious what butter is like

00:40:58.500 on porridge night i know when i was reading that i was like now i gotta try it i'm thinking like

00:41:02.920 if you had butter and a lot of brine sugar it would be really good so good it's too good for

00:41:07.900 porridge i'm like we both need to like eat some of this now yeah i have to eat my like real dinner

00:41:12.960 but we should when we do our slumber party thing we should just have porridge

00:41:18.540 dress up like sleepy time bears and just drink some porridge i was gonna say we'll have to have

00:41:25.560 like the big like the big like nighttime gowns like a hood that would actually be hilarious

00:41:32.840 i have an oody i'll definitely wear an oody what's that it's like you know those like hoodies like

00:41:38.780 that are super thick and they're really plush but they're they look like giant hoodies like

00:41:43.780 they go down to your knees oh interesting yeah i had i had like a hoodie dress and i wore it all

00:41:51.060 the time when i was pregnant which i just like took it out of storage because it was with all

00:41:54.540 my winter stuff but it like it goes to like my ankles it's this long hoodie and i like put it

00:42:01.760 on i was like i don't remember this he was like yeah that was like your pregnancy uniform

00:42:06.760 I bet she didn't remember me being this sexy.

00:42:11.540 But I was comfy. 0.99

00:42:13.640 One Christmas Eve, a servant girl decided she would play a trick on the Nisa. 0.97

00:42:18.200 She hid the butter for his grot at the bottom of the bowl.

00:42:21.840 When the Nisa saw that there was no butter on his Christmas porridge, he went to the shed and killed the best cow.

00:42:27.760 He wanted to show them he did not appreciate them not giving him a little bit of butter.

00:42:32.740 Wow.

00:42:33.280 He returned to the barn to eat the porridge anyway.

00:42:35.620 when he discovered the butter at the bottom of the bowl

00:42:38.640 he felt so bad that he walked to the neighbor's farm

00:42:41.480 took their best cow

00:42:42.700 and led her back to the stall of the cow that he had killed

00:42:46.040 oh my god 0.76

00:42:46.860 according

00:42:47.220 vengeful about the butter

00:42:51.380 this is like a soap opera

00:42:52.840 yeah

00:42:53.420 it's like a fake death

00:42:54.600 according to legend 0.50

00:42:55.760 according to legend these domestic spirits often steal from a neighbor

00:43:00.780 to increase the prosperity of the farm where they make their home 0.77

00:43:04.760 This is demonstrated in the legend of the Nisa who stole fodder.

00:43:09.380 There once was a farmer who had no hay left for his farm animals.

00:43:13.480 He sat one day and complained about it when he heard a voice say,

00:43:17.220 I will help you.

00:43:18.520 The farmer looked around but couldn't find where the voice came from.

00:43:22.040 After a few days, he noticed his animals were thriving, although they had no food.

00:43:26.980 One day, the farmer decided he would take his chances and cross the ice to a neighboring village to buy some hay.

00:43:32.760 when he was in the middle of the ice a small man appeared and asked where he was going

00:43:37.420 the farmer replied that he was going to buy hay the little man said not to worry because he would

00:43:43.700 help him so the farmer returned home one night the farmer noticed by moonlight a little man

00:43:48.500 leading one of his cows across the ice to a neighbor's farm when they returned the cow was

00:43:53.480 loaded down with hay then the farmer realized the little man was a nisa and he had been fetching hay 0.99

00:43:58.900 for the animals oh but he was stealing his heart was in the right place it was but he's a dirty 1.00

00:44:09.200 little thief yeah those those pair other people were probably like what the fuck is happening 0.99

00:44:14.340 to all our like hey you're right we're working double time here yeah and i still have no hey 0.91

00:44:20.900 yeah similarly to the tantu thanisa and tamta are no longer needed as much as they once were

00:44:27.200 and are now associated with christmas time the eulenisa which nisa is a derivative of nicholas

00:44:34.340 is based upon the german saint nicholas known for his many good deeds toward children he is

00:44:40.460 portrayed the same way that the american santa claus is portrayed a jolly large old man with

00:44:45.940 a sack of toys wandering around looking for good little children to give toys to for christmas

00:44:51.220 The Yuletamta is the Swedish version of the Yulanissa.

00:44:54.660 However, he is accompanied by a Christmas goat who pulls his sleigh.

00:44:58.920 The pagans believed that Thor rode across the sky on a chariot led by two goats.

00:45:03.700 Because of this, the Christians adopted the goat as a symbol of Christmas. 1.00

00:45:07.680 Of course they did. 1.00

00:45:09.060 Of course they did.

00:45:10.180 But also, super metal.

00:45:12.080 Right?

00:45:12.660 So metal.

00:45:13.980 Hey, it's our first time this season that we can put the metal noise in.

00:45:18.380 Do you remember the Krampus noise?

00:45:19.820 Oh, the, yeah, the Krampus noise.

00:45:25.220 That's what, like, when I say that I remember almost nothing from my pregnancy, it's not a lie.

00:45:30.740 I'm just like, what?

00:45:31.840 Today the goat is a benign straw figure, but still a very well-known Christmas symbol.

00:45:37.020 The legends of the domestic Nisa and Tamta share the same custom as the modern-day Eulanisa and Yul Tamta

00:45:43.580 in the tradition of leaving a bowl of eulagrat with butter out in the barn

00:45:47.460 or in the house for them on Christmas Eve.

00:45:50.040 This tradition is still practiced in Scandinavian homes.

00:45:53.320 It's cute.

00:45:54.980 A little bit of porridge with some butter on it.

00:45:58.600 Butter.

00:45:59.700 Butter.

00:46:00.540 So the next one on the list is the hob, which is from Northern England.

00:46:04.660 Have you heard of this one?

00:46:05.560 Hob?

00:46:06.760 Or hob? 0.99

00:46:07.980 Yeah, H-O-B. 1.00

00:46:09.120 H-O-B. 1.00

00:46:10.520 Sorry. 0.97

00:46:11.880 What?

00:46:12.320 You pronounced it all American on me. 0.92

00:46:15.440 You said hob.

00:46:16.680 Is it hob?

00:46:19.620 Hob.

00:46:21.040 Like, how would you pronounce H-A-B? 0.99

00:46:23.480 Hab? 0.87

00:46:24.700 It's not that different to hob. 0.84

00:46:26.660 Hab. 0.98

00:46:27.620 Hob and hab are very different. 0.99

00:46:34.340 Oh, my God.

00:46:35.520 Niamh, go home.

00:46:36.280 Is this like a hobgoblin?

00:46:38.620 Yes.

00:46:39.240 Oh, I don't know what they are.

00:46:41.240 I like to learn this.

00:46:41.960 Yeah, okay, so Hobbs

00:46:43.940 Hobbs

00:46:45.360 And this is not like

00:46:47.240 You call it a hob like your cooker

00:46:49.380 Where you heat up your dinner, no?

00:46:52.080 You don't call it a hob

00:46:52.760 A what? A hob?

00:46:54.460 A hob 0.91

00:46:55.400 A hob 1.00

00:46:59.200 First my O's are too much and then now they're not enough 0.99

00:47:01.800 Okay, I can't 1.00

00:47:03.380 Do you call that a hob?

00:47:05.040 In America?

00:47:06.120 Like the stove?

00:47:07.820 Okay, we could also call it a hob

00:47:09.420 okay that's probably what this is coming from no depending i know range yeah ranges are like

00:47:16.540 that yeah ranges are a bit more specific like they're usually fancy like wood-fired or whatever

00:47:21.500 yeah oh i usually think of a range as like a fancy chef's kitchen anywho the hobs 0.54

00:47:28.840 also sometimes called hobgoblins

00:47:32.440 does it sound weird when i say hobgoblin no hobgoblin sounds yeah but it was just like

00:47:38.800 with no context hearing you say hob i was like she's saying hob or hob

00:47:43.280 this word has lost all meaning oh my god i know i can't say it ever again

00:47:51.380 so the hobs also sometimes called hobgoblins were viewed as kind but mischievous spirits

00:48:01.000 helpful to local people in need a lot of household spirits are known to be related to the fairy world

00:48:06.260 as they are often seen as elves or gnomes who are in charge of taking care of the household

00:48:10.400 the hob is not related to the fairies they were more like ugly misshapen little creatures who

00:48:16.140 look like small impish men while they like to act mischievously they are much friend friendlier 0.99

00:48:22.080 than goblins sorry that just sounds like what my friends complaining about tinder 0.97

00:48:26.200 small fish men yeah they're like it's hard right here

00:48:30.060 all these hobgoblins on tinder yeah they would help with household chores while the family slept

00:48:37.220 and then would stretch out in front of the fire to relax once everything was done

00:48:41.000 must be nice one famous hob lived near runswick bay in a hob hole this hob was believed to be

00:48:48.660 able to cure young children of kink cough which is also the whooping cough oh but you know 0.99

00:48:54.960 British people always gotta 0.99

00:48:56.100 They have to call everything something else 1.00

00:48:58.340 It's usually something quite cutesy

00:49:01.060 As well

00:49:01.960 Right

00:49:02.560 The whoopity doopity cough

00:49:04.260 The whoopity doopity

00:49:05.420 19 diggity two 0.99

00:49:07.100 Parents would bring their sick children 0.85

00:49:10.620 To the Hobbs cave dwelling

00:49:12.000 And recite the following

00:49:13.400 Hob hole hob

00:49:15.480 My burn's gotten to kick cough 0.55

00:49:17.380 Take it off

00:49:18.440 Take it off

00:49:19.320 There we go

00:49:20.380 I channeled Rachel Fairburn

00:49:23.440 who's a comedian on podcaster there by the way i'm sorry rachel fairburn oh my gosh so yeah so

00:49:30.460 they would go to the hobbs cave dwelling and recite that and then apparently that would heal

00:49:34.300 the whooping cough or kink cough we don't have a doctor's appointment for two days so let's go 0.95

00:49:40.020 shout into a hole yeah take it off take it off hobbs are mainly known as household spirits who 0.84

00:49:47.860 didn't come out during the day and prefer to come around at night me too they were never tied to

00:49:52.540 any one specific place and would come and go as they choose that weird so these are uh they were

00:49:58.720 never traveling boys nomadic boys we're the nomadic boys like backstreet boys a hob would

00:50:05.740 help in various tasks and chores such as helping the farmer out farming his field or a shopkeeper

00:50:11.900 and keeping shop hobs would not respond well to disrespect if a farmer were to speak badly about

00:50:17.880 a hob a hob would then retaliate by setting free the farmer's livestock or breaking dishes

00:50:22.920 hobs never accepted gifts of clothing and would actually resent it because of this the hob would

00:50:29.180 immediately leave and the family would no longer receive its help what do they wear 1.00

00:50:33.020 they're naked man running around yeah creepy naked impish men ew there is actually a legend

00:50:40.580 that a well-meaning family in yorkshire left a small hat and cloak for their hob as a gift to 0.51

00:50:45.620 thank him for helping but when the hob

00:50:47.640 received the gift he yelled 0.95

00:50:49.140 ha a cap and a hood

00:50:51.160 hob will never do mere good

00:50:52.840 you know 0.98

00:50:54.320 he's like really committed to being

00:50:57.620 a naturist

00:50:58.320 or a nudist

00:50:59.960 he's like you can't constrict me

00:51:02.520 and then after he said that he was never seen again

00:51:05.820 another Yorkshire

00:51:07.960 hob this one at Hart Hall

00:51:09.480 refused with a warning when offered a

00:51:11.640 work shirt saying

00:51:13.000 Gin hob mun hain nout

00:51:14.900 But a hardened hamp 0.97

00:51:16.000 He'll come nae mair

00:51:17.360 Now they're burying our stamp

00:51:18.740 Do they always speak in rhyme?

00:51:20.300 That's really annoying

00:51:21.240 Yeah 1.00

00:51:22.280 Stupid hobgoblins 1.00

00:51:24.060 It's like they're walking around 1.00

00:51:25.560 Dick swinging

00:51:26.440 Dick swinging 0.65

00:51:27.600 Impish

00:51:29.100 Healing

00:51:30.120 Bothering livestock

00:51:31.080 To keep cough

00:51:31.680 And that is where I'm gonna stop for today

00:51:34.820 We're gonna have a part two

00:51:36.860 Of House Spirits coming out

00:51:38.400 Niamh

00:51:39.220 Back to you

00:51:41.700 But before we go, since Creature Council was so helpful to one of our listeners last episode, we have another question in...

00:51:52.320 Isolated in Indiana, was it?

00:51:54.140 Introverted in Indiana.

00:51:55.340 Introverted. I always forget what the I word was.

00:51:57.940 Did we hear back from introverted? Was he happy with his advice?

00:52:00.440 He was.

00:52:01.040 I'm glad.

00:52:01.760 He said, thank thee, Banshee, for me. 0.99

00:52:06.300 Well, hopefully she doesn't come back. 0.95

00:52:07.840 All right. So our listener this week has a quandary to do with neighborhood etiquette. So this is from Disgruntled in Devon. What do I do about my neighbors who are parking over my driveway? It's a very good question, Disgruntled in Devon. Let's see who we have for you to answer.

00:52:29.800 That is a very good question. I wouldn't know how that feels at all.

00:52:37.840 watch me draw the banshee again the redheaded hitchhiker that's good because it's car related 1.00

00:52:44.200 see the thing is that you've got your neighbors blocking your driveway not a problem all you got 0.98

00:52:59.440 to do is hop in the back hack their bluetooth speaker talk through it say some creepy things

00:53:06.380 maybe some maniacal laughter

00:53:08.260 and then take a long ride with them

00:53:10.920 while they're going down the street at night

00:53:12.760 it'll be great

00:53:13.980 they'll love it

00:53:15.060 and I will too

00:53:16.320 well that was unsettling 0.95

00:53:22.480 thank you redheaded hitchhiker 1.00

00:53:24.720 thank you but glad you're gone 0.99

00:53:27.080 yeah

00:53:28.340 all of our podcasting equipment

00:53:31.500 started going real fuzzy there for a second

00:53:33.160 so hopefully everybody was able to hear the message

00:53:36.360 I get the impression that's not somebody you want to mess with

00:53:38.940 I don't know if it's the Boston accent

00:53:40.500 Yeah maybe don't piss him off

00:53:43.140 Because I don't really want him in the backseat of my car

00:53:45.480 Yeah

00:53:46.360 Also sorry to just don't own Devin

00:53:48.660 He knows where you live now

00:53:49.600 So good luck with that

00:53:51.940 Yeah although he seems like he's there to help you

00:53:54.640 So that's good

00:53:55.360 Yeah just make sure you pay him on time

00:53:57.640 If he's looking for money I don't know

00:53:59.300 Anywho

00:54:02.220 Thank you all for listening

00:54:04.020 I have been Niamh

00:54:05.440 and i have been emily but i will continue to be emily we hope i don't know if we were recording

00:54:12.240 or not but i was telling you that my hair turned curly as i got older my eyes turned lighter as i

00:54:17.100 got older so i guess i could change into another person she's slowly changing into a witchy woman

00:54:22.660 to get me in her van i've got cheese my plan is working um yeah thanks for listening to part one

00:54:28.780 of house spirits um keep an eye on your feed for part two coming in two weeks if you have any

00:54:34.980 other Creature Council questions

00:54:37.140 please submit them to our

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00:54:46.340 and 1.00

00:54:48.440 fuck ya folklore 0.99

00:54:49.840 thanks everybody 1.00

00:54:52.360 bye

00:54:53.560 goodbye

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Rowan & Pine: A Feminist Folklore & Mythology Podcast - November 15, 2023

Episode Twenty-Five： House Spirits Pt.1 - I'll get into your van, Witchy Woman

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