Artist Title Album Label
Alison Kinnaird and Christine Primrose Calleach An Dudain
Lelek Marzanna
Niamh Cusak The Old Woman of Beare
Townes Van Zant Our Mother the Mountain
Program: 

The Cailleach: A Gaelic Folk Figure for the Ages

Transcript of this episode: docs.google.com/document/d/12oDeT…kQHACj2zqTFI2wGA/

Resources referenced in this episode:

Cailleach’s Herbarium blog, Cailleach article #1
cailleachs-herbarium.com/2015/08/the-…s-and-light/

Cailleach’s Herbarium blog, Cailleach article #2
cailleachs-herbarium.com/2015/08/the-…ht-part-two/

Cailleach’s Herbarium blog entry on an animist shrine dedicated to the Cailleach:
cailleachs-herbarium.com/2018/01/the-…h-na-bodach/

Article: The Cailleach in Place-names and Place-lore by Alasdair C. Whyte:
clog.glasgow.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/J…cle/view/58/107

Mckenzie’s Wonder Tale, Beira, Queen of Winter:
www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/tsm/tsm04.htm

9th century poem about the Cailleach, “The Old Woman of Beare”
Audio: www.youtube.com/watch?v=65CWjdVcBmg
Text: www.ronnowpoetry.com/contents/anony…omanBeare.html

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