Recovering European Ancestral Memory

Books

  • The First Signs: Unlocking the Mysteries of the World’s Oldest Symbols, by Genevieve von Petzinger

  • To Speak for the Trees: My Life’s Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest, by Diana Beresford-Kroeger

  • Five Euphemias: Women in Medieval Scotland, by Elizabeth Sutherland

  • Witchcraft and Second Sight in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, by John Gregorson Campbell

  • The Gaelic Otherworld, by John Gregorson Campbell

  • Carmina Gadelica: Hymns and Incantations, by Alexander Carmichael

  • The Nordic Animist Year, by Hjarnø Rasmussen

  • The Druids, by Stuart Piggot

  • Brehon Laws: The Ancient Wisdom of Ireland, by Jo Kerrigan

  • The Book of the Cailleach, by Gearóid Crualaoich

  • Paddy’s Lament, by Thomas Gallagher

  • If Women Rose Rooted: A Journey of Authenticity and Belonging, by Sharon Blackie

  • Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, by Max Dashú

  • Before Scotland: The Story of Scotland Before History, by Alistair Moffat

  • Soil and Soul: People Versus Corporate Power, by Alastair McIntosh

  • The Good People: New Fairylore Essays, edited by Peter Narváez

  • The Braes o’ Balqhuidder, by Elizabeth Beauchamp

  • The Divine Feminine in Ancient Europe: Goddesses, Sacred Women, and the Origins of Western Culture, by Sharon Paice MacLeod

  • White People, Indians, and Highlanders, by Colin Galloway

  • Brigit: Sun of Womanhood, edited by Patricia Monahan and Michael McDermott

  • Celtic Myth and Religion, by Sharon Paice MacLeod

  • Pagan Celtic Britain, by Anne Ross

  • The Scottish Clearances: A History of the Dispossessed, by T.M. Devine

  • To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings, by John O’Donahue

  • Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy, by Barbara Ehrenreich

  • Warriors of the Word, by Michael Newton

  • Popular Home Remedies and Superstitions of the Pennsylvania Germans, edited by Carl Warwick

  • Dream Angus: The Celtic God of Dreams, by Alexander McCall Smith

  • Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend, by Miranda J. Green

  • Dictionary of Celtic Mythology, by James MacKillop

  • Scottish Customs from the Cradle to the Grave, by Margaret Bennett

  • The Celtic World, by Barry Cunliffe

  • The People of the Sea, by David Thomson

  • Secret of the Ron Mor Skerry, by Rosalie K. Fry

  • Window to The West: Culture and Environment in the Scottish Gàidhealtachd, by Meg Bateman and John Purser

  • Evil Eye in the Western Highlands, by Robert Craig MacLagan

Articles

Map/Soundscape

Podcasts

 Films and Music

 

Celtic Tribes and the Roman Expansion

Women Folk Healers in Poland

 
 

Basque Origins

DNA, Language, and History

Learning Sean Nós

Irish-Americans learn and share an 800 year old style of Irish singing

 
 

Sean Nós Dance from Connemara

With Emma O’Sullivan

The Sound of the Proto Indo European Language

Numbers, words, and story

 
 

Waulking Song

Gaelic Lament

Interview with author and folklorist Margaret Bennett

 
 

The Blessing and Descent of the Goddess Bridget

Sweathouses in Leitrim

History and cultural significance of Irish sweathouses

 
 

Mari Boine, “Diamantta Spaillit”

Mari Boine is a Norwegian singer of Sámi origin. Her music combines the traditional song of the Sámi, the joik, with electro-acoustic sounds and melodies.

Sámi Stories: Art & Identity of an Arctic People: Mari Boine Interview

A video interview with musician Mari Boine from the exhibition Sámi Stories: Art & Identity of an Arctic People.

 
 

Kulning - Ancient Swedish Herding Call

by Jonna Jinton

Huldufólk 102

Beneath the quiet veneer of Iceland lies an invisible nation of Hidden People. This fascinating phenomenon, rarely discussed with outsiders, not only pervades Icelandic culture, but also impacts its infrastructure from government policy to road construction.

 
 

Irish Famine and Beyond: Twisted History

A short film about the history of the Irish Famine

Völva

About the Scandinavian seers and prophets.

 
 

Keening, A Documentary

A brief history of the Irish keen

Brighid - Brigantia & Imbolg

History, stories, and practices relating to an ancient European goddess

 
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