The Scottish Fairy Courts with Morgan Daimler

About this episode

Icy Sedgwick interviews Morgan Daimler about Scottish fairy courts and the cultural significance of fairies in folklore.

Morgan Daimler is a witch who has been a polytheist since the early 1990s. Following a path inspired by the Irish Fairy Faith blended with neopagan witchcraft. Morgan teaches classes on Irish myth and magical practices, fairies, and related subjects in the United States and internationally. Morgan has been published in multiple anthologies as well as in Witches and Pagans magazine, and Pagan Dawn magazine, and is one of the world's foremost experts on all things Fairy. In this chat, we talk about the fairy courts from Scottish folklore, how Seelie and Unseelie as terms entered the international chat through fiction, what a fairy might actually want with you if you ever met one, and why it's not a great idea to sanitise supernatural beings who once taught our ancestors valuable lessons... Buy The Fairy Courts: From Folklore to Fiction : https://uk.bookshop.org/a/12992/9781803418384 Find Morgan's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/morgandaimler Get your free guide to home protection the folklore way here: https://www.icysedgwick.com/fab-folklore/ Become a member of the Fabulous Folklore Family for bonus episodes and articles at https://patreon.com/bePatron?u=2380595 Get weekly…

People in this episode

Guest: Morgan Daimler

Topics covered

• Scottish folklore
• fairy courts
• Seelie
• Unseelie
• Irish myth
• neopagan witchcraft

Keywords

• fairies
• polytheism
• witchcraft
• mythology

Mentioned in this episode

Products: The Fairy Courts: From Folklore to Fiction

Books & works: The Scottish Fairy Courts, The Fairy Courts: From Folklore to Fiction

Places: the United States

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