The Moon in Carolina

The swan has carried more symbolic weight in European tradition than almost any other animal — beauty understood as divine since at least the Greeks, grace that the old stories treated as a kind of power in disguise. The Moon in Carolina host Shelby Bundy traces the folklore from Apollo's sacred bird to the Irish Children of Lir, through the belief that swans arrive from the Otherworld in the dark months of the year, and the quiet folk tradition that a person cannot die peacefully on a pillow stuffed with swan feathers. 
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Production by Julio Montero
Music:  Folklore, by Taizo Audio

The peat bogs of Northern Europe have been preserving human remains for thousands of years — but the people found in them weren't accident victims or the hastily buried. Tollund Man and the hundreds of others show evidence of deliberate, ritualized death: careful positioning, the triple death, and details that suggest these were offerings, not disposals. Join host Shelby Bundy as she digs into what the bodies tell us, and what they still don't. 
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Learn Myth, Astrology, Tarot, Shadow Work, and all things magickal at TenthHouseRising.com. New courses are offered each season. Live sessions with recorded replays are available. Membership includes weekly live calls & astrology chats, full moon gatherings, three monthly webinars, an active community, and much more!  

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Production by Julio Montero
Music:  Folklore, by Taizo Audio

The sacred grove — a patch of forest set apart by custom and belief — appears in nearly every culture that has ever lived beside trees. Join host Shelby Bundy as she discusses what made a grove holy in Celtic, Indian, and Greco-Roman traditions, how those spaces functioned as sites of ritual and protection, and what happened to the reverence when the groves were cleared. 

🖤 You can find Shelby at www.shelbybundy.com 
📚 Shop my Booklist: The Moon in Carolina at BookShop.org
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Learn Myth, Astrology, Tarot, Shadow Work, and all things magickal at TenthHouseRising.com. New courses are offered each season. Live sessions with recorded replays are available. Membership includes weekly live calls & astrology chats, full moon gatherings, three monthly webinars, an active community, and much more!  

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Production by Julio Montero
Music:  Folklore, by Taizo Audio

In this between-episodes offering of The Moon in Carolina, host (and occasional storyteller) Shelby Bundy shares a short story she wrote in the depths of a past winter. The Fires is inspired by the old manor she lives in and the ghosts she lives with — written as part of her Literature and Creative Writing Master's program at Harvard, and shared here for the first time. Settle in for a little story about an old house in Appalachia. 

🖤 You can find Shelby at www.shelbybundy.com 
📚 Shop my Booklist: The Moon in Carolina at BookShop.org
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Learn Myth, Astrology, Tarot, Shadow Work, and all things magickal at TenthHouseRising.com. New courses are offered each season. Live sessions with recorded replays are available. Membership includes weekly live calls & astrology chats, full moon gatherings, three monthly webinars, an active community, and much more!  

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Production by Julio Montero
Music:  Folklore, by Taizo Audio

In this episode of The Moon in Carolina, host Shelby Bundy explores what people across thousands of years and dozens of cultures have believed about fireflies — and finds the same belief arriving, independently, again and again: that small lights moving through the dark are the souls of the dead, keeping close. From the Japanese hotaru poems of the 8th-century Man'yoshu to the Cherokee tradition connecting fireflies to sacred fire and intentional guidance, and into the hollow coves of Appalachia where the Blue Ghost firefly still moves in late May, the soul-light belief spans centuries and cultures.
🖤 You can find Shelby at www.shelbybundy.com 
📚 Shop my Booklist: The Moon in Carolina at BookShop.org
✨ Courses:
Learn Myth, Astrology, Tarot, Shadow Work, and all things magickal at TenthHouseRising.com. New courses are offered each season. Live sessions with recorded replays are available. Membership includes weekly live calls & astrology chats, full moon gatherings, three monthly webinars, an active community, and much more!  

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🎙️ Podcast Details:
Instagram: @themoonincarolina
Production by Julio Montero
Music:  Folklore, by Taizo Audio