House of Legends: World Myths & Legends

This episodes features a story told Sorcha Hegarty. Sorcha co-hosts the Candlelit Tales Irish Mythology Podcast with her brother Aron. She and Aron co-authored Celtic Mythology: The Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes Handbook and regularly give live performances across Ireland and further afield.  Sorcha also teaches on my retreat and year course so it was high time to have her tell a story on House of L...

Nana Tomova returns to House of Legends with a beautiful story taken from her new book, Bulgarian Folk Tales.  Nana is the host of the Story Apothecary Podcast. She's from Bulgaria and now based in the Scottish Highlands. You can learn more about Nana's work here . Myth Singers, my year-long Celtic Storytelling Apprenticeship, is currently open for applications. Learn more here . Click h...

House of Legends is 100 episodes old!  I decided to celebrate by having a hangout with my co-facilitators from the Oak & Ash retreat. We talk about the event and what we learnt from it about story, song and ceremony.  If these stories speak to you, you're welcome to journey deeper into myth with me. Start with my free full-colour Celtic Mythology Handbook, available here . You'll get...

Ain initiation tale from Borneo. If these stories speak to you, you're welcome to journey deeper into myth with me. Start with my free full-colour Celtic Mythology Handbook, available here . You'll get access to regular mythic writings from me. Or you can start with one of my books . Each one is a full immersion in Celtic Dreamtime.  Thanks for being part of House of Legends . 

A village tale of predatory men and feminine secrets from Ghana, told by Daniel Allison. If these stories speak to you, you're welcome to journey deeper into myth with me. Start with my free full-colour Celtic Mythology Handbook, available here . You'll get access to regular mythic writings from me. Or you can start with one of my books . Each one is a full immersion in Celtic Dreamtime....

On this episode I tell the Amazonian story of The Jaguar King. My new series of online Cave of Dreams events with Danica Boyce begins 25th October 2025. Learn more and get a discounted bundle ticket here . If these stories speak to you, you're welcome to journey deeper into myth with me. Start with my free full-colour Celtic Mythology Handbook, available here . You'll get access to regul...

This episode is the sixth in a series celebrating the audiobook release of Irish Mythology: The Children of Danu, narrated by Aoife McMahon and Aidan Kelly. In episodes 94-96 I share my retelling of the unforgettable story of Midir & Étaín. The book is available now from Amazon, Kobo, Apple Books and Barnes & Noble, and as an audiobook exclusively from Audible. It will soon be available as...

This episode is the fifth in a series celebrating the audiobook release of Irish Mythology: The Children of Danu, narrated by Aoife McMahon and Aidan Kelly, available exclusively from Audible.  In episodes 94-96 I share my retelling of the unforgettable story of Midir & Étaín. The book is available now from Amazon, Kobo, Apple Books and Barnes & Noble, and as an audiobook exclusively from...

This episode is the fourth in a series celebrating the audiobook release of Irish Mythology: The Children of Danu, narrated by Aoife McMahon and Aidan Kelly.  Over the next three episodes I'll share my retelling of the unforgettable story of Midir & Étaín. The book is available now from Amazon, Kobo, Apple Books and Barnes & Noble, and as an audiobook exclusively from Audible. It will...

This episode is the third in a series celebrating the audiobook release of Irish Mythology: The Children of Danu, narrated by Aoife McMahon and Aidan Kelly, available exclusively from Audible Get the audiobook here . If these stories speak to you, you're welcome to journey deeper into myth with me. Start with my free full-colour Celtic Mythology Handbook, available here . You'll get acce...

This episode is the second in a series celebrating the audiobook release of Irish Mythology: The Children of Danu, narrated by Aoife McMahon and Aidan Kelly, available exclusively from Audible. Over three episodes I'll share the first three chapters of the book, recounting the arrival in Ireland of the Tuatha Dé Danaan. This chapter is read by Aoife McMahon. In the introduction to the book, I...

This episode is the first in a series celebrating the audiobook release of Irish Mythology: The Children of Danu, available exclusively from Audible.  Over three episodes I'll share the first three chapters of the book, recounting the arrival in Ireland of the Tuatha Dé Danaan.  In the introduction to the book, I explain how the Irish Mythological Cycle tells of six invasions into Ireland. Th...

This episodes features a story taken from my book Finn & The Fianna , a retelling of the Finn MacCool stories which originated in Ireland, and which tell of the legendary band of warriors known as the Fianna. Their captain at the height of their fame was a man named Finn MacCool, and in this story, Finn leads his men on a hunt on which something magical and mysterious takes place, which isn’t...

Today’s story comes from the Selkup people of Siberia. It’s one I recorded a few years back for my patrons and wanted to share with you this January.  It's an animistic tale about respect for the spirit of fire, coming from people who live in some of the harshest conditions on the planet.  If these stories speak to you, you're welcome to journey deeper into myth with me. Start with my fr...

Kat Houghton is a storyteller, author, wilderness rites of passage guide, transformational coach and forest farmer. Originally from the Scottish Borders, she now lives and works in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Appalachia. For the last eleven months Kat has been a student on my Myth Singers program, which led her to start her new podcast, Celtic Medicine Stories, which I highly recommend.  On this e...

My guest today is Dougie Mackay. Dougie hails from the Scottish Highlands and draws on his background in nature connection and ancestral skills in his storytelling. He founded the Inverness Storytelling Festival, hosts the Tales for Our Times podcast, recently toured British Columbia and hosts regular events at the Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh.  On this episode Dougie tells the Scotti...

Today’s episode is a joint release with Danica Boyce of Fair Folk Podcast to mark Lughnasa. It’s been a few years since Danica and I last guested on each other’s podcasts, during which time our work has evolved and changed, we’ve started collaborating and Danica has moved to Scotland.  So it was about time for a catch up. On this episode we take the story of The Coming of Lugh as a starting point...

We're a bit past midsummer but it's such a great story, I couldn't resist! This is another Celtic story taken from my new book Scottish Myths & Legends Volume II, told by me. It's an old pagan tale of dancing trees which, to me, is an illustration of the overflowing of life and light we experience in Scotland in the middle of summer, when the nights never truly darken. I wo...

Today’s episode is a special one as it marks the release of my new book, Scottish Myths & Legends Volume II. For this episode I wanted to share with you a story narrated by Angus King, who narrated the audiobook of Scottish Myths & Legends Volumes I & II. The story comes from the island of Barra in the Outer Hebrides. I first heard it from Linda Williamson, the wife of the famous Trave...

My guest today is Stephen McCabe of Green Temple Therapy. A former student on my Myth Singers course, Stephen is a storyteller, author, Zen Buddhist, tarot reader and nature therapist based in the village of Temple in Scotland. He’s the author of The Moorfoot Tales, a collection in which his deep love for nature is always present and eloquently expressed.  You can use the chapter marker or go to a...

My guest today is Jess Smith. Jess is a storyteller, author and singer from the Scottish travelling people. She spent much of her childhood living on a bus and travelling around Scotland with her parents and seven sisters, spending evenings around fires listening to the stories carried by the travelling people while the rest of the country was busy forgetting them.  Listening back to the interview...

In this episode I share a Scottish story taken from my forthcoming book, Scottish Myths & Legends Volume II. The story comes from Orkney, an archipelago northeast of the Scottish mainland. Get my free ebook of Orcadian stories here . Support the podcast by buying one of my books for the price of a cup of coffee here . Learn about Myth Singers, my Online Celtic Storytelling Apprenticeship, here...

This is a very special episode! My guest on today’s episode is Judith-Kate Friedman. Judith-Kate inhabits the flinty places where art, activism, ritual and oral tradition dance. She sings, composes, writes, performs, curates spaces, produces events, tends hearth-fires, tells stories and documents aliveness. Born in New York City, she now calls Washington State’s rural north Olympic Peninsula (trad...

On this episode I share my interpretation of a classic Greek myth. Support House of Legends by becoming a patron Learn about Myth Singers, my online Celtic Storytelling Apprenticeship Get my books, Scottish Myths & Legends, The Shattering Sea and Finn & The Fianna , at Amazon US Amazon UK Amazon Canada Get my FREE ebook Silverborn here Join me on Instagram Music by Kate Young   If these st...

My guest on this episode is Aron Hegarty.  Aron is an Irish born Actor and Storyteller, and the cofounder of Candlelit Tales. Through Candlelit Tales he and his sister have introduced many thousands of people to Irish mythology, and their podcast is one of my absolute favourites.  We performed together in Dublin last year and again when Aron came to Thailand this month. We also sat down in a littl...