The Drunken Storyteller’s Podcast

Merry yulemas new episode! Its been a while for various reasons but here is a special yulemas new episode for you all. I am back to telling gothic horror tales with a classic from E F Benson. A tale of dreams and terror, a truely spine chilling encounter and bloody hand prints. From now on most of my folklore escapades will appear over on Dark Lore, hosted by the wonderful Folkloring podcast, so p...

Welcome back to Uppsala for Episode 16 of The Drunken Storyteller Plays. We are playing Vaesen - A Twisted Path, a home brew story from our awesome GM David Wartmann from Vaesine, Caesen Con and Illusion Con fame.   CONTENT WARNING! Violence, death, blood, gore, harm to children. If you feel uncomfortable at any point please do step away and make yourself ok. This is a game and is meant to be fun,...

Welcome back to Uppsala for Episode 15 of The Drunken Storyteller Plays. We are playing Vaesen - A Twisted Path, a home brew story from our awesome GM David Wartmann from Vaesine, Caesen Con and Illusion Con fame. CONTENT WARNING! Violence, death, blood, gore, harm to children. If you feel uncomfortable at any point please do step away and make yourself ok. This is a game and is meant to be fun, i...

Welcome back to Uppsala for Episode 14 of The Drunken Storyteller Plays. We are playing Vaesen - A Twisted Path, a home brew story from our awesome GM David Wartmann from Vaesine, Caesen Con and Illusion Con fame.   CONTENT WARNING! Violence, death, blood, gore, harm to children. If you feel uncomfortable at any point please do step away and make yourself ok. This is a game and is meant to be fun,...

Welcome back to Uppsala for Episode 13 of The Drunken Storyteller Plays. We are playing Vaesen - A Twisted Path, a home brew story from our awesome GM David Wartmann from Vaesine, Caesen Con and Illusion Con fame. The next 4 episodes will be out at once so be prepared! CONTENT WARNING! Violence, death, blood, gore, harm to children. If you feel uncomfortable at any point please do step away and ma...

Welcome back to Uppsala for Episode 13 of The Drunken Storyteller Plays. We are playing Vaesen - A Twisted Path, a home brew story from our awesome GM David Wartmann from Vaesine, Caesen Con and Illusion Con fame. The investigators go to church where NOTHING BAD HAPPENS AT ALL NOPE IT'S ALL FINE. WE'RE FINE YES EVERYTHING IS FINE CONTENT WARNING! Violence, death, blood, gore, harm to children. If...

Welcome to Uppsala for Episode 11 of The Drunken Storyteller Plays. We are playing Vaesen - A Twisted Path, a home brew story from our awesome GM David Wartmann from Vaesine, Caesen Con and Illusion Con fame. The investigators visit a book shop and then return underground..... CONTENT WARNING! Violence, death, blood, gore, harm to children. If you feel uncomfortable at any point please do step awa...

Welcome to Uppsala for Episode 10 of The Drunken Storyteller Plays. We are playing Vaesen - A Twisted Path, a home brew story from our awesome GM David Wartmann from Vaesine, Caesen Con and Illusion Con fame. In this episode we meet some book nerds and have an....arguement? Blame Father Blackwood, I do! Cast: Tom Murr of OPP streaming and other places plays Ingmar - socials: Bluesky = @tommurr.bsk...

Welcome to Uppsala for Episode 9 of The Drunken Storyteller Plays. We are playing Vaesen - A Twisted Path, a home brew story from our awesome GM David Wartmann from Vaesine, Caesen Con and Illusion Con fame. In this episode Ingmar has a run in with bullet and we go down some stairs Cast: Tom Murr of OPP streaming and other places plays Ingmar - socials: Bluesky = @tommurr.bsky.social Tracy Nicholl...

S6E7: Prophesies of Merlin I'm back doing my own thing! An ACTUAL epsiode! Can you believe it....I can't. Anyway I have started my long awaited and planned mini series of Merlin. In part 1 I read some of the Prophesies of Merlin and talk about stuffs related to it. Hope you enjoy! HISTORIES OF THE KINGS OF BRITAIN BY GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH TRANSLATED BY SEBASTIAN EVANS 1904  https://sacred-texts.com...

Welcome to Uppsala for Episode 8 of The Drunken Storyteller Plays. We are playing Vaesen - A Twisted Path, a home brew story from our awesome GM David Wartmann from Vaesine, Caesen Con and Illusion Con fame. In this episode Father Blackwood gets his shows polished and we go to the University Cast: Tom Murr of OPP streaming and other places plays Ingmar - socials: Bluesky = @tommurr.bsky.social Tra...

S6E7: Divination and distractions I welcome Tracy back to the podcast as this seems to be a thing now and we try to talk about divination but get side tracked by many things like garbage in Chicago, cheese, 11 dimensional shapes and ghosts....we do talk about divination at times....honest! A have a chat with Tracy from the Folkloring Podcast and The Folklore Podcast about magic and her upcoming bo...

Welcome to Uppsala for Episode 7 of The Drunken Storyteller Plays. We are playing Vaesen - A Twisted Path, a home brew story from our awesome GM David Wartmann from Vaesine, Caesen Con and Illusion Con fame. In this episode Charlotte talks to a family member and Ingmar tries to help people Cast: Tom Murr of OPP streaming and other places plays Ingmar - socials: Bluesky = @tommurr.bsky.social Tracy...

Welcome to Uppsala for Episode 6 of The Drunken Storyteller Plays. We are playing Vaesen - A Twisted Path, a home brew story from our awesome GM David Wartmann from Vaesine, Caesen Con and Illusion Con fame. In this episode Charlotte begins a ritual Cast: Tom Murr of OPP streaming and other places plays Ingmar - socials: Bluesky = @tommurr.bsky.social Tracy Nicholls of The Folkloring Podcast and F...

S6E6: A chat with Tracy Nicholas A have a chat with Tracy from the Folkloring Podcast and The Folklore Podcast about magic and her upcoming book. Tracy can be found at all good podcasting places and on social media: @folkloringpodcast.bsky.social https://www.folkloringpodcast.com/ Find me at: Twitch: www.twitch.tv/thedrunkenstoryteller Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@thedrunkenstoryteller1618/vi...

Welcome to Uppsala for Episode 5 of The Drunken Storyteller Plays. We are playing Vaesen - A Twisted Path, a home brew story from our awesome GM David Wartmann from Vaesine, Caesen Con and Illusion Con fame. In this episode Father Blackwood meets somone from his past Cast: Tom Murr of OPP streaming and other places plays Ingmar - socials: Bluesky = @tommurr.bsky.social Tracy Nicholls of The Folklo...

Welcome to Uppsala for Episode 4 of The Drunken Storyteller Plays. We are playing Vaesen - A Twisted Path, a home brew story from our awesome GM David Wartmann from Vaesine, Caesen Con and Illusion Con fame. In this episode Father Blackwood makes friends and there are cows.... Cast: Tom Murr of OPP streaming and other places plays Ingmar - socials: Bluesky = @tommurr.bsky.social Tracy Nicholls of...

Welcome to Uppsala for Episode 3 of The Drunken Storyteller Plays. We are playing Vaesen - A Twisted Path, a home brew story from our awesome GM David Wartmann from Vaesine, Caesen Con and Illusion Con fame. In this episode Father Blackwood makes friends and there are cows.... Cast: Tom Murr of OPP streaming and other places plays Ingmar - socials: Bluesky = @tommurr.bsky.social Tracy Nicholls of...

Welcome to Uppsala for Episode 2 of The Drunken Storyteller Plays. We are playing Vaesen - A Twisted Path, a home brew story from our awesome GM David Wartmann from Vaesine, Caesen Con and Illusion Con fame. In this episode there are some Swedish treats, coffee, tea, a dog and something Simon makes friends Cast: Mark Norman of the Folklore Podcast plays Simon - socials: Facebook = The Folklore Pod...

Hello eveyone and welcome to a new side series that will probably be most of this years episodes. The Drunken Storyteller Plays. Where I play ttrpgs cus I miss it. This first actual play is of my fave game Vaesen. We are playing a home brew campaign run by the amazing David Wartmann of Vaesine. This is the first episode of quite a long game, but has been a lot of fun to play and record  Cast: Mark...

S6E5: The magick of the Mabi, Lludd and Llevelys A short look at magic within the Mabinogion and then one of the shortest tales, the truely magical Lludd and Llevelys, where we see the naming of London, dragons, magicians and demons in trumpets. Sit back, grab yourself a drink and enjoy the tales. You can find the translation of the story here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5160/5160-h/5160-h.ht...

Season 6 Episode 4: Did Mother Shipton Exist? The Legend of Mother Shipton retold by me with a little question of her actual existence....she appears in this episode so she must be real right!? Thanks to Tracy for playing the part of Mother Shipton. Go check out her podcast: https://www.folkloringpodcast.com/ And her work over at the Folklore Podcast as well Find me at: Twitch: www.twitch.tv/thedr...

Season 6 Episode 3: Where did that k come from? In this episode I  look into where the word magic comes from, where the k comes from and various types, forms and terms associated with magic, such as Black magic versus white, left hand versus right hand path, folk and ceremonial magic. Fun for all the family. Find me at: Twitch: www.twitch.tv/thedrunkenstoryteller Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@...

Season 6 Episode 2: Hekate, the Goddess of Magick In this episode I delve into a little bit of the origins, lineage, mystery and history of one of the most well known goddesses of magick, the amazing Greek goddess Hekate. We look at her role as the goddess of the crossroads, necromancy and witchcraft. I also find some spells in the Greek Magical Papyri that relate to her and end on a telling of th...

Season 6 Episode 1: The Voodoo Queen Welcome back everyone, I have had a summer break, been on holiday, caught covid and submitted 2 papers to the journal. I am now back with a new season of folklore and mystery and magick. The new season is going to be all things magical, from witchcraft to ceremonial magic, gods and goddess, rituals and spell, folklore and history. In the first episode we take a...