EP: 202 Festival of the Dead with Luke Eastwood

EP: 202 Festival of the Dead with Luke Eastwood

Luke Eastwood joins us this week to discuss his book "Samhain: The Roots of Halloween" and the Irish genesis of the holiday. A practicing Druid and founder of the Irish Druid Network, Luke brings a unique perspective on the topic. We discuss how the modern celebration of Halloween is derived from the ancient festival of the dead in Ireland known as Samhain. Eastwood contends it is from Ireland that most of the Halloween traditions we have in the West have been inherited. Delving into the ancient past, our guest this week uncovers the history of this festival in Britain and Ireland, including the forgotten goddess Tlachtga and the sacred temple of the Druids in county Meath, named after her, where the first Halloween fires were originally lit. We discuss how this time of year it is believed the veil is thin, how candles are lit on Samhain to invite in the spirits of the dead, how fairies are real and can be found all over Ireland, and what this festival means to the pagan Irish and Druid class. support the show! blurrycreatures.com/members Guest: https://lukeeastwood.com Intro song: Dreamkid83 contact: blurrycreaturespodcast@gmail.com blurrycreatures.com Socials instagram.com/blurrycreatures facebook.com/blurrycreatures twitter.com/blurrycreatures Music Kyle Monroe: tinytaperoom.com Aaron Green: https://www.instagram.com/aaronkgreen/ Mastering: ironwingstudios.com Outro Song: TimeCop1983: timecop1983.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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EP: 406 The Black Eyed Kids *members only trailer

EP: 406 The Black Eyed Kids *members only trailer

What happens when a self-described atheist builds a career investigating the darkest corners of the paranormal, and something starts following him home? Barry is a writer who tried to launch his caree...

12 Mar 17min

EP: 405 Hearing the Holy Spirit with Will Acuff

EP: 405 Hearing the Holy Spirit with Will Acuff

Will Acuff is a pastor's kid, former rock and roll guitarist, co-founder of Nashville nonprofit Corner to Corner, and author of No Elevator to Everest. He sits down for a conversation about the blurri...

10 Mar 1h 28min

EP: 404 Sixteen Years with the Dogman with Drew Nowlan *members only trailer

EP: 404 Sixteen Years with the Dogman with Drew Nowlan *members only trailer

Drew Nowlan reached out to us with a story he's never told publicly before. A lifelong outdoorsman and hunter from Ohio with a background in criminology, Drew has had close to two decades of encounter...

5 Mar 25min

EP: 403 UFOs, Influence Ops, and the End of the Age with Jamie Walden

EP: 403 UFOs, Influence Ops, and the End of the Age with Jamie Walden

Jamie Walden doesn't do soft landings. A Marine infantryman who pushed to Baghdad in '03, turned firefighter-paramedic, turned missionary, turned pastor in the shadow of Mesa Verde, Jamie has been con...

4 Mar 2h 10min

EP: 402 The Heads of the Hydra: Satan, Zeus, Baal, and the War Behind the War with Doug Van Dorn and Dr. Judd Burton *members only trailer

EP: 402 The Heads of the Hydra: Satan, Zeus, Baal, and the War Behind the War with Doug Van Dorn and Dr. Judd Burton *members only trailer

What if the villain of the Bible has been hiding in plain sight across every mythology and empire in history? Doug Van Dorn and Dr. Judd Burton return for a members-only deep dive into the identity of...

28 Feb 12min

EP: 401 The Earth Before Adam: Satan's Fall, the Ancient Earth, and the End Game with Ryan Pitterson

EP: 401 The Earth Before Adam: Satan's Fall, the Ancient Earth, and the End Game with Ryan Pitterson

Ryan Pitterson is back in the building after 200-plus episodes away, and he came with a bombshell. His third book, The Earth Before Adam, completes the trilogy that began with Judgment of the Nephilim...

24 Feb 1h 39min

EP: 400 Hell, the 80s, and the Family of God with Kirk Cameron

EP: 400 Hell, the 80s, and the Family of God with Kirk Cameron

Kirk Cameron steps into the Blurry Creatures 80s basement for a conversation that covers as much ground as his career has decades. Fresh off the viral firestorm of what he's calling "Hellgate," a fath...

17 Feb 2h 1min

EP: 399 The Horned Creature of Antioch with the Holland Brothers *members only trailer

EP: 399 The Horned Creature of Antioch with the Holland Brothers *members only trailer

Three teenagers. A remote island in Middle Tennessee. A Wednesday morning in the summer of '97. Brothers Heath and Hayes Holland and their friend Seth were doing what they always did, exploring Hole i...

13 Feb 19min

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