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In this episode, Shelby and autumn co-host Amanda Paulson explore the world of urban legends — the stories that travel through communities and generations, shapeshifting as they go, yet always carrying something that feels true. From the Hat Man and Slender Man to Bloody Mary and La Llorona, this episode looks at the figures who have crossed from legend into lived experience, and asks what it means that so many people, independently, keep encountering the same ones.  You can find Amanda at @prettyfnspooky on all socials and on her website. You can find Shelby at www.shelbybundy.com  ✨ TenthHouseRising.com: Explore courses in mythology, folklore, astrology, and tarot. 🖤Join my new three-part series, The Folklore of Dying, a new webinar series on death customs and lore across cultures. Membership: $28/month. Individual webinars: $19. ✍️ Follow me on Substack! Weekly musings, bonus podcast episodes, seasonal living & more. 🔮 Visit TamedWild.com for all things witchy and magical 🤍 Free Workbooks are Here!  📚 Shop my Booklist: The Moon in Carolina at BookShop.org 🎙️ Podcast Details: Instagram: @themoonincarolina Production by Julio Montero Music:  Folklore, by Taizo Audio

In this episode, Shelby and Autumn co-host Amanda Paulson get into the strange and unsettling — the phenomena that don’t fit neatly into ghost stories but live in that same uncanny territory. Mimics, doppelgangers, fetches, and more: the experiences that make you question what you actually saw, and whether what called your name was really who you thought it was.  You can find Amanda at www.amandadpaulson.com ad on all socials as @prettyfnspooky. You can find Shelby at www.shelbybundy.com  ✨ TenthHouseRising.com: Explore courses in mythology, folklore, astrology, and tarot. 🖤Join my new three-part series, The Folklore of Dying, a new webinar series on death customs and lore across cultures. Membership: $28/month. Individual webinars: $19. ✍️ Follow me on Substack! Weekly musings, bonus podcast episodes, seasonal living & more. 🔮 Visit TamedWild.com for all things witchy and magical 🤍 Free Workbooks are Here!  📚 Shop my Booklist: The Moon in Carolina at BookShop.org 🎙️ Podcast Details: Instagram: @themoonincarolina Production by Julio Montero Music:  Folklore, by Taizo Audio

In this episode, Shelby and her Autumn co-host Amanda Paulson dig into some of the most famous haunted houses and locations in the world — from the Lizzie Borden house and the Winchester Mystery House to the Conjuring house, the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall, St. Ignatius Hospital, and the Biltmore Estate — exploring the histories, the hauntings, and why certain places seem to hold onto the things that happened inside them.  You can find Amanda at @prettyfnspooky on all social media  The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall St. Ignatius Hospital The Biltmore Estate You can find Shelby at www.shelbybundy.com  ✨ TenthHouseRising.com: Explore courses in mythology, folklore, astrology, and tarot. 🖤Join my new three-part series, The Folklore of Dying, a new webinar series on death customs and lore across cultures. Membership: $28/month. Individual webinars: $19. ✍️ Follow me on Substack! Weekly musings, bonus podcast episodes, seasonal living & more. 🔮 Visit TamedWild.com for all things witchy and magical 🤍 Free Workbooks are Here!  📚 Shop my Booklist: The Moon in Carolina at BookShop.org 🎙️ Podcast Details: Instagram: @themoonincarolina Production by Julio Montero Music:  Folklore, by Taizo Audio

In this episode, Shelby and her autumn co-host, Amanda Paulson, kick off Season Four with a catch-up — and before diving into all things harvest and haunted, they catch up on a summer full of ghost stories. In this opener, the two share their own warm-weather hauntings and strange experiences, and settle in for what promises to be a PrettyFNSpooky fall.  You can find Amanda on socials as @prettyfnspooky and at www.amandadpaulson.com  You can find Shelby at www.shelbybundy.com  ✨ TenthHouseRising.com: Explore courses in mythology, folklore, astrology, and tarot. 🖤Join my new three-part series, The Folklore of Dying, a new webinar series on death customs and lore across cultures. Membership: $28/month. Individual webinars: $19. ✍️ Follow me on Substack! Weekly musings, bonus podcast episodes, seasonal living & more. 🔮 Visit TamedWild.com for all things witchy and magical 🤍 Free Workbooks are Here!  📚 Shop my Booklist: The Moon in Carolina at BookShop.org 🎙️ Podcast Details: Instagram: @themoonincarolina Production by Julio Montero Music:  Folklore, by Taizo Audio

Every culture that has ever left records has agreed on one thing about death: you don't make the crossing alone. In this episode, host Shelby Bundy explores the guides—Hermes on the banks of the Styx, Anubis with the feather and the scale, the Valkyries who rode with the fallen—and the butterflies and birds that carried the same understanding into folk tradition when old mythologies were replaced. Listen in as we explore what the psychopomp tells us about how humans have always understood accompaniment.  You can find Shelby at www.shelbybundy.com  ✨ TenthHouseRising.com: Explore courses in mythology, folklore, astrology, and tarot. 🖤Join my new three-part series, The Folklore of Dying, a new webinar series on death customs and lore across cultures. Membership: $28/month. Individual webinars: $19. ✍️ Follow me on Substack! Weekly musings, bonus podcast episodes, seasonal living & more. 🔮 Visit TamedWild.com for all things witchy and magical 🤍 Free Workbooks are Here!  📚 Shop my Booklist: The Moon in Carolina at BookShop.org 🎙️ Podcast Details: Instagram: @themoonincarolina Production by Julio Montero Music:  Folklore, by Taizo Audio

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.  You can find Shelby at www.shelbybundy.com  ✨ TenthHouseRising.com: Explore courses in mythology, folklore, astrology, and tarot. 🖤Join my new three-part series, The Folklore of Dying, a new webinar series on death customs and lore across cultures. Membership: $28/month. Individual webinars: $19. ✍️ Follow me on Substack! Weekly musings, bonus podcast episodes, seasonal living & more. 🔮 Visit TamedWild.com for all things witchy and magical 🤍 Free Workbooks are Here!  📚 Shop my Booklist: The Moon in Carolina at BookShop.org 🎙️ Podcast Details: Instagram: @themoonincarolina 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.  You can find Shelby at www.shelbybundy.com  ✨ TenthHouseRising.com: Explore courses in mythology, folklore, astrology, and tarot. 🖤Join my new three-part series, The Folklore of Dying, a new webinar series on death customs and lore across cultures. Membership: $28/month. Individual webinars: $19. ✍️ Follow me on Substack! Weekly musings, bonus podcast episodes, seasonal living & more. 🔮 Visit TamedWild.com for all things witchy and magical 🤍 Free Workbooks are Here!  📚 Shop my Booklist: The Moon in Carolina at BookShop.org 🎙️ Podcast Details: Instagram: @themoonincarolina 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  ✨ TenthHouseRising.com: Explore courses in mythology, folklore, astrology, and tarot. 🖤Join my new three-part series, The Folklore of Dying, a new webinar series on death customs and lore across cultures. Membership: $28/month. Individual webinars: $19. ✍️ Follow me on Substack! Weekly musings, bonus podcast episodes, seasonal living & more. 🔮 Visit TamedWild.com for all things witchy and magical 🤍 Free Workbooks are Here!  📚 Shop my Booklist: The Moon in Carolina at BookShop.org 🎙️ Podcast Details: Instagram: @themoonincarolina 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  ✨ TenthHouseRising.com: Explore courses in mythology, folklore, astrology, and tarot. 🖤Join my new three-part series, The Folklore of Dying, a new webinar series on death customs and lore across cultures. Membership: $28/month. Individual webinars: $19. ✍️ Follow me on Substack! Weekly musings, bonus podcast episodes, seasonal living & more. 🔮 Visit TamedWild.com for all things witchy and magical 🤍 Free Workbooks are Here!  📚 Shop my Booklist: The Moon in Carolina at BookShop.org 🎙️ Podcast Details: Instagram: @themoonincarolina 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  ✨ TenthHouseRising.com: Explore courses in mythology, folklore, astrology, and tarot. 🖤Join my new three-part series, The Folklore of Dying, a new webinar series on death customs and lore across cultures. Membership: $28/month. Individual webinars: $19. ✍️ Follow me on Substack! Weekly musings, bonus podcast episodes, seasonal living & more. 🔮 Visit TamedWild.com for all things witchy and magical 🤍 Free Workbooks are Here!  📚 Shop my Booklist: The Moon in Carolina at BookShop.org 🎙️ Podcast Details: Instagram: @themoonincarolina Production by Julio Montero Music:  Folklore, by Taizo Audio

In this episode of The Moon in Carolina, host Shelby Bundy explores the sacred animals of the divine feminine — the serpent, the bear, and the cow — and what it means that the same three animals kept appearing alongside goddesses across cultures that had no contact with one another. From the Minoan snake goddess of Knossos to Wadjet and Asherah's serpent pillar; to Artemis and the bear-girls of Brauron, Shelby traces how these pairings encoded something true about feminine sacred power. She also follows what happened to each animal under patriarchal expansion, and how all three survived anyway.  You can find Shelby at www.shelbybundy.com  ✨ TenthHouseRising.com: Explore courses in mythology, folklore, astrology, and tarot. 🖤Join my new three-part series, The Folklore of Dying, a new webinar series on death customs and lore across cultures. Membership: $28/month. Individual webinars: $19. ✍️ Follow me on Substack! Weekly musings, bonus podcast episodes, seasonal living & more. 🔮 Visit TamedWild.com for all things witchy and magical 🤍 Free Workbooks are Here!  📚 Shop my Booklist: The Moon in Carolina at BookShop.org 🎙️ Podcast Details: Instagram: @themoonincarolina Production by Julio Montero Music:  Folklore, by Taizo Audio

In this episode of The Moon in Carolina, host Shelby Bundy explores the American tradition of devil-named places — over a thousand of them — and what it means that humans have always marked the land where the land pushes back. The episode centers on the Devil's Tramping Ground in Chatham County, North Carolina: a forty-foot bare circle in the longleaf pines where objects move overnight, dogs refuse to enter, and soil tests reveal elevated salt content with no natural explanation. From there, Shelby follows three other devil-named thresholds: Devil's Bridge in Ceredigion, Wales; the crossroads tradition running from Hecate to Robert Johnson at the junction of Highways 61 and 49 in Clarksdale, Mississippi; and the Seven Gates of Hell outside York, Pennsylvania.  You can find Shelby at www.shelbybundy.com  ✨ TenthHouseRising.com: Explore courses in mythology, folklore, astrology, and tarot. 🖤Join my new three-part series, The Folklore of Dying, a new webinar series on death customs and lore across cultures. Membership: $28/month. Individual webinars: $19. ✍️ Follow me on Substack! Weekly musings, bonus podcast episodes, seasonal living & more. 🔮 Visit TamedWild.com for all things witchy and magical 🤍 Free Workbooks are Here!  📚 Shop my Booklist: The Moon in Carolina at BookShop.org 🎙️ Podcast Details: Instagram: @themoonincarolina Production by Julio Montero Music:  Folklore, by Taizo Audio

In this episode of The Moon in Carolina, host Shelby Bundy explores three of mythology's great shapeshifters — Circe, Proteus, and the selkie — and the thread they share: the one who changes is the one who sees most clearly. Circe's transformations reveal what was already running beneath the surface of her visitors; Proteus releases the truth only when you hold him through every form he takes; the selkie's two natures are both completely real, and the tragedy is the world's inability to hold them both at once.  Circe by Madeline Miller- Get it Here You can find Shelby at www.shelbybundy.com  ✨ TenthHouseRising.com: Explore courses in mythology, folklore, astrology, and tarot. 🖤Join my new three-part series, The Folklore of Dying, a new webinar series on death customs and lore across cultures. Membership: $28/month. Individual webinars: $19. ✍️ Follow me on Substack! Weekly musings, bonus podcast episodes, seasonal living & more. 🔮 Visit TamedWild.com for all things witchy and magical 🤍 Free Workbooks are Here!  📚 Shop my Booklist: The Moon in Carolina at BookShop.org 🎙️ Podcast Details: Instagram: @themoonincarolina Production by Julio Montero Music:  Folklore, by Taizo Audio

In this episode of The Moon in Carolina, host Shelby Bundy explores the night hag — the figure who sits on your chest while you sleep, pins you to the bed, and leaves you certain something was in the room. The experience is one of the most universally reported in human history, and the traditions built around it are remarkably consistent: the Germanic mara, the Newfoundland Old Hag documented by folklorist David Hufford, Queen Mab in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and the Hmong dab tsog — a tradition that became devastatingly relevant when young Hmong refugee men in the United States began dying in their sleep in the late 1970s and 80s. Shelby also traces the figure into contemporary accounts of the Hat Man, and into the folk remedies across every tradition that share the same underlying logic: name the thing, and it loses some of its power.  You can find Shelby at www.shelbybundy.com  ✨ TenthHouseRising.com: Explore courses in mythology, folklore, astrology, and tarot. 🖤Join my new three-part series, The Folklore of Dying, a new webinar series on death customs and lore across cultures. Membership: $28/month. Individual webinars: $19. ✍️ Follow me on Substack! Weekly musings, bonus podcast episodes, seasonal living & more. 🔮 Visit TamedWild.com for all things witchy and magical 🤍 Free Workbooks are Here!  📚 Shop my Booklist: The Moon in Carolina at BookShop.org 🎙️ Podcast Details: Instagram: @themoonincarolina Production by Julio Montero Music:  Folklore, by Taizo Audio

In this episode of The Moon in Carolina, host Shelby Bundy explores the mythology of the sun — the deities across world traditions who were understood to carry the light, fight for it, and in some cases withdraw it entirely. We look at Ra, the Egyptian sun god who sailed his barque through the underworld each night and battled the serpent Apophis before every dawn could come. At the Greek figures of Helios and Apollo, who represent two very different ideas about what the sun actually means. And at Amaterasu, the Japanese sun goddess whose retreat into a cave plunged the world into darkness — and what it took to bring her back.  We also look at the tradition that tends to get overlooked: the feminine sun, and the Norse, Celtic, and Baltic goddesses who held the light before the solar mythology we inherited took its current shape.  You can find Shelby at www.shelbybundy.com  ✨ TenthHouseRising.com: Explore courses in mythology, folklore, astrology, and tarot. 🖤Join my new three-part series, The Folklore of Dying, a new webinar series on death customs and lore across cultures. Membership: $28/month. Individual webinars: $19. ✍️ Follow me on Substack! Weekly musings, bonus podcast episodes, seasonal living & more. 🔮 Visit TamedWild.com for all things witchy and magical 🤍 Free Workbooks are Here!  📚 Shop my Booklist: The Moon in Carolina at BookShop.org 🎙️ Podcast Details: Instagram: @themoonincarolina Production by Julio Montero Music:  Folklore, by Taizo Audio