The Crane Bag is a podcast that explores stories from around the world. Each podcast focuses on a different story, using words and music to bring that story to life in the here and now.
In Celtic mythology, the crane bag is a bag made from the skin of a crane that was and will be owned by many different heroes throughout history. It contains a wide variety of treasures, among them a magical helmet, a fish-skin belt, a shirt, a knife, and the bones of an enchanted pig. At high tide the bag is full of these treasures, and at low tide it is empty.
I love the shifting, changing nature of this bag, and how it is connected to the sea. Stories too tend to change constantly, for even when written down or recorded they contain rainstorms that come and go, hungry coyotes, blustering winds, and doors that open in the night to reveal forests full of strange and musical birds. May this podcast be like that ever-changing bag full of magical tools, existing always in relation to the great story-ocean that has crashed and whispered on and beyond this earth for millions of years.
In Celtic mythology, the crane bag is a bag made from the skin of a crane that was and will be owned by many different heroes throughout history. It contains a wide variety of treasures, among them a magical helmet, a fish-skin belt, a shirt, a knife, and the bones of an enchanted pig. At high tide the bag is full of these treasures, and at low tide it is empty.
I love the shifting, changing nature of this bag, and how it is connected to the sea. Stories too tend to change constantly, for even when written down or recorded they contain rainstorms that come and go, hungry coyotes, blustering winds, and doors that open in the night to reveal forests full of strange and musical birds. May this podcast be like that ever-changing bag full of magical tools, existing always in relation to the great story-ocean that has crashed and whispered on and beyond this earth for millions of years.
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Where does inspiration come from? How does eloquence arrive into our lives? The first poem known to us in English is "Caedmon's Hymn," a poem which is a praise-song to the entire universe. This episode explores that song through the story of its author: a "humble farmhand" who was given the gift of song in a dream.
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What happens when we don't get we want? This episode focuses on the wild music of desire and inspiration, exploring the Welsh myth of Taliesin as a map to the new worlds which open up for us whenever our well-made plans fall beautifully apart.
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A tower, a sorceress, and a wild craving for green leaves...this episode brings to life the story of "Rapunzel," exploring what happens when we jump the fence of the forbidden garden and what we find on the other side.
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