The Local Mythstorian podcast

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Jeff Kerr: Our First Amendment Right to Receive Communications (from Monkeys) 30:14

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"It is a scientific fact that these macaques, like all other primates, including humans, are communicating. They communicate in much the same way we do - facial expressions, vocalizations, body postures, those kinds of things." - Jeff Kerr Jeff Kerr is PETA foundations Chief Legal Officer. I asked him to come on the show to talk about one of PETA’s current lawsuits against the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Nathional Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). PETA is arguing that the monkeys being tested on in a government run facility are capable of communication (or “are communicating”). And that we have a constitutional right under the First Amendment to receive their communications. This could be a game changer in allowing us to see what’s really going on in labs that are funded by taxpayer money, and which have so far been censored from public view. PETA’s lawsuit follows years of NIH’s attempts to deny Freedom of Information requests banning PETA executives from its campus and illegally censoring animal advocates’ speech on NIH’s public social media pages. Through the lawsuit, PETA is seeking a live audio-visual feed to see and hear real-time communications from the macaques who have been kept isolated, used in fear experiments, and had posts cemented into their heads. Anthropologists and other scientists have studied macaque and other primate communications for decades and know that the monkeys communicate effectively and intentionally through lip smacking, fear grimaces, body language, and various cries and sounds—all of which constitute speech under the law. Primatologists can analyze that speech on a deeper level to share their stories with the world.…

The Local Mythstorian Podcast

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Hosted by founder of The Local Mythstorian project, Eli Lewis-Lycett, each episode focuses on Eli's extensive research into a piece of folklore or curious local history from across Cheshire, Derbyshire or Staffordshire, revealing the hidden story within. Visit thelocalmythstorian.com for more.

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#History #Eli LewisLycett Each #Cheshire #Derbyshire #Staffordshire #Folklore #Legends #Local History #Myths #Local Mythstorian

The Local Mythstorian Podcast

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#History #Eli LewisLycett Each #Cheshire #Derbyshire #Staffordshire #Folklore #Legends #Local History #Myths #Local Mythstorian

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The History of Witchcraft In Cheshire - Live from The Grange Theatre 39:16

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The final episode of The Local Mythstorian Podcast is a live recording from Eli's talk at The Grange Theatre on Thursday May 22nd 2025, tracing the story of European witchcraft from its Roman origins through to the English witch-craze and into the county of Cheshire itself! Mythstoric Journeys , the hardback anthology collection from Eli, is available here! Visit thelocalmythstorian.com…

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The Long Grave - Little John and the Mystery of the Hathersage Giant 27:31

vor 18 weeks27:31

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There are numerous legends regarding the subject of Robin Hood and his band of outlaws located throughout the UK. In the Derbyshire village of Hathersage however, there is a story concerning Robin’s chief lieutenant Little John that intrigues more than most, centred on a grave that during an excavation 250 years ago, revealed the bones of a man who was over eight feet tall. Could it really be our famous figure in green? Mythstoric Journeys , the hardback anthology collection from Eli, is available here! Visit thelocalmythstorian.com…

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Windstars and Cinder - H.G. Wells and the Inspiration of the Potteries 23:42

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Known as the father of science fiction, H.G. Wells is as famous today as he was in his heyday of the 1890s. What isn’t so well known however, is the time he spent as a younger man amidst the burgeoning industrial landscape of the Potteries; and how that experience helped inform the imagery of his best-known work, The War of the Worlds , and also change his own worldview forever. Mythstoric Journeys , the hardback anthology collection from Eli, is available here! Visit thelocalmythstorian.com…

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Christmas Special 2024 - The Hauntings of Cheshire 16:19

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Bringing together a selection of unique curios and local tales concerning folklore and haunting from across the ancient county of Cheshire, join Eli by the fireside in this Christmas special from The Local Mythstorian Podcast. Mythstoric Journeys , the hardback anthology collection from Eli, is available here! Visit thelocalmythstorian.com…

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Halloween Special - The Ghost of Barton Blount Manor 15:35

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In this historically themed Halloween special, it's a personal tale from Eli regarding a very uncanny experience that he and his father shared when he was just 10 years old way back in 1993! Not quite a ghost story, but something wonderfully odd and beguiling, it was an experience that, thanks to the wonders of Google Earth, has since kicked up the strangest of possibilities thirty years on from the event itself. Mythstoric Journeys , the hardback anthology collection from Eli, is available here! Visit thelocalmythstorian.com…

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The Extraordinary Local Histories of Vale Royal - Live from The Grange Theatre 41:02

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Recorded live at The Grange Theatre, Hartford on May 16th 2024, the last regular episode in Season 2 of the podcast presents Eli's talk on the extraordinary local histories of Vale Royal. Topics covered include the Vale Royal Rebellion, the prophet Robert Nixon and the Devil in Cheshire folklore. Mythstoric Journeys , the hardback anthology collection from Eli, is available here! Visit thelocalmythstorian.com…

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Prescription Poison - Who Killed Thomas Meakin? 16:45

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The story of Thomas Meakin's eighteenth century murder is a well-known legend of the Staffordshire Moorlands, yet there has never before been a full consideration of the circumstances surrounding his death, nor an inquiry into who may have killed him. Mythstoric Journeys , the hardback anthology collection from Eli, is available here! Visit thelocalmythstorian.com…

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Rites of the Spring - Derbyshire Well Dressing and the Cult of Arnemetia 17:21

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A spring bonus episode of sorts, recorded for season one but never released, its seasonal theme sees it make it into Season 2... Well-dressing is much loved local custom which enjoys an almost exclusive patronage in the county of Derbyshire. It’s origins are much debated and appear to be forever shrouded in the deep history of the region’s ancient past, yet when stripping away the layers of the tradition involved in the ceremony and pairing with the country’s Roman history, a startling possibility begins to emerge. Mythstoric Journeys , the hardback anthology collection from Eli, is available here! Visit thelocalmythstorian.com…

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The Last Day of August - Great Budworth's Civil War Secret 33:06

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The village of Great Budworth possesses one of the most remarkable churches in all of Cheshire, not just loved by locals but genuinely appreciated by history fans and enthusiasts of late medieval architecture right across the UK. Something visitors may not be aware of however is the visit paid to the village by Parliamentarian forces on the last day of August in 1644, and its place at the centre of a genuinely hidden history of the English Civil War. Mythstoric Journeys , the hardback anthology collection from Eli, is available here! Visit thelocalmythstorian.com…

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The Hungry Prophet - The Legendary Sale of Robert Nixon 33:22

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The story of Robert Nixon, the 'Cheshire Prophet’ starved to death by the king, was once the best known legend of the county, retold and republished dozens of times across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Precisely who the man was however, has always been something of a mystery, with many assuming he was little more than a fairy tale. Yet research suggests that not only was Robert a real-life figure, but that his bizarre and tragic end might just have been a reality too. Mythstoric Journeys , the hardback anthology collection from Eli, is available here! Visit thelocalmythstorian.com…

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The Local Crusader - Ranulf de Blondeville and the Saracens of Biddulph Moor (Live Special) 40:26

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There are few more curious associations in local legend than that of Saracen prisoners being settled on the land that is now known as the Staffordshire Moorlands village of Biddulph Moor. Travelling back to the thirteenth century to discover the untold story behind the legend, we reach a place where the adventures of the crusades meet with the dark realities of the medieval slave trade under the patronage of one of the most powerful figures in all of local history. Recorded live at the Victoria Centre, Biddulph on January 15th 2024. Mythstoric Journeys , the hardback anthology collection from Eli, is available here! Visit thelocalmythstorian.com…

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Invisible Fortress - The Vanishing of Shipbrook Castle 33:40

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The castle at Shipbrook near Davenham is long lost to us today, its last traces being cleared from the land in the 1790s. However, in balancing the brutal events of early Norman England together with the history of a key local family, not only can we better appreciate this often overlooked corner of medieval Cheshire, but perhaps for the first time, look to understand the story of Shipbrook Castle and its ties to a bloody revolt against King Henry IV. Mythstoric Journeys , the hardback anthology collection from Eli, is available here! Visit thelocalmythstorian.com…

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Christmas Special - The Friar's Fool (Live Stream Event) 21:55

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A mid-season bonus episode - a recording of The Local Mythstorian website Zoom live stream event from December 7th; The Friar's Fool - A Brief History of English Devil Lore and Its Place In Cheshire Legend. Mythstoric Journeys , the hardback anthology collection from Eli, is available here! Visit thelocalmythstorian.com…

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A Ghost Story for Cheshire - The Bones of Marbury Park 35:11

vor 2 years35:11

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The haunting of Marbury Park is one of Cheshire’s most enduring legends of the supernatural. Most retellings however, if not all, have simply sought to repeat the basics of the tale without looking deeper into the history of the protagonists within. When we do, and look to consider the legend within the context of its earliest form, we find a very different tale to tell, and one that is all the more fascinating for it. Mythstoric Journeys , the hardback anthology collection from Eli, is available here! Visit thelocalmythstorian.com…

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Scholar of Magic - Ranulf Higden and the Wands of Chester Cathedral 27:23

vor 2 years27:23

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The Cheshire monk Ranulf Higden is remembered to historians today as the author of a distant world history from the fourteenth century. However, beyond his daily religious work in the abbey at Chester, he was an inquisitive and curious man of his age; traits that can help us understand better why such a figure of Christian piety would come to be buried with a notorious totem of the magical arts. Mythstoric Journeys , the hardback anthology collection from Eli, is available here! Visit thelocalmythstorian.com…

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