About the Episode
Enjoy this fascinating conversation with Dr Icy Sedgwick about the Death Goddesses, Persephone & Hel via a short Hecate detour.
We explore the connections between female deities and traditional views of femininity and how death Goddesses disrupt these ideas. It is wise to remember that Goddesses can and often do more than one job.
This episode also answers the long debated question whether there is any connection between Persephone’s particular fruit: the pomegranate, a Gregg’s Yum Yum and a custard tart from a sadly defunct bakers called Firkins.
Icy is a folklore writer and host of the Fabulous Folklore podcast. You can find her via her website and as @icysedgwick on all the socials.
About the Podcast
Exploring and improving our relationship with death through respectful enquiry.
Here you’ll find conversations with those who work with the dead and grieving, in addition to episodes examining death through a lens of history & the arts, folklore and food.
We’ll take you from ancient funerary rituals to forensic anthropologists via green burials, disaster recovery and Persephone’s pomegranates. We hope the journey & stories will provide you with some of the knowledge and empathy you need to navigate this vast hidden world as well as shine a light on the kindness and tenderness displayed by those professionals who truly take care of our dead.
Contact: A Question of Death
