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Speaker 1: Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on

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Speaker 1: iHeartRadio and welcome back.

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Speaker 2: To Coast to Coast George Nori with you. Derek Mason

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Speaker 2: with US writer, researcher and award winning travel and documentary photographer.

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Speaker 2: He hosts the award nominated podcast called spirit Box, best

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Speaker 2: known for his work on the gin Ye Gaudi. Lives

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Speaker 2: in East Sussex, United Kingdom, and that's where we're going

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Speaker 2: live right now. Darrere, welcome to the program.

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Speaker 3: Good morning Georgia. Say, it's an honor to be here.

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Speaker 2: How do people hear your podcast? By the way, spirit Box.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the podcast has been around for but just

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Speaker 3: over four years now, and I look at all all

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Speaker 3: the different types of spirit encounters, folklore and the interview

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Speaker 3: modical practitioners about their experiences.

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Speaker 4: So guess it's a fun chow fantastic.

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Speaker 2: How did you get involved in the unusual like this?

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Speaker 3: Well, it started, It started ready from the of my

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Speaker 3: photographic work. I used to be a travel and documentary

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Speaker 3: photographer and I spent a lot of time in India

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Speaker 3: in particular, and I just started bumping up against this

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Speaker 3: this stuff when I investigated certain subjects like like the Gin,

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Speaker 3: which are these beings that are said to be made

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Speaker 3: of smokeless fire, most known within kind of the Arabic

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Speaker 3: world and Islamic worlds. I also did. I did a

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Speaker 3: documentary piece on a Hindu sect known as the Agori,

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Speaker 3: and they practiced some extreme magical rituals and strange things

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Speaker 3: started to happen when I investigated and got into this area,

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Speaker 3: and that repiqued my interest and I wanted to understand

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Speaker 3: my experiences more and I just started researching and it

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Speaker 3: and one thing led to another reading.

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Speaker 2: Did the strange things there happen to you or just whenever?

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Speaker 3: Yet, some strange things did happened to me, particularly when

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Speaker 3: I went to Delhi in twenty sixteen to shoot a

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Speaker 3: story related to the locations within the city of Delhi

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Speaker 3: that are associated with the Gin. The famous book by

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Speaker 3: an author called William dal Rymple called A City of Gins,

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Speaker 3: and it's about his time as a young correspondent in Delhi.

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Speaker 3: So I went to the Deli to shoot these locations

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Speaker 3: and kind of build a story about the Gin looking

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Speaker 3: just had a list of disasters from from day one

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Speaker 3: I had a quite intense nightmare which I found out

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Speaker 3: going to shoot it. So basically I was sitting down

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Speaker 3: in during a Susi celebration and there are lots of

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Speaker 3: fantastic music in a place called Nismodine Dark, which is

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Speaker 3: the tomb of a very famous Supi Saunds. People go

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Speaker 3: the Gin Rother. And during that nightmare, there was a man.

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Speaker 3: And he turned and looked at me and his face

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Speaker 3: was decomposed. Yeah, it was quite intense. He was wearing

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Speaker 3: a white hat and said, don't come here. And my

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Speaker 3: camera broke. There was two weeks before I was supposed

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Speaker 3: to go. I couldn't get it repaired. No one could

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Speaker 3: figure out what was wrong with it. My my father

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Speaker 3: came with me. His tooth broke in Heathrow Airport before

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Speaker 3: we even left on the flight. We had to change

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Speaker 3: To be treated by the by the stuffies to help

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Speaker 3: And there was a man sitting there, and he had

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Speaker 3: It's the only time I've ever been afraid to take

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Speaker 2: Have you ever been heard Gara in your work.

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Speaker 3: I haven't been hurt, but I have had some like

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Speaker 3: frightening experiences, experiences that challenge my worldview. If you ask

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Speaker 3: me five year years ago if I believed in spirits

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Speaker 3: I absolutely believe those things are real.

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Speaker 2: Hence the book Song of the Dark Man, which we're

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Here in the United States, we talk a lot about

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Speaker 2: dark Man that's different than these entities, is it not?

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Speaker 3: It's I would say the hat Man and some of

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Speaker 4: People are lower emanations of the.

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Speaker 2: Same force, which is an evil force.

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Speaker 3: I think it's more ambiguous than that I think the

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Speaker 3: but it's not necessarily the case. That's not to say

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Speaker 3: that people don't have the evil experience, but it is

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Speaker 3: often an experience that leads to people's worldview being changed

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Speaker 3: and bringing in creative forces into people's lives. So that's

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Speaker 3: the reason it's called Song of the dark Man because

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Speaker 3: people sometimes when people have these experiences, these initiatory experiences

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Speaker 3: with the dark Man, they get a form of creative

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Speaker 3: energy coming through them. They also get a form of

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Speaker 3: magical energy coming through them, so it's almost like an

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Speaker 3: initiation into creativity or initiation into into magical practice.

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Speaker 2: There are who coined the phrase dark man?

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Speaker 4: Oh goodness, Yeah, that's a that's a great question.

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Speaker 3: There's so many names for the spirits and this force

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Speaker 3: that I could tell you where that that name originally

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Speaker 3: others from a lot of the medicitions. And which is

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Speaker 2: Has the name the devil been associated with the dark man.

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Speaker 3: What they would call the folk devil, not not the

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Speaker 3: Folk devil is more of a trickster type character, so

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Speaker 3: it would be like the devil and folklore that essentially

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Speaker 3: tends to be an in morality plays the stories that

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Speaker 3: people's character gets questioned, whereas the the Christian devil is

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Speaker 3: more of that kind of opposing, opposing figure that is

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Speaker 3: set up to be diametrically opposed to God.

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Speaker 2: There his website is his name he spells a E

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Speaker 2: A R R A G. H. Mason dot com linked

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Speaker 2: up at Coast to coast am dot com. There are

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Speaker 2: what if you had to explain, and you will, who

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Speaker 2: the dark man is, What the dark man is? What

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Speaker 3: I'd say it's the disruptive force, a destructive force that

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Speaker 3: reminds us that we are part of nature, that we're not.

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Speaker 3: We don't own nature, we don't rule over nature, but

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Speaker 3: we are part of it. And that's what I mean

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Speaker 3: about the folks that will be in this kind of

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Speaker 3: trickster character. It makes people understand that whatever you think

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Speaker 3: control that all those things can be undermined in an instant.

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Speaker 2: Is the phrase the dark man pretty well known in

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Speaker 4: Like occult circles.

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Speaker 2: Why is the dark man experience to some so terrifying?

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Speaker 2: What happens?

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Speaker 3: Well, what I noticed going through the focalore and going

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Speaker 3: figure that often appears that it's part animal and part human.

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Speaker 3: So these things tend to interlap quite a bit. People

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Speaker 3: circumstances are the same. Somebody has a journey there in

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Speaker 3: world works. The structure of the universe is utterly changed

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Speaker 2: Let's break down the title of the book. First of all,

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Speaker 2: Song of the Dark Man. What does that mean?

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Speaker 3: Well, particularly the reason I chose the words song is

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Speaker 3: help people understand that this is part of this experience

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Speaker 3: and part of the things that this spirit bequeaths people.

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Speaker 2: The cover of the book, that picture that illustration is

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Speaker 3: I had very little to do with that but yeah.

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Speaker 3: So in the Scottish witch trials we have a repeated.

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Speaker 3: for example, Margaret Alexander, she was tried in sixteen forty

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Speaker 3: the crossroads believed to be a place of power, that

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Speaker 3: people will go to the to the crossroads two initiate

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Speaker 3: contact with the spirit there. The most famously Robert Johnson,

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Speaker 3: can't see, which is a very striking thing to say,

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Speaker 3: and really kind of jumped jumped out of me when

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Speaker 3: I'm want to find that.

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Speaker 2: What what did Robert Johnson have to give up in

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Speaker 2: order to get those benefits?

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Speaker 3: The legend said that he he he gave up.

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Speaker 4: His soul for this.

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Speaker 2: Not worth it?

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Speaker 3: Is it? I wouldn't say so now, I mean.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't trade my soul for whatever Johnson thinks he

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Speaker 2: got out.

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Speaker 4: Of the deal.

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Speaker 3: Yep, I would agree with you, which which makes you

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Speaker 3: question of what was Dylan talking about?

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Speaker 2: Good point?

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Speaker 1: Point?

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Speaker 2: Does the dark Man inject himself in many events?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 3: What we what we found here is going through the

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Speaker 3: this figure which in Irish is called on far dark

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Speaker 3: or on far dove, so those terms in Gaelic translation

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Speaker 3: as the dark man or the black man. Now those

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Speaker 3: when I did some research within some of the Irish

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Speaker 3: folklore collections which are available online, I started to see

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Speaker 3: this figure come up again and again, and he was

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Speaker 3: set up as this adversarial figure, this trickster figure that

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Speaker 3: would drive all these stories along. And one of the

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Speaker 3: most famous stories that I found him in was in

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Speaker 3: a collection known as the Senian Cycle. So the Fenian

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Speaker 3: Cycle is a body of Irish distriture originally dating from

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Speaker 3: the seventh century, and essentially the Fenian cycle is one

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Speaker 3: where these noble warriors, the Fienna, spend their time hunting, fishing,

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Speaker 3: and engaging with adventures in the spirit world and to

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Speaker 3: That's kind of what we're looking at here. The p

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Speaker 3: earliest compilation of the Fenian stories is found in Column Shana,

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Speaker 3: or the Locally of Ancients. This text is made up

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Speaker 3: of three manuscripts, two from the fifteenth century and third

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Speaker 3: dating to the seventeenth century. But these manuscripts reflect a

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Speaker 3: far older tradition, goes way back, and like Irish is

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Speaker 3: the oldest vernacular language apart from Latin in Western Europe.

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Speaker 3: So these stories, the dark Man turns up only a

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Speaker 3: very very small passage, and he sets the whole string

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Speaker 3: of events of that create this great story, which is

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Speaker 3: the story of the birth of Osheen, who is Sean

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Speaker 3: mccool's son and essentially Sean McCool, who is the Irish

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Speaker 3: Arthur is out hunting. He finds a strange deer. His

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Speaker 3: dogs won't attack the deer, so he brings the deer

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Speaker 3: back into his force. That night, a beautiful fairy woman

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Speaker 3: called five that comes into his quarters and begs his

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Speaker 3: protection from this man, who she calls the dark the

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Speaker 3: dark man of the she or the black medicition of

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Speaker 3: the men of God. Now this is the dark man.

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