Ravin’ Girls Ep.12: The Great Butternut Caper
Episode Summary:
Welcome to Episode 12, where we cover Chapters 33-35 of The Raven Boys!
In this episode, we ponder the deepest of all philosophical questions: whether or not Gansey might be seeing alternate timelines, what the bathing habits of wizards truly are, what “butternut” is actually a euphemism for, and the hotly-contested eternal debate between, “The Pig is magic,” vs. “The Pig is just a piece of crap”. And, Lovely Listeners, this time around be happy that podcasting is not a fully sensory experience! They don’t call it “Devil’s Dung” for nothing...
DEEP DIVE: Psychometry
MINI-DEEP DIVE: Asafetida
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5/17/18-- Ravin' Girls Episode 13, covering chapters 36-38 of TRB
6/7/18-- Ravin’ Girls Episode 14, covering chapters 39-43 of TRB
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Links to Articles, Websites, and Other Discussions:
WishingStardust’s map of TRC locations: http://wishingstardust.tumblr.com/post/170779466832/always-wanted-a-nearly-exhaustive-map-of-all-the
Maggie driving her Camaro (very loud): https://youtu.be/1xl1qHg4i9k
Maggie calls her husband “Lover”: http://maggie-stiefvater.tumblr.com/post/96643088586/oh-i-just-found-the-old-18-walmart-engagement
Maggie talks about tripping and falling into a mirror: https://twitter.com/mstiefvater/status/984881686730166273
Asafetida as a spice: http://theepicentre.com/spice/asafetida/
Acifidity bags and medicinal uses: https://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/3613
Traditional Appalacian medicine: https://ozarkhealingblog.com/2015/12/14/221-asafetida/
Magical uses for asafedita: http://herbalriot.tumblr.com/post/55166750539/the-magickal-uses-of-asafoetida
Definition and history of psychometry: https://www.thoughtco.com/need-to-know-info-about-psychometry-2593072
More history of psychometry: http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Psychometry
Manual of Psychometry: The Dawn of a New Civilization, Volume 1 by Joseph Rodes Buchanan, pub. 1893: https://books.google.com/books?id=o0RDAAAAIAAJ&dq=Manual%20of%20psychometry%20%3A%20the%20dawn%20of%20a%20new%20civilization&pg=PA3#v=onepage&q=Manual%20of%20psychometry%20:%20the%20dawn%20of%20a%20new%20civilization&f=false
How To Do Psychic Readings Through Touch by Ted Andrews, pub. 2014: https://books.google.com/books?id=VD3PBQAAQBAJ&lpg=PT22&vq=location&pg=PT20#v=onepage&q&f=false
Stefan Ossowiecki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Ossowiecki
Psychometry and animism: https://www.themystica.com/psychometry/
Animism definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animism
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/williams/rabbit/rabbit.html
Tsumogami: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsukumogami
Cold reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_reading
James Randi quote: http://skepdic.com/psychometry.html
Hood sweater experiment: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5314164.stm
Synesthesia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia
Synesthesia after stroke: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/808777
Wired article about the Avogadro Project: https://www.wired.com/2011/09/ff-kilogram/
Achim Leistner: https://blog.adafruit.com/2015/05/03/achim-leistner-better-than-a-machine/
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Acknowledgements:
The Raven Cycle and all affiliated properties (The Raven Boys, The Dream Thieves, Blue Lily, Lily Blue, and The Raven King) are copyright Maggie Stiefvater and Scholastic, Inc. The Ravin’ Girls reference these properties for the purpose of literary analysis.
Intro and Outro music by Damiano Baldoni, used under CC Attribution License: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Damiano_Baldoni/Lost_Dinasty/
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