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Ah - smell that wisp of wood smoke in the air? Feel that strange sensation as the hairs rise on the back of your neck? See that ancient spectre stood in your path, pointing at you while mumbling things that you can't hear?

It can only mean one thing: it's the month of Halloween, October, and therefore it's also Three Ravens Haunting Season!

To kick off 'Haunting Season 3' we thought, to do something different, that we might discuss how people might approach Halloween and this advent of 'The Dark Months' from a few different points of view.

For example, how does Seasonal Affective Disorder change how we feel and behave during October? How do folk customs seem to often counteract these ideas, bringing people together for spans of fiery time before encouraging us to retreat to our caves?

We chat through some suggestions of things to try on a very basic level at first, and then, during the section section of the episode we discuss the best Halloween TV and movies around at the moment, including everything from our Top 5 Spooky Family Movies to our Top 5 Classic Spooky Movies, our Top 5 Recent Recommendations, and more.

In the final section, in addition to discussing some potential Spooky Reads to try, we discuss specific customs, from wreath making and warding your house to some simple autumnal recipes, Halloween-themed cocktails and mocktails, and a bunch of other things too.

The hope is, if you're a fan of Halloween, you'll be nodding along. If Halloween is a bit of a mystery to you, hopefully it lays out some of the things you might do to mark the occasion, and why.

About Three Ravens 🔮

Three Ravens is a completely independent English myth and folklore podcast where we share stories, celebrate folk culture, and fall backwards through the hedgerows of history.

Hosted by real-life couple Eleanor Conlon and Martin Vaux, and mostly recorded at our home in rural Sussex in southern England, Three Ravens is rated 4.8/5 from over 500 reviews and has grown by word of mouth care of our lovely listener community ‘The Conspiracy of Ravens.’

We release three episodes a week, on Mondays, Thursday and Saturdays, through which we explore folktales, folkways, fairy stories, folk songs, mythology, local heritage, seasonal customs and traditional beliefs.

Our research inspires our retellings of stories from across history and culture, with episodes standing alone but connected together across over 500 chatty, mostly light-hearted, swear-free installments driven by passion, kindness and curiosity.

Now ranked as an all-time Top 5 podcast across several categories by Goodpods, charting in the Spotify, Apple and Rephonic UK Fiction Top 10 across 2024, 2025 and 2026, if you’re interested in ghosts, monsters, regional beliefs, and the things that unite us all, then join us round the campfire and listen in…

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