In this episode, we’ll be looking at times when girls have been worshipped. There'll be no accompanying Patreon episodes for this one and this will be the last episode for the time being. Thanks for your support and understanding.

Sources: Cannington Cemetery: Excavations 1962–3 of prehistoric, Roman, post-Roman, and later features at Cannington Park Quarry, near Bridgwater, Somerset by Philip Rahtz, Sue Hirst and Susan M Wright, The Somerset Village Book by the Somerset Federation of Women’s Institutes, www.cannington.org.uk, somersetheritage.org.uk, Inca Rituals and Sacred Mountains. A Study of the World’s Highest Archaeological Sites by Johan Reinhard and María Constanza Ceruti, neh.gov/project/ice-maiden, penn.museum/sites/expedition/frozen-mummies-of-the-andes/, Inca Mummies: Secrets of a Lost Empire (National Geographic Documentary), From Goddess to Mortal by Rashmila Shakya as told to Scott Berry, Living Child Goddess in Nepal (BBC Our World documentary), nepaleconomicforum.org/the-focus-on-the-past-19-years/, Becoming a deity – a mixed blessing (DW News video), kathmandupost.com/art-culture/2024/11/16/the-untold-story-of-a-kumari-s-mental-well-being, Living Goddess of Nepal to Fin. Analyst: A Journey of Divinity to Resilience (The PVT Show Podcast), npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/05/28/410074105/the-very-strange-life-of-nepals-child-goddess

This episode is the story of Malgarida.

In this episode, we’ll be looking at a political leader from the Inca Empire. Her name was Contarhuacho (also spelt Contarguacho) and she was born in Tocash in the modern-day province of Huaylas in Peru around the year 1500.

To find out more about my books, you can head to Patreon or to Linktree, specifically linktr.ee/helenpugh. There are books for kids and adults, books in Spanish and in English. The books include On This Day in Somerset, Unsung Women in Somerset, Jungle-tastic Tales and Inca-tastic Tales. And once again thanks for listening.

My accompanying patreon episodes for this episode will explore times when women were the first person or last person to do something, with many of those achievements happening within the last hundred years. You can head to patreon.com/helenpugh.

I hope you enjoyed this episode. to find out more about my books, head over to Linkree, specifically linktr.ee/helenpugh. There are books for kids and adults, books in Spanish and in English. The books include On This Day in Somerset, Unsung Women in Somerset, Jungle-tastic Tales and Inca-tastic Tales. And finally thanks for listening.

The sources for this episode are too numerous to mention here, but they are the same ones used for these women in Unsung Women in Somerset and On This Day in Somerset.

Today we’ll be exploring witches who I’ve researched for my books Unsung Women in Somerset and On This Day in Somerset.

Sources: Somerset Stories of the Supernatural by Roger Evans, Folklore of Somerset by Kinsley Palmer, www.bristolhistory.co.uk, The Mammoth Book of Superstition: From Rabbits’ Feet to Friday the 13th by Roy Bainton, A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 by Wallace Notestein, wookey.co.uk, Encyclopaedia Britannica, English Queenship 1445–1503 by Joanna L Chamberlayne, henrysixth.com, oxforddnb.com, Saducismus triumphatus by Joseph Glanvil.

My accompanying patreon episode for this episode will explore more singers and composers. You can head to patreon.com/helenpugh and if you’re not already a member, you can join. Membership costs just three pounds per month or the equivalent in your currency, which is less than the price of a coffee (at least here in the UK!). And you get access to two bonus episodes for every free-to-everyone episode that is released, meaning three times as many episodes. And you'll be doing your bit to keep this podcast going!

To find out more about my books, head over to Linktree, specifically linktr.ee/helenpugh. There are books for kids and adults, books in Spanish and in English. The books include On This Day in Somerset, Unsung Women in Somerset, Jungle-tastic Tales and Inca-tastic Tales. And finally thanks for listening.

Sources: English Folk Music on the Margin– Cecil Sharp’s Gypsies by Yvette Staelens, cecilsharpspeople.org.uk, archives.vwml.org, efdss.org, Gypsy & Traveller Voices by Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, freecen.org.uk, marriage records, 1881, 1901 & 1911 censuses, Double Stars: the Story of Caroline Herschel by Padma Venkatraman, Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel, mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk, oxforddnb.com, batharchives.co.uk/georgian-newspaper -project, A Narrative of the Life of Mrs Charlotte Charke edited by Robert Rehder.

If you'd like to support my work by becoming a subscriber on Patreon, you can also access an episode where I talk about Linley Blathwayt, the servants of Eagle House and the fate of Eagle House's arboretum. There's also a subscribers-only episode about the suffragettes Edy Craig and Christopher Marie St John.

Sources: The Women's Suffrage Movement by Elizabeth Crawford; A Nest of Suffragettes in Somerset by BM Willmott Dobbie; The Routledge Companion to British Women’s Suffrage edited by Krista Cowman; oxforddnb.com; death and probate records; spartacus-educational.com; Suffragettes in Bath: Activism in an Edwardian Arboretum by Cynthia Hammond with Dan Brown, Suffragettes in Bath: Activism in an Edwardian Arboretum by Cynthia Hammond with Dan Brown; bathintime.co.uk; suffragettestories.omeka.net.