New World Witchery – the Search for American Traditional Witchcraft

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Summary

This is our annual holiday special, featuring music, poetry, stories, and recipes! Here’s wishing you all the best for your holiday season and a happy new year to come!

Play:

Download: Episode 47 – Yuletide Greetings 2012

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Stories & Poetry:

“Susie’s Letter from Santa Claus,” by Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
“The Goblins Who Stole a Sexton,” by Charles Dickens
“The Boy Who Laughed at Santa Claus,” by Ogden Nash
A history of the Christmas candle in the window, from Fantasy-Ireland.com

Recipes (All cocktails this year):
After Five – Cory
Amber Dream/Winterbeer – Cory
Egg Nog, extra fancy – Laine

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Promos & Music

All songs used with permission/license, from Magnatune and MusicAlley, except as noted.

Playlist:

1. “All Hayle to the Days, To Drive the Cold Winter Away,” Harper’s Hamper
2. “Dancing Day I – A Virgin Most Pure,” Steven Potvin & Con Brio Choir
3. “O Come Emmanuel,” Mary Ellen Kirk
4.  “A v Jerusalime,” Kitka
5. “Rise Up Bright Sun,” Leslie Fish*
6. “The Huron Carol,” Tracy Helen
7. “Green Grow’th the Holly,” Pagan Carolers
8. “The Holly Bears a Berry,” Shira Kamen
9. “The Holly/Witches Dance,” Harper’s Hamper
10.  “I Saw Three Ships,” Dusty Hughes
11. “Tapster Drynker,” Shira Kamen
12. “Wassail,” In Nova Cantica
13. “Tsarko Momche…,” Kitka
14. “Chestnut, Daphne, Scotch Cap,” Music for a Winter’s Eve
15.  “The Blood-red Rose at Yule,” Music for a Winter’s Eve
16. “Nu zit Wellekome,” Ralph Rousseau Muelenbroeks
17. “We Three Kings,” Jennifer Avalon
18. “The Wheel of the Year,” Shira Kamen
19.  “Patapan,” Fugli
20. “Twelfth Eve, Christmas Cheer, Chestnut Vagary,” Harper’s Hamper
21. “Le Brandevin,” Shira Kamen
22. “Da Day Dawn,” Samantha Gillogly*

Underscoring music is “We Three Kings,” by Two Harps, and “Ding Dong Merrily on High,” by Tracy Helen, both from MusicAlley.

*Used by permission of the artist.