Hello!
Welcome to New World Witchery, the Search for American Traditional Witchcraft. This is a show/blog about magic, specifically the magic practiced in North America. Your hosts are Cory & Laine, practicing witches who work with several New World systems. If you like magic, particularly American folk magic, this is the show for you.
What is this Podcast/Blog About?
This project is—hopefully—going to help all of those magical practitioners out there who identify with their New World roots make sense of magic as it happens on the American landscape.
Some of the magical praxes we’ll be covering include (but are not limited to):
- Hoodoo/rootwork
- Pow-wow (PA Dutch Magic)
- New Orleans-style Vodou
- Appalachian Granny Magic
- Ozark Mountain Magic
- Brujeria/Curanderismo
- Victor Anderson’s Feri Tradition/Vicia
- New England Witchery
In addition, we’ll be having discussions about things like:
- Effective spell crafting
- Spell crafting successes and failures
- Magic for oneself and magic for others
- Magical terminology
- Hexing
- Being in or out of the “broom closet”
This show will be semi-monthly, with (hopefully) one podcast early in the month and one closer to the end of the month. One podcast will be our regular discussion & banter, plus a segment on lore, history, and/or practice of New World Witchery. The second podcast will have more discussion & banter, then an interview segment with a notable witch, scholar, or expert on some aspect of American traditional witchcraft.
We’ll also be trying out segments from time to time which we think might enhance the show. Some of the ideas we’re kicking around are a handicrafts segment, poetry or stories related to American witchcraft, book recommendations, and highlights on magical ingredients and tools. If you have a suggestion for one of these short segments, please contact us. We’d love to hear from you!
The blog will be updated more frequently than the podcast, probably once or twice per week. It will have show notes, short essays, links, and various odds and ends that we think might be worth a look. Again, suggestions are welcome.
New World Witchery - The Search for American Traditional Witchcraft 
I wonder if your Podcast refers only to North America and Central? Since the title of your blog refers to America as a continent, I would like you to talk about traditional witchcraft in South America (If you need articles or texts I send to you)
Hi Hexen,
We had originally considered discussing both North and South American magical systems, but in the end decided to stick to just North American witchcraft for the moment. However, I’d love to learn more about South American magical systems, and we’re not against eventually including them in the discussion, so feel free to send any articles/texts/links to compassandkey@gmail.com. Thanks for reading/listening!
-Cory