Hermits and Horse Moons
We highly recommend that you find an almanac or lunar-oriented datebook to help you with planning out your own magical year. Some we can recommend:
- Or your local Farmer’s Almanac!
You can find a transcript of this episode at our Transcripts page.
Our folk tale this month is two accounts of the St. John’s Eve celebration in New Orleans featuring Marie Laveau. The accounts come from:
Voodoo in New Orleans by Robert Tallant
Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston
See more on weaving flower crowns at this post from Creative Green Living
In our cartomancy section, Laine will read for Cory, and Cory for Laine, but we’ll also share general information on the cards we pull, too. If you are interested in playing card divination, you can check out our Cartomancy post or pick up Cory’s book, 54 Devils.
You can now buy Cory’s book, New World Witchery: A Trove of North American Folk Magic! (also available from Amazon). We also have a new book, Conjuring the Commonplace: A Guide to Everyday Enchantment and Junk Drawer Magic (1000Volt Press) (also available from Amazon).
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Promos and Music:
Title and closing music are “Runaround (AM Radio),” by Aaron Solomon, and is licensed from Audio Socket. (License #1273). Additional incidental music Kevin Macleod, from Free Music Archive and used under a CC 2.0 license.
Sound effects from Freesound.org and in the Public Domain. Additional “rooster” sound effect from Darina Evstafeva from Pixabay.
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