General Information – Page 10 – New World Witchery – The Search for American Traditional Witchcraft

Hi all,

I just wanted to take a moment and apologize to anyone who subscribed to this feed and got an episode of T. Thorne Coyle’s podcast included with blog post #2. I had included a direct link to a podcast of hers I was referencing in that post, and that, unfortunately, made it look to my feed writer like I had another podcast up. I corrected the link so it wouldn’t go directly to the audio file, but I think it may have been too late.

While I certainly recommend listening to that episode of Ms. Coyle’s podcast (among many other episodes of her show), I did not intend to hijack that file into my feed, and I apologize. I most especially apologize to Ms. Coyle, and hope this does not sour her sentiments towards this site or its owners. I’m trying to figure out how to make that audio file stop feeding, but I have not been able to as of yet, so any suggestions are most welcome. Podcasting is still a fairly new thing to me, so please bear with me/us as we make mistakes.

Thanks for reading & listening!

-Cory

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.