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Podcast 48 – Healing Magic

Summary

In this episode we’re discussing magic, medicine, & healing. We’ll look at holistic therapies as well as why Laine & Cory don’t grab a spellbook or a pill bottle when they get a headache.

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Cory mentions Hands of Light by Barbara Ann Brennan, and while he doesn’t mention it, there’s a sequel called Light Emerging as well.
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Promos & Music

Title music: “Homebound,” by Jag, from Cypress Grove Blues. From Magnatune.

Promo 1- Cosmophilia
Promo 2 – Between the Earth & Stars

Episode 48 – Healing Magic

Episode 48 – Healing Magic
We discuss healing, magic, and medicine.
(complete shownotes at http://www.newworldwitchery.com)

Podcast 47 – Yultide Greetings! 2012

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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!

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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:

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

Episode 47 – Yuletide Greetings! 2012

Episode 47 – Yuletide Greetings 2012
This is our annual assembly of songs, poetry, stories, and recipes to get you in the yuletide spirit.
(complete shownotes at http://www.newworldwitchery.com)

Summary
Laine triumphantly returns in this show about all sorts of monsters and cryptids. We’ll be looking at creatures from folklore to netlore, and figuring out which beasties are our favorites along the way.

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Only one book referenced tonight, Daniel Cohen’s Encyclopedia of Monsters
Here’s a link to the (now discredited) series of post-tsunami sea creature photos Cory mentioned. The critters are real, but the story associated with them is not.
If you’re fascinated by the netlore Laine shares, particularly that of the Slender Man, check out the “Marble Hornets” web series

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Promos & Music
Title music: “Homebound,” by Jag, from Cypress Grove Blues. From Magnatune.
Promo 1-Celtic Myth Podshow
Promo 2-Transitioning Pagan

Episode 46 – Monsters

Episode 46 – Monsters
Tonight we talk about the monsters of American folklore, both old and new.
(complete shownotes at http://www.newworldwitchery.com)

Podcast 45 – The Bag Lady Show

Summary
This episode is a grab-bag of different items: a recap of PPSM3, some music from artist Leslie Fish, a recording of a mini-class, and listener feedback. Think “Mary Poppins’ traveling bag,” but full of NWW goodies.

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You can read all about PPSM3 and find a list of the attendees and sponsors at the official Supermoot site
Much of the class discussion is also recapped in Blog Post 164 – Superstitions & Omens, Redux
I quote from Toni Morrison’s excellent book Sula in the class as well
Here are some of the books mentioned in the feedback section of the show:
- A Grimoire for Modern Cunning Folk, by Peter Paddon
- The Witching Way of the Hollow Hill, by Robin Artisson
- The Call of the Horned Piper, by Nigel Jackson
- Conjure Tales, by Charles W. Chesnutt
- The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus, by Joel C. Harris
- In a Graveyard at Midnight, by Edain McCoy
- Orlean Puckett: The Life of a Mountain Midwife, by Karen Cecil Smith
- Bluenose Magic, by Helen Creighton
- The Midwife & the Witch, by Thomas Forbes
- Peculiarities of the Appalachian Mountaineers, by Ora Jones
- Green Hills of Magic, by Ruth Musick
- Appalachian Magic, by Janet Rice
- Staubs & Ditchwater, by H. Byron Ballard
- Grimoires, by Owen Davies
- Mules & Men, by Zora N. Hurston
Here’s the link to homemade Peeps candies, as shared by a listener
You can read more about the crossroads legend mentioned in the feedback section at Lucky Mojo’s website
An author list of suggested witchy reading, sent in by a listener: Patricia A. McKillip, Cecelia Dart-Thornton, Jim Butcher, Diana Wynne Jones, Juliet Marillier, & Jan Siegel

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Promos & Music
Title music: “Homebound,” by Jag, from Cypress Grove Blues. From Magnatune.

We feature three songs by artist Leslie Fish, from her album Avalon is Risen: ““Hallows Dirge,” “Hymn to the Night-mare,” & “Lucifer”

Promo 1-Inciting a Riot
Promo 2-Lakefront Pagan Voice
Promo 3-Pennies in the Well
Promo 4-Borealis Meditation

Episode 45 – The Bag Lady Show

Episode 45 – The Bag Lady Show
This episode is a grab-bag of different items: a recap of PPSM3, some music from artist Leslie Fish, a recording of a mini-class, and listener feedback. Think “Mary Poppins’ traveling bag,” but full of NWW goodies.
(complete shownotes at http://www.newworldwitchery.com)

Podcast Special – Zombies

SHOWNOTES FOR PODCAST SPECIAL – ZOMBIES

Summary
Tonight we celebrate everyone’s favorite Deadite, the zombie:

We begin with “Chapter 13: Zombies,” from Tell My Horse, by Zora Neale Hurston
Then we hear a short story from Voodoo: Strange & Fascinating Tales & Lore, edited by John Richard Stephens
A selection of text from Maya Deren’s Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti finishes the show.

Apologies for the audio glitches near the middle of the episode!

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Special Episode – Zombies

Music
“Grifos Muertos” by Jeffery Luck Lucas, from his album What We Whisper, on Magnatune.com

Incidental Music: “Ouch” (Be Your Own PET); “Play with Fire” (Cobra Verde); “Sixteen Shells from a Thirty-Ought-Six” (Tom Waits); “John the Revelator” (Blind Willie Johnson); “This Old World is Going Down” (The Modulations)