Special Episode – Zombies
A show featuring everyone’s favorite Deadite, the zombie.
(complete shownotes at http://www.newworldwitchery.com)
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Podcast Special – American Devils
SHOWNOTES FOR PODCAST SPECIAL – AMERICAN DEVILS
Summary
This evening we hear two tales about diabolical creatures from American folklore:
- First we hear “Goatman,” an original tale based on lore from Prince George’s County, Maryland.
- Second, we’ll hear about the famous “Jersey Devil,” based on accounts from the Burlington, NJ Tourism Board and S. E. Schlosser’s AmericanFolklore.net site.
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Special Episode – American Devils
Music
“Grifos Muertos” by Jeffery Luck Lucas, from his album What We Whisper, on Magnatune.com
Special Episode – American Devils
Special Episode – American Devils
Tonight we hear two tales from American folklore featuring diabolical creatures.
(complete shownotes at http://www.newworldwitchery.com)
Podcast Special – Native Creatures
SHOWNOTES FOR PODCAST SPECIAL – NATIVE CREATURES
Summary
Tonight we hear three tales from Native American sources about strange and unusual creatures:
- The Mannegishi, from the Ojib-Cree people, adapted by Cory from a tale found at NativeWeb
- Achaanwaapush: The Cannibal Rabbit – adapted by Cory from a Cree-Cherokee tale told by John Petagumskum at FirstPeople.us
- The Wampus Cat – An Appalachian tale read from Spooky South, by S.E. Schlosser
Play
Special Episode – Native Creatures
Music
“Grifos Muertos” by Jeffery Luck Lucas, from his album What We Whisper, on Magnatune.com
Speical Episode – Native Creatures
Special Episode – Native Creatures
Three tales of strange creatures from Native American Lore
(complete shownotes at http://www.newworldwitchery.com)
Podcast Special – Hairy Men and Bloody Bones
SHOWNOTES FOR PODCAST SPECIAL – HAIRY MEN & BLOODY BONES
Summary
In our first Halloween storytelling episode, we look at two folktales: “WIley & the Hairy Man,” (as retold by Diane de las Casas) and “Raw Head & Bloody Bones” (as retold by S.E. Schlosser)
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Speical Episode – Hairy Men and Bloody Bones
Music
“Grifos Muertos” by Jeffery Luck Lucas, from his album What We Whisper, on Magnatune.com
Special Episode – Hairy Men and Bloody Bones
Speical Episode – Hairy Men and Bloody Bones
Two folktales: Wiley and the Hairy Man, and Raw Head and Bloody Bones
(complete shownotes at http://www.newworldwitchery.com)
Podcast 44 – American Holidays
Summary
Today we’re looking at the “American wheel of the year” and at developing your own magical calendar.
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Download: Episode 44 – American Holidays
-Sources-
Our two main sources are the article “The Eight Great American Sabbats,” by Jason Mankey (at Patheos.com) and Jack Santino’s book All Around the Year.
Some other neat holiday-centered items:
- R. Burns “Halloween” poem
- Arlo Guthrie, “Alice’s Restaurant” (a main tradition for Cory’s Thanksgiving)
- Leprechaun lore from the Yeats/Gregory collection Fairy & Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry
- A little bit on the connection between Paganism & Easter from religioustolerance.org
- The Wikipedia article on Dia de Muertos
- A fun recipe for the Ossa di Morti cookies Cory mentions
Also check out the Holidays page at New World Witchery to explore this topic further, including episodes on Groundhog Day, Walpurgisnacht, and St. John’s Eve.
Cory will have a horror story about rabbits (of course) coming out through Misanthrope Press and their magazine Title Goes Here in the Fall (that’s sort of Halloween and Easter, right?).
And definitely check out all the details on Pagan Podkin Super Moot no. 3, happening in San Francisco on Oct. 6th!
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Promos & Music
Title music: “Homebound,” by Jag, from Cypress Grove Blues. From Magnatune.
Promo 1 – Eat My Pagan A$$ Podcast
Promo 2 – HP Lovecraft Live Podcast
Promo 3 – Iron Powoqa Radio
Episode 44 – American Holidays
Episode 44 – American Holidays
The American wheel of the year, and crafting your own magical holidays.
(complete shownotes at http://www.newworldwitchery.com)
Podcast Special – Learning Witchcraft
Podcast Special – Learning Witchcraft
Summary: In this episode, I’ll be telling stories from American folklore about how people learn witchcraft. We’ll hear tales of initiation and apprenticeship, solitary witches, witch apprenticeships, and find out just what witches do.
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Download: New World Witchery Special – Learning Witchcraft
Stories:
- Examination of Tituba recorded by Ezekiel Cheever in Witches of the Atlantic World, Elaine Breslaw, ed. (p. 377-80)
- Hubert J. Davies – “Delivered Up to the Devil,” from The Silver Bullet (p. 20-25)
- Patrick Gainer – a story from Witches, Ghosts, & Signs (p. 164-5)
- Jim Edmonds’ short tale in Foxfire 2 (p. 355)
- Vance Randolph – from Ozark Magic & Superstition (p. 265-8)
- Account of traiteurs – Dorson/Brandon in Buying the Wind (p. 265-6)
- Zora N. Hurston – from Mules & Men, recounting her initiation by Rev. Joe Watson (p. 215-7)
- Timothy Knab – from A War of Witches (p. 4-11 excerpts)
Promos & Music
“Grifos Muertos” by Jeffery Luck Lucas, from his album What We Whisper, on Magnatune.com
All incidental music comes from the group Falling You, from the album Touch, on Magnatune. Songs include:
- “Sadness of the Witch”
- “The Art of Possession”
- “Less Likely to Believe”
- “Something About Eve”
- “Reading the Leaves”
New World Witchery - The Search for American Traditional Witchcraft 