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)
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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
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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”
Special Episode – Learning Witchcraft
New World Witchery Special – Learning Witchcraft
A storytelling episode, with a special focus on how witches learn witchcraft and what they do with their special powers.
(complete shownotes at http://www.newworldwitchery.com)
Podcast 43 – Solitary, Partner, or Coven
Summary
On our first episode back from summer break, we are looking at practicing magic alone, with a friend, or in a group. Plus we talk about finding teachers and styles of magical learning.
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Some of the sources we discuss:
- Some information on Gardnerian and Alexandrian Wicca (or Wica)
- Information on Robert Cochrane, including some links to his letters
- Cory mentions American Druidry group ADF
- We can’t recommend Peter Paddon’s sites enough
- Some notes on Tituba
- Here is Hubert Davis’ The Silver Bullet book
- We mention “The Horned Women” which Cory’s read before on the show
- Check out the tale of “Vasilisa the Beautiful,” featuring Russian witch Baba Yaga
- For more on the benedanti, Carlo Ginzburg’s books are a great source
- Cory mentions the Cultus Sabbati at one point
- Definitely check out Oraia’s episode on the Buddhist Mandala
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Promos & Music
Title music: “Homebound,” by Jag, from Cypress Grove Blues. From Magnatune.
Promo 1 – The Infinite & the Beyond
Promo 2 – Iron Powoqa Radio
Episode 43 – Solitary, Partner, or Coven
New World Witchery – Episode 43
Working alone, with a friend, or in a group, plus styles of magical learning.
(complete shownotes at http://www.newworldwitchery.com)
Podcast Special – Magical Saints
-SHOWNOTES FOR PODCAST SPECIAL-
Summary
In our only June 2012 episode (sorry! I’ll be back from school soon!) Cory tells a few tales of magical saints. The saints range from canonical choices to folk tales to at least one very American folk saint.
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-Sources-
The sources today come mostly from the following books:
- The Encyclopedia of Mystics, Saints, & Sages by Judika Illes
- Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino
- Discovering American Folklife by Don Yoder
- The Golden Legend (a collection of saintly folk legends)
- Legends of Beasts & Saints by Helen Wadell and Robert Gibbings
- Mules & Men by Zora Neale Hurston
Promos & Music
“Grifos Muertos” by Jeffery Luck Lucas, from his album What We Whisper, on Magnatune.com
All incidental music comes from the group Zephyrus, on Magnatune (except for one incidental bumper which I sampled from YouTube)
(also, I used Audacity instead of GarageBand for this episode, so the sound may be a bit different)
Special Episode – Magical Saints
Special Episode – Magical Saints
Cory tells you tales of magical saints, both canonical and very non-canonical.
(complete shownotes at http://www.newworldwitchery.com)
Podcast 42 – Plants and Witchcraft
Summary
On this episode of New World Witchery, we look at the world of plants and how it affects the world of witchcraft. We talk about sourcing herbs and roots, wild vs. cultivated plants, and whether you need to work with them at all.
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Download: New World Witchery – Episode 42
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We don’t cite a whole lot of sources, so I’m just going to list a few of the herbal books/resources we discuss or which I turn to regularly:
The Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs, by Scott Cunningham
Hoodoo Herb & Root Magic, by Cat Yronwode
The Folk-lore of Plants, by T. F. Thiselton-Dyer
Jude’s Herbal Home Remedies, by Jude C. Todd, M.H
The Complete Book of Herbs, by Lesley Bremness
Complete Herbal, by Nicholas Culpepper
A Modern Herbal, by Mrs. M. Grieve (also known as botanical.com)
We mention Mountain Rose Herbs as a great source for buying herbs, and we make several failing attempts to recommend our shop, the Compass & Key Apothecary. You should also check out Sarah Lawless’s great herbal supply shop, Forest Grove Botanica.
You can now request Card Readings from Cory via email, if you are so inclined.
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Promos & Music
Title music: “Homebound,” by Jag, from Cypress Grove Blues. From Magnatune.
Promo 1 – Inciting a Riot
Promo 2 – The Infinite & the Beyond
Promo 3 – The Pagan Homesteader
New World Witchery - The Search for American Traditional Witchcraft 