Holidays

This page provides information on the holidays observed and/or discussed on the site or show.

Spring

• Blog Post 56 – Walpurgisnacht
• Blog Post 113 – Spiritual House Cleaning
• Podcast 27 – Spring Cleaning
• Blog Post 126 – Walpurgisnacht 2011
• Tales from the Witching Hour No. 3 [Walpurgisnacht 2012]
• Blog Post 171 – Magical Cakes [Mardi Gras traditions]
• Blog Post 172 – Ashes [Ash Wednesday]
• Blog Post 173 – Spring Tonics
• Podcast 61 – Mardi Gras!
• Podcast 63 – The Dark Mother [Mother’s Day]
• Podcast 76 – Spring Symbols

Summer

• Blog Post 160 – Summer Saints, part I
• Podcast Special – Magical Saints
• Blog Post 161 – Summer Saints, part II (St. John’s Eve)
• Blog Post 176 – Summer Saints, part III (Folk Saints)
• Episode 169 – How I Hexed my Summer Pandemic
• Episode 193 – Summer Camp Cryptids with Bones

Autumn

• Podcast 17 – Ancestors
• Podcast 18 – Ghosts!
• Blog Post 99 – Halloween
• Podcast Special – The Black Cat Murders
• Podcast Special – The Devil’s Marriage
• Podcast Special – The Boo Hag
• Podcast Special – Mother Hicks
• Podcast Special – Some Words with a Mummy
• Podcast Special – The Sullivan Looking Glass
• Podcast Special – Two Terrible Tales
• Podcast Special – All Hallows Read
• Podcast 56 – Harvest Home
• Podcast Special – The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
• Podcast Special – From Beyond the Grave
• Podcast Special – A Hearse of Verse
• Podcast Special – The Visitor
• Podcast Special – Pushed
• Podcast Special – The Last Dance
• Podcast Special – Haunted Heads
• Podcast Special – The Green Man of Pittsburgh
• Special Episode – Daddy Splitfoot’s Fireside Tales (Part One)
• Special Episode – Daddy Splitfoot’s Fireside Tales (Part Two)
• Special Episode – Weird Tales – The Night Wire
• Special Episode – Weird Tales – Four Wooden Stakes
• Special Episode – The Dumb Supper
• Special Episode – Can Peter Play?
• Special Episode – The Talking Board
• Special Episode – All Hallows Read 2018 – The Adventure of the German Student
• Special Episode – All Hallows Read 2018 – A Pretty Girl in the Road
• Special Episode – All Hallows Read 2018 – Aaron Kelly’s Bones
• Special Episode – All Hallows Read 2018 – Drinking Companions
• Episode 134 – Graveyard Lore Part I
• Episode 136 – Graveyard Lore Part II
• Episode 152 – Honoring Ancestors with Mallorie Vaudoise
• Special Episode – The Third Floor
• Episode 153 – Death Midwifery with Vic Young
• Special Episode – The Seven Gates of Hell
• Special Episode – Mr Fox
• Episode 154 – Halloween
• Special Episode – Camp Splitfoot – Junior
• Special Episode – Camp Splitfoot – The Avenging Voice
• Special Episode – Camp Splitfoot – He Likes it Loud
• Episode 176 – Spooktacular Listener Tales
• Episode 178 – A Cornucopia of Magic
• Special Episode – Scairy Tales – Three Army Surgeons
• Special Episode – Scairy Tales – The Story of a Mother
• Special Episode – Scairy Tales – The Boy who Drew Cats
• Special Episode – Scairy Tales – Vasilisa the Beautiful
• Episode 199 – Screen Time Spookiness

Winter

• Blog Post 09 – Groundhog Day
• Podcast 21 – Winter Lore
• Blog Post 107 – More Winter Lore
• Blog Post 108 – Holiday Magic in the Kitchen
• Podcast 22 – Yuletide Cheer!
• Blog Post 109 – Holidays in the Mountains
• Blog Post 110 – The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
• Blog Post 111 – The Meaning of Christmas
• Blog Post 112 – 5…4…3…2…New Year’s Traditions
• Blog Post 119 – A Little Love Magic
• Podcast 24 – Love Magic
• Podcast 39 – Yuletide Cheer! 2011
• Podcast 47 – Yuletide Greetings! 2012
• Podcast 58 – Yuletide Cheer! 2013
• Podcast 70 – Yuletide Cheer! 2014 (Part One)
• Podcast 71 – Yuletide Cheer! 2014 (Part Two)
• Podcast 72 – Yuletide Cheer! 2014 (Part Three)
• Episode 85 – Yuletide Cheer! 2015
• Episode 103 – Yuletide Cheer! 2016
• Episode 104 – Yuletide Fear! 2016
• Episode 120 – Yuletide Cheer! 2017
• Episode 121 – Yuletide Fear! 2017 (The Statue)
• Episode 122 – Divining the New Year
• Blog Post 211 – Holly and Ivy
• Episode 137 – Yuletide Cheer! 2018
• Blog Post 217 – North American Winter Monsters
• Episode 156 – Yuletide Cheer! 2019
• Episode 179 – The Winter Witchery Book Club
• Episode 180 – Yuletide Cheer! 2020
• Episode 202 – Yuletide Cheer! 2021

Other/Moveable

• Podcast 23 – A New Year, Anniversaries, & Birthdays
• Blog Post 159 – Birthday Superstitions
• Podcast 44 – American Holidays [A look at the general wheel of the year/sabbats of American folk magic]
• Episode 92 – Sabbats & Esbats
• Episode 94 – The Wheel of the Year
• Episode 97 – A Lunar Wheel of the Year
• Episode 138 – A New Year and Magical Self Care
• Episode 141 – New Years Divinations Revisited
• Episode 170 – Food & Folk Magic with Gwion Raven [Ritual feasting]
• Episode 184 – Spirits, Sabbats, & Esbats
• Episode 201 – Year of the Witch with Temperance Alden

A Witch’s Calendar & Folk Magician’s Notebook

• Blog Post 170 – A Little Gift [an iCal calendar of witchy holidays]
• Special Episode – Folk Magician’s Notebook – January 2022
• Special Episode – Folk Magician’s Notebook – February 2022