american sabbats – New World Witchery – The Search for American Traditional Witchcraft

Summary:

This time around (get it? Puns!) we look at the Neo-Pagan wheel of the year. We also discuss the importance of cycles in magical and spiritual practice, and we announce our latest contest winner.

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Play:

Download: Episode 94 – The Wheel of the Year

-Sources-

For our “Looking Back” segment, we turned to Episode 44 – American Holidays for our inspiration. We’d also like to mention Jason Mankey’s article “The Eight Great American Sabbats,” which prompted that discussion originally and influenced this one somewhat.

Laine mentions she’ll be trying an upcoming WitchBox to see if it sparks her practice a bit.

You can read a lot about the history of the Neo-Pagan holidays in ~~Margaret Atwood~~ Margot Adler’s Drawing Down the Moon, Aidan Kelley’s A Tapestry of Witches, and Ronald Hutton’s Stations of the Sun.

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Also, we should be launching our newest podcast effort, Chasing Foxfire, in the next few months as well.

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Promos & Music

Title and closing music is “Pig Ankle Rag,” by The Joy Drops, and is used under a Creative Commons License (available at Soundcloud.com).

Additional music is “Happy at the Wheel,” by The Twin Atlas, found at the Free Music Archive and used under a Creative Commons License.

Summary
Today we’re looking at the “American wheel of the year” and at developing your own magical calendar.

Play:
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. 6^th!

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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