esbat – New World Witchery – The Search for American Traditional Witchcraft

Summary:

This time we go through the year, looking at the various names for full and dark moons, and try to come up with some magic that matches the specific lunar cycles.

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Producers for this show: Corvus, Diana Garino, Renee Odders, Ye Olde Magic Shoppe, Raven Dark Moon, Ivory, The Witches View Podcast, Sarah, Molly, Corvus, Catherine, AthenaBeth, Jen Rue of Rue & Hyssop, Shannon, Little Wren, Michael M. and Jessica (if we missed you this episode, we’ll make sure you’re in the next one!). Big thanks to everyone supporting us!

Play:

Download: Episode 97 – A Lunar Wheel of the Year

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A lot of what we use for this episode comes from almanacs, specifically the Almanac.com website (which also appears to have done a full moon names show recently on YouTube) and the following print almanacs:

Baer’s Agricultural Almanac
The Old Farmer’s Almanac (the print version of Almanac.com)
Gruber’s Hagers-Town Town & Country Almanack
The Witches’ Almanac

Cory also relies heavily on John Clare’s The Shepherd’s Calendar, and recommends a book called Planets for Pagans, by Renna Shesso in addition to the materials listed here.

We reference the podcast Betwixt and Between, and specifically their episode on lunar names, Episode 9 – Gardening, Ungardening, & Wilding. We also have some of our own previous podcasts and posts that might be of interest:

Our “Looking Back” was focused on Episode 75 – Moon Magic
Our post on Moon Magic may also be of interest
We also reference Episode 25 – Divination & Destiny and Episode 92 – Sabbats & Esbats

At the very end, we mention that we were interviewed for the latest issue of Witch Way Magazine.

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

If you have feedback you’d like to share, email us or leave a comment. We’d love to hear from you!

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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:

Billy Murray & His Orchestra – “By the Light of the Silvery Moon”
Martha Rose – “Mr. Moon”

The above songs can found at the Free Music Archive and Soundcloud and are used under a Creative Commons License.

Summary:

In this episode, we look at witch gatherings under full moons and around bonfires, from tales in folklore to what we do when we get together with other witches.

Producers for this show: Corvus, Diana Garino, Renee Odders, Ye Olde Magic Shoppe, Raven Dark Moon, Ivory, The Witches View Podcast, Sarah, Molly, Corvus, Catherine, AthenaBeth, Jen Rue of Rue & Hyssop, and our newest Producer, Jessica (if we missed you this episode, we’ll make sure you’re in the next one!). Big thanks to everyone supporting us!

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Play:

Download: Episode 92 – Sabbats and Esbats

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Our “Looking Back” segment is Episode 43 – Solitary, Partner, or Coven. You may also want to check out our Special Episode – The Horned Women, which features a fairy tale version of a witch gathering.

We’ve got several book and media sources we mention in this episode:

Signs, Cures, & Witchery, by Gerald Milnes
The Silver Bullet, by Hubert J. Davis
Witches, Ghosts, & Signs, by Patrick W. Gainer
Ecstasies and The Night Battles, by Carlo Ginzburg
Cunning Folk & Familiar Spirits and The Visions of Isobel Gowdie, by Emma Wilby
Witching Way of the Hollow Hill, by Robin Artisson
The Witches, by Roald Dahl
A Treasury of Irish Myth, Legend, & Folklore, by Lady Gregory & W.B. Yeats
Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner, by Scott Cunningham
And, of course, we mention The Craft as well

We discuss several different mail-order Sabbat kits. We haven’t ever used any of them, so these aren’t recommendations, but the ones we’ve looked at a little bit are:

You may also want to check out Sarah Lawless’ episode on Sabbats from her old show, Hedgefolk Tales, which has an account by Robert Cochrane on it.

If you have feedback you’d like to share, email us or leave a comment. We’d love to hear from you!

Don’t forget to follow us at Twitter! And check out our Facebook page! For those who are interested, we also now have a page on Pinterest you might like, called “The Olde Broom.”

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).