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Special Episode – Folk Magician’s Notebook – December 2022

Holiday greenery and ghosts!

Summary:

Time to close out a year of Folk Magician’s Notebooks with a few nods to the holiday season. We’ve got scary ghost stories (well one anyway), a peek at the lunar calendar for the month, some generous and cozy cards, and more!

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Producers for this show:

Abby, Achija Branvin Sionach, AromaG’s Botanica, AthenaBeth, Andrea, Bagga Marsh, Benjamin, Breanna, Carol, Carole, Catherine, Cheryl, Christopher, Colby, ConjuredCardea, Daniel, Dave, Don, Donna, Elizabeth, Eveline, Erin, Fergus, Griffin, Heather, Jamie, Jen Rue of Rue & Hyssop, Jess, Jenna, Jennifer, Jodi, John, Jonathan at the ModernSouthernPolytheist, Kat, Kee, Kristopher, Liz, Mark, Marisa, Matthew Venus of Spiritus Arcanum, Milo, Minimiel, Montine of Book of My Shadows, , Nikki, Payton, Sara, Scarlet Pirate, Sherry, Staci, Stephanie, Ralph from the Holle’s Haven Podcast, Vee, Victoria & Keifel of 1000 Volt Press, Violet, and WisdomQueen (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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We highly recommend that you find an almanac or lunar-oriented datebook to help you with planning out your own magical year. Some we can recommend:

The Witches Almanac

Llewellyn’s Witches’ Datebook

Benebell Wen’s Metaphysician’s Planner

Montine’s Book of My Shadows

Or your local Farmer’s Almanac!

Our story this time is “The Golden Arm,” and you can find the version Cory reads on the Pitt.edu website.

We also have a whole post about “Holly and Ivy” if you’re interested!

If you are interested in playing card divination, you can check out our Cartomancy post or pick up Cory’s book, 54 Devils.

You can now buy Cory’s book, New World Witchery: A Trove of North American Folk Magic! (also available from Amazon)

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Don’t forget to follow us at Twitter! And check out our Facebook page! For those who are interested, we are also on TikTok now. You can follow us on Instagram (main account, or you can follow Laine as well) or check out our new YouTube channel with back episodes of the podcast and new “Everyday Magic” videos, too (as well as most of our contest announcements)! Have something you want to say? Leave us a voice mail on our official NWW hotline: (442) 999-4824 (that’s 442-99-WITCH, if it helps).

Promos and Music:

Title and closing music are “Runaround (AM Radio),” by Aaron Solomon, and is licensed from Audio Socket. Incidental music is Shirley Cason, “Winter Mornings”; Pat Holmberg, “We Three Kings”; and Phil Symonds, “Coventry Carol” all licensed from Audio Socket. Additional music Kevin Macleod, from Free Music Arcive and used under a CC 2.0 license.

Sound effects from Freesound.org and in the Public Domain.

Please consider supporting us by purchasing our promotional items in the New World Witchery Threadless shop or by joining our Patreon supporters.

If you like us AND you like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, you will love our new show: Myth Taken: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast, now available through all the podcatchers! You can also check out Cory’s folklore show, Chasing Foxfire, where he explores the intersection of folklore and topics like history, medicine, science, nature, literature, pop culture, and more!

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Episode 219 – Otherworlds and Underworlds

A journey to Hel(l)(s) and back! Otherworlds in folklore and myth

Summary: This time we’re traveling into the realms of the fairies, the dead, the mysterious, and more as we explore various mythic and folkloric Otherworlds and Underworlds.

Producer for this show: This episode is supported by listener Matthew Venus of Spiritus Arcanum in Salem. We hope you enjoy your new familiar, Gary Busey, and keep him well-fed and magically bound as needed.

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We mention several books, including Cunning Folk & Familiar Spirits by Emma Wilby; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving; Witches of Pennsylvania by Thomas White; and The Formation of Hell by Alan Bernstein.

We also mention some of our sister show episodes: Chasing Foxfire Episode 8 – To Hell and Back and Myth Taken Episode 48 – The Myth of the Hellmouth.

We mention a few movies, including A Dark Song, The Ninth Gate, and The Tenth Kingdom.

Cory mentions the recent publication of The Gorgon’s Guide to Magical Resistance, edited by Jenn Zahrt and Laura Tempest Zakroff (which includes his “penis trees” article along with a lot of other great pieces) and the upcoming release of the Llewellyn’s Complete Book of North American Folk Magic, out in Spring 2023. Also be on the lookout for our upcoming collaborative book Conjuring the Commonplace: A Guide to Everyday Enchantment and Junk Drawer Magic also coming in 2023 from 1000Volt Press.

You can now buy Cory’s book, New World Witchery: A Trove of North American Folk Magic! (also available from Amazon)

Please note that clicking on links may provide some monetary compensation to New World Witchery.

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If you have feedback you’d like to share, email us at compassandkey@gmail.com or newworldwitcherypodcast@gmail.com or leave a comment at the website: www.newworldwitchery.com . 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 are also on TikTok now. You can follow us on Instagram (main account, or you can follow Laine as well) or check out our new YouTube channel with back episodes of the podcast and new “Everyday Magic” videos, too (as well as most of our contest announcements)! Have something you want to say? Leave us a voice mail on our official NWW hotline: (442) 999-4824 (that’s 442-99-WITCH, if it helps).

Promos and Music: Title music is “Woman Blues,” by Paul Avgerinos. All music is licensed from Audio Socket.

Please consider supporting us by purchasing our promotional items in the New World Witchery Threadless shop or by joining our Patreon supporters. If you like us AND you like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, you will love our new show: Myth Taken: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast, now available through all the podcatchers! Please think about checking out our Audible Trial program. Visit Audibletrial.com/newworldwitchery to get your free trial of Audible, where you can download over 180,000 titles (including some narrated by Cory). Your purchases help support this show, and there’s no obligation to continue after the free trial

Special Episode – Folk Magician’s Notebook – November 2022

Surly cards, fabulous fables, & bewitching bones!

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We dive into a new month by looking at some surly (and pointy) cards, turning to proverbs for divination, hear some fabulous fables, and play with a few magical bones. Plus our lunar astrology and more!

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We highly recommend that you find an almanac or lunar-oriented datebook to help you with planning out your own magical year. Some we can recommend:

The Witches Almanac

Llewellyn’s Witches’ Datebook

Benebell Wen’s Metaphysician’s Planner

Montine’s Book of My Shadows

Or your local Farmer’s Almanac!

We share a series of Aesop’s fables this month, all available from the Library of Congress website. The tales are “The Astrologer,” “The Crow & the Pitcher,” and “The Miller, His Son, and the Ass”

Want to know more about oseteoliths? Or bones in magic more generally?

If you are interested in playing card divination, you can check out our Cartomancy post or pick up Cory’s book, 54 Devils.

You can now buy Cory’s book, New World Witchery: A Trove of North American Folk Magic! (also available from Amazon)

Image via Pixabay (CC 2.0)

Promos and Music:

Title and closing music are “Runaround (AM Radio),” by Aaron Solomon, and is licensed from Audio Socket. Additional music Kevin Macleod, from Free Music Arcive and used under a CC 2.0 license.

Sound effects from Freesound.org and in the Public Domain.

Please consider supporting us by purchasing our promotional items in the New World Witchery Threadless shop or by joining our Patreon supporters.

Special Episode – All Hallows Read 2022

Spooky stories of devils and magic gone amiss!

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We’re back just in time for the spooky season with our annual All Hallows’ Read episode! This time we’re sharing tales of magic gone wrong, with narratives about diabolical woodsmen, sorcerous battles, eerie homunculi, and more. We’ve got special guests joining us to narrate these, too, so see if you can “spot” the voices!

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We visit old Professor Henry Ostcouch busily working away in his tower, and hear stories of magic gone awry. Each story has a special guest teller as well!

“The Homunculus of Maimonides,” from Lilith’s Cave: Jewish Tales of the Supernatural, edited by Howard Schwartz (read by Ryan of The Red Text Podcast)
“The Battle of the Enchanters,” from The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, edited by Jack Zipes (read by Victoria Raschke of the WitchLit Podcast)
“The Black Woodsman,” from The Silver Bullet, and Other American Witch Stories, by Hubert J. Davis (read by Aaron Oberon of the FolkCraft Podcast)
“The Blacksmith and the Devil,” from The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, edited by Jack Zipes (read by Austin of Banexbramble and the Southern Bramble Podcast)
“Cornelius Agrippa’s Bloody Book,” from The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, edited by Jack Zipes (read by Don Martin of Head on Fire Podcast)

My immense thanks to these readers, who stepped in to help me out when my voice was not up to recording all these tales due to illness, and did a marvelous job telling them, too!

You can now buy Cory’s book, New World Witchery: A Trove of North American Folk Magic! (also available from Amazon)

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Promos and Music:

Music for this episode is licensed from Audio Socket. Additional music Kevin Macleod, from Free Music Archive and used under a CC 2.0 license.

Sound effects from Freesound.org and in the Public Domain.

Please consider supporting us by purchasing our promotional items in the New World Witchery Threadless shop or by joining our Patreon supporters.

Special Episode – Folk Magician’s Notebook – October 2022

Folk tales of talking cats, diabolical cards, enchanted apples, and more!

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Time for another round of full moons, cards, and so much more! We look at the Blood Moon, talk about a pair of tempting-but-misunderstood cards, talk about the secret magic in the average apple, and hear a story of some very chatty cats.

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We highly recommend that you find an almanac or lunar-oriented datebook to help you with planning out your own magical year. Some we can recommend:

The Witches Almanac

Llewellyn’s Witches’ Datebook

Benebell Wen’s Metaphysician’s Planner

Montine’s Book of My Shadows

Or your local Farmer’s Almanac!

The story this month is a Texas folktale called “The Black Cat’s Message,” as retold by S.E. Schlosser.

You may be interested in our article on the folk magic of apples or the video we posted about it as well.

If you are interested in playing card divination, you can check out our Cartomancy post or pick up Cory’s book, 54 Devils.

You can now buy Cory’s book, New World Witchery: A Trove of North American Folk Magic! (also available from Amazon)

Image via Pixabay (CC 2.0)

Promos and Music:

Title and closing music are “Runaround (AM Radio),” by Aaron Solomon, and is licensed from Audio Socket. Additional music Kevin Macleod, from Free Music Arcive and used under a CC 2.0 license.

Sound effects from Freesound.org and in the Public Domain.

Please consider supporting us by purchasing our promotional items in the New World Witchery Threadless shop or by joining our Patreon supporters.

Episode 218 – Catholic Folk Magic with The Red Text Podcast

Rosaries, novenas, and witchcraft? We chat with The Red Text Podcast about Catholic folk magic

Summary: We break out the smells and bells to chat with two delightful folk Catholic magicians: Fonzie and Ryan from The Red Text podcast! We talk about pathways into folk Christian-type magic, engaging in “good” heresy, Filipino spirits mingling with Mary, seeing folk magic as a Queer practice, and much more!

Producer for this show: This episode is supported by listener Benjamin! We dispatched a helpful (but not housebroken) imp as our sign of gratitude to you for your support of this episode!

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Thanks to Fonzie and Ryan for joining us this time! You should absolutely check out their podcast, The Red Text, for more on Catholic folk magic, witchcraft, and much more!

You can find Fonzie at her/his/their Instagram: @witchilumicente

You can find Ryan at their/her/his Instagram: @themestizomystic

We also mention Olivia, The Witch of Wanderlust, quite a bit, so check out their YouTube channel, too. Some other recommended follows are @banexbramble @witchofsouthernlight @tarotexegete and @chaoticwitchaunt.

We mention True Magic by Draja Mickaharic and The Way of the Rose by Clark Strand and Perdita Finn. We also briefly mention the Michealmas lore that Cory talks about in Episode 56 – Harvest Home.

You can now buy Cory’s book, New World Witchery: A Trove of North American Folk Magic! (also available from Amazon)

Please note that clicking on links may provide some monetary compensation to New World Witchery.

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Promos and Music: Title music is “Woman Blues,” by Paul Avgerinos. All music is licensed from Audio Socket. Additional music by Kevin Macleod, used under a CC 2.0 license with attribution.

Episode 217 – Magical Mail Time

We answer listener messages about magical marbles, dreams of smug birds, mixing divination systems, and more!

Summary: We look into our mail bag and pull out a half dozen or so messages we’ve gotten over the past year to answer out loud, with words! We talk about magical marbles, dream states (including some with smug birds), and Czech folklore. Plus we do our card readings and Cory suggests a way to use cards to magically work through a problem.

Producer for this show: This episode is supported by AromaG’s Botanica. We greatly appreciate your ongoing support and currently sending you our very finest fleet of choreographed ravens to do an eerie aerial dance of gratitude on our behalf. Please do not make eye contact with them. That doesn’t usually go well.

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Big thanks to our listeners who sent in messages for this show! Some of these messages were in response to previous shows including the January 2022 Folk Magician’s Notebook, Episode 163 – Dreams, and Episode 205 – Death Lore.

You can now buy Cory’s book, New World Witchery: A Trove of North American Folk Magic! (also available from Amazon)

Please note that clicking on links may provide some monetary compensation to New World Witchery.

Image via Pixabay (Used under CC 2.0 License, modified by New World Witchery)

Promos and Music: Title music is “Woman Blues,” by Paul Avgerinos. All music is licensed from Audio Socket.

Special Episode – Folk Magician’s Notebook – September 2022

Lonely cards, blackberries, magic in your coffee cup, and more!

Summary:

We do some introspection with a couple of solitude-focused cards, watch the moon dance through the equinox and Michaelmas, learn about the good fortune in your teacup, hear a tale about listening to your dreams, and learn a little useful broom-crafting!

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We highly recommend that you find an almanac or lunar-oriented datebook to help you with planning out your own magical year. Some we can recommend:

The Witches Almanac

Llewellyn’s Witches’ Datebook

Benebell Wen’s Metaphysician’s Planner

Montine’s Book of My Shadows

Or your local Farmer’s Almanac!

Our folktale this month is “The Peddler of Swaffham,” recorded by Joseph Jacobs and available on the Archive.org site (public domain).

A good, brief introduction to tasseomancy is The Stranger in the Cup, by Gregory Lee White.

If you are interested in playing card divination, you can check out our Cartomancy post or pick up Cory’s book, 54 Devils.

You can now buy Cory’s book, New World Witchery: A Trove of North American Folk Magic! (also available from Amazon)

Image via Pixabay (CC 2.0)

Promos and Music:

Title and closing music are “Runaround (AM Radio),” by Aaron Solomon, and is licensed from Audio Socket. Additional music Kevin Macleod, from Free Music Arcive and used under a CC 2.0 license.

Sound effects from Freesound.org and in the Public Domain.

Please consider supporting us by purchasing our promotional items in the New World Witchery Threadless shop or by joining our Patreon supporters.

Episode 216 – A Little Obeah with Emma Kathryn

In which chat Obeah, Witchcraft, food, and ghost stories with Emma Kathryn

Summary: We sit down with author and teacher Emma Kathryn to discuss Obeah, the growth and changes in witchcraft in recent decades, and even share a ghost story! And, of course, food. Yum…

Producer for this show: Our Patreon supporter for this episode is Breanna, and name them our Good Luck Blue Plate Special Number 1. Thank you for your support of this episode, which keeps our hearts and bellies full, and for your ongoing support of New World Witchery.

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You can find out more about Emma Kathryn at her website, and you can check out her book, Witch Life as well. She writes at the Gods & Radicals blog, the House of Twigs, and Witch Way Magazine as well.

Cory reads a small passage from Zora Neale Hurston’s Tell My Horse, and we also mention the books Where to Park Your Broomstick by Lauren Manoy, and the children’s books of Enid Blyton as well.

You can now buy Cory’s book, New World Witchery: A Trove of North American Folk Magic! (also available from Amazon)

Please note that clicking on links may provide some monetary compensation to New World Witchery.

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Promos and Music: Title music is “Woman Blues,” by Paul Avgerinos, licensed from Audio Socket. Additional Music is “Musical Impromptu 1” and “Tranquility,” by Kevin MacLeod used under a Creative Commons 2.0 license.

Episode 215 – Ritual and Ceremonial Magic

We talk about the overlap in ceremonial and folk magic, just what is a ritual, and more

Summary: This time we’re looking at the relationship between ceremonial magic, rituals, and folk magic. We discuss grimoires that have shaped folk practices, where the two overlap (a LOT), and our own experiences with rituals both positive and negative. Plus monthly card pulls, listener emails, and more!

Producer for this show: Our Patreon supporter for this episode is Stephanie, whom we’ve appointed “Exalted Avatar of the Third Cosmological Doorway of Witchful Naughtiness and General Impishness.” Thanks for your support, and please, make all proper obsequies to them in their Most High Throne. Thank you for your support of this episode and for your ongoing support of New World Witchery.

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Some of the sources we talk about include:

And we also discuss how much we love The Encyclopedia of 5,000 Spells by Judika Illes (as well as many of her other books)

You can now buy Cory’s book, New World Witchery: A Trove of North American Folk Magic! (also available from Amazon)

Please note that clicking on links may provide some monetary compensation to New World Witchery.

Image via Pixabay (Used under CC 2.0 License, modified by New World Witchery)

Promos and Music: Title music is “Woman Blues,” by Paul Avgerinos. All music is licensed from Audio Socket. Additional Music is “Devil’s Son,” by Widow’s Bane, licensed from Audio Socket.