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ANGELA'S SYMPOSIUM π Academic Study on Witchcraft, Paganism, esotericism, magick and the Occult
By Dr Angela PucaReligion & Spirituality
ANGELA'S SYMPOSIUM π Academic Study on Witchcraft, Paganism, esotericism, magick and the Occult episodes
- The Witches' Sabbath: What Actually Happened (And What Was Invented)
What if everything you think you know about the Witches' Sabbath is wrong?
The broomsticks, the Devil, the midnight orgies on remote mountaintops: this image has haunted the Western imagination for nearly six hundred years. But where did it actually come from? Was it an inquisitorial fantasy imposed from above? A distortion of real folk traditions of spirit-flight and nocturnal procession? A recycled conspiracy theory older than Christianity itself? Or something stranger than any of those?
In this video I trace the Sabbath from its origins in a handful of Alpine witch trials in the 1430s, through the great demonological texts of the early modern period, to its reinvention by romantics, feminists, and modern practitioners who know the image was constructed and use it anyway. I cover the Cohn vs Ginzburg debate that still organises the field, the Friulian benandanti who fought witches in their sleep, the antisemitic roots of the word "sabbath" itself, Margaret Murray's influential and almost entirely wrong witch-cult hypothesis, and why the Wheel of the Year is a twentieth-century invention. I also look at where the term "esbat" actually comes from (spoiler: not where you think), the connection between the Sabbath and the Wild Hunt, and what contemporary Italian folk practitioners make of all this today.
This is serious historiography made accessible, not dumbed down. If you want the real story behind one of the most persistent and misunderstood images in Western culture, this is it.
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00:00 Introduction: The Witchesβ Sabbath Explained
01:41 What Is the Witchesβ Sabbath?
04:61 The Alpine Origins of the Witchesβ Sabbath
09:01 Demonology, the Malleus, and the Stakes of Witchcraft
15:01 Cohn vs Ginzburg: Who Created the Witchesβ Sabbath?
22:36 Folk Traditions, Night Travel, and Regional Witch Beliefs
25:26 From Michelet to Murray: How Modern Witchcraft Reused the Sabbath
30:50 The Witchesβ Sabbath Today: Politics, Film, and Online Witchcraft
30:06 Flying Ointments: What the Evidence Really Shows
38:49 Reading the Witchesβ Sabbath as a Palimpsest
41:33 Celebrate your Sabbaths in Angelaβs vibrant Inner Symposium
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44 min - The Left Hand Path of Tarot with Cherry Parra
Join me for a livestream interview with Cherry Parra, author of The Left Hand Path of Tarot, as we explore shadow, divination, witchcraft, and the transformative power of tarot through a left-hand path lens.
Cherry Parra is a Mexican left-hand path witch residing in Mexico. She majored in Hispanic literature and has an innate and inherited connection to occult practices, with her magic stemming from a matriarchal lineage of healers. Her great-grandmother was a witch and curandera, a traditional folk healer from Oaxaca in southern Mexico, whom people in the community would seek out for healing matters of body and spirit.
Cherryβs work centres on illuminating the uncomfortable truths many prefer to avoid. For her, the shadows are both a second home and profound teachers. She lives and maintains a closed spiritual practice in Mexico, where she reads tarot for a select international clientele that includes artists, creatives, and visionaries.
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1 hr 5 min - Destination: The Truth about Solomonic Magic with Dr Gal Sofer
Join me for a livestream interview with Dr Gal Sofer on the complex histories of Solomonic magic, learned magical literature, and the transmission of esoteric knowledge across Jewish, Christian, and Arabic-speaking contexts. We will explore what it means to call a magical tradition Solomonic, how texts, images, and ritual technologies travelled across languages and cultures, and why the history of magic is far more intricate than simple questions of authenticity or invention.
Dr Gal Sofer (MD, PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of the Arts at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His research focuses on the history of science, magic, and Kabbalah from the late Middle Ages to the present, in both Jewish and Christian cultures and across multiple languages. His work examines the transfer of knowledge between languages in Europe, the visualisation of scientific and religious knowledge, and the visual aspects of learned magical literature. His first book, Solomonic Magic: Methodology, Texts, and Histories, was published by Brill in 2025. His second book, Conjuring the Arab Magician: Intercultural Histories of Magic, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2026.
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1 hr 26 min - The Real History of the Green Man (Not What Wicca Teaches You)
The Green Man was invented in 1939.
Not the carvings. Those are real, they are medieval, and they have a fascinating Christian history. But the god, the named figure currently worshipped across contemporary Paganism as an ancient vegetation deity, was assembled in the twentieth century from a misread folklore article, a collapsed witch-cult theory, and a Jungian response to ecological anxiety.
This video tells that story properly, with the scholarship, the primary sources, and the reception history. No gatekeeping, no debunking energy. Just the real genealogy of a god we made ourselves.
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19 min - Alchemy Explained: Science, Spirituality, and the Search for Transformation
Alchemy is far more than the myth of turning lead into gold. In this video, I explore how alchemy developed across Hellenistic Egypt, China, India, the Islamic world, and Europe as a rich tradition that united experiment, medicine, cosmology, and spiritual transformation. We look at major alchemical ideas, key historical figures, and the practices that shaped both occult traditions and the emergence of modern chemistry. This lecture also examines the major scholarly debates around alchemy, showing why historians no longer see it simply as failed science or pure mysticism, but as a complex way of understanding matter, knowledge, and the transformation of the self.
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00:00 Introduction | What This Alchemy Lecture Covers
02:07 History and Evolution of Alchemy | Origins, Practice, Spirituality and Science
05:22 What Is Alchemy? Practices, Texts, Roles and Transformation
07:00 Hellenistic Alchemy | Alexandria and the Origins of Western Alchemy
10:16 Hermes Trismegistus | Hermetic Foundations of Alchemy
13:54 Chinese Alchemy | Immortality, Cinnabar, Waidan and Neidan
17:28 Indian Rasayana | Mercury, Tantra and the Alchemical Body
20:58 Islamic Alchemy | Translation, JΔbir ibn HayyΔn and Arabic Science
24:35 Medieval and Early Modern European Alchemy | From Scholasticism to Chymistry
26:47 Renaissance Alchemy and Paracelsus | Medicine, Spagyric Art and Iatrochemistry
28:15 From Alchemy to Modern Chemistry | Boyle, Newton and Lavoisier
35:48 What Was Alchemy? Proto-Chemistry, Spiritual Practice or Both?
40:49 How Alchemy Shaped the Modern World | Conclusion
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48 min - Magic in the United States with Heather J. Freeman
What happens when magic moves through podcasts, digital media, and contemporary American culture? In this livestream, Iβll be joined by Heather Freeman, artist, scholar, and creator of Magic in the United States, the award-winning PRX podcast that explores the histories, practices, and cultural tensions surrounding magic, spirituality, and esotericism in the United States. Freeman is also a Professor of Digital Media at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where her work brings together art, technology, mythology, and occult themes.
Together, weβll discuss how magic is represented and reimagined in the modern world, how digital technologies are reshaping occult practice, and why the study of magic can reveal so much about religion, identity, media, and power in contemporary society. Weβll also explore the thinking behind Magic in the United States, a three-season series funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and UNC Charlotte, which examines American magical, spiritual, esoteric, and marginalised religious traditions through both historical and contemporary lenses.
This conversation will be especially relevant for anyone interested in Western esotericism, contemporary witchcraft, digital occultism, and the blurred boundaries between religion, magic, and media. If you want a discussion that is both intellectually rigorous and deeply relevant to the present moment, this is one you wonβt want to miss.
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1 hr 12 min - This Changes Solomonic Magic Forever
What if everything you thought you knew about Solomonic magic was wrong? In this video, I explore Gal Soferβs groundbreaking study of Solomonic magic and why it changes the way we understand the Key of Solomon, the Goetia, and the wider grimoire tradition. Far from being a single, unified body of ancient magical wisdom, these texts emerge as a fluid network shaped by scribes, translations, and centuries of adaptation across Jewish, Christian, Arabic, Greek, and Latin traditions.
We will look at the real history behind Solomonic texts, the myth of the βoriginalβ grimoire, the Jewish roots of demon-summoning traditions, and why this matters not only for scholars of Western esotericism but also for contemporary practitioners. If you are interested in grimoires, ceremonial magic, the Key of Solomon, the Lesser Key, or the history of Western occultism, this episode will give you a much deeper understanding of what is really at stake.
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29 min - Your Tradition is Fake. Now What?
What happens when you discover that the spiritual tradition you trusted may not be as ancient, authentic, or historically grounded as you were led to believe? In this video, I explore one of the most difficult questions in contemporary magic and Paganism: can a practice still be meaningful if its origin story falls apart? Drawing on examples such as Wicca, Stregheria, folk magic, and the academic study of esotericism, I look at the difference between historical fact and spiritual truth, why this tension feels so personal, and how practitioners can move forward without self-deception. If you have ever questioned lineage claims, authenticity, or whether scholarship threatens spirituality, this episode is for you.
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20 min - Esotericism in Western Culture with Prof Wouter Hanegraaff
Join me for a live conversation with Professor Wouter J. Hanegraaff on his recent book Esotericism in Western Culture: Counter-Normativity and Rejected Knowledge, published by Bloomsbury in 2025. In this interview, we will explore why esotericism should not be treated as a marginal curiosity, but as a central dimension of Western cultural history. The book is presented by both the publisher and Hanegraaff as a substantially revised, rewritten, and expanded reworking of his earlier 2013 Guide for the Perplexed, now reframed around the ideas of counter-normativity and βrejected knowledgeβ.
Together, we will discuss how dominant accounts of βWestern cultureβ have excluded forms of knowledge associated with magic, Hermetism, paganism, and other heterodox traditions, and why Hanegraaff argues that this exclusion has been deeply tied to Eurocentric and colonial models of civilisation. We will also examine what it means to βreject the rejection of rejected knowledgeβ, and how this changes the way we understand the history of religion, philosophy, science, and culture in the Greater West.
This livestream will be of interest to anyone working on esotericism, the history of ideas, religion, occultism, Hermeticism, or the construction of cultural norms in the academy. It promises to be a rich discussion of one of the fieldβs most influential scholars and a major new intervention in the study of Western esotericism.
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1 hr 34 min - What Is a CultοΌ How High-Control Religious Groups Manipulate Belief
This lecture explores what religious cults are, how scholars study them, and the techniques high-control groups use to shape belief and behaviour. Drawing on Religious Studies, psychology, and contemporary case studies, I examine charisma, manipulation, coercive control, thought reform, and why people may find it difficult to leave. We also consider how similar dynamics can appear beyond religion, including in modern ideological and online movements.
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About ANGELA'S SYMPOSIUM π Academic Study on Witchcraft, Paganism, esotericism, magick and the Occult
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As an academic and university lecturer in Philosophy and Religious Studies, I'll share peer-reviewed research on MAGIC, ESOTERICISM, WITCHCRAFT, PAGANISM, SHAMANISM and related currents.
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