Are We Witches?

Intrepid, enchanted explorers Lisa and Sarah go searching for the places where magic might be found. From Celtic "thin places" to traditional sacred landmarks, they explore how people have mapped sacred landscapes, energetic hotspots, and the invisible pathways said to connect them.

Along the way, they discuss a witch's curse on the town of Paisley, the mystery of ley lines, and the thorny issue of spiritual and cultural appropriation.

Plus, in Show & Spell, they read their astrocartography charts and ask whether the stars really can point the way to a better place to live.

Join them as they go looking for magic on the map.

Sources for Who? What? Witch? Where?:

https://forest-healing.co.uk/articles/thin-places-and-liminal-spaces-in-celtic-culture

https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/enlighten/mapping-ley-lines-the-earth-s-energy-grid/

https://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/unexplained-phenomena/ley-lines.htm

Wikipedia Entry for Ley Lines

Wikipedia Entry for Jim Lewis

Astrocartography.uk

Astrocartography maps from:

Astro.com

Magic for the Masses:

What 3 Words

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Any problem you want a magical solution for, please write in for a bit of advice and a magical prescription. It's important we practice as much as possible to get our witchy credentials! We also want to hear how your spells are going, so please write in if you have practiced any magic mentioned in the show.

We are new to this community and these practices. All advice, tips and feedback will be gratefully received. After all, it takes a village to raise a witch.

Blessings to all those that rate & review (5 stars only, please!)

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This episode is available as a video on YouTube! Watch it here.

In this episode, Sarah and Lisa are beside themselves with excitement to talk with Maritza Schafer, founder of Bruja School and someone who's been practicing magic her whole life. Maritza was raised in Chile in a family of witches and learned brujería from her grandmother before going on to develop her own method, that she calls Liberation Magic, a blend of ancestral wisdom, spiritual practice, and personal transformation. Through her Bruja School, Maritza helps people build meaningful spiritual practices and reconnect with their own power. We're thrilled to chat with her about brujeria, liberation magic, and what it is to be a witch in the modern world.

Welcome to the podcast, Maritza.

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Find more about Maritza and Bruja School at:

Maritza Schafer

Bruja School

Maritza on Instagram

Maritza on YouTube

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Any problem you want a magical solution for, please write in for a bit of advice and a magical prescription. It's important we practice as much as possible to get our witchy credentials! We also want to hear how your spells are going, so please write in if you have practiced any magic mentioned in the show.

We are new to this community and these practices. All advice, tips and feedback will be gratefully received. After all, it takes a village to raise a witch.

Blessings to all those that rate & review (5 stars only, please!)

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In this episode of Are We Witches?, Lisa and Sarah buy soulmate readings and drawings from two Etsy psychics: Psychic Alda and ArtZenArtist.

The results include tarot cards, astrology, numerology, (suspiciously) mysterious technology, and some disclaimers that gave these hosts the "ick". Join us as we compare the readings, inspect the drawings, and ask whether we've glimpsed our romantic destinies, or whether we've been had by a couple of charlatans.

Visit our Instagram page to see the results for yourself.

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Any problem you want a magical solution for, please write in for a bit of advice and a magical prescription. It's important we practice as much as possible to get our witchy credentials! We also want to hear how your spells are going, so please write in if you have practiced any magic mentioned in the show.

We are new to this community and these practices. All advice, tips and feedback will be gratefully received. After all, it takes a village to raise a witch.

Blessings to all those that rate & review (5 stars only, please!)

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Lisa is back in the land of the living, and Are We Witches? is finally back in the swing of things.

This week, we dive into hexes, curses, and humanity’s long fascination with the idea that ritual alone can cause real harm. From the evil eye and bone-pointing traditions to “voodoo death” and the nocebo effect, we explore the strange intersection of fear, belief, psychology, and magic.

We also unpack modern witchcraft beliefs around hexing, including the idea that hatred and destructive intent may ultimately harm the person sending it.

We have a strict no-hexing policy at Are We Witches? …but we’re endlessly curious about it.

Sources for Who, What, Witch, Where?:

CANNON, W.B. (1942), “VOODOO” DEATH. American Anthropologist, 44: 169-181. https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1942.44.2.02a00010

Article from The Argus Newspaper, 13 July 1937 - Death By Black Magic: Pointing the Poison Bone

About the nocebo effect

The threefold law

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Any problem you want a magical solution for, please write in for a bit of advice and a magical prescription. It's important we practice as much as possible to get our witchy credentials! We also want to hear how your spells are going, so please write in if you have practiced any magic mentioned in the show.

We are new to this community and these practices. All advice, tips and feedback will be gratefully received. After all, it takes a village to raise a witch.

Blessings to all those that rate & review (5 stars only, please!)

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Look, it's been a rough patch for these witches, but they're back to talk about the (witch)craft of healing, from herbalism that turned into pharmacology, our friend the placebo effect, and the concepts of energy and remote healing.

Lisa's tricks involve the return of a piano with a message of hope, Sarah's cycling adventures go awry, and the witches put a new twist on an old "mancy."

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Follow us on instagram at arewewitches and write to us at [email protected]

Any problem you want a magical solution for, please write in for a bit of advice and a magical prescription. It's important we practice as much as possible to get our witchy credentials! We also want to hear how your spells are going, so please write in if you have practiced any magic mentioned in the show.

We are new to this community and these practices. All advice, tips and feedback will be gratefully received. After all, it takes a village to raise a witch.

Blessings to all those that rate & review (5 stars only, please!)

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Sarah and Lisa revisit some loose ends from previous episodes, including the controversial question of whether the full moon really affects human behaviour. Sarah's tricks involve possibly haunted toothbrushes, and Lisa recounts a recent pain in the neck.

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Follow us on instagram at arewewitches and write to us at [email protected]

Any problem you want a magical solution for, please write in for a bit of advice and a magical prescription. It's important we practice as much as possible to get our witchy credentials! We also want to hear how your spells are going, so please write in if you have practiced any magic mentioned in the show.

We are new to this community and these practices. All advice, tips and feedback will be gratefully received. After all, it takes a village to raise a witch.

Blessings to all those that rate & review (5 stars only, please!)

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In this Tarot Vin-isode from Are We Witches? the Empress is paired with Viognier (a controversial choice with our co-hosts) for a wine tasting and tarot love spread.

Lisa is delighted to have a trick to share (at last!) and Sarah is happily blessed by an 11.

Many thanks to Julie Albin for her Tarot Vin workbook which we continue to drink our way through, and to Labyrinthos for their tarot card interpretations.

Tarot Vin workbook by Julie Albin available at https://tarotvin.com/

Labrynthos can be found at https://labyrinthos.co/

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Follow us on instagram at arewewitches and write to us at [email protected]

Any problem you want a magical solution for, please write in for a bit of advice and a magical prescription. It's important we practice as much as possible to get our witchy credentials! We also want to hear how your spells are going, so please write in if you have practiced any magic mentioned in the show.

We are new to this community and these practices. All advice, tips and feedback will be gratefully received. After all, it takes a village to raise a witch.

Blessings to all those that rate & review (5 stars only, please!)

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Things got a little hectic lately, so we've had to delay this week's episode for a week. Never fear, we'll be back next Tuesday with our scheduled programming.

Thanks for your patience!

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Follow us on instagram at arewewitches and write to us at [email protected]

Any problem you want a magical solution for, please write in for a bit of advice and a magical prescription. It's important we practice as much as possible to get our witchy credentials! We also want to hear how your spells are going, so please write in if you have practiced any magic mentioned in the show.

We are new to this community and these practices. All advice, tips and feedback will be gratefully received. After all, it takes a village to raise a witch.

Blessings to all those that rate & review (5 stars only, please!)

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This episode is all about the Moon, Earth’s constant companion and the canvas for centuries of magic, myth and meaning.

Sarah shares paranormal tricks she’s been holding onto, Lisa explores the complex (and sometimes overstated) links between the Moon and witchcraft, and together they offer Magic for the Masses with a simple Blood Moon ritual for the full moon and lunar eclipse the night of this episode's release! 🌕

Sources for Who? What? Witch? Where?:

G. Edmonds III, III Radcliffe G. Drawing Down the Moon : Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World. Hardcover edition., Princeton University Press, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691186092.

Hutton, Ronald. The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft. Oxford University Press, 1999.

Silverblatt, Irene. Moon, Sun, and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru. Princeton University Press, 2021, https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1m5924j.

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Follow us on instagram at arewewitches and write to us at [email protected]

Any problem you want a magical solution for, please write in for a bit of advice and a magical prescription. It's important we practice as much as possible to get our witchy credentials! We also want to hear how your spells are going, so please write in if you have practiced any magic mentioned in the show.

We are new to this community and these practices. All advice, tips and feedback will be gratefully received. After all, it takes a village to raise a witch.

Blessings to all those that rate & review (5 stars only, please!)

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It's been one year of Are We Witches? and in honour of their first podcast anniversary, Lisa and Sarah venture back to the topic of love.

Sarah shares her first forays into dating, including her first speed-dating experience, Lisa revisits her list describing her perfect partner, and they attempt some divination to see if this year is the year they'll find love again.

To every single person who has listened, shared, messaged us, emailed us, left a comment, or told a friend about the podcast, thank you. Truly. Your support means more than we can possibly say.

We absolutely love making this podcast. We love researching, recording, laughing, spiralling into witchy rabbit holes, and sharing it all with you. It’s become such a special part of our lives.

Here’s to another year of curiosity, conversation, and enchantment. 🔮

We’re so excited for what’s ahead.

Links:

Backyard Catio Builder - the amazing folks who built Lisa's catio

Water and matchsticks divination ritual

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Follow us on instagram at arewewitches and write to us at [email protected]

Any problem you want a magical solution for, please write in for a bit of advice and a magical prescription. It's important we practice as much as possible to get our witchy credentials! We also want to hear how your spells are going, so please write in if you have practiced any magic mentioned in the show.

We are new to this community and these practices. All advice, tips and feedback will be gratefully received. After all, it takes a village to raise a witch.

Blessings to all those that rate & review (5 stars only, please!)

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