Are We Witches?

Join Lisa and Sarah as they explore the science behind epigenetics, the “witch wound” and inherited trauma as they untangle the complexity of their current lives and the karmic potential of many more.

Investigating this first hand, Lisa visits a past life psychic medium with good friend Monique. Having such a strong connection they want to know, is this the first life in which they met? Or have they met before? 

Meanwhile Sarah looks for more signs from the universe (is she on the right path?) and our hosts offer a little DIY magic at home (we could all use a little help moving forward, right?).

So join them for this deep dive special into past lives as they attempt to answer the question, is this their first time around?

Citations for Who, What, Witch, Where?:

https://news.yale.edu/2025/03/06/violent-experiences-alter-genome-ways-persist-generations

Magic for the Masses spell:

https://witchcasket.co.uk/blog/letting/

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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.

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A follow-up minisode, Lisa and Sarah consider what intentions they have set themselves for the new year.

Everyday magic is explored in their signature How’s Tricks? section with enchantment encountered both this year and last. The duo also reveal which wish they are responsible for “womanifesting” following the Solstice Ritual and discuss the tarot cards they have pulled for the year ahead.

Join the cosy, catch-up vibes, listen in, and help them discover, are they witches with intentions?

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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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Happy Hogmonay to all! Christmas is over and the new year is on its way, so we got together to catch up on our new year rituals and to share what holiday tricks we've experienced.

We'll be doing a series of shorter episodes as we enter the new year and get ready to return to the deeper dives.

Thank you to our listeners for lending us your ears in 2025, we appreciate you!

See you in 2026!

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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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On this, the last What's Up, Witches? of 2025, Lisa and Sarah share where the magic has been in the last couple of weeks, discuss what they've been thinking about since the last recording, and dive into some tarot and wine (Nebbiolo this time), to consider their life's purpose. No big deal.

Are We Witches? will be back with minisodes over the holidays and new year, and taking some extra time to be with loved ones.

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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.

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Sarah's internet woes have returned...and so will we, next week!

In the meantime, if you’ve got something you’d like to share, or a question you want us to tackle, you can email us at [email protected] or send us a DM on Instagram at @arewewitches. We love hearing from you, truly.

So hang tight, take care, and maybe light a candle for stable broadband.

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Familiars take many shapes and sizes; cute, cunning and spectral. Posited as a spiritual companion, Sarah and Lisa wonder what it means to be accompanied by a familiar today.

From the witch's black cat archetype to the spirit of a dead man sent from the Fairy Kingdom, the history of familiars is traced back to Early Modern England, where we find the first woman executed for witchcraft assisted by a cat named Sathan (pronounced 'Satan') and the "Witchfinder General" making wild accusations against diabolical animal spirits called Vinegar Tom, Pyewacket, and Grizzel.

There is also a tarot spread chosen by a cat (what could he be trying to tell us?), suggestions for supporting your local wildlife, and the calming power of rose quartz helps to soothe a familiar in an anxious moment.

This episode is co-hosted by Mina, Otto and Sven, beautiful, faithful familiars to the Are We Witches? podcast.

Citations for Who, What Witch, Where?:

https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/14015/pg14015-images.html

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Examination_and_Confession_of_certain_Witches_at_Chelmsford_in_the_County_of_Essex

Henderson, L. (2009) Witch, fairy and folktale narratives in the trial of Bessie Dunlop. In: Henderson, L. (ed.) Fantastical Imaginations: The Supernatural in Scottish History and Culture. John Donald: Edinburgh, pp. 141-166. ISBN 9781906566029

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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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Keywords: witchcraft, familiars, familiar spirits, pets, enchanted, tarot, magic, witch trials, crystals, fairies

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This episode, Lisa and Sarah explore how witchcraft keeps slipping into the language of crime; from Hungary’s Angel Makers and the “Yorkshire Witch” Mary Bateman, to séance-era scandals, detective psychics, and the Satanic Panic.

Why does the supernatural so often get blamed when the truth is too uncomfortable?

Plus, in How's Tricks?, Sarah shares the story of an accidental exorcism, and Lisa gets a little numerological pat on the back from the universe.

Citations for Who, What Witch, Where?:

ABC News article about Sylvia Browne

History on the Net article about the Angel Makers

LA Times - Cypress Psychic Tells Court of Helping to Solve Murder

My Learning - Mary Bateman

Unilad article about Sylvia Browne

Weird NJ article about Jeannette DePalma

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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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Keywords: witchcraft, true crime, psychic detectives, Angel Makers, Mary Bateman, Satanic Panic, spiritualism, superstition, Are We Witches

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It’s our first video episode! Watch it on YouTube!

Lisa and Sarah celebrate Halloween by surprising each other with costumes and tracing the festival’s roots in Samhain, the Celtic fire-festival that marked summer’s end and the thinning of the veil. From guising and soul cakes to Margaret Hamilton’s poisonous green makeup, we explore how Samhain became Halloween, and Sarah fills us in on some of the scariest witch stories from around the world. Plus, in Show and Spell, we try a little apple-peel and candy divination to see if our true love’s initials appear.

Citations for Who, What, Witch, Where?

Library of Congress The Origins of Halloween Traditions

CNN Style (2024), From Pagan Spirits to Wonder Woman: A Brief History of the Halloween Costume

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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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Keywords: witchcraft, halloween, trick or treat, costume, dress-up, Samhain

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Ghosts never really go out of fashion, they just change platforms. Once they rapped on tables and floated in candlelight; now they flicker on YouTube and whisper through spirit boxes.

As spooky season begins, Lisa and Sarah ask: Are we witches…haunted?

From witch-ghosts in England, Scotland, and Salem to Houdini’s showdown with the Witch of Lime Street, they trace how women became history’s translators between worlds. Plus, a Ouija board experiment and a cemetery ritual for spooky season.

Citations for Who, What, Witch, Where?

E. Jay Gilbert, Haunted

Ann Braude, Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Women’s Rights in Nineteenth-Century America

Alex Owen, The Darkened Room: Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England

Houdini Exposes the Tricks Used by the Boston Medium “Margery” (1924)

The Dollop Podcast, Episode #12 “Houdini vs Margery”

“How to Use a Ouija Board,” wikiHow

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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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Keywords: witchcraft, ghosts, spirits, haunting, haunted house, ouija, medium, psychics, parlour games

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In this latest magical check-in episode, Lisa and Sarah take the opportunity to discuss storytelling in the form of myth and folklore (hello again, Medea and Baba Yaga!), fidelity discourse, with much more added to their reading list; primarily No Friend to This House and Encountering Dragonfly.

The re-enchanted life continues with rainbow synchronicities, familiars, and a magic stick thrown to the River Thames*. Sarah and Lisa also enjoy a tarot spread based on the theme of creation, taken from the Tarot Vin workbook, contemplating the power of the Magician card paired with Cabernet Sauvignon.

What’s Up, Witches? episodes will pop into the feed every now and then as a way for our co-hosts to take stock of where they are on their witchy journey.

For more information on Natalie Haynes' feminist retelling of Medea, No Friend to This House, please visit: https://nataliehaynes.com/

Details on Encountering Dragonfly: Notes on the Practice of Re-enchantment by Brooke Williams can be found at https://brookewilliams.site/

*No sailors were harmed in the making of this podcast.

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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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Keywords: witchcraft, mythology, folklore, synchronicity, forest magic, wine, tarot

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