The craft many of us are trying to reclaim did not survive untouched, but was profoundly shaped by centuries of Christian influence, suppression, and syncretism. This episode I yap about the historical entanglement between Christianity and witchcraft, challenging the romantic idea of a pure, fully recoverable “old craft” by acknowledging that much of what we know about pre-Christian practices comes through the records, fears, and theological frameworks of those who sought to condemn or redefine them. Let's examine how the Church not only persecuted witches but actively helped construct the modern image of the witch through demonology, heresy narratives, and old texts while also tracing how folk practices survived by blending with Christian symbols, saints, prayers, feast days, and ritual forms. At the same time, I invite you to confront the personal and collective shadow this history leaves behind; the inherited fears, shame, moral binaries, and spiritual fragmentation that still live within many modern practitioners, especially those healing from religious trauma.

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This episode is all about toads. Their deep history with witchcraft, their role as familiars in English witch trials, and why this ugly, mud-dwelling creature became one of the most feared and revered animals in the magical tradition. We look at the toad bone rite, toad stones.. and even toad doctors. We get into the actual pharmacology of toad skin, what those secretions contain and why that matters for the flying ointment conversation and medicinal uses through history. Finally, a conversation about liminality, about the power that lives in things we find repulsive, and about an animal that has been sitting at the threshold between worlds and one who goes through one of the most transformative metamorphosis. The toad is a long time friend, ally, imp of the witch with much more to unpack.

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Today we talk about servitors, tulpas, and egregores. What happens when a servitor goes off script and gains more agency than you intended. Of course there is a conversation on chaos magic and the difference between servitors through the lens of the psychological model and the spirit based model. We go deep into the history, from ancient Egypt's magical workforce to the golem traditions of Jewish mysticism to the moment Austin Osman Spare turned all of it into a technique anyone could use. Then we get practical: how to create one, how to keep it fed without losing control of it, how to maintain that relationship over time, and how to end it cleanly when the work is done. This episode is not entirely a how-to for servitors, but a deeper conversation on the topic of the witch conjuring a life form with purpose into the ether.

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This episode explores the deep magical logic behind anima materia, the use of animal remains and animal substances in spellwork, divination, ritual, and spiritual practice. We look at how cultures across time have understood animal bodies not simply as resources, but as carriers of power, memory, and presence.

We begin with the foundations: the animist worldview that underlies most traditional magical systems. We explore all sorts of organs and bodily substances, from tongues, livers, bones, even bile, saliva, and excrement appear in folk magical traditions around the world, reminding us that magical thinking does not separate the sacred from the visceral.

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This week I'm talking about the secrecy of magic, why it matters, why it has always mattered, and what the historical traditions actually say about keeping silent. We talk about spirit-given knowledge and why those transmissions come with conditions. We talk about what you're actually seeing when a practitioner shares a working online...and what you're not seeing. And we talk about the difference between secrecy and shame, because they are not the same thing and they never have been. Silence is not hiding. Silence is power. Think about the ways it ultimately makes you more cunning.

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The world is heavy right now, today we're talking about magic for justice, resistance, and protection. From apotropaic magical logic and its uses to the offensive approach, I delve into Hekate with this one, calling her by her epithets Apotropaia, the Averter of Evil, and Borborophorba, the Eater of Filth.

We explore the ancient story of how she saved Byzantium with her torches, the household practice of offering her your sweepings and fallen food, and why that matters right now. But before any of the magic, we talk about you, about grounding, about boundaries, about the difference between staying informed and letting the weight destroy you from the inside out. This one's heavy, it's practical, and it's for this exact moment.

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In this episode, we go deep. We explore the history of Lupercalia, the blood and milk, the naked priests running through the streets, the women who stepped into their path with hands outstretched. I tell the full myth of Lupa, the she-wolf who chose to nurse two abandoned infants instead of eating them, and what her story teaches us about fierce motherhood, womanhood, impossible choices, and threshold magic. I trace wolf traditions across cultures and examine the medieval werewolf trials and what they reveal about folk magic traditions the Church tried to destroy. And of course I talk about fertility magic not limited to conception, but wild and bloody and requiring purification first.

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When witches leave organized religion, they don't stop relating to power, they renegotiate how. In this episode I explore what happens after religion: why some of us run toward gods and saints for structure, why others reject anything resembling hierarchy, and what both responses reveal about trauma, energy, and sustainability. We'll talk about deities, saints, spirits, and ancestors not as objects of belief, but as energetic infrastructure...and why "just use your own energy" might be the most exhausting lie in modern witchcraft.

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Dirt is the foundation of folk magic. It's free, it's everywhere, and it's one of the most powerful materials you can work with. In this episode, I explore dirt magic from every angle, how to gather it respectfully, every type of dirt and its uses (graveyard, crossroads, river, seasonal, and more), practical jar and bottle workings, dirt as taglocks for targeted magic, and the mechanics of why dirt is so potent.

We also dive into baneful applications like crossing and binding work, grounding practices for protection and stability, and the hidden history of dirt magic across ancient cultures, alchemy, and folk traditions. This is the magic that institutions tried to suppress because they understood its power. This is accessible magic. This is what actually works.

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Winter isn't death, it's dormancy. It's descent. In this episode, we explore what happens when you stop fighting the cold and start working with it. We talk about the internal winter, the spirits that walk in the dark months, the folk magic of survival, and how to let the pressure of the season transform you. This isn't cozy witchcraft, it's a walk through the darkest nights of the year inside and out.