Bewitched Banter

While McDonald’s isn’t self care, maybe Jersey Mikes is? Welp, it was for the Bewitches this week. Oops. We’ll get there. Amy goes back to Victorian times and shares how consumption’s (Tuberculosis -TB) symptoms of pale skin, rosy cheeks, and waif-like figures became female beauty standards during that era. She also STILL doesn’t watch SNL, so Amy doesn’t get Krista’s reference to Weekend Update’s spoof on Goop with a cameo from GP (Gwyneth Paltrow) herself. Meanwhile, as Krista rants about this “self-care” company’s pseudo science practices, Amy not-so-secretly wants to work for Goop. Hit ‘er up GP!

What in the devil is Satanism, anyway? Turns out, most sects of this very misunderstood religion actually don’t worship Satan or any form of the devil at all. Amy sets the record straight that Satanism is actually a religion very focused on turning within and doing what’s best for oneself. Both the Bewitches kinda wanna join. Amy then schools us on all things Satanism from traditional LaVey-anism and modern day Satanism (the Temple of Set) to the religion’s nine tenants, that actually really connect with self-care and community.

Happy 2022, all! We hope you had a great New Year celebration. Krista takes us through the history of self-care, from its humble beginnings and some other radical roots to its resurgence after the 2016 elections and presently in the time of Covid-19. Amy hopes to grow in her career this year, while Krista is focused on intense self-care, which absolutely does not include McDonald's, despite having one last indulgence on Sunday. We are hoping your year is filled with you and health.

Well it’s not The Thunder From Down Under as much as the Bewitches wish, but Amy and Krista are bringing you two Aussie reincarnation tales. Krista’s story is a bit more light-hearted as a little boy named Billy from Sydney (now five years old) believes he is Princess Diana herself. He’s got some pretty eerie details of the Scottish Balmoral Castle with unicorns as one piece of proof as well as the very haunting memory of being a princess until the sirens came, an allusion to The Princess of Whales’ tragic and sudden death. Then, it’s not all in the family when Amy covers the sinister cult leader Anne Hamilton Byrne, who preached to her followers, mostly orphaned, missing or stolen children, that she is Jesus Christ reincarnated. She called her cult, The Family and tormented and abused dozens of children in a very modest and remote house on Lake Elidon, just outside Melbourne.