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Episode two of Blood Moon Radio's three-part mini-series on Canadian witchcraft examines what shaped witchcraft in the aftermath of the witch trials of New France. Rather than disappear, witchcraft went domestic, as it did in other countries where the old ways were forced to hide in plain site. Over time, as attitudes toward non-christian ways of thinking softened, the craft began to weave itself into the mainstream again, with some distinctly Canadian practices, such as Odyssian Wicca, emerging. Canada is also the home of the first Canadian church of witchcraft, The Wiccan Church of Canada, which helped to further push pagan practices out of the realm of hidden familial or cultural belief into accepted, publicly digestible, spiritual systems.

In this episode:

✧ Domestic practice

✧ Odyssian Wicca

✧ The Wiccan Church of Canada

✧ Politics and witchcraft

✧ Syncretic practice

Modern magic is in part shaped by this historical period where magical work and belief needed to function invisibly and we owe our practices and knowledge now to the labour of those who kept their knowledge alive, but hidden.

Have you listened to Part One, Founding Shadows, and Three, Persistent Magic, of our Canadian witchcraft series?

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Blood Moon Radio is a podcast for the curious.

Hosted by Coraley Letcher, Blood Moon explores the places where curiosity, creativity, culture, spirituality, business, identity, and the strange and fascinating stories of being human intersect. Topics discussed: personal growth, self-discovery, intentional living, taking action, personal transformation, creativity, entrepreneurship, business, relationships, desire, alignment, goal setting, intuition, spirituality, and building a life that reflects what you actually want.

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In this special storytelling episode of Blood Moon Radio, we visit the fictional village of Frostmere, where the task of keeping an ancient, magical, lantern alight falls unexpectedly to Mara. What will she learn about herself, about her ancestral line, and about healing while she keeps the ancient flame lit during the worst storm in her villages recollection?

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About Blood Moon Radio

Blood Moon Radio is a podcast for the curious.

Hosted by Coraley Letcher, Blood Moon explores the places where curiosity, creativity, culture, spirituality, business, identity, and the strange and fascinating stories of being human intersect. Topics discussed: personal growth, self-discovery, intentional living, taking action, personal transformation, creativity, entrepreneurship, business, relationships, desire, alignment, goal setting, intuition, spirituality, and building a life that reflects what you actually want.

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In the sleepy stretch of the season, we enter The Lull Between — a soft pause, a breath, a moment to gather what the first half of the journey has offered. This Blood Moon Radio mid-season recap is part reflection, part grounding, and part reminder that slowing down is also a kind of magic.

Host Coraley Letcher reflects on:

✧ The podcast journey so far

✧ What has shifted for her personally, professionally and emotionally since starting the project

✧ Special guests

✧ Getting used to solo episodes

If you’re moving through your own quiet season, you’ll find something here: clarity, conversation, and a little witch-lit warmth to carry you forward.

Don't forget to check out our special fictional holiday episode The Lantern Wife

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About Blood Moon Radio

Blood Moon Radio is a podcast for the curious.

Hosted by Coraley Letcher, Blood Moon explores the places where curiosity, creativity, culture, spirituality, business, identity, and the strange and fascinating stories of being human intersect. Topics discussed: personal growth, self-discovery, intentional living, taking action, personal transformation, creativity, entrepreneurship, business, relationships, desire, alignment, goal setting, intuition, spirituality, and building a life that reflects what you actually want.

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Founding Shadows begins a Blood Moon Radio special three-part mini-series on the hidden history of witchcraft in Canada.

In this first episode, we step back into New France to examine the rarely discussed witch trials, folk fears, and the early laws that shaped how “witchcraft” was understood on this land. This is a quiet, atmospheric dive into history, power, and the women whose stories were nearly forgotten.

Check out the other two episodes in this series Quiet Resistance and Persistent Magic

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About Blood Moon Radio

Blood Moon Radio is a podcast for the curious.

Hosted by Coraley Letcher, Blood Moon explores the places where curiosity, creativity, culture, spirituality, business, identity, and the strange and fascinating stories of being human intersect. Topics discussed: personal growth, self-discovery, intentional living, taking action, personal transformation, creativity, entrepreneurship, business, relationships, desire, alignment, goal setting, intuition, spirituality, and building a life that reflects what you actually want.

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In this solo episode, Blood Moon Radio host Coraley Letcher explores the resurgence of witchcraft, the quiet ways magic survived suppression, the threads of ancestral wisdom that still live in our bodies, and the deep need for community — even in a world that feels increasingly fragmented. This episode builds on Empress Rising and Reclaiming Witch, tracing a path through history, personal practice, and the returning-to-self that happens when we begin remembering what we’re made of.

Topics in this episode:

✧ Why solo episodes feel both challenging and necessary

✧ The survival of witchcraft after the trials

✧ How magic lived on through domestic craft and lineage

✧ Different forms of modern practice and what “being a witch” actually means

✧ Our cultural disconnection from ancestors — and how to mend that thread

✧ A call for connection, community, and shared meaning

Coraley's perspective and experience is rooted in a European/Canadian lens, but her call for connection, community and shared meaning are universal.

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About Blood Moon Radio

Blood Moon Radio is a podcast for the curious.

Hosted by Coraley Letcher, Blood Moon explores the places where curiosity, creativity, culture, spirituality, business, identity, and the strange and fascinating stories of being human intersect. Topics discussed: personal growth, self-discovery, intentional living, taking action, personal transformation, creativity, entrepreneurship, business, relationships, desire, alignment, goal setting, intuition, spirituality, and building a life that reflects what you actually want.

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As the veil thins this Samhain, Blood Moon Radio invites you into an exploration of sacred rebellion — the quiet, radical act of living with intention.

In this episode, host Coraley Letcher sits down with Monica Bodirsky — artist, author, witch, and intuitive — to talk about the magic of the mundane, the lineage of our ancestry, and how creativity itself becomes activism. Together, they trace the threads between spiritual and earthly ancestry, discuss how art becomes a portal for healing, and reflect on what it means to carry magic forward in modern life.

Topics include:

✧ The ancestral lineage of intuition and witchcraft

✧ The role of art and creativity in spiritual rebellion

✧ The magic found in ordinary moments

✧ How we reclaim power through the everyday

Warning label: this episode will encourage you to lean into your magic, your gifts, and your most magical life.

Find Monica at https://www.monicabodirsky.com/ | Instagram @monicabodirsky | Facebook Monica Bodirsky

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About Blood Moon Radio

Blood Moon Radio is a podcast for the curious.

Hosted by Coraley Letcher, Blood Moon explores the places where curiosity, creativity, culture, spirituality, business, identity, and the strange and fascinating stories of being human intersect. Topics discussed: personal growth, self-discovery, intentional living, taking action, personal transformation, creativity, entrepreneurship, business, relationships, desire, alignment, goal setting, intuition, spirituality, and building a life that reflects what you actually want.

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What does it mean to build an ethical, soul-led business in a world obsessed with speed and scale? In this episode, Blood Moon Radio host Coraley Letcher sits down with Juliette Jarvis, a spiritual entrepreneur and creative alchemist, to explore what it means to live — and lead — with integrity, magic, and meaning.

Juliette is a sacred living mentor, fibre artist, practicing witch, and the publisher of Raven Tongue magazine. Her gentle presence and message are reminders to live slow, experience deeply, and that the heart is the map to a meaningful, soul-led life.

This episode explores:

✦ The modern witch trials of custody court and women’s sovereignty in community

✦ The power of slow work and cyclical creativity in a fast-paced world

✦ The medicine of the mundane — finding magic in everyday life

✦ Spiritual entrepreneurship and the balance between ethics, energy, and ambition

✦ The healing power of play and creative expression

Whether you’re a modern mystic, a creative entrepreneur, or someone navigating your own rebirth, this conversation invites you to reconnect with what’s real — and what’s sacred — in the process of becoming.

Find Juliette at www.raventongue.com | www.juliettejarvis.com | Instagram @raventonguepublishing @selkie_sanctuary | Facebook Selkie Sanctuary

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About Blood Moon Radio

Blood Moon Radio is a podcast for the curious.

Hosted by Coraley Letcher, Blood Moon explores the places where curiosity, creativity, culture, spirituality, business, identity, and the strange and fascinating stories of being human intersect. Topics discussed: personal growth, self-discovery, intentional living, taking action, personal transformation, creativity, entrepreneurship, business, relationships, desire, alignment, goal setting, intuition, spirituality, and building a life that reflects what you actually want.

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In this episode of Blood Moon Radio, host Coraley Letcher sits down with Catherine Bell — best-selling author, entrepreneur, and founder of The Awakened Company. Together they explore what it means to bring balance, heart, and the feminine into our work, our relationships, and our leadership. They talk about the dance between masculine and feminine energy in business, the value of diversity in teams (and in life), and how spirituality and strategy can weave together to create something sustainable. Catherine also shares insights on what it takes to cultivate organizations — and lives — that are rooted in meaning, creativity, and connection.

Highlights from this episode:

✧ Conscious leadership

✧ Human "being" versus human "doing"

✧ Why diversity beats homogeny

✧ What high preforming companies do differently

If you’re curious about how to blend business and spirituality, or how to bring more soul into your daily life, this conversation will inspire you.

Find Catherine: https://awakenedcompany.com/ | Instagram @theawakenedcompany | Facebook The Awakened Company

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About Blood Moon Radio

Blood Moon Radio is a podcast for the curious.

Hosted by Coraley Letcher, Blood Moon explores the places where curiosity, creativity, culture, spirituality, business, identity, and the strange and fascinating stories of being human intersect. Topics discussed: personal growth, self-discovery, intentional living, taking action, personal transformation, creativity, entrepreneurship, business, relationships, desire, alignment, goal setting, intuition, spirituality, and building a life that reflects what you actually want.

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In this episode of Blood Moon Radio, host Coraley Letcher sits down with nomad and teacher Melanie Jolicoeur to explore what it really means to come home to yourself.

They talk about:

✧ Loving yourself through genuine self-care, strong boundaries, and intuitive work

✧ Breaking free from toxic relationships and finding stability within

✧ The magic (and mystery) of falling in love — with life, with others, and with yourself

✧ Science vs. spirituality: how the two can dance together on the path of growth

This conversation moves between the raw and the radiant — from hard lessons to hopeful beginnings — always circling back to the truth that home isn’t a place, it’s a journey inward.

Find Melanie at https://www.melaniejolicoeur.online/bio | Instagram @mel.azaya | Facebook Melanie Jolicoeur

Support the show at www.bloodmoonradio.com

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About Blood Moon Radio

Blood Moon Radio is a podcast for the curious.

Hosted by Coraley Letcher, Blood Moon explores the places where curiosity, creativity, culture, spirituality, business, identity, and the strange and fascinating stories of being human intersect. Topics discussed: personal growth, self-discovery, intentional living, taking action, personal transformation, creativity, entrepreneurship, business, relationships, desire, alignment, goal setting, intuition, spirituality, and building a life that reflects what you actually want.

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What does the word witch really mean? And why does it still spark fear, controversy, or even trolling comments online?

In this solo episode of Blood Moon Radio, host Coraley Letcher dives into the history and the present of the witch — from healers and midwives, to persecution and control, to the modern feminist reclamation of intuition and women’s wisdom. Along the way, she shares pieces of her own story and why this word feels alive, powerful, and worth reclaiming.

This episode is part history, part personal reflection, and part offering: a remembering of the women who came before us, and a gathering space for the stories and wisdom that still matter now. In it we discuss:

✧ Where the word witch originated

✧ Christian rhetoric towards traditional practices, knowledge and ways of being

✧ Patriarchal suppression of women

✧ Capitalism and the oppression of sovereign systems

What does the word witch mean to you?

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About Blood Moon Radio

Blood Moon Radio is a podcast for the curious.

Hosted by Coraley Letcher, Blood Moon explores the places where curiosity, creativity, culture, spirituality, business, identity, and the strange and fascinating stories of being human intersect. Topics discussed: personal growth, self-discovery, intentional living, taking action, personal transformation, creativity, entrepreneurship, business, relationships, desire, alignment, goal setting, intuition, spirituality, and building a life that reflects what you actually want.

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