Devil's Trap: A Supernatural Podcast

It's Season 13 Episode 1, "Lost and Found," and we have found Jack, the celestial man-baby. Not only that, but we are once again in a moral grey, even if Dean is too far in his grief to see that.

Liz breaks down teleportation, which is oddly relevant to this and next week's episodes.

Research Links

• Teleportation Is Possible—Just Not in the Way You Might Think
• Quantum entanglement - Wikipedia
• TELEPORTATION Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
• Scientists Reveal Quantum Teleportation Has been Achieved
• Scientists say they have finally achieved teleportation in major breakthrough
• How to Teleport Across Space & Time: Is It Possible?

We are at the Season 12 finale, Episode 23 "All Along the Watchtower." We discuss the numerous deaths and WTF moments. Plus, it's Season 12 Trivia time!

It's Season 12, Episode 22, that's Who We Are, and who even are the Winchesters now? Look at all the emotions on Dean! What happened to Sam's morality code? Why doesn't Ketch just get a cat?

During lore, Liz brings the Golden Dawn series to an end telling the story of that time Aleister Crowley and W.B. Yeats had a magical battle in the middle of London during the Battle of Blythe Road.

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Research Links

• Women of the Golden Dawn : rebels and priestesses : Greer, Mary K. (Mary Katherine) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
• Francis King - Modern Ritual Magic - 1989 : Francis King : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
• The Battle at Blythe Road - Hermeneuticon - Hermetic Library
• Vol.15 No.9 1948
• History of the Golden Dawn: A Timeline – The Hermetic Order of The Golden Dawn®
• Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn - Wikipedia
• The True Story Of The Hermetic Order Of The Golden Dawn
• The Battle of Blythe Road

We are discussing Something About Mary, Season 12, Episode 21. Supernatural fulfills their annual tradition of killing off a recurring character during this episode! We ask: Why is Rick putting a bloody machete in the hallway? What should we call Lady Fancy Pants? What is happening to Mary? Is she really brainwashed? We analyze her brainwashing stages against psychologist Robert Jay Lifton's defined process.

Research Links

• How Stuff Works: Inside the Mind
• Editors' Introduction On Brainwashing: Mind Control, Media, and Warfare on JSTOR

We're talking Season 12, Episode 20 Twigs & Twine & Tasha Banes. And twins. Once again, hunters are in peril, and they have called on the Winchesters for help. Will they save the day? And what do you call a fake person made out of sticks? Plus, Liz talks about the Secret Ritual conducted by the Hermetic Order of Golden Dawn's Second Order.

Research Links

• The Golden Dawn Scrapbook: The Rise and Fall of a Magical Order - Theosophical Society in America
• Francis King - Modern Ritual Magic - 1989 : Francis King : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
• Project MUSE - Victorian Occultism and the Making of Modern Magic: Invoking Tradition by Alison Butler (review)
• Dennis Denisoff, “The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, 1888-1901” | BRANCH
• The True Story Of The Hermetic Order Of The Golden Dawn
• Full text of "Ellic Howe - The Magicians of the Golden Dawn - 1985"
• Women of the Golden Dawn : rebels and priestesses : Greer, Mary K. (Mary Katherine) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
• The Flying Rolls – The Hermetic Order of The Golden Dawn®
• History of the Golden Dawn: An Introduction – The Hermetic Order of The Golden Dawn®
• Esoteric Color Mysticism. The Living Power of Color | by Marcus Hedare | Medium
• W. B. Yeats and "A Vision": The Golden Dawn

It's Season 12, Episode 19 "The Future," and we are unsure of the future relationship of Destiel after Cas' behavior. We ponder the implications of the future nephalim. For fun, we play Supernatural Catchphrase, where Diana tries to solve famous SPN phrases.

It's Season 12, Episode 18: The Feeling Remains. We have many feelings about Ketch. Is Dean overusing the Colt? How many TBIs did Dean get this episode?

Liz investigates whether there is a bunch of world leaders who sacrifice children to an Owl god named Moloch in Bohemian Grove.

Research Links

• Bohemian Grove: The Secret Society Summer Camp
• Daniel Boguslaw Bohemain Grove List.xlsx
• What Really Goes On At Bohemian Grove
• Bohemian Grove - Wikipedia
• SF’s Bohemian Club to pay workers $7 million in settlement
• San Francisco's secretive Bohemian Grove sued by valets
• Former Cook at Secretive Club in San Francisco Alleges Wage Theft and Break Violations | McCormack Law Firm
• Bohemian Club - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica
• Bohemian Grove - Wikipedia
• Moloch - Wikipedia
• Membership - A Look Inside the Bohemian Grove by Shane King
• Clogher, Rick - Bohemian Grove - Inside The Secret Retreat of The Power Elite (Mother Jones, Aug. 1981) | PDF | Nature
• Alex Shoumatoff on the Bohemian Club | Vanity Fair
• Journeys in the Shaw Collection: Bohemian Grove Plays – Illuminations
• Moloch | Definition & Facts | Britannica
• The Bohemian Grove Owl: Moloch, Mystery, and the Meaning Behind the Statue - Unsettling Things
• Protests have waned at Bohemian Grove, but suspicion lingers – The Press Democrat
• [ Removed by moderator ] : r/IAmA
• The Bohemian Grove and other retreats; a study in ruling-class cohesiveness : Domhoff, G. William : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
• THE CULTURE OF THE BOHEMIAN GROVE: THE DRAMATURGY OF POWER on JSTOR

In this bonus segment of lore, Liz continues the story of the illustrious con woman Ann dis Bar, including her and Theo Horos' trial. This trial greatly embarrassed the Order of the Dawn when its neophyte ritual was read aloud. We'll talk about what was so bad in that neophyte oath, they had to change it after the trial, and what that ritual room looked like.

Research Links

• Ann O'Delia Diss Debar - Wikipedia
• Project MUSE - Victorian Occultism and the Making of Modern Magic: Invoking Tradition by Alison Butler (review)
• Drawing the Dead: How to Make Spirit-Paintings - Haunted Ohio Books
• Full text of "Some Human Oddities: Studies in the Queer, the Uncanny, and the Fanatical"
• Women of the Golden Dawn : rebels and priestesses : Greer, Mary K. (Mary Katherine) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
• Mathers, Moina – Occult World
• ‘Florence and the Mummy’. In Women’s Voices in Magic. Ed. Brandy Williams. 15–23. Stafford UK: Megalithica Books, 2009.
• A Magician Among the Spirits, by Houdini—A Project Gutenberg eBook
• Fraudulent fortunes | News | Law Gazette
• Fraudulent fortunes – Swami Laura Horos & Frank Jackson Dutton |
• High and low moderns : literature and culture, 1889-1939 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

It is Season 12, Episode 17, "British Invasion," and boy, did Dr. Hess, aka Delores Umbridge wannabe, invade. So much happens that we think this episode should be called WTF. Liz continues the lore of the Golden Dawn, with the story about the time the infamous conwoman Ann Dis de Bar appeared as Fraulein Anna Sprengel.

Research Links

• Ann O'Delia Diss Debar - Wikipedia
• Drawing the Dead: How to Make Spirit-Paintings - Haunted Ohio Books
• Full text of "Some Human Oddities: Studies in the Queer, the Uncanny, and the Fanatical"
• Mathers, Moina – Occult World
• ‘Florence and the Mummy’. In Women’s Voices in Magic. Ed. Brandy Williams. 15–23. Stafford UK: Megalithica Books, 2009.
• A Magician Among the Spirits, by Houdini—A Project Gutenberg eBook
• Fraudulent fortunes | News | Law Gazette
• Fraudulent fortunes – Swami Laura Horos & Frank Jackson Dutton |
• BBC - Manchester - History - Annie Horniman

It's Supernatural Season 12, Episode 16, Ladies Drink Free, and we want to know where our free drinks are. Should Claire be able to drink a beer if she hunts on her own? Is she opening herself up to not only werewolves but also serial killers? We discuss this plus Liz finally starts talking about the founding of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.

Research Links

• Project MUSE - Victorian Occultism and the Making of Modern Magic: Invoking Tradition by Alison Butler (review)
• Women of the Golden Dawn : rebels and priestesses : Greer, Mary K. (Mary Katherine) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
• High and low moderns : literature and culture, 1889-1939 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
• Vol.15 No.9 1948