Devil's Trap: A Supernatural Podcast

This is the conclusion of the series on the Polish Resistance Fighter Elżbieta Zawacka. We talk about her time touring the World War II British Women's Auxiliary Services, including the FANY. Then we talk about her many arrests and the time she cosplayed as a nun.

It's time for Season 12, Episode 5, The One You've Been Waiting For! We talk about Hitler's Horcrux and whether Dean Winchester will ever shut up about what he did. The Thule are back, and that means it's time to conclude the story of Elżbieta Zawacka, the World War II Polish Resistance fighter who parachuted into occupied Germany during lore.

Research Links

• Home Army - Wikipedia
• Cichociemni - The Polish ‘Silent Unseen’ Commandos - YouTube
• Warsaw Uprising - Wikipedia
• First Aid Nursing Yeomanry - Wikipedia
• Home Army - Wikipedia
• Agent Zo - Clare Mulley : Clare Mulley

It's Season 12, Episode 4, American Nightmare, and we are not running scared to talk about how uncomfortable this episode made us. We discuss the running SPN theme of "What is a Monster?" and "Didn't we already decide what a monster was back in season 2?" Also, what DID happen to Sam's psychic abilities? Liz explains what stigmata is, and then tells Diana about one of the most famous stigmatized Saints, Padre Pio of Italy.

Research Links

• Stigmatize - Etymology, Origin & Meaning
• Padre Pio - Wikipedia
• Padre Pio: 13 facts about St. Pio of Pietrelcina to know and share | Catholic News Agency
• Padre Pio | Feast Day, Patron Saint Of, Miracles, Shrine, & Facts | Britannica
• Mystics of the Church: Teresa Musco -Stigmatic, mystic & victim soul
• 10 Infamous Cases Of Stigmata - Listverse

We're talking Supernatural Season 12, Season 3 and asking important questions like "What is up with that effin doll?" Was it a joke? Was this whole episode supposed to be funny? Liz tells Diana about Mylings who are even creepier than you think.

Research Links

• Myling | Cryptid Wiki | Fandom
• Mylingen: The Wandering Souls of Nordic Folklore
• Children of the Night – Scandinavian Archaeology
• 'WHAT DAMNED YOU?' CHANGELINGS, "MYLINGAR" AND OTHER DEAD CHILD TRADITIONS on JSTOR

Liz reads excerpts from Anna Kingsford's book Healthy, Beauty, and the Toilet so we can learn beauty tips from a Victorian lady doctor. We learn the answers to so many questions like - Should you put spermaceti on your face? What the hell is spermaceti? How did Victorian women make depilatory powder? How can you wash your face and get drunk at the same time?

Research Links

• Health, Beauty and the Toilet: Letters to Ladies from a Lady Doctor

Mamma Mia, it's episode 2 of Season 12. Lady Fancypants is now going to try to take on all the Winchesters, including a newly sprung from the dead Mary. In lore, we continue the story of the Victorian character, Anna Kingsford.

Research Links

• Vivisection - Wikipedia
• Theosophy - Wikipedia
• Anna Kingsford and Helena Blavatsky – Arnaldo Sisson Filho and Marina Cesar
• Health, Beauty and the Toilet: Letters to Ladies from a Lady Doctor
• Red Cactus: The Life of Anna Kingsford - Alan Pert - Google Livros
• Madame Blavatsky's baboon : a history of the mystics, mediums, and misfits who brought spiritualism to America : Washington, Peter : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
• The Strange Story of Anna Kingsford - The Cabinet of Curiosity
• W. B. Yeats and "A Vision": The Hermetic Society
• Cipher Manuscripts - Wikipedia
• The True Story Of The Hermetic Order Of The Golden Dawn

Season 12 is here! We talk Episode 1 "Keep Calm and Carry On" including the return of Lady Fancy Pants, the gratuitous Sam water scene, and Mary finally getting out of that effin nightgown. Liz introduces this season's lore theme of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, which may be the inspiration for the British Men of Letters, and tells part 1 of the story of Annie Kingsford (the founder of the Hermetic Society and possibly the world's first vegan influencer).

Research Links

• Supernatural Will Move To Prime Video After 13-Year Netflix Run
• Vivisection - Wikipedia
• Theosophy - Wikipedia
• Anna Kingsford and Helena Blavatsky – Arnaldo Sisson Filho and Marina Cesar
• Health, Beauty and the Toilet: Letters to Ladies from a Lady Doctor
• Red Cactus: The Life of Anna Kingsford - Alan Pert - Google Livros
• Madame Blavatsky's baboon : a history of the mystics, mediums, and misfits who brought spiritualism to America : Washington, Peter : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
• The Strange Story of Anna Kingsford - The Cabinet of Curiosity
• W. B. Yeats and "A Vision": The Hermetic Society
• Dennis Denisoff, “The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, 1888-1901” | BRANCH

We made it so the Season 11 Finale Alpha and Omega! We debate the ethics —or lack thereof —of the soul-bomb solution. And it's Season 11 Trivia!

We Happy Few are here for Season 11, Episode 22. We are battling towards the end of the season. Liz tells the story of Cécile Fatiman, a Vodou priestess and Haitian revolutionary.

Research Links

• Ezili Ge Rouge – OCCULT WORLD
• Encyclopedia Of African Religion : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
• Ezili Dantor - Wikipedia
• Vodou and History on JSTOR
• 1 PERVERTING HAITI: The Transnational Imperialist Discourse of the Black Republic as the Premodern Land of “Voodoo/Vaudoux” The Transnational Imperialist Discourse of the Black Republic as the Premodern Land of “Voodoo/Vaudoux” from The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti on JSTOR
• 4 Performing Diaspora: The Science of Speaking for Haiti The Science of Speaking for Haiti from Undisciplined: Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830-1940 on JSTOR
• Mythologizing the Lwa Demanbre: A Thought Experiment in the Nineteenth-Century History of Vodou A Thought Experiment in the Nineteenth-Century History of Vodou on JSTOR
• Restoring Haitian Women's Voices and Verbalizing Sexual Trauma in "Breath, Eyes, Memory" on JSTOR
• Colonial Hell and Female Slave Resistance in Saint-Domingue on JSTOR
• In Her Own Image: Slave Women and the Re-imagining of the Polish Black Madonna as Ezili Dantò, the Fierce Female Lwa of Haitian Vodou

We're talking Season 11, Episode 21 All in the Family. Liz is very concerned about Donatello's cat and its lack of resurrection. Still, she was so inspired by Donatello's one-liners that she invented a game for Diana in which she had to guess which Supernatural character said each classic line.