This is a story about hugging trees. About the women who inspired the iconic environmental Chipko movement in India, which literally means to hug, and it’s a story about the Bishnoi faith and the women leaders from that small spiritual minority in the Himalayan foothills, the ones who triumphed, and the ones who were murdered protecting the ancient trees that hold back the all-consuming desert and keep the mountains up.

This is the story of Amrita Devi, and Gaura Devi, who lived and fought for trees 300 years apart in the Marwar desert region of western Rajasthan.

About Missing Witches

Amy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do

every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and

craft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported, and getting to know

the members of our Coven has been the most fun, electrifying,

unexpectedly radical part of the project. 

 

These days the Missing Witches Coven gathers in our private, online

coven circle to offer each other collaborative courses in ritual,

weaving, divination, and more; we organize writing groups and witchy

book clubs; and we gather on the Full and New Moon from all over the

world. 

 

Our coven includes solitary practitioners, community leaders, techno

pagans, crones, baby witches, neuroqueers, and folks who hug trees and

have just been looking for their people. 

 

Our coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science,

anti-ableist, and full of love.

 

If that sounds like your people, come find out more. Please know that

we've been missing YOU. 

 

https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/