Summary: We celebrate the Springtide by sharing some folk tunes from the English countryside, some symphonic revels, some tips for magical cleaning, a story of a cleanly hedgehog, and much more!

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Producer for this show: This episode is supported by all of our Patreon listeners. Thank you so much to all of you for making this year and all the other years possible!

Sources

Festival Procession:

• Songs - "It Was a Lover and His Lass" and "Rest Sweet Nymphs" by the Daneneian Singers (from Archive.org)
• Orphic Hymn to Persephone (from Theoi)
• Reading: "Mrs. Tiggy-winkle," by Beatrix Potter
• Magical Lore: "Spring Cleaning" and "Spring Tonics"
• Music: "The Rite of Spring" and "Firebird" by Igor Stravinsky. Performed by L'Orchestre De La Suisse Romande and the Berlin Philharmoniker (from Archive.org)
• Reading: From "April" in "The Shepherd's Calendar," by John Clare
• Conclusion

Transcripts are available on our Transcripts page (NOTE: No transcript available for this episode)

Some publications from us:

It's here! You can now order our collaborative book Conjuring the Commonplace: A Guide to Everyday Enchantment and Junk Drawer Magic from 1000Volt Press! It's available for purchase on Bookshop, Amazon, or from your local bookstore!

You can now buy Cory’s book, New World Witchery: A Trove of North American Folk Magic! (also available from Amazon) and the recent release Llewellyn's Complete Book of North American Folk Magic as well (also available on Amazon)!

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If you have feedback you’d like to share, email us at [email protected] or [email protected] or leave a comment at the website: www.newworldwitchery.com . We’d love to hear from you! Don’t forget to follow us at Twitter! And check out our Facebook page! You can follow us on Instagram (main account, or you can follow Laine as well) or check out our new YouTube channel with back episodes of the podcast and new “Everyday Magic” videos, too (as well as most of our contest announcements)!

Promos and Music: All music is licensed from Audio Socket, or sourced from Archive.org or FreeMusicArchive/Kevin Macleod unless otherwise noted.

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Summary: It's time to look up for some lunar guidance, pull some cards, visit a sleeping king, blow on some dandelions, and more! 

Please check out our Patreon page! You can help support the show for as little as a dollar a month, and get some awesome rewards at the same time. Even if you can’t give, spread the word and let others know, and maybe we can make New World Witchery even better than it is now. 

Producers for this show: Elle, Bree, Victoria & Keifel of 1000 Volt Press, Lauren, Cate, Sierra, Lisa, Donna, Liz, Meg, Vee, Mark, Kels, Benjamin, AromaG’s Botanica, DanielKnits, Abbi of Morningstar Coven, Stephanie, Jenna, Donna, Jennifer, Fergus, Heather, Christopher, Ralph of the Holle's Haven Podcast, Jamie, Catherine, Achija Branvin Sionach, Jen Rue of Rue & Hyssop, AthenaBeth, and Conjured Cardea! Our sincere thanks to everyone supporting us! 

Sources

We highly recommend that you find an almanac or lunar-oriented datebook to help you with planning out your own magical year. Some we can recommend: 

• The Witches Almanac

• Llewellyn's Astrological Pocket Planner

• Writual Planner

• Or your local Farmer's Almanac!

You can find a transcript of this episode at our Transcripts page.

Folktale of the Month: "⁠The Sleeping Warriors⁠"

Dandelion folklore found in part from Icy Sedgwick's website.

In our cartomancy section, Laine will read for Cory, and Cory for Laine, but we'll also share general information on the cards we pull, too. If you are interested in playing card divination, you can check out our Cartomancy post or pick up Cory’s book, 54 Devils.

You can now buy Cory’s book, New World Witchery: A Trove of North American Folk Magic! (also available from Amazon). We also have a new book, Conjuring the Commonplace: A Guide to Everyday Enchantment and Junk Drawer Magic (1000Volt Press) (also available from Amazon).

Image via Pixabay (CC 2.0)

If you have feedback you’d like to share, email us at [email protected] or [email protected] or leave a comment at the website: www.newworldwitchery.com . We’d love to hear from you!

Don’t forget to follow us at Twitter! And check out our Facebook page! For those who are interested, we are also on TikTok now. You can follow us on Instagram (main account, or you can follow Laine as well) or check out our new YouTube channel with back episodes of the podcast and new “Everyday Magic” videos, too (as well as most of our contest announcements)! 

Promos and Music:

Title and closing music are “Runaround (AM Radio),” by Aaron Solomon, and is licensed from Audio Socket. (License #1273). Additional incidental music Kevin Macleod, from Free Music Archive and used under a CC 2.0 license.

Sound effects from Freesound.org and in the Public Domain. Additional "rooster" sound effect from Darina Evstafeva from Pixabay.

Please consider supporting us by purchasing our promotional items in the New World Witchery Threadless shop or by joining our Patreon supporters.

If you like us AND you like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, you will love our new show: Myth Taken: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast, now available through all the podcatchers! You can also check out Cory's folklore show, Chasing Foxfire, where he explores the intersection of folklore and topics like history, medicine, science, nature, literature, pop culture, and more!

Summary:

We interview horror author Grady Hendrix about his latest book, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls. The discussion covers maternity homes, occult paperbacks, fears of satanic feminism from centuries gone by, and so much more!

Please check out our ⁠Patreon⁠ page! You can help support the show for as little as a dollar a month, and get some awesome rewards at the same time. Even if you can’t give, spread the word and let others know, and maybe we can make New World Witchery even better than it is now.

Producer for this show:

Our producing supporter this month is Achija Branvin Sionach, and we’ll be sending you our cursed bookmobile full of haunted tomes to select a favorite as a token of our gratitude soon!

Sources:

• Find out more about Grady at his website
• Pick up Witchcraft for Wayward Girls at bookshop.org and other online stores
• Learn more about maternity homes in The Girls Who Went Away by Anne Fessler
• Read the Letterboxd review that sparked Grady's story

Music:

Title music is “Woman Blues,” by Paul Avgerinos licensed from ⁠Audio Socket⁠ (#35954). Incidental music by Kevin MacLeod, CC 2.0 license.

Complete shownotes and transcript at ⁠www.newworldwitchery.com

Summary: We hear about our lunar forecast for March, pull some emotional cards, help a horse get some justice, and get advice from (smug) birds!

Please check out our Patreon page!

You can help support the show for as little as a dollar a month, and get some awesome rewards at the same time. Even if you can’t give, spread the word and let others know, and maybe we can make New World Witchery even better than it is now. 

Producers for this show:Elle, Bree, Victoria & Keifel of 1000 Volt Press, Lauren, Cate, Sierra, Lisa, Donna, Liz, Meg, Vee, Mark, Kels, Benjamin, AromaG’s Botanica, DanielKnits, Abbi of Morningstar Coven, Stephanie, Jenna, Donna, Jennifer, Fergus, Heather, Christopher, Ralph of the Holle's Haven Podcast, Jamie, Catherine, Achija Branvin Sionach, Jen Rue of Rue & Hyssop, AthenaBeth, and Conjured Cardea! Our sincere thanks to everyone supporting us!

-Sources-

We highly recommend that you find an almanac or lunar-oriented datebook to help you with planning out your own magical year. Some we can recommend: 

• The Witches Almanac

• Llewellyn's Astrological Pocket Planner

• Writual Planner

• Or your local Farmer's Almanac!

You can find a transcript of this episode at our Transcripts page.

Folktale of the Month: "The Silent Plaintiff"

See our article Watching Birds for more bird lore.

Title and closing music are “Runaround (AM Radio),” by Aaron Solomon, and is licensed from Audio Socket. (License #1273). Additional incidental music Kevin Macleod, from Free Music Archive and used under a CC 2.0 license.

Sound effects from Freesound.org and in the Public Domain. Additional "rooster" sound effect from Darina Evstafeva from Pixabay.

If you like us AND you like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, you will love our new show: Myth Taken: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Podcast, now available through all the podcatchers! You can also check out Cory's folklore show, Chasing Foxfire, where he explores the intersection of folklore and topics like history, medicine, science, nature, literature, pop culture, and more!

Complete shownotes available at www.newworldwitchery.com

Summary:

We chat with Jezmina Von Thiele and Paulina Stevens about their work with preserving Roma traditions, the role of magic in Romani culture, and their work on their show Romanistan.

Please check out our Patreon page! You can help support the show for as little as a dollar a month, and get some awesome rewards at the same time. Even if you can’t give, spread the word and let others know, and maybe we can make New World Witchery even better than it is now.

Producer for this show:

Our producing supporter this month is AthenaBeth. You have our gratitude, and the cards we’ve pulled for you this month are the Three of Swords, the Tower, and…the Happy Squirrel?

Sources:

• The Romanistan Podcast
• Secrets of Romani Fortune-Telling by Jezmina Von Thiele and Paulina Stevens

Music:

Title music is “Woman Blues,” by Paul Avgerinos licensed from Audio Socket (#35954). Incidental music by Kevin MacLeod, CC 2.0 license.

Complete shownotes and transcript at www.newworldwitchery.com