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?

Subscribe so we can stay connected. Every download keeps us creating!

You can support us with a visit to our website: www.bloodmoonradio.com

Join us on Podmatch

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.