OPENING QUOTE: “These days there are angry ghosts all around us. Dead from wars, sickness, starvation, and nobody cares. So you say you’re under a curse - so what? So’s the whole damn world.” (Princess Mononoke) 

BOOKS AND STORIES: 

Ella Enchanted (Gail Carson Levine) “Toads and Diamonds” and “The Kind and the Unkind Girl” 

The Chocolate Touch (Patrick Skene Catling) 

King Midas “The Fairy’s Mistake” (Gail Carson Levine) 

Macha (Celtic) 

The Morrigan (Celtic) 

Cassandra 

Medusa 

Pasiphae 

Prometheus 

Sisyphus 

Tantalus “Beauty and the Beast” 

“The Six Swans” 

Folktales of origins: Why Snake Has No Legs, for example. 

The Bone Houses (Emily Lloyd-Jones) 

The Bone Maker (Sarah Beth Durst) 

Fairy tale of the princess so beautiful she strikes men blind 

Folktale from India of the man cursed to have untold stories come out of his body 

The House of Atreus (Greek): Pelops, Tantalus, Agamemnon (+ Clytemnestra), Menelaus (+ Helen), Orestes, Electra 

Anaxibia 

The Body Keeps the Score (Bessel van den Kolk) 

The Wisdom of Your Body (Hillary L. McBride) 

Defenestrate (Renee Branum) 

“The Sixty-two Curses of Caliph Arenschadd” by Patricia C. Wrede 

The Narts vs. God 

Irish ritual curses 

TV SHOWS AND FILMS: 

Love, Death + Robots: “Jibaro” 

Holes (2003 film based on the novel by Louis Sachar) 

Encanto (2021) 

Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) 

Penelope (2006) 

Maleficent (2014) 

Frozen (2013) 

The Owl House

OPENING QUOTE: “What’s really going to bake your noodle later on is would you still have broken it if I hadn’t said anything.” (The Oracle, in The Matrix) BOOKS AND STORIES: Moirai (Greek) Norns (Norse) Parcae (Roman) Fortuna (Roman) / Tyche (Greek) Hemsut (Egyptian) Nabu (Babylonian/Assyrian) Sandman (Neil Gaiman) - both the graphic novel and the Netflix series Ananke (Greek) Nyx (Greek) The Starless Sea (Erin Morgenstern) Furies, Sirens Oedipus Tanzara and Dyeer (Armenian) Achilles Hamilton: The Musical She Who Became the Sun (Shelley Parker-Chan) Exhalation: Stories (Ted Chiang) Migrations (Charlotte McConaghy) Mary Oliver’s “The Summer Day” Hadestown Orpheus & Eurydice Cassandra TV SHOWS AND FILMS: Final Destination series Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) The Time Machine (2002) Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (Anna mixes up two series titles in the episode; this is the correct one) Minority Report (2002) Moonknight Paycheck (2003) Grave of the Fireflies (1988) The Adjustment Bureau (2011) The Matrix (1999) Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The Sea Beast (2022) Doctor Who Interstellar (2014) Dark (Netflix) Don’t Look Up (2021) Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012) Live. Die. Repeat. (originally titled Edge of Tomorrow) (2014) Back to the Future trilogy Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) Fringe Arrival (2016)

**NOTE: In this episode, we said “asexual” to describe the patriarchy’s expectation of women’s behavior. Thanks to listener feedback, we now know that we should have used language like “sexless” or “chaste” in this context. We’re leaving it up for the sake of transparency. We apologize for this misuse of the word. We are always learning and striving to do better!

OPENING QUOTE: “Witches live outside civilization and its rules. In fact it’s the witch’s disinterest in the hero and his adventures that the patriarchal authorities despise. They want her toiling in the nursery waving hankies at the hero while he expands his empire. But witches in a nursery just turn the children to changelings, and witches only care about empire when they want to burn it down.” (Amanda Yates Garcia)

**Due to the volume of works referenced in this episode, we encountered the maximum character limit! The below is an edited list of resources and recommendations. Please see our Bookshop link for full lists!

BOOKS:

Taschen’s Witchcraft ed. by Pam Grossman & Jessica Hundley

In Defense of Witches by Mona Chollet

Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici

The Witch Hunt in Early Modern Europe by Brian P. Levack

Witches, Midwives, & Nurses by Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English

Literary Witches by Taisia Kitaiskaia (intro by Pam Grossman)

Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales by Marie Louise von Franz

The Witch’s Heart by Genevieve Gornichec Transgressive Tales: Queering the Grimms (ed. by Kay Turner & Pauline Greenhill)

Kay Turner’s American Folklore Society Presidential address, “The Witch in Flight” (available on YouTube) Women Who Fly by Serinity Young

Gaia and God by Rosemary Radford Ruether

The Power of Story by Harold R. Johnson

The Change by Kirsten Miller

On Monsters by Stephen T. Asma

Circe by Madeline Miller

Kaikeyi by Vaishnvai Patel

The Book of Gothel by Mary McMyne

The Witch & the Tsar by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore

Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch by Rivka Galchen

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

Once & Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow

Little Witch Hazel by Phoebe Wall

Oz series by L. Frank Baum

Wicked by Gregory Maguire (& Broadway adaptation)

Our Crooked Hearts by Melissa Albert

Magical Women (anthology) ed. by Sukanya Venkaatraghavan

Kissing the Witch by Emma Donoghue

Fairy tale work of Angela Carter (The Bloody Chamber), Theodora Goss, Catherynne M. Valente, & Kat Howard

Hellboy series by Mike Mignola

Vassa in the Night by Sarah Porter

Baba Yaga’s Assistant by Marika McCool & Emily Carroll

Ask Baba Yaga series by Taisia Kitaiskaia (first book: Poetic Remedies for Troubled Times)

STORIES:

Inanna

Isis

Asherah

Hecate

Pandora

Medusa

Lilith

Eve

Circe

Witch of Endor

Little Red Riding Hood

Hansel & Gretel

Snow White

Sleeping Beauty

Morgan Le Fay

Baba Yaga

Toads & Diamonds

Rapunzel

Muma Padurii

Medea

Frau Trude

The Witch-Wife

MOVIES:

Kiki's Delivery Service

Moana

Snow White

The Little Mermaid

Tangled

Practical Magic

Into the Woods

Gretel and Hansel

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters

PEOPLE:

Bri Luna: @thehoodwitch

Pam Grossman: witchwavepodcast.com

Amanda Yates Garcia: @oracleofla

Carterhaugh School of Folklore & the Fantastic: carterhaughschool.com

Kelly Marshall

Temperance Alden: @wildwoman_witchcraft

In this bonus episode before the launch of Season 1, we talk about favorite stories (and the ones that failed us), The Forest, witches, our evangelical upbringings, silence, body horror, and chronic illness. 

In this episode, Anna uses the term "semiabled" as a way of describing herself as a chronically ill individual. We would like to point you to the work of Bridget Harrington, @semiabled on IG and semiabled.com, who coined the term and who is doing amazing work around the concept. 

BOOKS:

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Meet Anna and Amanda as they chat about their hopes and dreams for the podcast. 

Coming soon: Episode 1 where we discuss WATER.