*TRIGGER WARNING: Child Loss (1:11:32-1:14:25)*

Join Hex Marie and I as we talk about the Pennsylvania Dutch and a German Goddess that the church had to literally force everyone to stop celebrating.

0:00- Interview with Hex Marie

28:28-Dish of the Week: Food from Pennsylvania Dutch Country

39:59- Tea Time: The History of the Pennsylvania Dutch

1:03:44- Frau Berchta, a Mother to All

Link To Hex Marie's Good Yule Class

Hexmarie (Brittany Tingey) is a Pennsylvania Dutch and German-American Folk magic practitioner. Online she shares insights and thoughts about Folklore and Fairytales tales, German and German American folk magic, animism and paganism with a modern eclectic lens. As an Instructor she guides students to find the breadcrumbs of folklore and story that can lead her students back to their forgotten cultural heritage of ancestral wisdom and connection.

Hex's Website

• Truth Coming Out of Her Well - Wikipedia
• Krampus Parade
• Distaff - Wikipedia
• Goddess Holle by Gunivortus Goos
• ‎Otherworldly Oracle Official: Berchta: Goddess and Witch Queen (Deity Series) on Apple Podcasts
• Berchta: Alpine Goddess of Women, Children, and the Perchten
• Anabaptism - Wikipedia
• Alsace–Lorraine - Wikipedia
• Who Are the Pennsylvania Dutch? A Brief History of this Rural Community
• 51 Cozy Pennsylvania Dutch-Inspired Recipes | Taste of Home
• Old-Fashioned Honey Baked Apples Recipe: How to Make It
• Pennsylvania Dutch Corn Pie Recipe: How to Make It
• Pennsylvania Dutch Apple Butter Recipe: How to Make It
• Canned Blueberry Jam Recipe: How to Make It
• Pennsylvania Dutch Pork Chops Recipe: How to Make It
• Pennsylvania Dutch Potato Doughnuts Recipe: How to Make It
• Encyclopedia of Spirits by Judika Illes

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