Get ready, single people, because juhannus/midsommar/Midsummer is here! It's time to go into the nature, swim in a lake naked at midnight and pick seven different flowers to find your future soulmate!

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Join Pyry on a journey into the witch trials of Pärnu, Estonia. Unlike other European trials, the ones in Estonia were filled with werewolfes, marshes...and men?! Get ready for way-too-many-names, the earliest example of kink shaming, snitching and Elena's part in the witches' sabbath.

Our Bewitching Best: "Don't Go Without Me" by Rosemary Valero-O'Connell (https://www.shortbox.co.uk/product/don-t-go-without-me-by-rosemary-valero-o-connell) and Camilla Vuorenmaa (https://camillavuorenmaa.com) and her exhibition Roses, Black Birds and Witches (https://bit.ly/37doyhd) and her work, Medusa (https://bit.ly/2XET9kQ).

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This time it's Elena's turn to take us to Italy, as they talk about Charles G. Leland's disputed literary piece about the (Northern) Italian witch tradition, what the book contains and why it's now commonly disputed. Get ready to conjure a magickal lemon, Anti-Catholic sentiments, Lucifer "Not the Christian Lucifer" Morningstar and witches dancing naked in the woods (not really, it's a mistranslation).

Our Bewitching Best: "M/T and the Narrative About the Marvels of the Forest" by Kenzaburō Ōe and Steven Rhodes @stevenrhodesart (https://www.stevenrhodes.com.au)

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TW: Animal death, mild gore and mentions of sexual abuse

Travel back to Ancient Greece as Pyry shares he's research on the divination practices of the time as well as tries to answer the question: where were the female seers? Get ready for Alexander the Great, Pyry the Augur and Elena the Prisoner of Popular Culture. (Episode audio is a bit wonky, plus you might hear some purring cats on the background. Sorry?)

Our Bewitching Best: "The One Hundred Nights of Hero" by Isabel Greenberg and "Finn Family Moomintroll" (or "Trollkarlens hatt") by Tove Jansson

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It's time for Elena's Magnum (Magnus?) Opus, the magical song tradition of the Finnish peoples! Also, get ready for great poem-singers, snobby scholars, the Finnish neighbourly hospitality and Kalevala metre: quite simple and a bit dull.

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Our Bewitching Best: Okra Playground https://okraplayground.fi (Frostbitten: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9LSpORbL_8) and Witchy (https://www.witchycomic.com) by Ariel Slamet Ries.

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Pyry takes us back to the ancients and tells us about their potion practice! Get ready for the humoral theory, Moon Torment, punishments from the Gods, Elena's Animal Crossing Corner and the Chillest State of All.

Our Bewitching Best: Madeline McGrane, @madmcgrane (https://madelinemcgrane.com) and Felix D'Eon @felixdeon (https://www.instagram.com/felixdeon/)

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The city of Stockholm has been hit with a witch frenzy! Elena shares the story of a Finnish woman, Malin Matsdotter, and her part in the end of the witch trials in the kingdom of Sweden. Get ready for old women not giving a shit, deadly liars, fat-asses and so, so many oh my god's from Pyry.

Our Bewitching Best: "It Cats Disappeared from the World" by Genki Kawamura and "The Master and Margareta" by Mikhail Bulgakov.

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Get on your sled and come eat pulla with us, as in this minisode we explore the Finnish midwinter holiday, Laskiainen!

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Pyry shares with us the history of witches in older films, having seen almost none of them. Episode also includes queer-coded villainesses, 1900s visual effects and a rant about the treatment of Tituba.

Remarkable Providences by The Whisperforge (https://www.whisperforge.org/remarkableprovidences)

The Witch (1906) by Georges Méliès (https://youtu.be/vhOu5hoIETg)

Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922) by Benjamin Christensen (https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x20c5tx)

Our Bewitching Best: Little Witch Academia (watch it on Netflix!) and "Good Girls and Wicked Witches" by Amy M. Davis.

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In this episode, Elena takes on a trip to their personal craft as a green witch as well as the general and complicated history of green witchcraft. Get ready for rocks, trees, your daily update from the provax community and much more!

Recommended podcasts: The Dream and Sawbones

Our Bewitching Best: Medeia, an ancient play by Euripides and the Head Lopper comic series by Andrew MacLean

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