Welcome to The Wisdom Path Podcast. In this second instalment of her potent Witch, Please series, Rosie Peacock reads aloud Misogyny, Myth & Memory—a spoken spell and scholarly unspelling that travels through language, lore, archetype, and ecclesiastical distortion.

Where Part One traced the witch’s historical burning—through empire, spectacle, and control—this episode descends into the stories that buried her. The myths that twisted her. The words that warped wisdom into wickedness. And the ongoing legacy of patriarchal systems that still seek to divide, distort, and domesticate feminine power.

This piece is part essay, part invocation, part cultural recovery. With poetic force and mythic clarity, Rosie explores how the witch wasn’t just punished in flesh—she was erased in story. And how it is through remembering, through re-speaking, that we begin to call her back.

In This Episode, We Explore:

• How language has been used to twist feminine wisdom into cultural threat

• Why the word witch once meant wise woman—and how it came to mean wicked

• The archetypal distortions of Maiden, Mother, and Crone through patriarchal eyes

• What happened to the mythic figures of Hecate, Ceridwen, Morgan le Fay, and the Cailleach

• How oral storytelling, dream, and art became sites of feminine survival

• Why reclaiming the witch means reclaiming your voice, your fire, your myth

• A closing monologue: Hellmouth—Esmeralda speaks back to Frollo, desire, and domination

Key Quotes:

• “To make something legible in patriarchy is often the first step toward controlling it.”

• “You said I made the devil stronger than the man. But it was never the devil in me. It was just desire you were too afraid to hold.”

• “The crone wasn’t discarded because she was useless—she was feared because she was free.”

• “Language is a spell. Myth is a mirror. And the witch is the one who breaks both, then writes her own.”

• “You’re not just telling stories. You’re unspelling the ones that told you who you had to be.”

Resources Mentioned:

• Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici

• The Malleus Maleficarum (cited critically, not recommended)

• Rosie’s Substack series: Witch, Please (Part One)

• The Wisdom Path Podcast: Playing Her Part archetype episodes: From Lilith, Hecate, Persephone, to Aphrodite, and soon Inanna

• Upcoming: Ceridwen project with Jodi Garrod

Journalling Prompts:

• What myths have shaped your view of power, womanhood, or worth?

• Where do you feel the split between maiden, mother, and crone in yourself?

• What stories have you inherited that no longer serve your becoming?

• How might you speak back to the systems that once silenced you?

Connect with Rosie:

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Substack: https://iamrosiepeacock.substack.com

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Takeaway for Listeners:

The witch wasn’t just burned. She was rewritten. And yet, her myth lives in your body, your blood, your remembering. Reclaiming her isn’t about playing a part—it’s about living a truth that was once forbidden. This episode is for the writers, the witches, the storytellers and sacred misfits who are ready to speak, not softly—but with flame.

If this episode stirred something in you, please rate, share, and leave a review. That is a sacred part of the oral tradition, too. Let the algorithm know: these words matter.

The myth is not over. We’re just beginning to rewrite it.

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