Woes and Wonders of Women, Witches and Wives

Disclaimer: We are testing new microphones so there is some weird background noise. We are working on it :)

Happy 2024!!!

This week Elaine and Juliana are looking back at some badass Empresses and discussing how history likes to paint female rulers.... spoiler it's not great.

Fast forward about 13 minutes to skip the chit-chatiness.   

Sources:
https://www.asianstudies.org/publications/eaa/archives/wu-zhao-ruler-of-tang-dynasty-china/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wuhou
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-demonization-of-empress-wu-20743091/
https://www.historyskills.com/classroom/year-7/wu-zetian/ 
https://artsandculture.google.com/story/the-first-and-only-woman-emperor-of-china/PQWR-NRltC6QFA?hl=en
https://www.worldhistory.org/Wu_Zetian/   
https://www.history.com/news/ancient-female-rulers-cleopatra-boudica
https://www.thoughtco.com/empress-theodora-facts-3529665
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodora-Byzantine-empress-died-548
https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/place_settings/theodora
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodora_(wife_of_Justinian_I)

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Love you!

Elaine and Juliana

Music is Pink’s Glass

All music is composed and produced by Jason Shaw on AudionautiX and is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode) Creative Commons Music by Jason Shaw on Audionautix.com

Episode 10 is here and we're officially in double digits! This week we are traveling around the world to bring you the stories of some international holiday ladies! Juliana takes us to Italy, Russia and Bulgaria and Elaine takes us to Sweden, Germany and ends up in Ireland with the stories of different women, legends and holidays traditions. This is our last episode of 2023, as we are taking a little holiday break, we hope you have the happiest of holidays and a wonderful new year! See you in 2024!

Sources:
https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/la-befana-an-italian-christmas-tradition.html https://www.italiarail.com/culture/legend-la-befana
https://susanvanallen.medium.com/the-legend-of-la-befana-88a0ee6eb5c
https://www.russianamericancompany.com/the-snowmaiden/
https://www.britannica.com/topic/St-Lucias-Day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lucy%27s_Day
https://sweden.se/culture/celebrations/the-lucia-tradition
https://visitsweden.com/what-to-do/culture-history-and-art/swedish-traditions/christmas/lucia/
https://germangirlinamerica.com/what-is-frau-perchta-goddess-or-belly-slitter/
https://boroughsofthedead.com/frau-perchta/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perchta
https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Frau_Perchta
https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/womens-christmas-nollaig-na-mban-celebrate-ireland
https://www.discoveringireland.com/nollaig-na-mban-womens-little-christmas/
https://www.theirishroadtrip.com/little-christmas-nollaig-na-mban/
https://xyuandbeyond.com/little-christmas-ireland/

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Love you!

Elaine and Juliana

Music is Pink’s Glass

All music is composed and produced by Jason Shaw on AudionautiX and is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode) Creative Commons Music by Jason Shaw on Audionautix.com

MURDERESSES Pt.2 

This week Juliana talks about quite the girl boss, Griselda Blanco. Known as “the black widow” and “the Godmother,” Blanco was a kingpin in the Miami cocaine scene in the 70s and 80s. She also allegedly/definitely killed all her husbands. Fun! 

As always thanks for listening and supporting! Follow us and subscribe on Patreon and follow us on Instagram @woesandwonders to stay up to date with all of our wondrous activities!

Love you!

Elaine and Juliana

Music is Pink’s Glass

All music is composed and produced by Jason Shaw on AudionautiX and is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode) Creative Commons Music by Jason Shaw on Audionautix.com

Hey Witches!! We have a bit of a special situation for you this week! Elaine and Juliana both had long and intense stories to tell about some maybe, maybe not, murderesses so we decided to give you TWO WEEKS of some lady criminals.

This week Elaine regales us with the story of the life of Lizzie Borden and the deaths that made her famous. She details for us the morning of the crime and the investigation and trial that followed concluding in one resounding question: do you think Lizzie Borden did it??

Stay tuned for next week when Juliana tells the story of a crime boss lady you won't want to miss!

Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Borden
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-19th-century-axe-murderer-lizzie-borden-was-found-not-guilty-180972707/
https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/famous-murders/lizzie-borden/
https://famous-trials.com/lizzieborden/1437-home
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/lizzie-borden/

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Love you!

Elaine and Juliana

Music is Pink’s Glass

All music is composed and produced by Jason Shaw on AudionautiX and is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode) Creative Commons Music by Jason Shaw on Audionautix.com

Happy Monday! We are SO excited this week because we are talking about animals that organize themselves in matriarchies. We know this may not quite qualify as "women, witches or wives" but the ladies in the animal kingdom deserve the spotlight too! In this episode Juliana takes us deep into the ocean to tell us all about orcas and then Elaine takes us over to the continent of Africa to talk about African elephants! Both these animals are complex socially and emotionally and we think it is so important to tell their stories too! 

Sources:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/what-elephants-can-teach-us-about-the-importance-of-female-leadership/2014/01/27/32db3f5e-7eeb-11e3-95c6-0a7aa80874bc_story.html
https://eia-international.org/blog/happy-mothers-day-now-meet-the-greatest-matriarch-in-the-animal-kingdom/
https://www.elephantvoices.org/elephant-sense-a-sociality-4/elephants-are-socially-complex.html
https://www.elephantnaturepark.org/interesting-and-fascinating-facts-about-elephants-feet-and-legs/#:~:text=It%20is%20an%20interesting%20fact,underground%20vibrations%20through%20their%20feet.
https://www.biointeractive.org/sites/default/files/media/file/2022-04/ExplanationTuskless-Educator-act.pdf

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Love you!

Elaine and Juliana

Music is Pink’s Glass

All music is composed and produced by Jason Shaw on AudionautiX and is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode) Creative Commons Music by Jason Shaw on Audionautix.com

Welcome to Episode 6 where we are telling the legends of some ancient Greek goddesses!! Elaine takes us all the way back to the beginning to tell the story of Gaia and then Juliana takes us on through the stories of the huntress, Artemis! We hope you enjoy!

Sources:
https://railsback.org/CS/CSGaia.html
https://www.thoughtco.com/greek-mythology-gaia-1525978#:~:text=Legacy%20and%20Story,help%20her%20subdue%20their%20father.
https://www.worldhistory.org/Gaia/
https://www.theoi.com/Protogenos/Gaia.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia
https://mythopedia.com/topics/gaia
https://ultimatepopculture.fandom.com/wiki/Gaia
https://www.theoi.com/Olympios/Artemis.html
https://greekgodsandgoddesses.net/goddesses/artemis/
https://www.thecollector.com/artemis-greek-goddess/ https://greekreporter.com/2023/11/10/artemis-goddess-name-nasa-mission/  https://news.trust.org/item/20140824101245-fijik

As always thanks for listening and supporting! Follow us and subscribe on Patreon and follow us on Instagram @woesandwonders to stay up to date with all of our wondrous activities!

Love you!

Elaine and Juliana

Music is Pink’s Glass

All music is composed and produced by Jason Shaw on AudionautiX and is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode) Creative Commons Music by Jason Shaw on Audionautix.com

Join us as we board the Titanic with some of the incredible women who were on the ship when it went down on April 14th, 1912 . This week we take you through the stories of six women who were on board the ship, their lives before and after this fateful journey, and their heroism and determination on that horrible day.

Sources:
https://www.corneliapowell.com/2018/10/amazing-women-aboard-titanic-take-two.html?m=1
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/post/women-on-the-titanic-real-and-imagined/2012/04/10/gIQA1C137S_blog.html
https://www.bransontourismcenter.com/info/2018/09/24/titanic-museum-attraction-honors-women-of-the-rms-titanic-who-made-a-difference/
https://news.berkeley.edu/2012/04/13/emma-goldmans-thoughts-about-women-on-the-titanic
https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-victim/edith-corse-evans.html
https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-victim/bessie-waldo-allison.html
https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-victim/ann-elizabeth-isham.html
https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-victim/annie-clemmer-funk.html

As always thanks for listening and supporting! Follow us and subscribe on Patreon and follow us on Instagram @woesandwonders to stay up to date with all of our wondrous activities!

Love you!

Elaine and Juliana

Music is Pink’s Glass

All music is composed and produced by Jason Shaw on AudionautiX and is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode) Creative Commons Music by Jason Shaw on Audionautix.com

This week's episode is out of this world! 

Juliana tells us about the amazing Mae Jemison and Elaine covers the incredible Sally Ride. 

Also, listen to learn if the women of Woes and Wonders would go to space????? 

Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Ride 

https://www.nbcnews.com/sciencemain/why-sally-ride-waited-until-her-death-tell-world-she-908942 

https://sallyridescience.ucsd.edu/sally-ride-coins-next-in-american-women-quarters-program/ 

https://www.uctv.tv/education/search-details.aspx?showID=31454  

https://science.nasa.gov/people/sally-ride/  

https://sallyridescience.ucsd.edu/about/ 

https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/she-had-dream-mae-c-jemison-first-african-american-woman-space 

https://www.biography.com/scientists/mae-c-jemison 

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/mae-jemison  

https://www.nasa.gov/former-astronaut-mae-c-jemison/ 

https://time.com/collection/firsts/4883293/mae-jemison-firsts/  

As always thanks for listening and supporting! Follow us and subscribe on Patreon and follow us on Instagram @woesandwonders to stay up to date with all of our wondrous activities!

Love you!

Elaine and Juliana

Music is Pink’s Glass

All music is composed and produced by Jason Shaw on AudionautiX and is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode) Creative Commons Music by Jason Shaw on Audionautix.com

Happy Halloween!! Join us this week to hear about some spooky ladies and the stories, legends and myths behind them! First, Elaine takes us through the history of Bloody Mary and then Juliana gets extra scary with the tale of Annabelle the Doll! Stay spooky friends!

Sources:
https://the-line-up.com/famous-female-ghosts
https://allthatsinteresting.com/bloody-mary
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/myth-bloody-mary-180974221/
https://www.britannica.com/story/was-bloody-mary-a-real-person
https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2016/10/127563/bloody-mary-queen-ghost-story-pregnancy-murder
https://www.hauntedrooms.co.uk/the-bloody-mary-legend
https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Bloody_Mary_(folklore)
https://www.pcsb.org/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&DomainID=5837&ModuleInstanceID=27652&ViewID=6446EE88-D30C-497E-9316-3F8874B3E108&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=28107&PageID=14981
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Mary_(folklore)
https://www.pbs.org/video/is-yuki-onna-the-most-terrifying-snow-monster-pyjhia/
https://www.hauntedrooms.co.uk/the-real-annabelle-doll-story-conjuring
https://allthatsinteresting.com/annabelle-doll
https://www.ctinsider.com/entertainment/article/Annabelle-Ed-Lorraine-Warren-Occult-Museum-CT-17501729.php
https://youtu.be/gqvaPQ6wH8I?si=UN2lW3nev8Op3tdW
https://youtu.be/GX0f3_SAFnw?si=KknptnsZLwpM9bFe
https://youtu.be/qjqh9UVfNNk?si=IudjfSgruXarZn8L

As always thanks for listening and supporting! Follow us and subscribe on Patreon and follow us on Instagram @woesandwonders to stay up to date with all of our wondrous activities!

Love you!

Elaine and Juliana

Music is Pink’s Glass

All music is composed and produced by Jason Shaw on AudionautiX and is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode) Creative Commons Music by Jason Shaw on Audionautix.com

Hey witches!

Welcome back for episode two! Before we get into the episode just a DISCLAIMER: we know that we talk very fast in the first ten-ish minutes of the episode, we were just so excited and had so much to talk about! But once we get into the stories we promise it calms down a bit and sounds much more like human speed, stick with us!

This week we talk about some First Ladies of the United States; Juliana tells us all about Dolly Madison and Elaine details the life of Florence Harding for us. We talk all about their childhoods and lives before becoming First Ladies, all of the incredible things they accomplished while in their "unofficial" office and maybe even what they did after death.

Sources we used in case you want to check out even more!
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Florence-Harding
https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/first-families/florence-kling-harding/
https://www.whitehousehistory.org/bios/florence-harding
https://hardingpresidentialsites.org/florence-harding/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Harding
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/content/29-florence-mabel-kling-harding
https://potus-geeks.livejournal.com/328434.html
https://www.britannica.com/money/topic/Teapot-Dome-Scandal
https://hardingpresidentialsites.org/2022/09/02/what-is-the-real-story-about-wghs-papers/
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/content/29-florence-mabel-kling-harding
https://potus-geeks.livejournal.com/328434.html
https://www.aarp.org/politics-society/history/info-2021/first-ladies.html
https://www.nps.gov/fila/learn/historyculture/first-ladies.htm
https://www.whitehousehistory.org/the-origins-of-the-american-first-lady 
https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/first-families/dolley-payne-todd-madison/ 
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/dolley-madison 
ew-nation/navigating-the-new-government/dolley-madison/ 
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dolley-Madison 
https://www.nps.gov/people/dolley-madison.htm

As always thanks for listening and supporting! Follow us and subscribe on Patreon and follow us on Instagram @woesandwonders to stay up to date with all of our wondrous activities!

Love you!

Elaine and Juliana

Music is Pink’s Glass

All music is composed and produced by Jason Shaw on AudionautiX and is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode) Creative Commons Music by Jason Shaw on Audionautix.com