Stories of real Witches.
“Language and landscape are my inspiration.”So said Terry Tempest Williams in her Personal Topography of America’s national parks: The Hour of Land, and I think this rings true for most Witches. We are Language and Landscape. Amy guides listeners through the work of this author, activist, seek
Missing WitchesIn this episode Risa falls in love with Diane di Prima and explores a “secret history of intellectual and spiritual evolution as essentially aimed at human liberation” with “anarchism, gender equality, communal property and sexual freedom” interlinked and nestled at the heart
Missing WitchesIn this first episode of Season 5, Amy shares the story of patron saint of inter-sectional feminism, Audre Lorde.Moon marked and touched by sun, HER magic is unwritten but when the sea turns back it will leave HER shape behind.When Self described “Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,”
Missing WitchesNEW EPISODE! This is a story about hugging trees. And it is a story about witch hunts and the idea of a radical reimagining of our relationship with nature. About the women who inspired the iconic environmental Chipko movement in India, which literally means to hug, and it’s a story about the Bishno
Missing WitchesAn archeologist before there were any. The point of origin for the idea that witches gather in covens. The mother of all subsequent covens, in a way. The first woman to unwrap a mummy. Author of ”The Witch-Cult in Western Europe”. Criticized for her cognitive leaps, discredited for the w
Missing WitchesBuffy Sainte Marie is another magical being who doesn’t show her witchiness through occult study, cauldrons, crystals or tarot cards, but rather, through a devotion to change, a reverence for nature, a recognition of the power of ceremony. The nerve to go her own way. She sang, “Magic is Alive” and
Missing WitchesToday’s episode is unlike most because you’ve almost 100% heard of our featured witch. But the Missing part of Missing Witches comes in many forms. In American history, Harriet Tubman’s story is oft told, a hero of civil rights, a literal trailblazer, railroad conductor, freedom fighter whose face w
Missing WitchesThis episode honours a 7th Century hero. A Black indigenous Woman who was a leader. A warrior priestess named Dihya, champion of the native North African Amazigh people, her name means “the beautiful gazelle” in the Tamazight language of the Amazigh. Amazigh, plural Imazighen, means “free or noble p
Missing WitchesReferenced in this episode: Faith Ringgold: A View From the Sudio by Curlle Raven Holton We Flew Over The Bridge by Faith Ringgold Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold https://www.faithringgold.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Ringgold_NWSA-journal_-French-collection-Flag-is-Bleeding-Bitter-Nest_1994-copy.pdf
Missing WitchesIn this episode we sketch the life and impact of a woman who has been called the mother of modern spirituality and who was also one of the greatest explorers of the 1900s, though she’s rarely credited for it. She spoke Russian, Georgian, English, French, Italian, Arabic, and Sanskrit, and was a much
Missing WitchesThis episode is about PR and Santeria and Science and Magic, The Age of Aquarius, and Death. About believing and not believing. But mostly it’s about Hope. A quick scan of self-described, New Age author, Migene Gonzalez Wippler’s book titles – Return of the Angels, Dreams and What They M
Missing WitchesThis episode of the Missing Witches Podcast is about leaving your small town to find your true name, and it’s about magical thinking and fate, consent and sex magic, rocket science and peyote, Scientology and scam artists… above all it’s about an art witch who deserves to have her own story to
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