Stories of real Witches.
In 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
Missing WitchesThis is a story about a woman born into slavery who became one of the most powerful healers in the hot mad cruel town of Cartagena de Indias in 17th Century colonial Colombia. A woman who was tried 3 times for witchcraft and survived, still imprisoned, while the bishop himself paid her for her servi
Missing WitchesA persistent asker of Why, a child or dissident, is often dismissed with: Because it’s always been that way. Historians are here to say, no, these pieces of thousand or ten thousand year old evidence say different. Things CAN change. Now, gentle listener, close your eyes and take that idea to its ul
Missing WitchesThis episode is dedicated with love to Imre Torok. Warning: We discovered during our research that Z Budapest has been labeled and embraced the label of TERF – for those of you not familiar with this acronym, it stands for Trans Exclusive Radical Feminist. We at Missing Witches are
Missing WitchesDoreen Valiente, the Mother of Modern Witchcraft, the spy who worshipped the moon and never quite came in from the cold, the sharp researcher who spotted forgeries and accidentally helped create a religion though she thought organized religion was a curse to humanity, and wrote beautiful books of po
Missing WitchesReferenced in this episode: Dust Tracks On A Road: Zora Neale Hurston I Love Myself When I Am Laughing…: Hurston ed Walker Zora Neale Hurston’s Final Decade: Virginia Lynn Moylan Tell My Horse: Hurston Mules and Men: Hurston Wrapped in Rainbows: Valerie Boyd “June Jordan and Alice Walker’s Que
Missing WitchesA woman who’s own face did not appear on the first edition of her biography became the most famous Vodou priestess living in the United States today.
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