A 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 ultimate, where discoveries…
Category: Missing Witches
These are research and storytelling episodes of the podcast, each one introducing you to a Witch from history.
Missing Witches – Z Budapest: She Is Not Perfect And Neither Are We
This 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 not that. INclusivity is our mandate…
Missing Witches: Doreen Valiente – All Acts Of Love And Pleasure Are My Rituals
Doreen 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 poems and spells about how to draw…
Missing Witches – Zora Neale Hurston: I Want To Collect Like A New Broom
Referenced 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 Quest for a Redemptive Art and Politics”…
Missing Witches – Urduja: You Are Kapwa, Kin, Connected To Everything
We live in a global era characterized by PTSD. Maybe in your own life you’re familiar with how post traumatic stress disorder works. Traumatic violence distorts memories, and the way we experience time, making violence repeat on a loop like a record skipping. Changing how we see and talk about ourselves. The witch hunts were…
Missing Witches – Lady Frieda Harris: I Wish I Could Paint In Crystals
We started season one by telling the story of the artist, woman, witch behind the world’s most famous tarot deck, Pixie Coleman Smith, and so it seems fitting that to spark season 2 we dig into the life of another spectacular and forgotten tarot artist. This queen, this Lady, in her sixties, as bombs rain…
Missing Witches – Brenda Laurel: Unleash The Alchemical Power Of It All
In this episode, we strap on our VR goggles and take a look at both kinds of virtual reality – the one you make with technology, and the one you make with magic. By the keystrokes of visionary techno-pagan and software pioneer, Brenda Laurel, we learn to bridge the gap between computer, theatre, nature, and…
Missing Witches – Mama Lola: Spirit For EVERYBODY!
A story of power, resilience and care and magic – we go back to the beginning of all consciousness to follow the genesis of voodou through dreams and under water, in Spirits, in Haiti and in Mama Lola, famed Voodu Priestess of Brooklyn. You probably wouldn’t expect to hear the name Tori Spelling on the…
Missing Witches – Monica Sjöö: The Earth Is A Witch And The Men Still Burn Her
A deep dive into the divine feminine, from goddess worship to modern motherhood, guided through the landmines by author, artist, activist, witch: Monica Sjöö. We really wanted to dedicate an episode to one of the groundbreaking powerhouse 70s witches – those take back the night witches who were influencing our moms and step moms and…
Missing Witches – Maria Sabina: I Am The Woman Who Shepherds The Immense
A psychedelic trip through the mountains of Mexico where we find Maria Sabina and her magic mushrooms. Through the story and songs of this curandera and poet, we explore the interplay of soul and brain, nature, language and healing. We want to make a big tent out of the word witch, including healers, shamans, artists,…