Whuddup Witches

Happy Friday, folks and friends! This week, we are unhinged and unmedicated as Holly takes us on a twisty turny train ride of unparallelled fuckery while we dive into the history and mystery of the Sphinx!

"I am so sorry"-Holly

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episode sources:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphinx

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Great-Sphinx

https://mythopedia.com/topics/sphinx

https://www.theoi.com/Ther/Sphinx.html

WERE BACK BACK BACK AGAIN!

New year, new resolutions and new spooky stories!

Join us this week as we tell your frightful feats, terrifying tales and the downright dreadful dooms that lurk in the shadows of all our lives.

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Hey Witch,

Yuletide is upon us and what better way to celebrate than by talking about the witches who started it all.

In last weeks episode we started talking about the the history and evolution of our beloved Santa Claus by looking at 2 witches who started all of the charismas traditions of gift giving, bringing cheer and a few darker tales.

We talked about La Befana, the Italian Christmas Witch who is still to this day celebrated in regions all over Italy as a kind and generous woman who could clean something fierce.

Then we took a darker turn and talked about Grýla, The Icelandic Christmas Witch. Who is not only a woman to be reckoned with in her own right, but also the matriarch of a fearsome family, which include her 13 mischievous sons the Yule lads! Join us again this week as we wrap us this year with 2 more Christmas Witches with legends deep and dark.

We finish off this fortnights episode all in our feelings as we look forward to the next year ahead!

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Episode Sources:

⁠⁠https://medium.com/sweetwitch/its-got-goblins-demons-witches-it-s-the-strange-history-of-christmas-dc7ac7f73783⁠⁠

⁠⁠https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Befana⁠⁠

⁠⁠https://www.artandobject.com/slideshows/santa-claus-through-history-tracing-evolution-beloved-icon⁠⁠

⁠⁠https://www.history.com/topics/christmas/santa-claus⁠⁠

⁠⁠https://www.britannica.com/topic/Santa-Claus⁠⁠

⁠⁠https://www.whychristmas.com/customs/santa-claus⁠⁠

⁠⁠https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/witchy-christmas-1.6695542⁠⁠

⁠⁠https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Christmas_folklore⁠⁠

⁠⁠https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-icelands-christmas-witch-much-cooler-and-scarier-krampus-180967605/⁠⁠

⁠⁠https://witchlike.wordpress.com/2017/12/13/lucia-and-lussi-celebrating-the-darkness-and-the-light/⁠⁠

⁠⁠https://www.britannica.com/topic/St-Lucias-Day⁠⁠

⁠⁠https://boroughsofthedead.com/frau-perchta/⁠⁠

⁠⁠https://boroughsofthedead.com/⁠⁠

Welcome Back Witches! With 17 days till Christmas it's hard not to have a Christmas/Yule inspired Episode, and in the same breathe, with the hustle and bustle of the modern world its sometimes easy to forget that the Christmas traditions, stories and festivities we know and love have ancient roots too. In today's episode we are going to be looking at the the history and evolution of our beloved Santa Claus. As we have seen so many times before on this podcast Pegans, Nordics and Witches world wide are usually at the heart of many of these stories and traditions. Well, the legends of Santa are no different. So come with us as we take you on a magical Christmas Journey to learn all about the Chirstmas Witches who started it all. Episode Sources: https://medium.com/sweetwitch/its-got-goblins-demons-witches-it-s-the-strange-history-of-christmas-dc7ac7f73783 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Befana https://www.artandobject.com/slideshows/santa-claus-through-history-tracing-evolution-beloved-icon https://www.history.com/topics/christmas/santa-claus https://www.britannica.com/topic/Santa-Claus https://www.whychristmas.com/customs/santa-claus https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/witchy-christmas-1.6695542 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Christmas_folklore https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-icelands-christmas-witch-much-cooler-and-scarier-krampus-180967605/ https://witchlike.wordpress.com/2017/12/13/lucia-and-lussi-celebrating-the-darkness-and-the-light/ https://www.britannica.com/topic/St-Lucias-Day https://boroughsofthedead.com/frau-perchta/ https://boroughsofthedead.com/

Happy Friday folks! This episode we are continuing on with the topic of Reincarnation! We’ll look at the reincarnation beliefs of a bunch more First Nations communities, talk about the effect Organized religion had on their beliefs, and cover a couple of examples of reincarnation from around the globe.

Don't forget to send in your spooky stories for our next listeners whispers episode!

Sources for this week include:

https://www.history.co.uk/articles/new-lease-of-life-7-people-who-claimed-that-they-were-reincarnated

https://www.ancient-origins.net/history/hidden-beliefs-covered-church-resurrection-and-reincarnation-early-christianity-006320

https://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/past-life-memories-children-and-past-life-regression-case-reincarnation-003872#google_vignette

https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/native-american-children-past-life-memories#Jeffery_Wetsuweten

https://www.uniguide.com/reincarnation-native-american

https://people.howstuffworks.com/reincarnation.htm

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reincarnation#:~:text=Reincarnation%2C%20also%20known%20as%20rebirth,or%20body%20after%20biological%20death.

Happy fri-yay witches! This fortnight Holly is teaching us about the spiritual beliefs of Reincarnation that can be found some of the First Nations communities of North America. Come along with us as we discover what reincarnation is, and learn about the practices from the Tlingit, Haida, and Gitxsan communities this week, and come back again in another fortnight to learn about some more because this one is a two parter! Don't forget to send in your spooky stories for our next listeners episode in December! Sources for this week: https://people.howstuffworks.com/reincarnation.htm https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reincarnation#:~:text=Reincarnation%2C%20also%20known%20as%20rebirth,or%20body%20after%20biological%20death https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/native-american-children-past-life-memories#Jeffery_Wetsuweten https://www.uniguide.com/reincarnation-native-american

Happy hallows witches! Tis but a few days before the best day of the year, so let's talk about samhain!

When we say halloween what are some words that come to mind?

1. Candy

2. Pumpkins

3. Spooky

4. Treats

5. Scares

6. Costumes

7. Monsters

Well all of these things are very modern and westernized elements of of the long celebrated Samhain.

Join us in the liminal space this week where instead of telling you some history of the celebration, or how to practice different rituals ancient and modern alike, we are going to step into the shoes of a celtic celebrating samhain. When the darkness of the night has taken over, the ale is free flowing, the bone fires are raging, and men, women and children alike gather to tell each other tales of monsters and heroes alike of Samhains' past.

If you love a good folktale or spooky halloween story dont forget to send us yours!

Episode sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummers%27_play#Overview

https://www.terriwindling.com/blog/2021/10/halloween-samhain.html#:~:text=In%20Celtic%20lore%2C%20October%2031st,stately%20procession%20across%20the%20land.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samhain

https://liminal11.com/2021/10/25/what-is-samhain-diving-into-the-ancient-origins-of-halloween/#:~:text=The%20Welsh%20Gwynn%20ap%20Nudd,was%20celebrated%20particularly%20in%20Scotland.

https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/samhain#samhain-monsters

https://www.terriwindling.com/blog/2021/10/halloween-samhain.html

https://www.theirishjewelrycompany.com/irish_halloween_traditions_halloween_origins

Happy Friday, witchy people! We both sincerely hope that Friday the 13th is being exceptionally good to you!

Today's episode features a creature that we are all familiar with: the wicked, the wiley, the Werewolf.

Howl along with us as we explore the wild side of this creatures fascinating history, the cultures they've touched, and some of the trials their famous for.

Don't forget to send in your spooooooky stories to be featured in our next Listeners Whispers Episode!

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Episode sources:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hidden-history-viking-wolf-warrior-werewolf

https://www.history.com/news/werewolf-trials-europe-witches

https://www.history.com/topics/folklore/history-of-the-werewolf-legend#

https://theconversation.com/the-ancient-origins-of-werewolves-104775

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin-walker

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rougarou

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werewolf

https://www.britannica.com/art/werewolf

Happy Spooky Season Witches!

We're back back back again with our FAVOURITE episodes to make .... Listeners Whispers Vol. 5

This week we are telling the spookiest of stories sent in by YOU! Join us as we tell the haunting tales of your experience with the super natural, the divine and the down right terrifying in volume 5 of our listeners episodes.

annnnd we FINALLY harassed one of our favourite listeners, and friend, to write in not 1, not 2, not 3 BUT 4 FREAKING STORIES!!

If you didnt get your stories to us this time, thats okay because we do our listeners episodes every quarter, so if you’d like to get a jump on Decembers episode, send in those stories!

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Stay Spooky

Welcome back to another wicked week here on the WWP. This week were going a bit lighter with our topic and focusing on another area of divination. Today were going to be talking about the art of Palmistry. We will look at a brief history, discuss what palmistry is an then talk about how this form of divination is practiced. So sit down, get comfy and join us as we explore what fates are held in the palm of our hands

Don't forget, we're doing another quarterly Listeners Whispers episode this month! Make sure to send in your spooky stories to be featured on the show! Send them to us at:

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And as always, Stay spooky!

Sources:

https://www.wikihow.com/Read-Palms

https://www.thecut.com/article/how-to-read-palms.html

https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/palm-reading-for-beginners

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmistry

https://oldtowncrier.com/2016/05/01/8-tips-for-preparing-for-a-palmistry-reading/