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A monthly podcast on the modern witchcraft movement… minus the usual BS.

  1. 91. “Ancient” Practices

    31 JAN

    91. “Ancient” Practices

    There's an annoying thing in the witchcraft community where every new idea or trend gets cast as an "ancient" practice even if it's just a few years old. Time and time again, we see people constructing false narratives about the supposed historicity of ideas, spells, and rituals in witchcraft spaces, and all of it is bad for us. Why do people feel the need to lie? Why does something being a new idea make it less credible in people's eyes? Why have we been doing this as a community from the start?

    34 min
  2. 90. Nighttime.

    27/12/2025

    90. Nighttime.

    I'm getting a bit contemplative at the end of the year, and this month we're talking about the importance of the mystery of the night. Everything feels just a little more magical in the dark, and why that just feels right as a witch. That's right, we're talking about an aesthetic this time around. Who would have guessed?

    36 min
  3. 89. What Makes Wicca Wicca?

    29/11/2025

    89. What Makes Wicca Wicca?

    One of the biggest things I think a lot of older witches take for granted is that people understand what makes Wicca, well, Wicca. While we’ve discussed the history before, and last month talked about the weird anti-Wicca backlash, I think there are a lot of misconceptions about how this incredibly diverse religion is practiced. Frankly, just the fact that it is largely an orthopraxic religion and not an orthodoxic one is a concept a lot of folks raised in predominantly Christian frameworks struggle with. So let’s talk about it.

    38 min
  4. 88. Wicca Bad? Featuring Thumper Forge

    25/10/2025

    88. Wicca Bad? Featuring Thumper Forge

    If you spend any amount of time on social media these days, especially TikTok, you'll find a surprising amount of anti-Wiccan sentiment... and a lot of it's pretty weird. Thumper Forge, Gardnerian Wiccan and author of the forthcoming The Chaos Apple, joins me as we, frankly, debunk some of the worst of it and talk about why we think this has happened.

  5. 87. A Season of Change

    27/09/2025

    87. A Season of Change

    This episode marks seven years of this podcast, and as we start the eighth, I decided that it was time we looked back on how much things have changed in the modern witchcraft space since then, along with how different things are since I first became a witch over twenty-five years ago. Because what is witchcraft if it's not change? Also, I'm standing in a park most of the episode, which is why it sounds like that.

    34 min
  6. 86. Shadow Work (And Maybe Why We Shouldn’t Tell Other Witches to Do It)

    30/08/2025

    86. Shadow Work (And Maybe Why We Shouldn’t Tell Other Witches to Do It)

    If you're in witchcraft spaces, over the last six years or so, you've likely heard someone talking about "shadow work" (or more obnoxiously telling someone "they need to do some shadow work"). And while some folks seem to consider it an essential element of witchcraft, for those of us who have been in the community a long time it's just a little bit puzzling. Likewise, a lot of the people pushing shadow work don't seem to know where it comes from to begin with. With that in mind, this month I'm going into the origins of shadow work, what it is, and maybe why some folks need to stop pushing it so hard.

    36 min
  7. 85. Feedback/Q&A Special 2025

    26/07/2025

    85. Feedback/Q&A Special 2025

    It's July which means it's time for the annual feedback/Q&A episode of the show! In this episode I sit down and answer questions that you, the audience, has been sending me over the last few months. It's the same dance we do every summer, and this year you guys sent me some great questions. It's a fun one.

    1h 15m
  8. 84. We Clicked on Every Facebook Witchcraft Ad (with Bree NicGarran)

    28/06/2025

    84. We Clicked on Every Facebook Witchcraft Ad (with Bree NicGarran)

    Last month we talked about a good source new witches might want to add to their libraries, because I know how hard it is to separate the signal from the noise. But this month I thought we'd go look at some of the noise instead! I clicked on every terrible ad for witchcraft stuff I could find on Facebook for a week, and decided to inflict what I found on Hex Positive's Bree NicGarran. It's so, so bad y'all.

    1h 47m
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A monthly podcast on the modern witchcraft movement… minus the usual BS.

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  • Creator
    Trae Dorn
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2026
  • Episodes
    91
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Trae Dorn
  • Show Website
    BS-Free Witchcraft

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