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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