Death Coven

Death Coven Pod

Death Coven is a comedic spirituality podcast by three fabulous death witches: Skye, Poppy, and River. Every other Thursday, we yap about a myriad of topics (like hauntings, history, science, culture, and the occasional whale phallus) through the lens of magic and death energy.  Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review! Join our community of listeners as we explore the mysteries of the afterlife through the lens of witchcraft. SOCIALS: Email - deathcovenpod@gmail.com Instagram - @deathcovenpod

  1. MAR 5

    Episode 43: The Ghost of Oiwa, Ariadne, and Eco-Burials

    Hey, hi, how a doin'? Today we're talking ghosts, gods, and graves. Skye regales us with the legend of one of the most iconic yokai in Japan: Yotsuya Kaiden. River tells us about the mythology behind Ariadne, the beautiful wife of Dionysus. Finally, Poppy informs us about the environmental impacts of various burial practices in the USA, including aquamation, green burials, and human composting. Stay tuned until the end to hear River read some scandalous erotic poetry! If you'd like to skip the hypothetical, jump to 14:43. Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review! Join our community of listeners as we explore the mysteries of the afterlife through the lens of witchcraft. SOCIALS: Email - deathcovenpod@gmail.com Instagram - @deathcovenpod Sources: https://funerals.org/get-help/green-options/https://bare.com.au/blog/environmental-impacts-of-funerals-death-burial-vs-cremation https://returnhome.com/what-are-the-different-types-of-eco-friendly-burials/ https://www.cremation.green/dissecting-the-nfda-2025-cremation-burial-report-stats/#:~:text=the%20data%20revealed.-,The%20Cremation%20Rate%20is%20Now%20Double%20the%20Rate%20of%20Burial,choice%20in%20most%20places%20today. https://www.greenburialnaturally.org/blog/2017/12/2/hunter-mohring#:~:text=When%20a%20lease%20is%20up,and%20a%20new%20burial%20above. https://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/cemetery-to-offer-carbon-neutral-funerals-20080311-gds4si.html https://earthfuneral.com/reports/the-environmental-impact-of-funeral-choices https://www.webmd.com/balance/what-is-human-composting

    1h 32m
  2. 12/25/2025

    Episode 38: This Poop Got Me Twisted

    In the second and final part of this two part series, Poppy gets elbows deep in raw sewage as she tells the tale of the London Cholera Epidemic of 1854.  If you want to skip today's hypothetical, slide on over to 11:48! Sources Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson (2006)Tulchinsky TH. John Snow, Cholera, the Broad Street Pump; Waterborne Diseases Then and Now. Case Studies in Public Health. 2018:77–99. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-804571-8.00017-2. Epub 2018 Mar 30. PMCID: PMC7150208. (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7150208/) “Ep 4 The Poop Show” - This Podcast Will Kill You (2017)https://heritagecalling.com/2019/03/28/the-story-of-londons-sewer-system/https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/cholera/symptoms-causes/syc-20355287https://www.cdc.gov/cholera/about/index.html Kousoulis AA. Etymology of cholera. Emerg Infect Dis. 2012 Mar;18(3):540. doi: 10.3201/eid1803.111636. PMID: 22377194; PMCID: PMC3309598.Death and miasma in Victorian London: an obstinate belief, Stephen Halliday 1https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1121911/ https://www.cumbrianlives.org.uk/lives/the-rev-henry-whitehead.htmlWatching the detectives: how the cholera riddle was solved by Wendy Moore https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1832016/ https://www.choleraandthethames.co.uk/cholera-in-london/cholera-in-soho/ Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review! Join our community of listeners as we explore the mysteries of the afterlife through the lens of witchcraft. SOCIALS: Email - deathcovenpod@gmail.com Instagram - @deathcovenpod

    1h 50m

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Death Coven is a comedic spirituality podcast by three fabulous death witches: Skye, Poppy, and River. Every other Thursday, we yap about a myriad of topics (like hauntings, history, science, culture, and the occasional whale phallus) through the lens of magic and death energy.  Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review! Join our community of listeners as we explore the mysteries of the afterlife through the lens of witchcraft. SOCIALS: Email - deathcovenpod@gmail.com Instagram - @deathcovenpod