Occulted Ep. 1 - Arica Roberts on Healing through Academic Research and the Holy Sites of Medieval Wales

Welcome to the first episode of Occulted. 

My name is Jove Spucchi, and I'm excited to bring you this conversation today with witch and medieval scholar Arica Roberts.

Join us as we dive into the magical potency of Academia, the holy sites of Wales and Ireland, and the healing power of ancestor work.

Arica is a postgraduate research student at the University of Reading. Her interdisciplinary research is on gender and early medieval Wales with an emphasis on material culture, inscriptions, and hagiography. This work connects magical practices and root work through , connection to land, ancestor veneration, and the preservation of culture, language, and teaching.

Her past research explores the history and archaeology of early medieval folklore, witchcraft, sex, and gender in early medieval Ireland and Wales. Arica has also written on feminist history, Latin American history, and gender as it relates to religion.

You can find out more about Arica at https://reading.academia.edu/AricaRoberts