Witchcraft

BS-Free Witchcraft

24. The Craft (1996)

It’s strange to think that a 90s teenage horror/urban fantasy film would be massively culturally important to the modern witchcraft movement, but for a generation of witches that’s exactly what The Craft is. In this super long episode of the podcast (seriously — it’s almost an hour and a half), I sit down with Hex Positive‘s Bree NicGarran for a chat about the film. We tackle the themes, plot, and cultural impact of this movie, along with some fun tangents along the way.

Buckle up, because one of these times the light’s not gonna be green.

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21. A Spiral of BS

So we don’t talk about a lot of new age gurus, life coaches, and other “spiritual leaders” on this show. But when one reached out to me literally out of nowhere this month… I ended up going down the weirdest rabbit hole that ended at an “Australian Sex Wizard.” That is a sentence I just typed.

Last month we went solidly into the Witchcraft category, this month we’re deep into the BS instead.

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20. A Dabbler’s Week

We’ve talked before about how dabbling in witchcraft is not just perfectly acceptable, but should be encouraged. It leaves the question open though — just how does one dabble? With that in mind, and at the suggestion of Tumblr user AskSecularWitch, I’ve gone through and created a “Dabbler’s Week” — a week of activities that someone could do to get a taste of what my form of witchcraft is like.

So yeah. That’s the episode.

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