Appendix: Witch Hunts with Niki Fitzgerald
Material Girls
Rehak Hannah
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2023
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we bring in a guest, Niki Fitzgerald (she/her), to talk about Witch Hunts. Niki is an NHS doctor specialising in Care of the Elderly and General Internal Medicine. She has recently completed her Masters in Applied Medical Humanities and her dissertation was titled Is Medicine Obsolete? An Abolitionist Feminist Reimagining with Flourishing and Care. Niki joins us for a rich conversation about the shift from feudalism to capitalism which corresponded with the Witch Hunts of the 16th and 17th century. She gives us some really helpful new context to better understand the long history of female subjugation — and some new tools for making sense of Wendelin the Weird from the Wizarding World! If you liked our episodes on Class, Magical Capital, Feminist Theory and the Nation State, you will love this episode!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Witch Please, a fortnightly podcast about the Harry Potter world. |
| 0:16.1 | I'm Hannah McGregor, and I'm Marcel Cosmon. |
| 0:19.6 | And Hannah, since we're talking about Witch Hunts today, I would like to start off by chatting |
| 0:26.3 | a little bit about our favorite non-Harry Potter fictional witches in the sorting chat. |
| 0:32.4 | I love this idea, Marcel. |
| 0:34.4 | I love it so much. It's almost like I came up with it myself. |
| 0:37.2 | Mm-hmm. Yes. Yes, someone smart came up with it. |
| 0:40.1 | Well, everybody here is very smart, so it could have been any of us. |
| 0:43.9 | But really, I just want to talk about Baba Yaga for the most part. |
| 0:47.4 | Can I tell you who would you love Baba Yaga? |
| 0:49.6 | Iconic home design. Tell me who Baba Yaga is, because I feel like I hear a lot about Baba Yaga, |
| 0:57.7 | and I don't, we haven't met. You don't know her. I don't know her. |
| 1:03.9 | She's an Eastern European witch myth, like the witch who lives in the woods, but sort of |
| 1:10.6 | a couple of really exciting and distinct things about her are that her home has chicken legs. |
| 1:16.7 | What? Yeah, she's got this really cool cabin that's on these like long chicken legs. |
| 1:22.6 | Okay. So like her cabin can move around. I'm doing a chicken leg thing with my hand right now. |
| 1:28.7 | Sarah, are you? Yes. Yes. I am an anatomically correct chicken leg reproduced with my hand. |
| 1:39.8 | Look at it go. Is that one of the reasons why your innovations are taking so long? |
| 1:44.0 | Because you have installed chicken legs. Oh, yeah, yeah, sorry. We did move the entirety of my |
| 1:50.4 | condo out into open air and then installed chicken legs under it. Incredible. And we had to sort of |
| 1:56.5 | install a system where like in order to enter, you have to like answer a riddle and donate some |
| 2:01.5 | of your blood. Like it's not, it's so big deal, but that did take a while to get the permits. |
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