Could Your Neighbor Be a Witch? | 13
Call Me Curious
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4.4 • 555 Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The witchy practice of Wicca has been called America's fastest growing religion. On TikTok, the hashtag #WitchTok has racked up over 20 BILLION views and counting. Suddenly it seems like witchcraft is hotter than a bubbling cauldron! This week, Nikki & Mr. Malone search for the source of this sorcery with Dr. Helen Berger, a leading expert on pagan faiths. And we also meet Bri Luna, aka The Hoodwitch, one of social media's most popular and influential practitioners of witchcraft, who shares her thoughts on what it's like to be a witch in the modern world. PLUS: The shocking… and sorta saucy… reason why witches ride brooms!
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| 0:00.0 | From Wondry, I'm Nikki Boyer, and this is Call Me Curious, where every week I'll get to the bottom of those funny, strange, puzzling, or just got-a-no questions you have. |
| 0:16.9 | And we'll tell you the best we can what the answer is. |
| 0:21.0 | Because I've got 21 questions. |
| 0:23.6 | I've been 21 guessing you could teach me a lesson. |
| 0:28.3 | Call me curious. |
| 0:32.2 | Call me curious. |
| 0:34.2 | So tell the truth. Hi there, and welcome to call me curious. |
| 0:53.2 | I just want to say thank you for listening. |
| 0:55.5 | Actually, you should be thanking me because we have a really great show today. We're going to talk about witches. |
| 1:02.3 | Now, if you're like me, your ideas about witchcraft were mostly formed by reruns of the classic sitcom Bewitched. |
| 1:09.5 | And if you're not familiar, that's okay. |
| 1:13.8 | It's about a 400-year-old witch turned suburban housewife, |
| 1:15.7 | played by the beautiful Elizabeth Montgomery. |
| 1:19.4 | Her nerdy husband thinks that if anyone knew he was married to a witch, |
| 1:21.3 | it would destroy his career. |
| 1:23.3 | So he tells her, no more magic. |
| 1:26.6 | So Samantha pretends to swear off her powers, |
| 1:29.3 | but being a badass boss witch, she still casts spells on the sly. One twitch of her nose and the carpet vacuums itself. I need of |
| 1:35.6 | Samantha in my life. Nowadays, Samantha would not have to hide a thing because witchcraft |
| 1:41.7 | has gone mainstream. The hashtag witch talk is one of the hottest things |
| 1:46.0 | on TikTok right now. Spell casting supplies and other pagan accessories are a multi-billion dollar business, |
| 1:52.1 | and it's likely that someone in your cul-de-sac has joined a coven. So how did witchcraft come out of |
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