Episode 0.5: The Witch Queen

Old Gods of Appalachia

Horror, Folk Horror, Anthology, Science Fiction, Fiction, Appalachia, Eldritch

4.9 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

They say there's a witch in that valley and you'd do well to stay away from there. Join us as we journey back to the settling of the central plateau and witness the power of mountain women.

CW: Religious fundamentalism, death of parents by illness and implied suicide, child abandonment, offscreen attempted romantic coercion, shapeshifting, description of monstrous animal, discussions of mortality.

Written by Steve Shell

Sound design by Steve Shell

Narrated by Steve Shell

Intro music: "The Land Unknown," written and performed by Landon Blood

Outro music: "I Cannot Escape the Darkness," written and performed by Those Poor Bastards

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0:00.0	Rastikwill presents
0:13.0	Old Gods of Appalachia is a horror anthology podcast, and thus may contain material not suitable for all audiences.
0:22.0	So listen to discretion.
0:25.0	He is advised.
0:40.0	And in these woods, there are two queens.
0:44.0	You notice I said woods are not forest.
0:47.0	No one says forest around here.
0:49.0	These are the woods and you damn well know it well.
0:51.0	Anyway, the queens.
0:54.0	The elder of the two knew the ways of the wild and used them to live far beyond her years to be in half the land to do her bidding.
1:03.0	They say her dwell in sits in the middle of a valley so overgrown that men cannot walk it without being torn to bits by sticky vines and brambles.
1:14.0	Their blood leaving an easy trail for the greater things that serve her.
1:21.0	Her part of the woods smells of the rotten cucumber a copper is.
1:26.0	And the air carries the sound of bears popping jaws and every other warning that these woods are not safe.
1:34.0	Hanging food from a tree branch will not save it nor you if you are foolish enough to try to camp here.
1:40.0	Both will be scented, found, and taken.
1:45.0	She watches you here.
1:48.0	She is snake bite and mall bodies.
1:51.0	She has never known death and probably never will.
1:54.0	Yours will only feed her and make her even younger and full of sap.
1:59.0	She is not to be sought.
2:02.0	And we call her the Witch Queen.
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