FEED DROP: Historical Homos - A Queer History of Witchcraft
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Check out this episode from our friends at Historical Homos all about the Queer History of Witchcraft! In this episode, they ask and answer questions like when did “wise women” in the woods become “evil hags”? How did colonialism export Europe’s hag-phobia worldwide? And how did queer people turn witchcraft into a symbol of defiance, glamour, and spiritual fulfilment?
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of homophobia, misogyny,
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, conspirators. This is Amanda, and we have a very special treat for you this week. This is an |
| 0:07.6 | episode we love of historical homos, which I know that the title is going to be enough for many of you out |
| 0:14.6 | there, but in case you want to know more about what this is and why you should listen, historical |
| 0:19.7 | homos is a deeply researched and deliciously saucy podcast about the gayest |
| 0:25.1 | stories that history has never told. |
| 0:28.1 | Each week, my friend, host Bash, is joined by his brilliant guests from historians to authors, |
| 0:33.1 | to activists, to dish on the lives of the most fascinating LGBTQ plus figures who ever lived. |
| 0:39.7 | They explore every hint and whisper in the LGBT and Q archive, |
| 0:45.5 | from canonical queers like Alexander the Great and Virginia Woolf to the lesser-known but equally |
| 0:50.4 | fascinating figures like Rent Boys in ancient Rome, saffists in revolutionary France, |
| 0:56.1 | and the most toxic boyfriends in Greek mythology. You all have a leg up there. I know you know |
| 1:01.0 | who we're talking about, okay? If someone in history ever referred to two people as, quote, |
| 1:05.6 | roommates, historical homos is on the case. Now, there are more than 75 episodes in their archive for you to enjoy. |
| 1:13.5 | It's gossip. It's informed. It's researched. It's fun. And the whole point of the show is that |
| 1:17.8 | queer people have been here since we invented being fabulous back at the beginning of time. |
| 1:22.5 | So I hope that you enjoy this episode of Historical Homo's. We loved it. We know you are going to love it, too. |
| 1:29.5 | And when you enjoy the show, when you want to subscribe, look up historical homos right here in your |
| 1:35.6 | podcast app. Anywhere you can get spirits, you can get historical homos too. Their website, |
| 1:40.5 | if you want to know more, is historical homos.com. All right, everybody, enjoy. |
| 1:44.4 | Welcome back to historical homos, the world's only no fucks given guide to queer history. |
| 2:05.3 | I am buzzing with excitement today. First of all, I'm sitting in London. I have a warm cup of tea. |
| 2:11.7 | I'm wearing the equivalent of coastal grandma chic for men. And the wind is howling outside. It's all very spooky, very scary, |
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