Generation Witch

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Wisconsin Public Radio

Prx, Philosophy, Knowledge, Wpr, Ttbook, Wisconsin, Society & Culture

4.7 • 844 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

As a culture we’ve long been fascinated by witchcraft, with witches through the ages practicing magic and making spells. Even through the spread of misinformation, and when they’ve been hunted and silenced. We take you from the 17th century to the online witch communities of today.

Original Air Date: October 30, 2021

Interviews in this hour:
WitchTok, the super-connected coven - Are you now, or have you ever been, a witch? The witch hunt of Kepler's mother - From alchemy to internet witchcraft - the thousand-year history of magic - Spellcraft, field hockey and Emilio Estevez - the girl power of novelist Quan Barry's teen witches

Guests:
Honey Rose, Rivka Galchen, Chris Gosden, Quan Barry

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0:00.0	It's Halloween, and time again to break out the witch costumes.
0:11.4	Pull on a pointy black hat and a scraggly wig.
0:14.6	Or for an alternative, how about we stop joking around about witches and give them some actual respect?
0:22.0	I'm Anne Strange Champs.
0:23.6	They've been hunted and silenced and burned at the stake,
0:26.7	but witches are still practicing the craft, thank the goddess.
0:31.0	In this hour, we take you from the 17th century to the online witch communities of today.
0:36.5	It's Generation Witch. On onto the best of our knowledge.
0:43.0	Keep listening. from WPR.
0:55.1	It's to the best of our knowledge.
1:05.7	I'm Anne Strange Champs and with Halloween in the air, there's someone I think you should meet.
1:17.6	Hi, my name's Honey Rose. I'm 23 years old.
1:18.6	I'm a TikToker. I'm queer. I'm a witch.
1:21.6	When I was just getting started learning properties of herbs,
1:34.3	candles, synchronicities, understanding that a sign is important to you and to no one else.
1:43.3	That's something that really was important for me to learn in the beginning.
1:52.1	For me, hawks are often a sign.
1:57.9	Also, sometimes it's just a feeling.
2:03.6	I work with my ancestors, and your body works with your ancestors.
2:10.6	So my grandmother, who passed, we called her bird.
2:24.8	Her birthday is actually on Halloween.
2:27.8	And every Halloween we go to the cemetery to visit her as a matriarch of our family and someone that raised me.
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