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Snap Judgment

Inside Out - Spooked

Snap Judgment

Snap Judgment and PRX

Snap, Glynn, Storytelling, Wnyc, Society & Culture/personal Journals, Performing Arts, Washington, Society & Culture/documentary, Arts/performing Arts, Music, Arts

4.811.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week on Snap, a BigFoot story from Pawnee Nation and a tale from a traditional-Filipino-tattoo practitioner who rids people of ancestral spirits. Some spirits move on… others don’t want to leave.

Be afraid… this Halloween special features supernatural stories from our evil twin podcast, Spooked told by people who can barely believe it happened themselves. You can listen to Spooked for free on any podcast platform!

STORIES

Big Man

When the Big Guy shows up, you keep your mouth shut. Be afraid…

Thank you to our storyteller for sharing his experiences.

Original score by Yari Bundy, produced by Anne Ford

Tattoo Exorcism

Traditional-Filipino-tattoo practitioner, Lane Wilcken, is never scared when ancestral spirits visit during tattoo sessions. He knows that those spirits, the ones that are just stopping by, aren’t the ones you have to worry about.

Thank you, Lane Wilcken, for sharing your story with us! Lane wrote the book on traditional Filipino tattooing — Filipino Tattoos: Ancient to Modern. Today, Lane is one of only twenty people in the world who practice Filipino tattooing in its traditional form.

Original score by Lauryn Newson, produced by Zoë Ferrigno

Artwork by Teo Ducot

Season 14 - Episode 44

Transcript

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0:00.0

Snap, Judgment, Studios.

0:23.6

Throughout communities, where you will never experience the divine, unless you've

0:29.9

first poor libations, not bread, not meat, not prayers, not offerings, it must

0:36.7

pour the liquid. Nothing else will call the God. With other groups, the ritual

0:44.2

must begin and end with fire. There is no substitution if there is no fire. There

0:50.9

will be no God. And as whole peoples are wiped from the planet, whole

0:58.3

traditions swallow, we've lost so much knowledge, so much access. But I know this.

1:08.7

Several cultures have revered Gods that only enter to the thump of a communal

1:13.8

drum. As I was reminded just the other day, walking through my neighborhood,

1:20.0

and happening upon a drum circle. This pounding incantation, this rhythmic plea

1:28.5

for the God to appear. You can't do this alone. There'll be no answer to one

1:36.1

person playing in solitude, only the rhythm of a collective will wake certain

1:41.0

powers. And the rhythms sparring, beats joining together, breaking off the

1:47.9

joust of drums and sound and thin as the beat builds to a frantic staccato, a

1:54.2

woman leaps into the center of the circle, she dances, thrashes with the

2:00.8

fury transformed as if inhabited by someone, something of power controlling her as

2:08.7

one would Amerianat. The drummers, they welcome this new visitor with reverence,

2:16.2

joy, with rhythm, they play in celebration of the God's presence amongst them.

2:22.2

Be you, even now, with all we've lost, not everything is forgotten.

2:33.8

But yet, today, step-touchment features supernatural stories from our evil twin

2:43.9

podcasts, spooked, spooked stars, spooked stars, spooked stars, spooked stars, spooked stars,

3:03.8

spooked stars, spooked stars, spooked stars, spooked stars, spooked stars, spooked stars,

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