Witchology (WITCHES & WITCHCRAFT) Part 2 with Fio Gede Parma

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Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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More witches! History! Lore! Wardrobes! Movie trivia! And some advice from your elders? Part 2 is here with the wonderful, informed, and charming writer, speaker, spirit-worker, witch, and witchologist, Fio Gede Parma, who has most recently authored the book “The Witch Belongs to the World.” We chat cats, commercialization, witch trials, environmentalism, fashion, hallucinogenic tinctures, broomstick legends, sex positive witchery, celebrity witches, science history, cosmological ghost theories, and what to do if you think you might be a witch. Also: don’t call people wizards. Content warning: we do touch on some of the historical brutality suffered by those outside of dominant religions and the stigmas faced by people worshiping or observing religions that are considered fringe. Opinions and spiritual or religious beliefs are those of the guest and may conflict with yours, but we are learning about their first hand customs, culture, and lived experience.

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0:00.0	Oh, hey, it's still your ex-boyfriends' bandmate who did not recognize you at the DMV,
0:05.7	L-Eward.
0:06.7	And I'm here with the conclusion to the most controversial episode in Oligie's history,
0:12.2	its witches.
0:13.2	So y'all had begged for an episode on witches for many consecutive spooktobors, and it's
0:18.5	such a tough topic for me to cover because unlike demonology and vampirology and monsters,
0:25.6	there are real witches in the world, practicing very alive witches with spiritual beliefs, and
0:31.6	this expert was born into this culture, has written numerous books on the subject, is
0:36.5	a pier with high-ranking figures, and can also speak about intersectional witchcraft, the
0:41.5	perfect guest.
0:42.5	Now, unlike featuring a removed academic on the lore of a fictitious topic, these two
0:48.4	episodes are a little different than we usually do because we're learning firsthand
0:52.3	about the faith and beliefs of people who have been made into tropes and caricatures
0:56.3	and suffered unspeakable acts because of their religion.
1:00.3	Okay, so this part, too, addresses all of your burning questions, and we cover so much
1:04.4	pop culture, history, flim flam, and more.
1:08.4	But first, thank you to all the patrons who submitted questions for this episode.
1:12.0	And you can join for as little as a buck a month via patreon.com slash allergies.
1:16.7	We have some new spooktober merch, exciting at oligiesmerch.com, and then for $0, you
1:22.7	can just leave us a review because I read them all, including this light slap on the
1:27.6	wrist from Orca Lever, 2468, who wrote witchcraft, really love the podcast, but can we please
1:33.9	stick to true science, Orca Lever, 2468 again?
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