Before the word witch was ever spoken, there was only the fire—and the people who sat close to it. This long-form episode traces the witch's evolution across millennia: from Paleolithic pattern-readers to Egyptian temple magic, from medieval cunning folk to the trials that murdered thousands, from Salem to feminist reclamation, to today's digital age where witchcraft exists between meme and mystery. This is the Season of Becoming—not becoming something new, but remembering what we've always b...
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Before the word witch was ever spoken, there was only the fire—and the people who sat close to it. This long-form episode traces the witch's evolution across millennia: from Paleolithic pattern-readers to Egyptian temple magic, from medieval cunning folk to the trials that murdered thousands, from Salem to feminist reclamation, to today's digital age where witchcraft exists between meme and mystery. This is the Season of Becoming—not becoming something new, but remembering what we've always b...
Mist gathers over the Irish hills. The crows are already watching. The Morrígan, The Great Queen, The Phantom Queen, is not a goddess of death, but of truth. She is the voice that ends what cannot continue, the shadowed mirror that shows us who we are when the masks fall away. Her story is not one of cruelty, but of sovereignty. In this episode of The Forgotten Familiar, we travel through her many faces: Badb the prophet, Macha the avenger, and Nemain the frenzy, and into the myths that shape...
The Forgotten Familiar
Before the word witch was ever spoken, there was only the fire—and the people who sat close to it. This long-form episode traces the witch's evolution across millennia: from Paleolithic pattern-readers to Egyptian temple magic, from medieval cunning folk to the trials that murdered thousands, from Salem to feminist reclamation, to today's digital age where witchcraft exists between meme and mystery. This is the Season of Becoming—not becoming something new, but remembering what we've always b...
