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...
December opens with a threshold. A shift. A remembering. This episode marks the beginning of The Forgotten Familiar’s new long-form structure—moving from weekly releases to one richly crafted episode each month. (Two for December as we transition.) This slower, deeper format allows the stories to breathe, the research to expand, and the history to land the way it was always meant to. In this episode, we return to the earliest roots of the witch—before the word existed, before the fear, long b...
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...
