Dear Beelzebub, I just can't get my cauldron to stop resting every time I wash it.

Is cast iron for me, signed Alice.

Welcome to your wrong about. I am your host, Sarah Marshall. And today we are learning naturally about medieval witch Alice Kittler with Molly Aitken, author of Bright Eye Burn, a novel about Alice.

I wanted to do this episode because I, as so many of us are, am fascinated by witch

trials and by witches, witch hunts, and the fact that a witch hunt is not, as so many people

have attempted to claim in America

the last few years what it feels like to be accused of something by women, but in fact a fascinating

and it would appear not entirely over historical movement based on attempting to separate women

from power and property by accusing us of being pure evil.

This is one of the episodes when we go deeper into the history than the 90s.

We will be in medieval Ireland.

But the story, the characters, and the gender dynamics are, in my opinion,

something that could just as easily happen today. And so this is an episode

for you if you were a witchy person, if you are supportive of the witches in your life. And

also, if you just sometimes like to go, good for her. We also, of course, have bonus episodes

for you on Patreon and on Apple Plus subscriptions.

And our bonus this month is about my favorite cookbook, Peg Brackens, the I Hate to Cookbook, an early 60s icon of regular old survival house wifery and what it is like in a very candid way to try and feed your family or yourself

despite everything else going on in the world. It's one of my favorite books. It has, in my opinion,

truly good recipes and I got to talk about it this month with our dear friend of the show Sarah

Archer. So if that's your kind of thing, I hope you join us for it.

And finally, we are finishing up our January massive seance shows, me and the gang

from American Hysteria.

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