Eerie Episode: We Are The Witches You Couldn't Cancel

Binchtopia

Julia Hava & Eliza McLamb

Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

The girlies are back with another Eerie Episode™, this time covering all things WITCHES! They go back into the annuls to unpack the history of European witchery, the Salem Witch trials, voodoo, the current-day Wicca practitioners, and the Etsy spell sellers of today. They discuss “witch” as a socially imposed category and the evolution of witchy practices throughout history. Digressions include some Russian witch tea from a listener and Khloe Kardashian’s unfortunate lot in this life as a Victim Soul.

Binchtopia is created, produced, and hosted by Julia Hava and Eliza McLamb. Research for this episode was contributed by Ben Rosenfeld and Charlie Squire.

Sources:

The Devil in the Shape of a Woman

A Brief History of the Salem Witch Trials

Damned Women: Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England

Why Do Witches Ride Brooms? (NSFW)

Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

Drawing Down the Moon : Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America Today

Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America

Cultural Appropriation in Contemporary Neopaganism and Witchcraft

Perceptions of New Orleans Voodoo: Sin, Fraud, Entertainment, and Religion

New Age and Neopagan Religions in America

Fantasies of Gender and the Witch in Feminist Theory and Literature

Witchcraft for Sale! Commodity vs. Community in the Neopagan Movement

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0:00.0	We hope you enjoy your stand.
0:17.2	Hi everybody, welcome back to Binch Topia.
0:19.1	Hello and welcome back.
0:20.3	I'm Julia Hava.
0:21.3	I'm Eliza McClame.
0:22.3	If you would like to help us keep these episodes ad free, you can join our Patreon at patreon.com slash
0:27.5	Binch Topia, where you can get access to our bonus episodes, our monthly zooms and our
0:32.5	media soaps.
0:33.5	Yeah, we've been having a lot of fun on the Patreon recently.
0:36.2	I was just listening to the edit of our calling Hoover bonus episode, which will be out by
0:41.4	the time this episode comes out.
0:43.6	And honestly, some of our best work, I think.
0:45.7	Honestly, it was, it was very funny to like review this book.
0:48.8	Yeah, we had a gag, we had a laugh and a half, we had some input from the binchies, it
0:53.6	was awesome.
0:54.6	We did, and I loved how many people had read it.
0:56.7	Like, that's the fun thing is that, well, first of all, we basically summarized the entire
1:00.8	book.
1:01.8	So even if you didn't read it, like, it's still really fun.
1:04.3	And we literally do like dramatic readings from the book.
1:07.0	Like I was just listening to it and like both of us are doing dramatic readings.
1:10.5	But it's just crazy that so many people have read it.
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