Hey everyone. So over on the members feed, we've been covering a lot of

cultural matters and right now Z and I have been talking a lot about magic, and I thought you'd like to hear a little bit of

it, so here's a 10 minute clip of our most recent, over an hour-long episode on the subject

of magic.

There is probably some direct superstition involved, but there's also, I think probably a lot of

it is like the Mariloid in Wales or the hobby horse and cornwall where you have these practices that happen every year

They're very pagan looking they're very sort of magical looking they're associated with things like luck for the next year.

But they're not necessarily attached to any broader cosmology.

There's no story about, well, the Mariloid is the horse of God,

or the horse that the donkey that brought Jesus to the manger or something

No, it's a blinged out skull when it comes in you cheers it and drink yeah or bad luck and there's like no one asks questions but you do it very diligently every year and one obviously because it's fun and awesome looking and why would you leave it but there's a you could really see that as kind of a magical practice.

But again, it's not attached anything.

I think that's where a lot of sort of the remnant magic, the weirder like recipes that we have in some documents sit is, they diligently doing them they very much believe in the power of these rituals and recipes

But you don't necessarily then take the next leap to say oh, they're still secretly worshiping pagan gods behind it.

There's not really a lot of evidence for that.

They're just continuing on very old traditions or things that look very much like old traditions

in ways of understanding the worlds that were probably

formerly pregnant but those are so far back at this point no one's bothering or remembers how to

reattach to that right okay so like we talk about the Eulog during Christmas and no one's thinking about Odin when that gets mentioned.

Exactly right. Yeah, so it sits like that. One of the better documents for this for how a lot of the sort of day-to-day

magic is happening is again it's an older document it's from the 1400s and it's from Germany

so again the specifics you can't just say oh they were doing exactly these same like recipes or whatever in Britain

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