Burning Witches Pt. 1 (AUDIO ONLY)


Understanding Witch Trials Through History and Personal Journey
In this episode of 'Practically Magick,' host Courtney Pearl, a pagan witch, card reader, healer, sorcerer, spiritualist, Celtic priestess, teacher, artist, and mystic seeker, explores the title and respect associated with being a witch. She begins by sharing her personal journey into paganism, the complexities of owning the title of a witch, and her preparation to discuss witch trials. Starting with a symbolic Witch’s Wisdom Tarot card pulling, Courtney reflects on her connections with folklore, mythology, and paganism. She delves into a detailed recount of the witch trials, particularly focusing on the Salem Witch Trials and her personal belief of being a reincarnation of Alice Parker, one of the women executed during the trials. The episode covers the socio-economic, political, and religious climates that fueled witch trials across history, from early European instances to the Salem Witch Trials in America. Courtney discusses the implications of identifying as a witch in contemporary times, touching on the challenges and internal conflicts surrounding the title. She also hints at a deeper discussion on why women have been historically targeted in witchcraft accusations, promising a continuation of the topic in the next episode. Throughout, Courtney interweaves her personal narrative, offering a unique perspective on her spiritual path and witch identity.
00:00 Welcome to Practically Magic: A Witch's Introduction
00:31 Exploring the Title and History of Witches
01:11 Tarot Insights: The Card of Love and Its Significance
04:55 Personal Journey: From Energy Healing to Witchcraft
07:26 Reincarnation and the Salem Witch Trials: A Personal Connection
16:49 Embracing the Witch Within: Challenges and Identity
19:22 Witchcraft and Women: Unpacking Historical Persecutions
19:29 Witch Trials Through History: A Global Perspective
35:18 Looking Ahead: Magic in Everyday Life and Upcoming Events
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Hello witches and wizards and
welcome to Practically Magic.
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This is Courtney Pearl.
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I am a pagan witch.
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I'm a card reader, healer, sorcerer.
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Spiritualist, Celtic priestess,
teacher, artist, and mystic seeker.
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I am discovering magic and I
would like to share it with you.
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Today's episode, we are going to
specifically focus on the title of witch.
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Now, I personally call myself a folk
witch because I love folklore and I love
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mythology and I love to tie that into
paganism, but I am a lot of things and
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one thing I would like to bring forward
today in today's episode is the respect
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and title of what it means to be a witch.
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And I'm going to do it justice,
hopefully, by talking about witch trials.
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I have been preparing Endlessly for
this episode, and I am so excited to
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share what I have learned with you and
hopefully I can do it justice, but I'm
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going to start by pulling a card and by no
other deck would today's episode be, but
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the Witch's Wisdom Tarot deck.
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And that is the one I'm going to
pull a card from today to help
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us with today's episode, to be a.
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theme for today's episode and what it
is we're going to bring to the table.
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All right, so today's card that I have
pulled, oh my gosh, this is amazing.
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If only you could see it.
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I'm going to show it on the video for
those who are able to see the video.
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It is the card of love.
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And that almost makes me tear up when I
look at it because of all of the research
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that I've done this week and all of the
contemplating that I have done about what
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it truly means to call oneself a witch.
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To own that title and to allow
myself permission to lean into
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that, this card feels so appropriate
because it's the image of a young
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girl and she is petting a fox.
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And he's looking at her lovingly, and
she's looking at him lovingly, and it's
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almost like they're having this moment
where they're going to touch noses
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or give each other a little kiss, and
they're surrounded by dandelion flowers
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and other, um, kind of prickly flowers.
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I'm not an herb.
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Which, so I cannot name all of these
plants and herbs and flowers that I
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can see in the picture, but I know
they're significant because I have
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a feeling like the dandelion weed,
we have cast it out from society.
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We've told each other and the dandelion
that it's not welcome, and we've called
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it a weed and we've produced chemical
weed killers that are to get rid of it.
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And for those who understand and know
a little bit about the dandelion, it's
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actually a very healing herb, and it's,
um, a wonderful pollinator for bees.
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It's actually a, an incredibly
helpful plant if we allow it to be,
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um, of course, I live in Daybreak.
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We have an HOA.
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We have.
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No room for dandelions.
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You will get an HOA fine and a letter if
you have dandelions all over your yard.
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It's the reality of the world we
live in right now, but this poor.
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flower, weed, whatever you want to
call it, has really been an outcast in
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a society that has deemed it unworthy
or inappropriate, and not allowed
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to flourish, and not allowed to be,
and not even allowed to help in the
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herbal medicine way that it can, that
it's actually making dandelion tea
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is incredibly healing and useful.
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And that does not even come close
to all of the theme of today's
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episode, what it's going to be about.
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I've donned my witch's gear.
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I am dressed and ready for the occasion.
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I cannot even begin to tell you
how excited I am to talk about
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this subject, but I need to start
with a little personal story.
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So, uh, A few years ago, I was just in the
beginning of my energy healing awakening.
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Um, I, I dare say that I've
always been someone who was
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seeking something my entire life.
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So I cannot definitively say when my
journey started into the world of magic,
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energy, Whatever it is that, that you
want to call being a spiritualist, being,
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being pagan, being a healer, but I was in
the beginning of kind of my awareness of
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this type of work and I went to a Reiki
healer locally here in Daybreak, um,
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and she is my Reiki master, my mentor,
and she, um, I had not had a Reiki
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session before, but I knew that this
was something that I was very interested
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in and something that I would probably
want to learn how to do myself one day.
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So it was kind of in the beginning
of that curiosity and wanting to seek
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this out and to make this a regular
thing for me, not just a, um, a
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nice, Relaxing session, but also kind
of a, I need to know what this is.
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I need to fill this out and I need to know
if this is the right path for me to take.
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And I went to this Reiki healer and
she, um, was doing a Reiki session with
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me and it was incredibly profound in
that I felt the energy very strongly.
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I was, um, I was almost a little
bit surprised at how much I was
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able to feel it even without.
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It was, you know, the unseen
forces of the energy work going on.
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Um, my logical brain was having a
little bit of a hard time with it.
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You know, my imaginative brain, my
creative brain was very much on board.
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It's like, yes, I believe
that this is real.
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I believe that this is happening.
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I know what's what this is about.
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And, um, I'm equally left and right brain.
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So my left brain was going, um, We
can't actually prove or see what's
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happening, so let me just, let me just
think about this for a little bit.
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And um, my Reiki healer, she just
happens to be also a medium and um, she
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also now does and includes past life
regression in her work, uh, which I very
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much plan to take part in eventually.
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But in this session, she told me, I
can see you in many of your past lives.
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And at this point in my life, I
wasn't even sure if I believed in
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reincarnation or if that was something
that I you know, falls into my belief
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system, but I was sort of open to it.
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And she said, I can see you in many
lifetimes that you are a person
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who people came to for answers.
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You were a person with a lot of wisdom.
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You were not always necessarily included
or accepted in mainstream society.
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Sometimes you had to live on the
outskirts, and I can see you living
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in maybe a little cottage on the, on
the hill or in, on the cliffs by the
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ocean, um, a little bit outcast from
society, but still someone people
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sought out for answers, for help.
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You had knowledge that, you know, in
herbal medicines or in different things
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that people sought you out to, to attain.
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And, and I was kind of like, Oh, okay.
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Yeah, that feels good to me.
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Um, I would like to be a person
that can help other people.
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I would like to be a person that
people saw as helpful or useful.
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Um, I love sharing what I know and
I love teaching and I love, um,
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speaking to crowds or to people who
are interested in what I have to say.
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So this feels right to me.
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Um, then she went on to say, I
Know that you were one of the
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women who were accused and tried
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and executed.
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In the Salem Witch Trials.
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And I do believe that you were
in the last wave of executions.
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And I want you to go look up the names
because I feel strongly that you will
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recognize your name when you see it.
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Now, this is a little bit more
specific and a little bit shocking
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to me, but I was like, Oh, wow.
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Okay.
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Um, that's.
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kind of cool and kind of sad and
interesting and, um, and I was a
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little bit of excited to try it out.
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I mean, I was still kind of in that
skeptical, uh, place where I'm like, okay,
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I mean, Wouldn't it be kind of cool if
everybody could go around saying like,
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oh, yes, I was one of the Salem Witch.
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I was one of them, you know, I'm a witch.
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And so, therefore, I was
one of the Salem Witches.
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Um, little too convenient,
you know, for me, but.
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But I thought, okay, I will,
I will go check this out.
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I will see what I, what I feel about this.
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And this at the time, a lot of the
seeking that I was doing, a lot of the,
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the introspection I was going through was
because I was going through a really hard
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time, which is very common for people who
are going through the dark night of the
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soul and coming through it with, Um, new
understandings and new seeking and wanting
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to find what is more truthful and more,
um, aligned with their belief systems.
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And, um, at the time my husband was in
recovery and struggling with addiction.
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Um, he was, is an alcoholic and he
was always, um, you know, kind of.
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Searching for that answer on how to, uh,
recover from this addiction and how to,
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um, you know, really beat it, I guess.
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And we were going through a lot
at the time, and I was in a very,
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very dark place, kind of wondering
what was going to happen to us.
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What was our future going to be like?
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How were we going to, how was our
marriage going to survive this?
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Because, you know, I was really in a
place where I knew that my marriage
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could not survive it if it didn't happen.
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continued the way that it was.
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And I love my husband so much and
I would always love him, but I
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needed to kind of figure peace out.
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And it was, um, you know, seeking
alternative methods of healing like
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Reiki was part of that journey.
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And so, um, I did go home and I started
looking into what, what were the names
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of the witches that were, you know,
Condemned and convicted and hanged and
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who was in the last wave of it, right?
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Because the Stalingrad trials
only lasted for two years
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and, um, or between two years.
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And so, uh, there was just a few
names at the very end of those
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trials that were tried and convicted.
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And I.
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Looked at the names, the list of
names, and there was one name that
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stood out to me very, very BAM.
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I don't know any other way to explain it.
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Just that my intuition saw
this name and said, that's it.
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That's you.
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This is who you were.
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And when I had that feeling,
it was kind of, um, BAM.
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Validating, I guess, in just being
able to say, Listen, anyone else in the
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whole world can say that's not real.
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You don't know.
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How can you prove that?
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Well, I can't.
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It's totally my story.
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And I'm the one who gets to tell it.
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So I'm here telling you this story.
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And my name was Alice Parker.
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Alice Parker, as I looked into it a
little bit further, she was the wife
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of John Parker, who was a fisherman.
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He was a lot of times out to sea and she
was left alone with the children in a
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house that they rented, um, in Salem town.
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And Um, she was accused by Mary Warren,
who was a servant girl in the Proctor
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house and Mary Warren at one point,
Mary Warren's father, um, was asked
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by Alice Parker to help cut down the
hay so they could feed their horses.
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She probably was alone and she
probably needed his help in
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cutting the hay down and, um.
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He denied help.
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He did not go help her.
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And so Alice Parker, being kind of
a strong willed woman that she was,
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went to the home, the Warren home,
and basically yelled at them for,
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and condemned them and said, how
dare you not help me when I need it.
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And it was right after that that
they, uh, that Mary Warren's
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mother and sister became sick.
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And Um, her mother died and her sister
was, um, was left deaf from the illness.
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And so Mary had a reason
not to like Alice Parker.
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So at the end, um, as, as they were coming
to the end of these, um, witch trials and
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everyone was accusing so and so and every,
you know, the girls were accusing everyone
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that they had ever had any encounter with.
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And then some of them were accused and
then they would name names and it went
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on and on like this for all this time.
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Um, she accused Alice Parker and the
stories told about Alice, uh, one was
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that she was found once, um, in the
snow, uh, kind of, uh, like she was
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dead, she wasn't moving, she was stiff
and she, um, they thought she was dead,
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but she popped up and she was fine.
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Um, some, say that it's possible
that she had a disease, um,
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catalepsy, uh, which would be kind
of like an epilepsy type of illness
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where sometimes she would, um,
go unconscious from time to time.
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So it's possible that she had this
and that's why she was found every
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once in a while kind of unconscious.
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Um, But some of my favorite stories
about her is that, uh, a man named John
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Westgate, uh, told a story about how her
husband, John Parker, was in the tavern at
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Sam Beetle's Tavern and in comes storming
in Alice Parker to yell at her husband and
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tell him he needs to get his drunk A home.
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And, um, and as she was
yelling at her husband to, to
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get on home from the tavern.
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Um, John Westgate tried to,
uh, calm her down and she told
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him to mind his own business.
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Now, if there was a story that made
me think, yes, I have found her.
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This is me.
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This is Courtney.
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This is Courtney reincarnated.
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Uh, a reincarnated Alice Parker.
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That story was it.
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That was the clincher.
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In diving into these stories and
history of witch trials, I take a
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very personal note to this subject.
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Not only because I do believe myself
to be the reincarnated Alice Parker,
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but also because I have a little bit
of trouble, as some women still do,
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with claiming the title of witch.
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When I first started this podcast, it
was, um, I was introduced to people in
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the community as this is Courtney Pearl.
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She's, she's our local witch.
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Um, and that was exciting
and funny and fun.
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And there was also a very
strong hesitation for me to
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be able to claim that title.
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I think of myself as an
emotional and energy healer.
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I think of myself as a Reiki practitioner.
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I think of myself as, um, as a priestess
because my, um, my sort of way that
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I show up in the world is that I like
to help guide people through their
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important milestones of life, walking
people through the portals and milestones
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through ritual and, and blessing
and as a service to my community.
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And that is who I want to be.
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I want to be someone who uses my gifts
and talents and knowledge as service.
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But then when I start thinking about that
and I think, but then what is a witch?
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And it's not necessarily Wiccan
because I know a lot of people that are
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going to, um, associate the claim to
being a witch as I must be a Wiccan.
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Now Wiccan is its own
religious organization.
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They have their own practices, their own
belief system, their own deities, their
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own higher power, their own doctrine,
and they don't own the word witch.
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They derive their religion from
being a witch, so calling it Wiccan.
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But I am not a Wiccan, and I do
not subscribe to any very rigid
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doctrine or, or belief system.
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But what is it about women?
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And witches throughout history that
have been accused and tried, Alice
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Parker most likely was not a witch.
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Here I am in this lifetime talking
about being a witch, and there
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is something inside me that goes,
Ooh, don't be too loud about that.
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Don't actually say it.
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There's a little bit of fear there,
a witch's wound, if you will.
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So why, why women, why are women
accused of witchcraft and being witches?
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Why witchcraft?
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And to understand that you'd
have to understand a lot of the
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socioeconomic, political, and
religious climate of every place in
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time that witch trials have happened.
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I'm not going to go into detail on
all of that, but I'm going to provide
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resources if you're interested.
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Um, in my blog, I will.
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I will post everything that I did
to research for this topic today.
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Just understand that no
witch trial is the same.
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That everything happened because of the
circumstances and the climate around what
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was going on at the time that it happened.
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And that no witch trial
Exists in a vacuum.
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It didn't just pop up
and just happen, right?
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It wasn't just that those girls at the
Salem Witch Trials, if you've read The
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Crucible, or if you know the notorious
story of the Salem Witch Trials, you
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know that it kind of was kicked off or
sparked by young girls claiming that
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they were being pinched and slapped and
cursed by women of the village and that
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it was their spirit form that would
show up and do these harmful things.
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And then there was this whole
story about a devil's book.
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And we'll get into that
a little bit later.
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But as I'm doing this research,
what kind of sparked my interest
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in doing an episode about this
was that I was doing the research
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and presenting things for Beltane.
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You know that on May 1st, we had,
um, what is celebrated in the pagan
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societies as May 1st or Beltane.
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It is May Day, right?
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Well, my producer Blane was like, Oh, if
you're going to talk about Beltane, you
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have to talk about Wild Purgus Night.
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I may or may not be saying that
correctly, so I apologize if my
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German does not sound very good.
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But in the 8th century, there was a
saint's day of, uh, Saint Walpurga.
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So she was an English nun who
traveled to Germany on a mission to
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convert the populace to Christianity.
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Remember, this is way
back in the 8th century.
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I mean, this is a really,
really long time ago, okay?
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But this is Revival of the Christian.
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I say revival.
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I mean, um, the widespreadness of
Christian Church all over Europe.
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So she had become an Abbess there
in Germany and she was sainted for
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ridding the Of pests of whooping
cough and illness and witchcraft.
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So she's as associated with Beltane
or mayday celebrations in Sweden,
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Norway, Germany, Austria, Denmark,
lots of places in the, in, in the
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kind of those countries, because
it is rumored that she had her
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canonization on, uh, May 1st in 1870.
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So.
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It's interesting that she is sainted for
ridding the world of witchcraft and she
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would be known for lighting bonfires.
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Bonfires were lit, uh, for many, many
centuries after this to rid the world of
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witches and rid the world of evil spirits,
um, or at least protect their towns.
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Um, what's interesting about
this is that over time, it's
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sort of merged in with the pagan.
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Festivals of May Day.
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And so now it's kind of
like a witch's night.
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Um, it's almost like the pagans
decided we're taking it back.
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So now it's, uh, Valpurgisnet,
which means the Eve of St.
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Valpurgis.
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And It means, um, the night before.
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So it is celebrated on
April 30th every year.
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They light the bonfires, which
are already, as I mentioned in
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the Belting episode, already,
um, a symbol of cleansing for
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May and for the start of summer.
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But that is a really early
indication of when witches
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were sort of in people's mind.
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I mean, that's way back
in the 8th century.
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We're talking about, like, the beginning
of Christianity here in, in spreading in
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the world, and they're already saying,
let's rid the world of witchcraft.
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What that means to me is witchcraft
equals or equates to paganism.
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Um, religious beliefs based on the earth
and the land and the gods of the land.
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Um, that when we want to purge the world
of that, it would be the same as witches,
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which is my favorite definition of which
is because all I really am is a pagan.
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I'm a person who celebrates and, um,
gives gratitude and energy and love
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back to the earth in appreciation and
gratitude for what the earth does for us.
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So.
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There were witch trials going on
in France and Switzerland around
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1428, all the way up until 1447.
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And then we have this really interesting
story where King James, the 1st of.
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England.
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This is the, um, the King who inherited
the throne after Elizabeth the first.
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And so, as you know, during the
Tudors, there was the whole reformation
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of the, of the Church of England.
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Um, so King Henry VIII started the
Church of England and Queen Elizabeth
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reformed the Church of England.
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And it was sort of this whole
battle between, um, are we going
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to be a Catholic nation or are we
going to be a Protestant nation?
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And then during this time, it was
sort of a birth of Puritan culture.
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So there was sort of the Protestants
or the Church of England that were
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kind of like, Hey, this is how we're
going to practice our religion.
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And The Puritans were kind of
like, yeah, that sounds great,
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except it doesn't go far enough.
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We need it to be stricter.
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We need to really, really double
down on fighting the devil
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because the devil's everywhere.
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And witches who are in Congress
with the devil are everywhere.
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And we're really going to
work on purifying the earth.
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So that was kind of like the
Puritan culture was born.
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I love the story of King James the
first, because he goes on a boat to go
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get his Dutch princess and marry her.
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Well, on.
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The way back, he meets some stormy
seas and someone on the boat, I
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don't know who it was, but this guy,
he's a problem because he says to
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King James the first, Whoa, these
stormy seas are pretty terrible.
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It must be a witch on board.
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And that sparked something in King
James that ignites a fire under him
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that says, okay, then witches are bad.
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Witches are around.
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They're here.
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We need to get rid of them.
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And As we know, witch trials and
witch hunters in England, Scotland,
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it goes a little nuts after that.
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So around the 1597 all the way through
the 1600s into the late 1600s, you have
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the great witch hunt in 1597 in Scotland.
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There were 400 people dead in England
and there were 4, 000 to 6, 000
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on trial and executed in Scotland.
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So we have witch trials and
executions happening by the
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thousands all over Europe.
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One of my favorite and also
saddest stories is the witch trials
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happening in Sweden in 1674 to 1675.
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This is the largest witch hunt and
execution in Europe or anywhere.
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So we often hear about Salem witch trials,
but this Was epic and super duper sad.
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So I think the story with a little bit
of distance and space can be seen as
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kind of funny, but when looked at on a
human perspective, it's incredibly sad.
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Here's what happened.
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It was Torksaker, Sweden.
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It was on an island, um, a
little bit remote island.
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So off, uh, away from sea.
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Some of the other, um, society of that
time, you have this minister and because
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of certain events that had happened
before this, a girl had gotten sick and
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they had to, um, Find the witch that
was making her sick and execute her.
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And this sort of sparked this whole
outrage of looking for witches.
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And this minister, what he did is
he picked two boys, two young boys
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from his, um, parishioners, and he
had them stand outside the church.
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On either side of the door, and they claim
to be able to see the devil's mark on the
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forehead of people as they were coming in.
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So they would let the minister
know who had the mark of the devil.
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And then the minister would, um,
move forward with arresting them.
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Now, this went on.
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For a while, for, for a good long time,
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it, uh, it sort of hit its peak when
they, uh, named the minister's wife.
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One of the boys claimed that they
could see the devil's mark on
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the minister's wife's forehead.
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Um, the minister slapped the boy
and the boy went, Oh, just kidding.
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Uh, the sun was in my eyes.
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That wasn't true.
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Um, your wife is fine and we're all good.
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And that just goes to prove
to you that this was all just
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a bunch of politics, but.
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What ended up happening was there
were 71 people accused of being
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witches in this one moment in time.
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65 of them were female and they
were all beheaded on a single
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day in a mass grave on the hill.
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65 women and 71 people
all beheaded at once.
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In 1677 in Sweden, the king ordered
ministers to declare once and
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for all that witches are gone.
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Okay.
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We did it.
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We found them all.
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They're all dead.
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We can stop now.
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And that was the end of that in Sweden.
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But it sure wasn't the end
of it everywhere else because
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then we go into the new world.
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The fascinating story is that I have
uncovered this week in my research.
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There was Mary Moore in
New Jersey, in Edison Park.
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She was killed for being a witch,
but then she had to be buried
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in several different places.
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Because they were too afraid she
might come back to life or something.
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One of my favorite stories in the
1600s is in Hadley, Massachusetts.
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You have Mary Webster.
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The story of Mary Webster is
fascinating, and I will post links
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to the full stories on my blog.
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But the summary of it is that a
man named Philip Smith was sick
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and the townspeople blamed Mary.
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Mary was, Old, um, difficult.
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She was an oddball.
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Um, you know, any number of reasons
why she might have been the one
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picked, but for whatever reason, they
thought, okay, if Philip can't get
436
00:30:48,316 --> 00:30:53,326
better, and every time we knock on
Mary's door, Philip feels better, we
437
00:30:53,326 --> 00:30:55,616
can deduce that Mary is cursing him.
438
00:30:55,656 --> 00:30:57,336
And that is where we need to go.
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To get justice.
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00:30:59,871 --> 00:31:05,341
So Mary was, um, you know, the townspeople
decided to take this into their own
441
00:31:05,341 --> 00:31:08,311
hands and they decided they were just
going to go ahead and go hang Mary.
442
00:31:08,661 --> 00:31:10,871
Just, you know, no trial, nothing.
443
00:31:10,871 --> 00:31:14,601
Just let's get rid of Mary because Philip
is sick and we need to save Philip's life.
444
00:31:15,311 --> 00:31:16,811
So let's go hang Mary.
445
00:31:17,441 --> 00:31:17,971
And they did.
446
00:31:18,081 --> 00:31:19,101
They hung her from a tree.
447
00:31:19,981 --> 00:31:27,221
And when they got back, um, to
Philip's house, uh, Philip died.
448
00:31:27,221 --> 00:31:33,106
For Um, it's very sad, sad for
Phillip, but here's the good news.
449
00:31:34,106 --> 00:31:38,606
Um, Mary, although she was
hung from a tree, she survived.
450
00:31:39,416 --> 00:31:44,576
She survived the hanging and she actually
ended up living another 11 to 14 years.
451
00:31:45,006 --> 00:31:49,866
Records are a little bit, um,
a little bit fuzzy on that.
452
00:31:49,986 --> 00:31:55,416
Some say 11 years and some say, um,
that she lived another 14 years.
453
00:31:55,606 --> 00:31:58,396
And, um, here's, what's
so funny about Mary.
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00:31:58,446 --> 00:32:00,441
She was She was like
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00:32:02,511 --> 00:32:04,971
70, 70 years old when she finally died.
456
00:32:05,381 --> 00:32:08,151
So she lived quite a few years
after this whole incident.
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00:32:08,671 --> 00:32:17,451
And one of her descendants, the poet Mary
Atwood actually made a poem about her
458
00:32:17,781 --> 00:32:21,101
and it's called the Half Hanged Mary.
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00:32:21,381 --> 00:32:25,061
And if you read the entire poem, I'm
going to also post a link to that.
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00:32:25,251 --> 00:32:26,301
It's incredible.
461
00:32:26,696 --> 00:32:30,806
It's an incredible account from
Mary's perspective of what it was
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00:32:30,806 --> 00:32:35,536
like the night that she was accused of
witchcraft, hung, and then survived.
463
00:32:36,056 --> 00:32:39,776
But I'm going to read you my
favorite stanza, the part at the
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00:32:39,806 --> 00:32:45,236
end when they actually come and
cut the rope and Mary had survived.
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00:32:46,396 --> 00:32:47,326
I'm going to read this to you.
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00:32:47,326 --> 00:32:48,506
It says, 8 a.
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00:32:48,506 --> 00:32:48,886
m.
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00:32:53,346 --> 00:32:58,356
When they came to harvest my
corpse, Open your mouth, close your
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00:32:58,356 --> 00:33:01,356
eyes, Cut my body from the rope.
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00:33:01,796 --> 00:33:05,126
Surprise, surprise, I am still alive.
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00:33:06,366 --> 00:33:07,366
Tough luck, folks.
472
00:33:07,986 --> 00:33:08,906
I know the law.
473
00:33:09,896 --> 00:33:14,026
You can't execute me
twice for the same thing.
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00:33:14,116 --> 00:33:14,876
How nice.
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00:33:16,726 --> 00:33:22,436
I fell to the clover, breathed it in, and
bared my teeth at them in a filthy grin.
476
00:33:23,356 --> 00:33:25,146
You can imagine how that went over.
477
00:33:26,306 --> 00:33:30,546
Now I only need to look out at
them through my sky blue eyes.
478
00:33:31,466 --> 00:33:36,496
They see their own ill will staring
them in the forehead and turn tail.
479
00:33:37,566 --> 00:33:42,876
Before I was not a
witch, but now I am one.
480
00:33:47,556 --> 00:33:49,556
Well done, Margaret Atwood.
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00:33:49,666 --> 00:33:51,946
That is an incredible stanza.
482
00:33:52,176 --> 00:33:53,456
My favorite, favorite.
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00:33:54,035 --> 00:34:01,925
This is where we're going to end this part
one, two part episode about witch trials.
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00:34:02,455 --> 00:34:06,425
I have only just begun and there's
so much more juicy tales to tell.
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00:34:07,025 --> 00:34:12,890
But for now, We're going to end it there,
and next week talk a little bit more about
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00:34:12,900 --> 00:34:19,710
the Salem Witch Trials, and about what
is it like to be accused of witchcraft
487
00:34:19,790 --> 00:34:22,870
in these witch trials, generally.
488
00:34:24,020 --> 00:34:27,090
We're also going to talk a little
bit about cultures that did not
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00:34:27,855 --> 00:34:32,995
necessarily have which trials the
way that they happened in a lot
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00:34:32,995 --> 00:34:35,885
of other countries in Europe and
in New England and the Americas.
491
00:34:36,825 --> 00:34:39,635
We're going to talk a
little bit more about why.
492
00:34:40,235 --> 00:34:48,095
What is overall theme of why
females specifically are targeted
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00:34:48,305 --> 00:34:50,045
when something like this comes up.
494
00:34:51,085 --> 00:34:52,645
Why witchcraft?
495
00:34:53,715 --> 00:34:54,455
Why women?
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00:34:55,675 --> 00:35:00,405
And we're going to get to the heart
of what I believe is the reason.
497
00:35:01,575 --> 00:35:06,695
So, witches and wizards, and all of you
magical creatures out there listening.
498
00:35:07,225 --> 00:35:11,805
Stay tuned for next week where we continue
this discussion and get more in depth.
499
00:35:12,905 --> 00:35:14,215
I cannot wait.
500
00:35:14,395 --> 00:35:16,565
It's going to be so much fun.
501
00:35:18,025 --> 00:35:22,055
I want you to use magic in your
everyday lives to help yourself, to
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00:35:22,055 --> 00:35:26,675
strengthen your relationships, to
heal, to grow, to prosper, to thrive.
503
00:35:27,650 --> 00:35:35,370
And I would like to invite you to
find me on my website, prism healing.
504
00:35:35,590 --> 00:35:36,100
com.
505
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:39,750
There you can find a list of
services that I offer and provide.
506
00:35:39,860 --> 00:35:44,010
If you're looking for a little witchcraft
in your life, a little healing work, a
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00:35:44,010 --> 00:35:46,470
little cursing someone, just kidding.
508
00:35:46,710 --> 00:35:50,300
I definitely charge extra if
you want me to curse someone.
509
00:35:52,920 --> 00:36:00,600
I can also be found on Instagram
at Prism Healing Facebook.
510
00:36:01,260 --> 00:36:03,420
Courtney Pearl or my Facebook page?
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00:36:03,420 --> 00:36:05,340
Courtney Pearl's Prism Healing.
512
00:36:05,860 --> 00:36:13,180
That's Prism as in P-R-I-S-M, not pri
as in going to the next step after jail.
513
00:36:13,660 --> 00:36:14,950
That's not for me.
514
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:15,970
Um.
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00:36:17,005 --> 00:36:21,495
Take a look at my upcoming events
coming up, Healing Through Art
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00:36:21,885 --> 00:36:26,325
and the HeartSmart Art Workshop
for kids and parents to help raise
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00:36:26,545 --> 00:36:29,545
emotionally intelligent human beings.
518
00:36:31,595 --> 00:36:39,205
And I would like to invite you to also
find me on TikTok at Prism Healing.
519
00:36:39,655 --> 00:36:44,755
Sometimes my TikTok is a little bit
more of the raw and silly me, but you
520
00:36:44,755 --> 00:36:47,945
get a little bit more of my personality
when the real witch comes out.
521
00:36:49,145 --> 00:36:56,570
So take a look, find me on any social
media and Please PM me or DM me or
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00:36:56,780 --> 00:37:01,250
slip into my DMs or whatever it is that
people do and ask me questions if you
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00:37:01,260 --> 00:37:06,220
have any questions on magic or healing
or any of the topics and subjects
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00:37:06,260 --> 00:37:08,140
that we discuss on this podcast here.
525
00:37:08,140 --> 00:37:11,970
I would love to help you answer your
questions or offer you some guidance
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00:37:12,270 --> 00:37:13,860
and pointing you in the right direction.
527
00:37:14,460 --> 00:37:19,510
So until next time, where we finish
this discussion, I'll see you next week.
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00:37:19,540 --> 00:37:21,340
Witches and wizards go make magic.