Natalie Ross + Naomi Love on the Great Witch Hunts & Killing for Followers [episode 96]
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Content warning - while we’re not getting graphically gorey, this is an intense topic that still resonates with the challenges we face today in a society ruled by supremacy. Pay attention to your body and your needs, and if it’s too much, pause or turn it off.
Natalie Ross helps magical entrepreneurs tweak their marketing, so they can reach more of the people they're meant to serve. She helps them go from feeling overwhelmed and not knowing how to talk about what they do to creating content that's fun and brings in more sales. She also produces the Earth Speak podcast and runs a community about connecting more deeply with self, others, nature and spirit.
Learn more at www.natalie.net.
Naomi Love is a ceremonialist & medicine woman with over thirty years of experience working with tens of thousands of clients and students around the world.
Naomi is the Creatress of Wise Womb Medicine Path™, an Earth medicine school guiding you through the Holy Trinity Blueprint of Womb Healing.
She trains trauma-informed ceremonialists, Somatic Womb Mentors & Somatic Womb Therapists worldwide.
IG: @wisewomboracle
www.wisewombmedicinepath.com
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The Witch wound
Reclaiming + geeking out on what really is a witch
What it truly means to Natalie and Naomi to embody being a witch
Being nature-oriented, and finding safety in nature ‘
How we continue to perpetuate the stereotypes about witches
Womb-witch, green-witch, word-witch
Working in co-creation with living lifeforce energies
Marketing and devising a common enemy to create unity
How prosecuting witches was a marketing technique by the Protestant church to gain followers
Natalie and Naomi share some of the dirty politics and ways witches have been tortured and forced to prove their innocence
The myth of purity
The outlawing of nature worship in the late 900s
Collective fawning and why we feel like we have to make ourselves small and appease others
The worldview of the dominator
Killing for followers
The modern-day witch hunts
The link between the Great Witch Hunt and the Black Death
The sisterhood wound
The art of relating to the human and more-than-human
Co-creation vs domination
On gravitating toward a guru
Naomi shares about her upcoming free virtual Womb Healing Retreat!
And so much more!
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References
Native Land https://native-land.ca/
Stuff You Should Know podcast https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-stuff-you-should-know-26940277/
Ep on when humans became self-aware
Witch-hunt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-hunt
Witchcraft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft
Tattered Cover bookstore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tattered_Cover
Naomi Love on the Witches and Wine Podcast https://www.wisewombmedicinepath.com/musings/2020/2/7/witches-and-wine-interview
Museum of Witchcraft and Magic https://museumofwitchcraftandmagic.co.uk/
Split-leaf philodendron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monstera_deliciosa
Kundalini https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundalini
Protestantism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestantism
Charlemagne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne
Heretics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heresy
Scapegoat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scapegoat
Tv series || The Tudors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tudors
Laws of Athelstan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%86thelstan
Stonehenge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge
Pope Alexander the IV https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Alexander_IV
Protestant reformation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformation
Constructs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_constructionism#Definition
Sovereignty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereignty
Documentary || Inside the Mind of Cats https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21340412/
Black Death https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death
Book || The Hammer of Witches / The Malleus Maleficarum https://amz.run/5xnS
Gerald Gardner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Gardner_(Wiccan)
Joan of Arc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_of_Arc
Yogi Bhajan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbhajan_Singh_Khalsa
Apotropaic magic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apotropaic_magic
Witchy Resources and References:
Book || Witches and Pagans by Max Dashu https://amz.run/5xnM
Scott Cunningham https://amz.run/5xoF
Book || The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America https://amz.run/5xnV
Book || The Witch: A History of Fear, From Ancient Times to the Present https://amz.run/5xnX
Book || High Magic's Aid https://amz.run/5xnY
Book || The God of the Witches https://amz.run/5xnZ
Book || The Gnostic Religion https://amz.run/5xna
Pagan studies scholar Ethan Doyle White https://independent.academia.edu/EthanDoyleWhite
Journey into Witchcraft Beliefs https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/histories/journey-into-witchcraft-beliefs
Madeline Montalban https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeline_Montalban
Witchcraft: Eight Myths and Misconceptions https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/histories/eight-witchcraft-myths
Ten Common Errors and Myths about the Witch Hunts, Corrected and Commented http://www.brianpavlac.org/witchhunts/werrors.html
What really happened during the Salem Witch Trials https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVd8kuufBhM
Wicca: History, Belief, and Community in Modern Pagan Witchcraft https://www.academia.edu/12229695/Doyle_White_E_2016_Wicca_History_Belief_and_Community_in_Modern_Pagan_Witchcraft_Sussex_Academic_Press
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