**NOTE: In this episode, we said “asexual” to describe the patriarchy’s expectation of women’s behavior. Thanks to listener feedback, we now know that we should have used language like “sexless” or “chaste” in this context. We’re leaving it up for the sake of transparency. We apologize for this misuse of the word. We are always learning and striving to do better!
OPENING QUOTE: “Witches live outside civilization and its rules. In fact it’s the witch’s disinterest in the hero and his adventures that the patriarchal authorities despise. They want her toiling in the nursery waving hankies at the hero while he expands his empire. But witches in a nursery just turn the children to changelings, and witches only care about empire when they want to burn it down.” (Amanda Yates Garcia)
**Due to the volume of works referenced in this episode, we encountered the maximum character limit! The below is an edited list of resources and recommendations. Please see our Bookshop link for full lists!
BOOKS:
Taschen’s Witchcraft ed. by Pam Grossman & Jessica Hundley
In Defense of Witches by Mona Chollet
Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici
The Witch Hunt in Early Modern Europe by Brian P. Levack
Witches, Midwives, & Nurses by Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English
Literary Witches by Taisia Kitaiskaia (intro by Pam Grossman)
Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales by Marie Louise von Franz
The Witch’s Heart by Genevieve Gornichec Transgressive Tales: Queering the Grimms (ed. by Kay Turner & Pauline Greenhill)
Kay Turner’s American Folklore Society Presidential address, “The Witch in Flight” (available on YouTube) Women Who Fly by Serinity Young
Gaia and God by Rosemary Radford Ruether
The Power of Story by Harold R. Johnson
The Change by Kirsten Miller
On Monsters by Stephen T. Asma
Circe by Madeline Miller
Kaikeyi by Vaishnvai Patel
The Book of Gothel by Mary McMyne
The Witch & the Tsar by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore
Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch by Rivka Galchen
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
Once & Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
Little Witch Hazel by Phoebe Wall
Oz series by L. Frank Baum
Wicked by Gregory Maguire (& Broadway adaptation)
Our Crooked Hearts by Melissa Albert
Magical Women (anthology) ed. by Sukanya Venkaatraghavan
Kissing the Witch by Emma Donoghue
Fairy tale work of Angela Carter (The Bloody Chamber), Theodora Goss, Catherynne M. Valente, & Kat Howard
Hellboy series by Mike Mignola
Vassa in the Night by Sarah Porter
Baba Yaga’s Assistant by Marika McCool & Emily Carroll
Ask Baba Yaga series by Taisia Kitaiskaia (first book: Poetic Remedies for Troubled Times)
STORIES:
Inanna
Isis
Asherah
Hecate
Pandora
Medusa
Lilith
Eve
Circe
Witch of Endor
Little Red Riding Hood
Hansel & Gretel
Snow White
Sleeping Beauty
Morgan Le Fay
Baba Yaga
Toads & Diamonds
Rapunzel
Muma Padurii
Medea
Frau Trude
The Witch-Wife
MOVIES:
Kiki's Delivery Service
Moana
Snow White
The Little Mermaid
Tangled
Practical Magic
Into the Woods
Gretel and Hansel
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
PEOPLE:
Bri Luna: @thehoodwitch
Pam Grossman: witchwavepodcast.com
Amanda Yates Garcia: @oracleofla
Carterhaugh School of Folklore & the Fantastic: carterhaughschool.com
Kelly Marshall
Temperance Alden: @wildwoman_witchcraft
