Rebecca Beyer, aka "Blood & Spicebush," is a tattoo artist, hedgecraft practitioner, & occult author on witchcraft & folk magic, currently wild tending in the southern Appalachians of North Carolina. In this fun, sample platter episode we hear about broadleaf plantain folkways; ancestral roots; the ancient Gauls & the Celtic cult of the head; long hair; water witching; John Dee; witchcraft's beginnings; sympathy for the devil; and the life of a 12th-century German mystic & abbess named St. Hildegard von Bingen. For her story, Rebecca shares a deeply unnerving paranormal encounter with what she was told were interdimensional travelers... We end on sassafras folk magic & history, reminding us that every glass of saloop tea is filled with a whole universe of story!
Check out Rebecca's Blood & Spicebush Instagram & website. And order a copy of her new book Wild Witchcraft: Folk Herbalism, Garden Magic, and Foraging for Spells, Rituals, and Remedies
Music provided by Modern Medieval
"Karitas Habundat"
Written by St. Hildegard von Bingen
Performed by Dr. Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek & Modern Medieval
Courtesy of Modern Medieval
"O Viridissima Virga"
Written by St. Hildegard von Bingen
Performed by Dr. Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek
Courtesy of Modern Medieval
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