Hex and Muse
A podcast for the curious, the creative, and the quietly powerful.
Hex & Muse is a slow-burning exploration of modern mysticism, feminine power, and the spaces where history, art, and ritual entwine.
Hosted by a practicing witch, artist, and seeker, this show isn’t a how-to guide; it’s a breadcrumb trail.
Each episode invites you into a moment of reflection through storytelling, folklore, sacred practices, and the occasional deep-dive into witches in art, culture, and cinema.
From building altars and meeting goddesses, to walking ancestral paths and unearthing forgotten histories; this is a gathering for those who feel the hum of something more beneath the surface of things.
Come as you are.
Take what you need.
And from my altar to yours - welcome.
Hex and Muse
The Witching Hour - Folklore of Midnight & Thresholds
What makes midnight so powerful and why do crossroads, mirrors, and doorways seem to hum with the same strange energy? This episode of Hex & Muse drifts through folklore, superstition, and the quiet psychology of liminal spaces, tracing how the witching hour became a symbol of transformation. From ancient rites and whispered superstitions to the ways we still navigate change today, it’s an exploration of thresholds- where the world softens, and something new begins to stir.
Carl Jung – Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
Mircea Eliade – The Sacred and the Profane
Ronald Hutton – The Triumph of the Moon
Marina Warner – From the Beast to the Blonde
Claude Lecouteux – The Tradition of Household Spirits
Theresa Bane – Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology Katharine Briggs – An Encyclopedia of Fairies
Giovanni Caputo – “The Strange-Face Illusion,” Perception, 2010
Theoi Greek Mythology (online archive of Hecate and related deities)
Encyclopedia of Shinto (Kokugakuin University) – Ushinotoki-Mairi: The Hour of the Ox
Shakespeare, Hamlet (Act III, Scene II — “the very witching time of night”)
These works informed the folklore, cultural history, and symbolic language woven through this episode.
Hex & Muse is recorded on the lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. I pay my deepest respects to their Elders past and present - and to all First Nations people, whose stories and spirits continue to shape this land.
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Hex & Muse is a spellbound journal of folklore, magic, art, and the sacred feminine - told through cinematic storytelling and whispered histories.
From my altar to yours… thank you for listening.
