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 + Naomi share how prosecuting witches was a marketing technique by the Protestant church to gain followers. You’ll also hear about:

• What is - a witch, witchcraft, paganism, Wicca, a heretic, the Great Witch Hunts?
• The witch wound and the sisterhood wound
• The link between the Great Witch Hunt and the Black Death

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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

In this episode, we talk about:

• 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/
• Witch-hunt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-hunt
• Paganism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paganism
• Wicca https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicca
• Witchcraft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft
• Celtic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celts
• Animism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animism
• Kinship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinship
• Tantra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantra
• 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/
• Occult https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occult
• Split-leaf philodendron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monstera_deliciosa
• Herbalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbal_medicine
• Sharman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamanism
• Kundalini https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundalini
• Protestantism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestantism
• Catholic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church
• 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
• Mongoose https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongoose
• 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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