Witch Country

Wishing you all a very Marvellous May! Mentioned in the podcast:Witch Country Ghost StoriesKitchen Witch audiobookxxx

Join me as I wade though water, myth and marshy lands in the New Forest!XXX

For 2025, Our podcast journey starts with a wander to Avebury. My friend and I took a walk amongst these stones last year, about this time, as the equinox sun shone.Find me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thisiswitchcountry/ Join the chats on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/witchcountryAnd I will include the link to the Kitchen Witch Audiobook as soon as it is live!XXX

I am thrilled to present, in what I plan to be a festive tradition for Witch Country: A Ghost Story for Christmas! Since the days of Charles Dickens and a Christmas Carol (1843), and, I'm sure, long before, we have huddled around fires to tell tales of spirits and ghosts during the cold yuletide nights. So here is a tale where witches raise storms and become ghosts themselves, seeking a little retribution, perhaps.Merry Christmas One and All! Xx

A frosty trip to Dartmoor!

Enjoy some Folk Fun and Food drawn from my fourth Book; ⁠Kitchen Witch: Food, Folklore & Fairy Tale!⁠ and ⁠Kitchen Witch Companion: Recipes, Rituals & ReflectionsWishing you all many happy hallowed evenings this October!Join me for Tales from the Wildwood live Zoom event on October 30th, 6pm (GMT) ⁠⁠Eventbrite Link⁠

A short and sweet podcast episode for September! If you are seeking more tales of forest folklore and witchy woods, Do pick up a copy of the Witch and the WildwoodJoin me for Tales from the Wildwood live Zoom event on October 30th, 6pm (GMT) ⁠⁠Eventbrite Link⁠

A wonderful wander with stones, witches and wizards!

In June, I journeyed along the Fife Witches Trail to stand at the stone we call Lilias Adies' grave and to pay my respects to the accused witches of Scotland at Dunferlimne Abbey.

Happy Solstice Season to All!

A wander on a sunny day to Tinkinswood Burial Chamber, also known as the Witches Castle!

Our three Gathered Tales were:Goblin Combe: You'll find many versions of this story, including the one in Folktales of England, by Katharine Briggs and Ruth Tongue, 1965The Brecon Elves & the Wise Housewife: A Variation of a story that can be found in Folk tales of Wales by Eirwen Jones, 1978The Fairy of the Dell: A short and sweet version of a tale told in Welsh Fairy Tales By William Elliot Griffis, 1921Thank you to all who have supported me on Patreon this month - do check it out. There are free resources and bonus goodies each month!

Today, I have a collection of tales! I start the podcast with some snippets from my upcoming book, The Witch and the Wildwood. Then, I head out on a journey to Arundel, Sussex, to indulge in Wassail and a walk around in muddy fields looking for Witch Hares!

Explore magical trees and join me underground in the caves of Wookey Hole!

Spying witch marks in the dim light of the Tithe Barn at Bradford on Avon, a walk through winter evergreens and along the Kennet & Avon Canal

Welcome to Midwinter!Thankyou to Haley and Leigh who suggested I might add the Boscastle Museum of Witchcraft & Magic and the Maggie Wall Monument to my ‘To Visit' List.Our Tree Tales this month are of the Pine tree and Christmas Trees:“In Germany the Christmas-tree is not a luxury for well-to-do people as in England, but a necessity, the very centre of the festival…For one thing, perhaps, in a land of forests the tree seems more in place; it is a kind of sacrament linking mankind to the mysteries of the woodland…at night it is a true thing of wonder, shining with countless lights and glittering ornaments, with fruit of gold and shimmering festoons of silver…The Germans have quite a religious feeling for their Weihnachtsbaum, coming down, one may fancy, from some dim ancestral worship of the trees of the wood.”Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Clement A. Miles in 1912Thoughts on this episode? questions? ideas? new witchy places I should explore? Say Hi on Instagram! @wildwoodsandwitchcountry

Starting Witch Country: a journey through story and landscape and all things witch, with perhaps the most famous, infamous witches of England - the accused witches collectively known as the Pendle witches.