About this episode
The episode discusses the tendency in the witchcraft community to label new practices as 'ancient' and the implications of this trend.
There's an annoying thing in the witchcraft community where every new idea or trend gets cast as an "ancient" practice even if it's just a few years old. Time and time again, we see people constructing false narratives about the supposed historicity of ideas, spells, and rituals in witchcraft spaces, and all of it is bad for us. Why do people feel the need to lie? Why does something being a new idea make it less credible in people's eyes? Why have we been doing this as a community from the start?
People in this episode
Host: Trae Dorn
Topics covered
- witchcraft
- historicity
- community narratives
- credibility
- new ideas
Keywords
- witchcraft
- ancient practices
- community
- narratives
- spells
- rituals
- credibility
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