Delusional Witch Juice
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Delusional Witch Juice is a weird-history podcast exploring witchcraft, folklore, the occult, paranormal phenomena, strange beliefs, and the stories hiding beneath the stories we think we know. It's part history lecture, part séance, part group chat. Unfiltered, well-researched, and made especially for delusional witches.
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- Retrograde Season: What the 5 Planets Mean and the History Behind the Astrology · 29 λεπ. · Σεζόν 5 Επεισόδιο 18Mercury goes retrograde three or four times a year, and somehow that’s supposed to explain why you hit reply-all. So who decided retrograde means anything in the first place?…
- Samhain to Halloween: How an Irish Festival Became American Halloween · 27 λεπ. · Σεζόν 5 Επεισόδιο 17A medieval Irish story says that on Samhain night, the fairy mounds open, and one warrior walks into a hill and comes back carrying summer. This year Americans will spend $13.5…
- The Witchfinder General: England's Deadliest Witch Hunt · 29 λεπ. · Σεζόν 5 Επεισόδιο 1In 1645, a young man in a small Essex town said he'd overheard witches meeting near his house. Within about two years, more than a hundred people across eastern England had been…
- Paying Off the Dead: Purgatory, Walking Corpses, and the Price of Salvation · 32 λεπ. · Σεζόν 5 Επεισόδιο 12In 12th-century England, a dead man kept climbing into bed with his wife, and the whole street stayed up every night to watch for him. To understand why, we follow the strange…
- The Weird History of Household Protection: Witch Bottles, Hidden Shoes & Mummified Cats · 29 λεπ. · Σεζόν 5 Επεισόδιο 15In 2004, builders in London dug up a sealed bottle from the 1600s filled with urine, bent nails, hair, fingernail clippings and a leather heart with a nail through it. Whoever…
- Victorian Séances: Who Answered When They Called the Dead? · 31 λεπ. · Σεζόν 5 Επεισόδιο 14In 1848, according to her mother, an 11-year-old girl in upstate New York clapped her hands at a knocking wall and said, "Mr. Splitfoot, do as I do." And the wall knocked back…
- Mabon: The Kidnapped Baby Behind the Fall Equinox · 32 λεπ. · Σεζόν 5 Επεισόδιο 10The modern Pagan name for the fall equinox belongs to a Welsh man who was kidnapped when he was three nights old, imprisoned for an unknown length of time, and rescued only…
- The Real Witchcraft Behind Practical Magic: What TikTok Got Wrong · 32 λεπ. · Σεζόν 5 Επεισόδιο 12When did Practical Magic stop being a movie and start becoming witch lore? The 1998 film gave us the Owens house, rosemary by the garden gate, midnight margaritas, family…
- Why Witches Won't Make Moon Water on a Lunar Eclipse · 27 λεπ. · Σεζόν 5 Επεισόδιο 11Why is regular full-moon water considered magical, but eclipse water is treated like the LaCroix of chaos? In this episode of Delusional Witch Stews, Heather investigates where…
- The Strange History of Fortune Telling: From Royal Astrologers to Zoltar · 42 λεπ. · Σεζόν 5 Επεισόδιο 9This week on Delusional Witch Juice, I discuss the real history of fortune telling and how the creepy crystal ball fortune teller is way younger than you think. From ancient…
- August 12 Is Cosmic Chaos: Eclipse, Planets & Perseids · 21 λεπ. · Σεζόν 5 Επεισόδιο 1This week on Delusional Witch Juice, I discuss why August 12 is being called cosmic chaos—and whether somebody actually left the Lion’s Gate Portal open. From a six-planet parade…
- The Sinister Past of Garden Gnomes: Elves, Fairies & the Folklore Behind Them · 46 λεπ. · Σεζόν 9 Επεισόδιο 5In this episode of Delusional Witch Juice, Heather untangles the weird, messy folklore behind house spirits and the creatures we now casually lump together as “the fae.” From…
- Lammas: The Three Histories Behind the Pagan Bread Holiday · 43 λεπ. · Σεζόν 5 Επεισόδιο 6Back with another seasonal sabbat episode! Is Lammas really an ancient pagan bread holiday? In this episode, Heather follows the history from Old English “loaf-mass” and…
- Low-Energy Witchcraft: Simple Rituals for Exhausted Days · 15 λεπ. · Σεζόν 5 Επεισόδιο 4What does witchcraft look like when you are sick, burnt out, overwhelmed, or simply too tired to feel magical? Heather explores low-energy witchcraft, the pressure to turn…
- What Kind of Witch Are You? The Truth About Witch Types · 26 λεπ. · Σεζόν 5 Επεισόδιο 6This week: what "types of witches" quizzes actually get right (and wrong), the real history behind the word "witch" — including Salem's actual numbers and the "9 million" myth…
- New Moon July 2026: Manifestation, Lunar Planning & My Smoke Detector · 35 λεπ. · Σεζόν 5 Επεισόδιο 5This week on Delusional Witch Juice, It's the New Moon in Cancer, July 14, 2026, 2:43 AM PT, so we're setting an intention live on air. But first: where does "manifestation"…
- Past Lives: Everyone Was Cleopatra, Nobody Was a Peasant · 27 λεπ. · Σεζόν 5 Επεισόδιο 4Why does everyone think they were Cleopatra in a past life — and never a turnip farmer? This week: what reincarnation actually means across Hinduism and Buddhism, the University…
- Litha: The Summer Solstice Name That's Younger Than Your Parents · 54 λεπ. · Σεζόν 5 Επεισόδιο 1This week on Delusional Witch Juice, I discuss how the name Litha is younger than you think and the real history of the Summer Solstice is wilder than you think. From ancient…
- The Real History of Tarot Cards (A French Pastor Lied) · 37 λεπ. · Σεζόν 5 Επεισόδιο 1We are continuing with the pivot from pop culture to witchy solo episodes for this season and this week: the real 600-year history of tarot, the secret society behind the most…
- Beltane History, the Scorpio Full Moon & What the Church Tried to Erase (Witch Era) · 25 λεπ. · Σεζόν 5 Επεισόδιο 1After a long break and several rebrands later, DBJ is back, but as Delusional WITCH Juice starting with this episode about the real history of one of the oldest festivals in the…







