In this episode, I am very delighted to speak with Patricia "Trish" Telesco!
Trish is a passionate Author and fusion cook. She has been a part of the Neo-Pagan community for nearly 40 years. During that time, Trish has written several books including Victorian Grimoire, 365 Goddess, A Kitchen Witch’s Cookbook and her most recent book, Cooking with the Kitchen Witch. Her Wiccan, Witchcraft, & Pagan books provide real and practical information on magick, spells, rituals, Shamanism, animal familiars, Gods & Goddesses, Kitchen Witchery, and Earth-based spirituality. Trish considers herself a Kitchen Witch whose love of folklore flavor every spell and ritual. She believes that your kitchen is a sacred space where you can elevate even the most mundane meal prep into a spiritual ritual. Trish lives in Western New York.

*Trish will give us some Kitchen Witch Tips at the end of the episode! *

We begin by chatting about Trish’s childhood where she played in fields behind the house growing up and talking to trees as a young Pagan Witchling. She tells us that her grandmother would get up at 5am to bake amazing fresh picked berry muffins that woke the family up in the morning. There was something in the love of her baking that influenced Patricia. She remembered her mom’s roast beef and the sacred way her mom created it in their family’s kitchen and her dad baking his delicious cookies.

Trish really didn't discover the magic of cooking until she got married and realized she could not cook. And she got a cookbook from her sister and made every single recipe in that cookbook for a year. The more Trish cooked the more she loved cooking and playing with the recipes. It became …FUN. Thats when her Kitchen Witchery journey started brewing!

She wrote a small newsletter for friends and family offering recipes and after contracting a case of adult chicken pox; she had the idea to write her first and very popular Kitchen Witchery cookbook over 30 years ago called: A Kitchen Witch’s Cookbook. She sent the manuscript to Llewellyn books, and they loved it. Her cookbook was published and it set the pace for Kitchen Witchery on the literary market.

Trish has written and published over 50 Witchcraft and Pagan books as well. Trish tells us that writing is who she is. She then took a little time off and after that she wrote a follow up cookbook. We chat about her new book: Cooking with the Kitchen Witch - Magical Recipes from the Hearth and what a Kitchen Witch is.

Staging, presentation, and decorations are also a part of creating kitchen magic and feasts - especially to celebrate the seasons and the Sabbats with your family, friends and community. Trish gives us some ideas on plating or placing food on the plate as it corresponds to the elements to draw in the energies of each direction and culinary astrology. We chat about how the visual impact of food is witchery and as Trish says: we eat with our eyes.

Trish is very committed to creating her recipes to make sure that they will last through the test of time. She has worked and experimented with food to create her unique culinary magic for several years. Her spellbinding new kitchen witchery book: Cooking with the Kitchen Witch - Magical Recipes from the Hearth invites us to nourish not only our bodies but our spirits. And Trish’s love language emana

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Get ready to be amazed on this episode as I have a spellbinding conversation with Patti Negri! Patti is a Psychic-Medium and "Good Witch" best known for her recurring role on the Travel Channel & Discovery's #1 show Ghost Adventures and the #1 paranormal show on YouTube: TFIL Overnight with Elton Castee. @pattinegri is the international bestselling author of “Old World Magick for the Modern World”. She has a new book that came out in June 2025 from Llewellyn Books called “Dollcraft: A Witch’s Guide to Poppet Magick & Haunted Dolls” which we will discuss here. Patti has a popular weekly podcast called The Witching Hour and has a second weekly podcast, The Witch's Movie Coven. Patti is a founding partner and VP of Paraflixx.com Streaming Service and founding partner and Headmistress at UniversityMagickus.com an online spirituality and mysticism school. *Tune in to the end when Patti gives us a short blessing on how to magickly charge a Poppet! *

We begin our conversation unveiling Patti’s early beginnings as a Witch growing up in Long Beach, CA. She said she was communicating with spirits as early as she could talk. She was not raised with any kind of religious belief system but as a teenager she became a spiritual seeker. She then went to a Long Beach WomanSpirit meeting; there she found her magickal tribe. And that was her starting point on her winding path as a Witch.

Patti was also an actor, dancer and teen model but kept her spirituality separate for many years. In her 30’s she started producing corporate entertainment shows for banks and large companies nationwide. Years later, in 2008 the recession hit, and also Reality TV started growing. Patti tells us that she came out of the broom closet and became the person to call for anything paranormal shows as a witch, psychic or medium and she has not looked back. Her acting training in Hollywood and in media/TV has experience helped her.

We delve into Patti’s newest book “Dollcraft: A Witch’s Guide to Poppet Magick & Haunted Dolls”. Patti saw a need for a guidebook about the acquiring, owning and caring for haunted dolls. She has been a doll collector all her life and some of her dolls she has acquired through her paranormal investigations. Patti talks about Peggi, the very haunted doll that is currently on display atThe Haunted Museum in Las Vegas, NV owned by Zak Bagans from the Travel Channel’s Ghost Adventures TV show. Patti tells us some more experiences with evil energies/spirits residing in a doll - especially with her haunted doll: Belle.

We discover poppets and how to charge them for magickal purposes and empowerment and the difference between a Haunted Doll and a Poppet. Poppets have been used for sympathetic magic through the ages in a variety of cultures. Patti suggests making a poppet for spiritual empowerment, health, love, abundance etc.

Patti’s expertise is about balancing energies in people, places, situations, using the forces of the universe to create transformation whether it be in a séance or on TV with or her private clients. She wraps up the episode by giving us a short, charging blessing for your poppet. ️More about Patti at: www.pattinegri.com

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Join us in this episode for a fascinating conversation with Nikki Wardwell Sleath. Nikki is a formally trained Witch and professional Occult teacher. She is the founder of the Society of Witchcraft and Old Magick, holds a master’s degree in Integrative Health and Healing, is a Reiki Master/Teacher, and is trained through the highest level of shamanic dream teacher/facilitator training in Robert Moss’s School of Active Dreaming. She has worked with clients and students for many years. Nikki is also a longtime priestess of the Morrigan and acts as a co-facilitator for the annual Morrigan's Call Retreat. In addition to Dream Sorcery, Nikki is the author of The Goddess Seals and You Might Be a Witch and has more books forthcoming. She lives in Connecticut, USA. *Stay tuned until the end where Nikki gives us a short, guided meditation to prepare for lucid dreaming*

We start out by chatting about Nikki’s early spiritual/witchcraft beginnings. Growing up she became aware of voices and spirits in her family’s house. She noticed her psychic abilities would sharpen in her college years every Fall. Nikki started researching The Wheel of the Year and modern-day witchcraft. This was a huge spiritual awakening for her and from then on, she knew she was a witch for life.

After college, she became a physical therapist and tells us she would not be where she is as an occult teacher had it not been for her studies of healing on a holistic level. Nikki then began studying reiki, yoga, meditation and eventually got her master’s degree in Integrative Health & Healing which then led to her Shamanic certifications and skills that inform her magick and lucid dream practice. She also interned with Robert Moss a well renown shamanic dream teacher.

Lucid dreaming is being fully aware of yourself while you are dreaming and so essentially, you’re conscious within a dream state. Adding magick and cultivating spell work to lucid dreaming is what her newest Dream Sorcery book explores. She gives the reader tools to engage in dream sorcery even if you are not a seasoned magickal practitioner. This book is important for the magical or enchanted community because it’s not written from the viewpoint of western psychiatry.

Nikki firmly believes that dream sorcery can evolve our spiritual practice, and she hopes that the magickal reader will read her book and explore their own dream world where the rules of physics don’t limit the effect of the endless possibilities and realities. Nikki believes we can go from spectator to active magician in our dreams. Tune in and be enlightened! Nikki’s website: www.nikkiwardwellsleath.com

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