Thank you to those of you sharing my podcast! This bonus episode had to be a quick recording due to life circumstances but I wanted to sum up some research I did on the history of the popularity of telling ghost stories at Christmas time and during Yule. Of course, how these got me thinking about the popularity of romcoms.

Please forgive the quailty of the recording.

Fran, the blogger I mention can be found at: www.whingewhingewine.co.uk.

"Don't text your ex." Is that sound advice or just click bait? In this episode of "What's Haunting You?" I share some thoughts on the current, disruptive energies and how to feel empowered during times of chaos or confusion.

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"What's Haunting You?" is written, produced, and hosted by ⁠Ms Micah⁠

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I was excited to use Halloween as an excuse to talk about Alewives and how they likely became the blueprint to the scary witch trope we know today. I share a bit of a medieval poem used to disparage a female brew master at the beginning just for fun but you can skip that and go to 4:12 for the podcast.

Happy Halloween!

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Written, Hosted and Produced by me: MsMicah.com

Audio and Visual Production by Jim Hesterman Photography

Resources:

The Tunning of Eleanor Running - Poetry Foundation

E-text of John Skelton's The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng

Why Did Women Stop Dominating the Beer Industry - Smithonian Magazine

For Centuries, Women Dominated the Brewing Industry - Atlas Obscura

Bubbling Brews and Broomsticks: How Alewives Became the Stereotypical Witch

Judith M. Bennett - Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England - Women's Work in A Changing World, 1300-1600-Oxford University Press, USA (1996) PDF

Alewives in Oxford: A History of Female Brewing - Museum of Oxford

Witchhunts in Early Modern Europe - Gendercide.Org

The History of Midwifery and Childbirth in America: A Time Line

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers (Contemporary Classics) 2010 - Barbara Ehrenreich & Deirdre English

The Herbal Lore of Wise Women and Wortcunners: The Healing Power of Medicinal Plants -

Wolf-Dieter Storl

Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

Silvia Federici

Music is "So This Is It" by Ty Simon. Purchased on Artlist Pro License #406064