Hex Positive

A practical witchcraft podcast hosted by Bree NicGarran, author of Grovedaughter Witchery. Every month, join Bree for a discussion of secular witchcraft, with plenty of tips for witching on a budget, finding good resources, furthering your magical education, and keeping your common sense superpowers strong. We’ll also delve into the history of witches and witchcraft, and witches in folklore and literature, and how those ideas influence what it means to be a witch in the modern day.

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September 1, 2023 Nerd & Tie Bree NicGarran

38. Creating Your Personal Grimoire

https://media.blubrry.com/1336403/traffic.megaphone.fm/APO8301176020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RSSSince magic and writing first existed together, there

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August 1, 2023 Nerd & Tie Bree NicGarran

37. Cleaning, Cleansing, and Magical Germophobia

https://media.blubrry.com/1336403/traffic.megaphone.fm/APO4674778424.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RSSCleansing is one of the most frequently-employed types

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July 1, 2023 Nerd & Tie Bree NicGarran, history, Margaret Murray, Trae Dorn, Witch, Witch Cult Hypothesis, Witchcraft

36. Margaret Effing Murray (With Trae Dorn)

https://media.blubrry.com/1336403/traffic.megaphone.fm/APO2855806879.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RSSMargaret Murray was a celebrated author, historian, folklorist,

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June 2, 2023 Nerd & Tie Bree NicGarran, Money, Witch, Witchcraft

35. Money Magic (or Why I’m Not a Rich Witch)

https://media.blubrry.com/1336403/traffic.megaphone.fm/APO6683427517.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RSSProsperity spells are some of the most commonly-found

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May 2, 2023 Nerd & Tie Bree NicGarran, Witchcraft

34. Building Your Witchcraft Library

https://media.blubrry.com/1336403/traffic.megaphone.fm/APO2188576395.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RSSA well-read witch is a happy witch. But

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April 1, 2023 Nerd & Tie Touch Grass, Witch, Witchcraft

33. Touch Grass

https://media.blubrry.com/1336403/traffic.megaphone.fm/APO7873717813.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RSSSometimes, a witch just needs a break. Let’s

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March 1, 2023 Nerd & Tie Lozzie Stardust, Stardust Sessions

Stardust Sessions – Deuteronomy and Daemonologie

https://media.blubrry.com/1336403/traffic.megaphone.fm/APO6128824116.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RSSJust one more hiatus episode to go! This

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February 1, 2023 Nerd & Tie Lozzie Stardust, Stardust Sessions

Stardust Sessions – The North Berwick Witch Trials

https://media.blubrry.com/1336403/traffic.megaphone.fm/APO2654995358.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RSSThis month on our hiatus presentation of “Stardust

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January 1, 2023 Nerd & Tie Lozzie Stardust, Stardust Sessions

Stardust Sessions – King James, the Godliest Boy Who Ever Godly-Boy’d

https://media.blubrry.com/1336403/traffic.megaphone.fm/APO2810917153.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RSSIn this special hiatus presentation of my Patreon

All Nerd & Tie Network Podcasts

We make a bunch of podcasts at Nerd & Tie, we know it’s hard to keep up with all of them. So, with that in mind, we’ve decided to make a feed of all of them (well minus two)!

It’s time to get your stolen spaceship hurtling round the sun and going back in time to the 1980’s with Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home! We’re joined by our occasional editor and perpetual Pokémon expert, Reanna Reid-Lobatto, with some news about whales (and transparent aluminium). There’s some impressive Shacting as Spock and the crew get up to hijinks in order to get whales going back to the future! Then we’ve got the second part of this ‘bus punk’ duology with Picard’s “Watcher,” where we’re reminded why ICE should be abolished, Rafi is the most fun she’s been in the show and Guinan’s already fed up of JL!

Timecodes:
00:04:22 What Non-Star Trek Thing We’ve Been Enjoying
00:13:32 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
01:10:28 Picard: The Watcher

Talking points include: Continuum, Dr Who, Ecco the Dolphin, Whale Song, Tavern Talk, Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuux, Final Girl, Top Gun, Karate Kid cosplay, the pronunciation of aluminium, the “I choose to stay” trope, is there no pizza in Star Trek’s future?, Bester from Babylon 5, John Lithgow’s acting career, Bill & Ted’s poorly-aged comments, transparent aluminium facts! Hitchhiker’s Guide dolphins, Some non-bummer news about humpback whales, I urge Comrade Whales to go further, Genma Saotome’s parenting, McCoy Vs the American Health Industry, Alexa & the PS5’s voice recognition, Eddie Murphy, Back to the Future & Howard the Duck’s Lea Thompson, Fly me to the Moon, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Buffy, ICE should be abolished, Edith Piaf, do you like references?, Jerati’s history of constantly fucking up, Eternal Law, Ageing punks, Miles’ connection to Kirk Thatcher, fuck Peanut Hamper, The Rosa Parks episode of Dr Who, Charlie has now finished Yoshi’s Island. Oh, and occasionally Star Trek.

The Matthew Rosenberg Wolfsbane thing is covered here: https://www.cbr.com/rosenberg-apologizes-for-wolfsbane-death-scene/

Pedant’s Corner:
Yes technically it’s not been long since we’ve covered a movie, but it’s best we all forget Section 31.
The last scenario of Final Girl Series Three is based on A Quiet Place and Tremors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Bounty
John Lithgow played Dr Emilio Lizardo in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.
We are children of the 80’s living in 2025, not 2024.
It’s Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, not Seven.

[ Additional Show Notes ]

Music by Alfred Etheridge-Nunn. Read Miles’s blog or Charlie’s blog.

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