Best RJ Walker and Elle Alder Podcasts (2024)

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Ep 67 Geomancy Part 2 1:20:03

2M ago1:20:03

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RJ and Elle continue their coverage of Geomancy, earth magic. RJ describes the Harmonic Convergence event that took place in 1987 around the world. RJ also describes the history of Sedona's magical "vortexes" that are rumored to amplify spiritual and psychic energies. Elle then re-performs the readings for Christopher Fox Graham's kids. The reading…

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Ep 66 Geomancy Part 1 48:08

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RJ and Elle begin their coverage of Geomancy, divination using the Earth. RJ goes into the history of Ley Lines and how these debunked theories have continued to this day. RJ describes the Earth Mysteries movement and the beginnings of the New Age movement and teases the Harmonic Convergence event that helped put Sedona Arizona on the map. Elle and…

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Ep 65 Hexes Part 2 1:30:35

5M ago1:30:35

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RJ and Elle continue their coverage of hexes. RJ discusses the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn's supposed hexing of the Nazis during WW2. Elle weighs in on hexes as liberation. RJ discusses the recent history of Hexes for political action. RJ and Elle discuss the 1960's and 70's political group known as WITCH. They then discuss the recent hexing …

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Ep 64 Hexes Part 1 1:32:15

5M ago1:32:15

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Mancy returns to kick off a new season! Hexes, magic intended to do harm. RJ dives into the Powow magic of the Pennsylvania Dutch and explains the disambiguation between their brand of hex magic what is commonly accepted as a hex or curse. Elle reads hexes from a grimoire and RJ attempts to use one of the hexes to cure hir chronic headaches. RJ dis…

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Ep 63 Seance part 2 1:22:37

1+ y ago1:22:37

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RJ and Elle continue their discussion of Seances live at the UAA Art Castle. RJ goes over the biography of Cora Scott, a medium and notable organizer in the spiritualist movement. He discusses fraud psychics, and the debunkers. RJ goes over the history of The Ghost Club and the Society for Psychical Research or SPR. The drama between spiritualists …

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Ep 62 Seance Part 1 1:12:58

1+ y ago1:12:58

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A special live episode of Mancy recorded from the UAA art castle, a historic church built in the 1800s. This live episode is made possible by the Utah Arts Alliance offering this venue. RJ discusses the history of Seances in America and does a short biography of medium Leafy Anderson who spearheaded the spiritualist movement for black americans. He…

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Mancy Season 5 Annoucement 4:26

1+ y ago4:26

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A special announcement! We're kicking off Season 5 on October 26th 2022 with a special live show! We're going to be covering Seances and you can be in the audience while Elle performs a Live Seance at the UAA Art Castle. Tickets available here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/seance-mancy-podcast-live-tickets-430465141827?utm-campaign=social&utm-conte…

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Ep 61 Akashic Records Part 2 1:47:23

2y ago1:47:23

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Elle continues her coverage of the Akashic Records, her specific area of expertise. She brings Jennifer Martin into the studio, another professional psychic who received similar training on the akashic records. Elle begins by answering questions posed by listeners of the show, and then moves into an introduction of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (HPB) t…

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Ep 60 CHARMS! pt 3 55:31

2y ago55:31

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RJ and Elle finish their coverage of charms by looking at the remaining charms present in Lucky Charms Cereal. RJ and Elle give their backgrounds with breakfast cereal. RJ opens by describing what a blue moon is, and why we call it that. He then talks about when the moon actually turns blue. He then discusses some of the mythology and magic connect…

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Ep 59 Charms! Pt 2 1:00:05

2y ago1:00:05

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Elle and RJ continue their coverage of charms. RJ looks into the egyptian ankh and Elle provides context with her experience from Egypt. RJ then continues his coverage of each lucky charm in lucky charms cereal. Starting with clovers, then hearts, and then finally balloons. RJ gets a guest reading from @theworkerinclay on tiktok using a magnus arch…

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Ep 58 CHARMS! pt 1 56:32

2y ago56:32

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RJ and Elle kick off Season 2 with coverage of charms. Lucky or otherwise. RJ and Elle discuss lucky or sentimental objects that serve as charms for them. RJ starts the episode with the lore behind the Lucky Rabbit's Foot and the ways it has been culturally appropriated. RJ then discusses the grusome Hand of Glory charm, and the lore surrounding ho…

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Ep 57 Dice! Astragalomancy pt 2 1:04:00

2y ago1:04:00

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RJ and Elle continue their coverage of Astragalomancy. RJ discusses the history of loaded dice and cheating dice. RJ also comes clean about using loaded dice in games of Dungeons and Dragons. RJ then dives into some of the history of DnD, the good and the bad. A slight dive into the satanic panic that arose from the game in the 1980's. RJ goes over…

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Ep 56: Dice! Astragalomancy pt 1 1:00:44

2y ago1:00:44

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RJ and Elle begin their coverage of Astragalomancy, divination with Dice. RJ begins by describing his father's passion for Craps and Elle describes a dice tarot variant that used to be available in her store. RJ then begins the long, complex history of dice which goes well into pre-history. RJ describes the egyptian game of Senet and the Royal Game…

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Ep 55 Augury pt 3 48:35

2y ago48:35

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RJ and Elle conclude their coverage of Augury by looking at research conducted on birds. RJ establishes the intelligence of Corvids, and then discusses the sad relationship humans have with pigeons. He brings up the domestication of the pigeon, and messenger pigeons. He then discusses pigeons who are decorated war heros including Cher Ami and G.I. …

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Ep 54 Augury pt 2 1:21:30

2y ago1:21:30

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Continuing coverage of Augury, RJ discusses the folkloric significance of birds as they relate to psychopomps. RJ and Elle discuss the practice of sky burials and maritime lore about birds. RJ retells the Rime of the Ancient Mariner and then follows that up with a mormon folktale known as the Miracle of the Gulls, which is the reason the California…

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Ep 53 Augury pt 1 59:03

2y ago59:03

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In this series RJ and Elle discuss Augury which is the practice of divining with birds, and a few other methods, but mostly birds. RJ tells the story of the Owl in his yard named Novartis, and Elle discusses her general aversion to birds, as well as tells the story of an ill omen she encountered in california when a crow fell from the sky. RJ goes …

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Ep 52 Akashic Records pt 1 1:56:38

2y ago1:56:38

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Elle takes the reigns and has written an episode about the Akashic Records. Elle is an expert on this subject on this esoteric and obscure topic. Elle does a brief history of the Akashic records, with promises for more in future episodes on it. Because Elle knows so much about this subject, there will likely be several parts interspersed throughout…

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Ep 51 Myomancy pt 2 1:44:25

2y ago1:44:25

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RJ and Elle continue their coverage of rodent magic. RJ discusses pop culture mice and explains the haunted history of Mickey Mouse. He then tells the tale of Suicidemouse.avi. After that RJ does background information on the bubonic plague and the pseudo cryptic known as The Rat King. RJ then describes 3 different rodent studies. The Universe 25 e…

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Ep 50 Myomancy pt 1 1:23:47

2y ago1:23:47

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RJ and Elle discuss myomancy, divination and magic with rodents. RJ and Elle discuss their relationships with mice and rats, with RJ sharing a story of an infestation. RJ then goes on to give an RIP to Mr. Goxx, and then he discusses the history and continued practice of Groundhog day. Following that, he goes over a few folk tales with Elle. The st…

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Ep 49 Dendromancy pt 2 1:08:15

2y ago1:08:15

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RJ and Elle continue their coverage of Dendromancy. First, RJ discusses monster trees, starting with the Joboko of japanese folklore. Then he discusses other tales of Man Eating Trees concluding with the mystery of Who Put Bella in the Witch Elm. Elle attempts to psychically find answers for the mystery. RJ goes over the main theories. RJ then disc…

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Ep 48: Dendromancy Part 1 1:35:03

2y ago1:35:03

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Dendromancy, magic with Trees. RJ and Elle discuss their relationship to trees as well as the importance of trees to life on earth. The episode begins with trees being connected to divinity or as divine beings. RJ goes over the christian creation story, as well as the mormon relationship to the Tree of Life and the beliefs connected to it. RJ also …

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Bonus! Mancy Yule Special 2:52:06

2+ y ago2:52:06

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RJ and Elle have had quite a few winter adventures that have kept them from uploading new episodes, but that won't stop the 2021 Christmas Special! This time Elle writes the Christmas special and plays fast and loose with the script. RJ Tells the story of attempting to create a toy uprising at the Evermore Theme park, Elle tells about her family's …

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Ep 47 Canomancy pt 2 1:14:00

2+ y ago1:14:00

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Elle and RJ Continue their exploration of Canomancy, divination and magic with Dogs. RJ discusses a dog named Boy, who was rumored to be a practitioner of the dark arts and a familiar of Prince Rupert during the english civil war. RJ then explores the mythology concept of the Hell Hound and discusses a myriad of mythologies that connect dogs to the…

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Ep 46 Canomancy (dog magic) Part 1 1:18:43

2+ y ago1:18:43

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RJ and Elle continue their dive into Theriomancy, which is magic involving specific animals, this time discussing dogs. RJ has a difficult time finding specific instances of Canomancy in history, however Noodle the Pug has become a canomancy phenomenon. RJ also discusses Saint Guinefort, a holy dog revered in 13th century france. RJ also discusses …

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Bonus! Mancy Halloween Special 1:19:08

2+ y ago1:19:08

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It should be no surprise that Halloween is RJ and Elle's favorite holiday. Elle wrote a special bonus episode looking at the history of All Hallows Eve as Samhain, the celtic festival at the root of Halloween. Elle discusses the energy of the time of year, and RJ does some story telling of popular halloween myths and folklore including Jack O' Lant…

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ep 45 Ailuromancy: Cat Magic (Part 2) 57:53

2+ y ago57:53

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RJ and Elle continue their coverage of Ailuromancy, Divination and magic with Cats. Spectre continues to help with the episode by providing cuddles. RJ discusses the relationship ancient egyptians had with cats, along with the history of cats being domesticated. RJ discusses the belief that the purr of a cat has healing properties. The episode clos…

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ep 44 Ailuromancy: Cat Magic (Part 1) 1:03:36

2+ y ago1:03:36

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Season 3 is going to feature some dives into Theriomancy, magic involving animals. We're starting with Ailuromancy, divination with cats. RJ and Elle are joined by Spectre, RJ's cat. RJ begins with viking cats, and the way cats are connected to norse mythology and folklore. He also dives into celtic folklore and some of the reasons why Cats are con…

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Mancy Live! SLC Magic pt 2 54:33

2+ y ago54:33

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RJ and Elle continue their Mancy Atlas coverage of Salt Lake, moving on from the old history and into the more modern urban legends and secret locations in the city. RJ discusses the eclectic Gilgal Gardens, the grave of Lily E. Gray, and the ghost town in the heart of the city, Allen Park. Elle does a reading by scrying a horrific bowl of green je…

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Mancy Live! SLC Magic pt 1 1:06:02

2+ y ago1:06:02

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Live from Salt Lake City and the Utah Humanities Book Festival! This special Mancy Atlas episode of the podcast takes a look at how Magic has been a driving influence behind the culture and construction of Salt Lake City, Utah. RJ discusses the reason for SLC's efficient road system and the magic that inspired it. He also takes a look at the Desere…

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Bonus! Queer Magic 2:16:53

2+ y ago2:16:53

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Sponsored by the Utah Humanities Book Festival and Under the Umbrella Press! Elle takes control for this bonus episode on the relationship between magic and queerness. She uses the book Queer Magic by Tomas Prower for research, and takes the time to cover some of the things he left out involving queer femmes and and gender nonbinary narratives and …

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Mancy Live! Annoucement! 5:17

2+ y ago5:17

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Join the Mancy Podcast on October 2nd for a special Live episode of the show! We're going to be covering the Magic that influenced the creation and culture of Salt Lake City. Sponsored by Utah Humanities, the event is totally free to attend at the Utah Arts Hub at 7pm Mountain Time. We'll also being going live on TikTok if you're unable to make it …

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Ep 43 Kitchen Witchery part 2 1:05:02

2+ y ago1:05:02

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CW FOOD NOISES RJ and Elle continue their coverage of Food Magic. RJ discusses the cryptid known as Alphito, the flour witch. RJ also goes over the ritual of Corsned, or The Sacred Morsel. RJ Eats 10oz of bread while Elle recites the magic words to find out if his soul is pure. RJ also discusses the practice of The Corn Mother, along with Kitchen W…

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Mancy BRB (Lava Hot Springs Inn) 11:52

2+ y ago11:52

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RJ and Elle had a busy week and were in need of a vacation. RJ procrastinated writing Kitchen Witchery Part 2, so the podcast will Be Right Back. For Vacation, RJ and Elle visited the haunted Lava Hot Springs Inn which once served as a post world war sanatorium. RJ asks Elle how haunted these holistic bathing pools were and if the rumors of ghosts …

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Ep 42 Kitchen Witchery (part 1) 1:05:33

2+ y ago1:05:33

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TW: Food Noises! RJ and Elle discuss food magic. First RJ discusses the neo-pagan concept of kitchen witchery, and then discusses the cultural significance of food. RJ begins covering the individual ingredients of food, starting with Ovamancy, egg magic. The extra spell is about the Evil Eye, and how it relates to eggs. Then, RJ moves on to Flour d…

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Ep 41 Tulpamancy 1:45:13

2+ y ago1:45:13

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After discussing mediums materializing spirits, RJ and Elle discuss Tulpas. These beings are thoughtforms brought into existence by psychic power or spiritual energy. They discuss the origins of Tulpas in tibetan buddhism, then they discuss Tulpas as cryptids or rather, cryptids as Tulpas. The phenomenon of Tulpas in Pop Culture may have given rise…

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Ep 40 Ectoplasm 1:24:29

3y ago1:24:29

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RJ and Elle dive back into the world of Necromancy and discuss victorian and turn of the century mediums. Materialization is the psychic or paranormal ability to give spirits and entities physical form. Ectoplasm was a theoretical substance that would physicalize psychic power or energy. Psychics were rumored to excrete this substance whenever they…

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Ep 39 Cybermancy (Part 2) 1:14:04

3y ago1:14:04

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RJ and Elle continue their coverage of Cybermancy, Divination by computer. RJ discusses some of the odd and bizarre things people have done with AI neural networks, particularly experiments done by Janelle Shane on her AI Weirdness blog. Then RJ feeds an AI one of his poems and the AI attempts to recreate it with an image. Elle does an interpretati…

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Ep 38 Cybermancy (Part 1) 1:44:01

3y ago1:44:01

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Cybermancy, Divination by Computer and AI. So much of our daily existence is determined by Predictive Analytics and algorithms. These algorithms and analytics are the closest humanity has come to true pre-cognition and AI is getting more effective every day. RJ discusses the existing implications of algorithm based prediction, especially the ways i…

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Bonus! Baba Vanga (Part 2) 1:02:31

3y ago1:02:31

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Elle continues the bonus episode coverage of Baba Vanga, the blind bulgarian clairvoyant that made waves all through the 20th century. Elle concludes the bonus episode by performing readings using Baba Vanga's methods involving a sugar cube and a wristwatch. Support the showBy RJ Walker and Elle Alder

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Bonus! Baba Vanga (Part 1) 56:03

3y ago56:03

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RJ Needed a break so Elle took over for this special Bonus episode of Mancy all about Baba Vanga, the mysterious Bulgarian soothsayer that made waves with her bizzare and accurate predictions. Support the showBy RJ Walker and Elle Alder

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Ep 37 Crystal Ball (Part 2) 1:02:07

3y ago1:02:07

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RJ and Elle continue their coverage of Crystallomancy: Divination by gazing into a crystal. RJ discusses the Crystal Ball's history in stage magic and some notable stage magicians who have used it. The Extra Spell is all about the mysterious history of Crystal Skulls, including some famous examples of "magic" crystal skulls. RJ then goes into a sho…

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Ep 36 Crystal Ball (Part 1) 50:32

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RJ and Elle dive into Crystallomancy, Divination by scrying a crystal. The most famous example of this is the Crystal Ball. RJ discusses the earliest written accounts of crystal gazing, the Druid's Beryl Ball, and Lord of the Rings. RJ discusses the science of how crystal balls might work and why people might believe they are magic. In the Extra Sp…

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Ep 35 Wine and Cheese (part 2) 1:29:02

3y ago1:29:02

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RJ and Elle continue their coverage on the history of Alcohol and Magic. RJ dives deeper into the history of alcoholism and it's connection to demonic and spiritual possession. The history of alcohol as a magic tool in other cultures around the world, and in the introduction of Alcohol to America. RJ discusses the tragic history of Alcohol as a too…

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Ep 34 Wine and Cheese Magic (part 1) 1:23:45

3y ago1:23:45

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Oinomancy and Tyromancy. Divination by wine and divination by cheese. RJ and Elle discuss the history of Alcohol as a tool for magic. The consumption of Alcohol goes well into pre-history, with the earliest records existing in ancient mesopotamia. RJ Gags remembering alcohol poisoning patients he treated as an EMT. They also discuss the Maenads, an…

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Ep 33 Alchemy (part 2) 1:16:36

3y ago1:16:36

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Part two of our coverage of Alchemy, the blurry line between magic and science. In this Episode, RJ discusses notable alchemists and their scientific achievements. Zosimos of Panopolis, Mary the Hewbrew, Ge Hong in ancient China, Jabir the Alchemist, Henning Brand, Paracelsus, Johan Faustus, and John Dee. Each of these alchemists contributed to sci…

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Ep 32 Alchemy (part 1) 1:16:01

3y ago1:16:01

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Alchemy. The science of understanding, deconstructing and reconstructing matter. Of all the Mancy's we have covered on the show, Alchemy has had the largest impact on the progress of humanity by far. Once at the forefront of academic thought, Alchemy was both controversial and revered. In part 1, RJ discusses the principals of hermeticism and gnost…

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Ep 31 Tarot and Aleister Crowley (part 2) 1:28:50

3y ago1:28:50

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Continuing coverage of the history of Tarot cards and the biography of Aleister Crowley. RJ discusses Crowley's growing interest in the occult and the prolific influence he had. He discusses the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the schism of the order and the various secret societies that all played influence in the mysticism of The Tarot. Elle a…

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Ep 30 Tarot and Aleister Crowley (Part 1) 1:45:37

3y ago1:45:37

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One of the most prolific divination methods used today involves reading Tarot cards. The imagery of the tarot is iconic and the cards themselves date back to the 1400's. RJ discusses the history of the cards and how they went from gambling halls to magick societies. Elle discusses her early beginnings reading tarot as the start of her career as a p…

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Ep 29 Irish Magic Part 2 49:32

3y ago49:32

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Continuing coverage of Irish Magic, Elle and RJ move into irish folklore and discuss some notable witches in Ireland. The Extra Spell is about Bridget Cleary and how she was believed to be a changeling by her family. Other notable Irish Witches includ Biddy Early, and the witch trial of Islandmagee which condemned 8 women for witchcraft. At the end…

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Ep 28 Irish Magic Part 1 1:08:31

3y ago1:08:31

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Kicking off Season 2 of Mancy with coverage of Irish Magic. In this episode RJ and Elle discuss Irish Mythology, Celtic culture and the druids at the heart of their civilization, and what happened to them. The Extra Spell is about Cu Chulian, a mythological celtic hero. The episode also covers St. Patrick and his role in the cultural genocide of th…

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