Show Notes Episode 511: Something Wiccan This Way Comes

Part 3 of Spooktacular 2025

This week Host Dave Bledsoe was arrested at the Lizard Lounge in Bohemia for getting hammered, stripping off all his clothes and proclaiming he was performing Witchy Woman by the Eagles “skyclad”. (Again) On the show this week we look at the state of modern witchcraft when we talk about the Wiccans.

Along the way we learn that Dave DID try not be a godless heathen. (Just not very hard.) Then we dive right into that time the Romans did some Roman shit to people in what would become Wales. (Somehow, this IS relevant) before coming back to talk about an English Post Clerk who decided that pretending to believe in witchcraft might get him laid. (Unfair and untrue, Gerald was probably ACE) Then we follow the rise of Wicca as a religion as it spread around the world in the 70s until it exploded in the late 90s. (Alyson Hannigan was just so damn cute!) We explain how Wicca got popular then Hollywood made it suck and how Wicca is today. Finally, Dave explains why he isn’t a Wiccan. (They kicked him out of the coven for being too eager to get Skyclad.)

Our Sponsor this week is Coven FInder,because a coven of one isn’t a coven at all! We open with Nat Geo explaining Wicca and close with Liam St John is risking himself with the Three Fold Law.

Show Theme: Hypnostate Prelude to Common Sense

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Citations Needed:

The Consequences Roman Contact Had on British Religion

https://druidry.org/resources/the-consequences-roman-contact-had-on-british-religion

What is Wicca? A Beginner’s Guide to the Wiccan Religion

https://wiccaliving.com/what-is-wicca/

Wiccan Views on Sex

https://discover.hubpages.com/religion-philosophy/Wicca-For-Beginners-Wiccan-Views-on-Sex

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