The Forgotten Familiar

They broke the bread…and cursed the village. But what if the true poison lay not in spells, but in the soil?

In this episode of The Forgotten Familiar, we uncover the dark history of ergotism, a deadly grain mold blamed on witchcraft, and the way ordinary kitchen rituals became evidence of sinister magic. From medieval France’s “Holy Fire” outbreaks to murmurings in 1692 Salem, we trace how fear turned women who baked and healed int...

They called them witches—but once, they were simply women: midwives, healers, guardians of birth. In this episode of The Forgotten Familiar, we step into medieval Europe’s hidden world of wise women who knew the body’s secrets—and discover how the Church and the state turned their sacred knowledge into heresy, burning them alive to break the power of the womb.

🌿 Unearth the story of the midwives’ quiet rebellion—and their return in...

They said witches flew on broomsticks. But what they never told you… was what the broom was really for.

In this episode of The Forgotten Familiar, we explore the dark, intoxicating truth behind “flying ointments”—potent blends of herbs and fat used by women to slip between worlds. Belladonna, henbane, mandrake… all were part of a pharmacopoeia passed in secret, whispered from hand to hand, and later twisted into fear and myth.

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Before independence was signed into parchment, before fire meant fireworks, there was Brigid. A goddess of flame and fertility, later recast as a saint to soften her power. But her story, and her sacred fire, never went out.

In this debut episode of The Forgotten Familiar, we travel back to pre-Christian Ireland to remember Brigid, the women who kept her flame alive, and what it means to reclaim a legacy that was never meant to surv...