This Course First Ran in Spring 2019

This course includes recordings from a past live version.
These recordings may have references to materials (like the course Facebook group) that are no longer available.

Witch.


Monster. Mother. Helper. Princess?


Witch.


She gathers lavender and thyme, hangs them in bundles in her windows. She wears shredded black silk or neat houndstooth suits or blue jeans with quiet confidence and a wicked smile. 


She or they or he lives on the margins, in cottages at the forest’s edge, in tiny apartments papered with Morris vines. She beguiles, she enchants, and she makes your life change and sparkle when you need her most.


The witch is a polarizing figure, inspiring fear, fascination, and curiosity with the invocation of her name. At the heart of these responses is the simple recognition of her power: she represents freedom from everyday rules and knowledge of the forbidden. She is loved and hated, a shadowy presence on the margins of society. Yet, she also possesses the ability to hold communities together, to speak to power, and to imagine - and even create - a different kind of future. 


The witch is all this, and so much more.


She is, quite simply, magic, powerful and strange, unsettling and settled within herself. 


You might be wondering what exactly we mean by magic.


For us, real magic – gritty, sink-your-teeth-into-it, beautiful magic – is in story, is in art, is in folklore. It’s in an ancient charm for protection against storms, and in the crafting of a poem that captures that power. It’s in the garden you keep, in the silver on your fingers, in the fairy tales and legends you still remember, and tell again and again, because you need to. 


If this resonates with you, we hope you join us on the search.


The witches of folklore dance through your garden and through your tales, telling you with their footsteps and songs what you need to know.


But how do we learn to hear them, understand them, or even become them? How do we find our own way into enchantment? How do we find our way to the margins of story and back again to the center of our (everyday) (magical) lives?


Let's find out together.


Seeking the Witch is our love letter to the witches of fairy tales. In this course, we explore their multiplicity - the many ways they show up in stories and the many roles they can play.


Six modules. Six ways of understanding the witch. Six creative quests to bridge the stories to your own everyday life. And over six hours of video content.


So hang your bundles of lavender and time, slip into your black silk or blue jeans or pajamas, and join the search.

This course includes 6 modules - The Witch as Mother, The Witch as Monster, The Witch as Helper, The Witch as Lover, and The Witch as Teacher. Each module includes readings, a grimoire page, a Further Reading page, and a series of video lectures, and a video creative quest!


If you're more interested in a survey course about witches, click here to access our other course, "Witches in Folklore and Literature" - and click HERE if you'd like to get both of them, plus a bonus!

This course is closed for enrollment.

Curriculum


  Welcome
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  Lesson 1 - Witch as Mother
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  Lesson 2 - Witch as Monster
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  Lesson 3 - Witch as Helper
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  Lesson 4 - Witch as Lover
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  Lesson 5 - Witch as Teacher
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  Lesson 6 - Witch as Princess
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We guarentee access to these materials for at least a year, probably much longer!

Please Note:

These courses are about witches in folklore - how witches have been used and claimed in different cultural contexts and how they appear in literature. This is not an instructional course about Wicca or spiritual practice - though people of all faiths are very welcome!