Script/Transcript for program: WINGS #01-24 New Witches
(non-final) Perhaps especially in North America, defining one's personal identity is a major life concern. Today on WINGS, you'll hear from two millennial women in Canada who identify as witches. They talk about that in relation to family histories and contemporary expression.
Robin Eriksson of campus-community radio CJSF interviewed two witches for the program IntraVenus, and shared with WINGS. Both guests were featured in a 2023 Canadian documentary titled Coven, available free on CBC Gem. Here's a clip from the film:
Here's Robin Eriksson:
On WINGS, you are listening to interviews with two women who live in Canada and have found their personal identity as witches. Both of them make use of tarot card readings. Laura Hokstad found a niche in media analyzing and criticizing the use of tarot cards in horror films. Here's a short clip from her debut performance in the [podcast?] series Terror Tarot:
As of March 2024,there are 13 videos in Laura's Terror Tarot series, viewable on YouTube.Now, back to Robin Eriksson's interview with
On a more serious note, let's return to Robin Eriksson's interview with the two tarot-reader witches, Laura Hokstad and Andra Zlatesku.
Laura Hokstad hosts a series called Terror Tarot on YouTube. Andra Zlatesku is a musician who plays guitar and saw, and sings in the two-person band Willow Switch.
WINGS purchased from BandCamp the Willow Switch song Baba Yaga, in which Andra sings about the fabled Slavic witch whose house walked about on chicken's legs, and who was rumoured to eat children.
WINGS thanks Robin Eriksson, CJSF radio, and the program Intra-Venus, for the interview with Canadian witches Laura Hokstad and Andra Zlatescu. You can see them both in the documentary Coven, on CBC's video service Gem. Thanks also to all WINGS supporters, including your community radio stations, Suzette Cullen, and Genevieve Vaughan, whose events can be found through the website maternalgifteconomymovement.org. That's maternalgifteconomymovement - dot org. The WINGS sound logo is from Libana's album A Circle Is Cast. I'm WINGS series producer Frieda Werden. This is the Women's International News Gathering Service.