Devil's Trap: A Supernatural Podcast

Liz brings you some of the instructions from the Book of Abramelin, including how to smash a cliff!

We have gotten to the epic Season 11 Episode 20, where big Supernatural secrets are revealed. Plus, we learn from Liz how to summon angels by performing the Abramelin Ritual. Research Links The Book of Abramelin - Hermeneuticon - Hermetic Library

In Season 11, Episode 19, we travel with the boys to Gunnison, Colorado, in The Chitters. We also get to meet Cesar and Jesse, who deserve their own spin-off reboot. Get on that Chaos Machine! Liz gives talks about the lore behind the bisan (bisaan), a Malaysian tree spirit/deity who can turn into a cicada. Also how do you say cicada? Research Links Notes and News A. S. Gatschet, H. Ten Kate, Isha...

It's a spooky season bonus! Liz talks about some of the spells in the Grand Grimoire (Le Dragon Rouge), including: How to be lucky in everything! How to make three women listen to you and then go away! Research Links LE GRAND GRIMOIRE. - This digital edition by Joseph H. Peterson, 1998; updated Jul 18, 2023. Portions of translation in [] supplied by Joseph H Peterson, copyright © 1999

It's Season 11, Episode 18, Hell's Angel, and Amara is back, and she's not the only one. Our favorite sorceress with the mostess has arisen to delight us with her eyeshadow and her ability to play sides. We contemplate how many beings you can fit in a vessel. And Liz talks about summoning Lucifer/Lucifugé Rofocale as done in the The Grand Grimoire, aka the The Red Dragon, aka the Dragon Rouge. Res...

Everyone's cholesterol is on the rise after we discuss Season 11, Episode 17 of Supernatural: Red Meat. We figure out the Winchester cycles of grief, and how to determine how douchey of a monster a man will become. Then we discuss some of the incidents that have occurred throughout the years at another national park, Joshua Tree. Research Links Climbing Editor Sacked for Blaze | Climbing.de NPS In...

We discuss the unsafest Safe House in Episode 16 from Season 11 of Supernatural. Bobby and Rufus return, and Liz quizzes Diana about them in a game we call "Bobby, Rufus, or Brufus?" Time travel is still stupid. Research Links Bobby Singer | Supernatural Wiki | Fandom

We will suplex you into listening to Season 11, Episode 15 of 'Behind the Mat' as we delve into perhaps a non-traumatic childhood memory of the Winchester boys. Liz makes up a quiz about wrestling, and then we get into the fight between Sid Vicious and Arn Anderson. Research Links Sid Vicious vs. Arn Anderson: The Bloody Scissors Fight Wrestling Human Oddities: 20 Freakish Sideshow Acts Things Tha...

Time travel is still stupid, but we allow it for Season 11, Episode 14 The Vessel. In honor of the femme de lettuce Delphine, we talk about the woman of cabbage, Agent Zo, aka Elżbieta Zawacka. Research Links Meetings and defilades of the Polish organization Przysposobienie Wojskowe Kobiet [Female Military Training] in the 1930s [images via NAC]. Agent Zo - Clare Mulley : Clare Mulley Ahnenerbe -...

Oooh oooh Love Hurts, but Season 11, Episode 13 doesn't. What bars is Dean hitting to hook up with women at? Will sage ruin your garbage disposal? When can you see Liz's new band Ironic Werewolf? We answer all those questions plus some quick tips on the Crime Scene Clean-up Business, and a discussion on the Qareen(aka qarin). Research Links Qareen - Wikipedia How Much Money Can You Make Annually C...

Hey hey hey, Don't You Forget About Me or this Season 11, Episode 12 banger of an episode. We find out if Diana is married to a vampire, and which Supernatural character she is destined to be with. Somewhere in between, we discuss what happens when Sam and Dean return to Sioux Falls to help out Jump Scare Claire, and get thrown into a conversation about birth control. Good times. Research Links QU...

AI says: "In "Into the Mystic," the salient point centers on the profound exploration of life’s fleeting nature and the importance of following one’s heart, as exemplified by Mildred's secret to a long, happy life." Liz determined that Mildred's secret was staying horny AF. We dive into banshee lore and how you may need to learn to speak with a full mouth. Research Links The Banshee's Comb (MLSIT...

Here comes Season 11, Episode 10: The Devil in the Details , where everybody is trying to get in somebody. Sam is forced to witness his awkward teenage years, we're forced to witness an Amelia flashback, and Cas is forced to wear the world's most awkward brand on his chest. Liz discusses the medieval torture device known as the Scold's Bridle, also referred to as the witch’s bridle, a gossip’s bri...

O Brother, it is Season 11, Episode 9, and that is where thou art? Amara has grown up and is sucking face everywhere she goes. We talk about pyrophytes which shocking is not something you see at a metal show. The Cage has returned, and you have to take a handcart to get to it. Research Links Plants That Burn: Spontaneous Combustion in Plants With David Attenborough - Bite Sized Gardening Spontaneo...

Was it "Just My Imagination" or are we at Season 11, Episode 8 of Supernatural? Besides Sully and his friends, we talk about some modern imaginary friends and Lucas Rizotto's Magnetron (not to be confused with Megatron). Research Links Someone Turned Their Imaginary Friend Into an AI Microwave and It Wanted to Kill Them - IGN Lucas Rizzotto (@_LucasRizzotto) / X Man Recreates Childhood Friend With...

It's Season 7, Episode 11: Plush. Everyone is wearing a mask in some way or another. Then we discuss Unidentified Hopping Objects (UHOs), aka the cryptid Phantom Kangaroos, in Minnesota and beyond. Research Links Phantom kangaroo - Wikipedia Phantom Kangaroo | Cryptid Wiki | Fandom Wrestling with Cryptid Categories – The National Cryptid Society Unexplained! : 347 strange sightings, incredible occ...

Join us as we talk about Season 11, Episode Six "Our Little World" where we just want Amara to grow up so we stop getting creeped out, and can you beat Diana in her quiz on the band The Darkness? What band's fans spit gum in Justin Hawkins mouth? Yum. Research Links DAVID DRAIMAN And JUSTIN HAWKINS End Their War Of Words, Agree To Meet In Person 'And Laugh About It' - BLABBERMOUTH.NET Justin Hawki...

Supernatural Season 11, Episode 5 "Thin Lizzy" is not about one of the greatest bands to come out of Dublin, but about the Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast Museum, and what Sam and Dean find inside. Did you know that Lizzie was also descended from Elizabeth Morse, who was convicted of witchcraft in Colonial Massachusetts before the Salem Witch Trials? You will if you listen to this episode. Researc...

Oh baby it's Season 11, Episode 4 Baby. We are down for the camera shots but not for the smells. We discuss the lore behind nachzehrers (aka shroud munchers) and Charon's obal. Research Links The Petelia Tablet, Greek, c.300-200 BCE: originally buried with a human body, this totenpäss (a "passport for the dead") is supposed to provide the dead with special privileges in the Underworld; the inscrip...

Can you blame an infinite being for hunger pains? Find out as we discuss Season 11, Episode 3 "The Bad Seed." We play "What Would Jensen and Jared Say?" A completely made-up game where Liz has Diana guess what was said during J2 panels at some recent SPN cons. Research Links VegasCon 2019 Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles MAIN FULL Panel Supernatural - YouTube J2 Panel - SPN Chicago, IL - YouTube...

We discuss the "Form and Void" that came out of the Darkness' fart this week on Season 11, Episode 2. We dive deep into whether or not Sam should have set himself on fire, and we get to meet Billie!

From nachos to nightmares, it's time for Season 11, Episode 1: Out of the Darkness, Into the Fire. We meet the Darkness! We learn Sam has run out of names for new monsters! Also, everyone has lost the ability to tell the difference between an infection and a monster! We end by discussing the SPN actor Ryan Grantham. Research Links What's the difference between 1st-degree murder, 2nd-degree murder...

It's the Season 10 finale Brother's Keeper. We've got emotional Winchesters, stunning Rowena, a Cass and Crowley show, plus the final chapter of our series on Rosaleen Norton, discussing the Goosens scandal and the Sex Magic! And don't miss Season 10 SPN trivia! Research Links What Is Quince? Ned McCann The Witch of Kings Cross | PDF | Religion And Belief ROSALEEN NORTON’S CONTRIBUTION TO THE WEST...

It's Season 10, Episode 22 - the Prisoner. Where everyone walks around in shirts covered in biohazard, but Crowley gets his groove back. We get to part 4 of the Rosaleen Norton saga, discussing yet another of her arrests by the King's Cross Vice Squad. Research Links TOWARDS HOMOSEXUAL EQUALITY IN AUSTRALIAN CRIMINAL LAW - A BRIEF HISTORY by Graham Carbery Sharon Osbourne Opens Up on Having Iron M...

It's Season 10, Episode 21, "Dark Dynasty," and boy, it's freaking dark. Who are these Steins? What is fridging? Where did Rowena get that eyeshadow? We discuss all that, plus our continuation of the story of the Witch of King's Cross, Rosaleen Norton. This week, we learn about the impact a young Anna Hoffman had when she tells the cops that Black Masses were happening at Rosaleen's flat. Research...