Mancy

Dendromancy, magic with Trees. RJ and Elle discuss their relationship to trees as well as the importance of trees to life on earth. The episode begins with trees being connected to divinity or as divine beings. RJ goes over the christian creation story, as well as the mormon relationship to the Tree of Life and the beliefs connected to it. RJ also discusses the Sefirot as another divine tree. Then...

RJ and Elle have had quite a few winter adventures that have kept them from uploading new episodes, but that won't stop the 2021 Christmas Special! This time Elle writes the Christmas special and plays fast and loose with the script. RJ Tells the story of attempting to create a toy uprising at the Evermore Theme park, Elle tells about her family's Christmas traditions regarding Santa Cla...

Elle and RJ Continue their exploration of Canomancy, divination and magic with Dogs. RJ discusses a dog named Boy, who was rumored to be a practitioner of the dark arts and a familiar of Prince Rupert during the english civil war. RJ then explores the mythology concept of the Hell Hound and discusses a myriad of mythologies that connect dogs to the afterlife or underworld. Elle gives her theory as...

RJ and Elle continue their dive into Theriomancy, which is magic involving specific animals, this time discussing dogs. RJ has a difficult time finding specific instances of Canomancy in history, however Noodle the Pug has become a canomancy phenomenon. RJ also discusses Saint Guinefort, a holy dog revered in 13th century france. RJ also discusses Sigmund Freud's dog, Jofi, and Elle explains...

It should be no surprise that Halloween is RJ and Elle's favorite holiday. Elle wrote a special bonus episode looking at the history of All Hallows Eve as Samhain, the celtic festival at the root of Halloween. Elle discusses the energy of the time of year, and RJ does some story telling of popular halloween myths and folklore including Jack O' Lantern and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Ell...

RJ and Elle continue their coverage of Ailuromancy, Divination and magic with Cats. Spectre continues to help with the episode by providing cuddles. RJ discusses the relationship ancient egyptians had with cats, along with the history of cats being domesticated. RJ discusses the belief that the purr of a cat has healing properties. The episode closes with RJ discussing the curious case of Oscar th...

Season 3 is going to feature some dives into Theriomancy, magic involving animals. We're starting with Ailuromancy, divination with cats. RJ and Elle are joined by Spectre, RJ's cat. RJ begins with viking cats, and the way cats are connected to norse mythology and folklore. He also dives into celtic folklore and some of the reasons why Cats are considered bad luck and the familiars of wi...

RJ and Elle continue their Mancy Atlas coverage of Salt Lake, moving on from the old history and into the more modern urban legends and secret locations in the city. RJ discusses the eclectic Gilgal Gardens, the grave of Lily E. Gray, and the ghost town in the heart of the city, Allen Park. Elle does a reading by scrying a horrific bowl of green jello. Support the show

Live from Salt Lake City and the Utah Humanities Book Festival! This special Mancy Atlas episode of the podcast takes a look at how Magic has been a driving influence behind the culture and construction of Salt Lake City, Utah. RJ discusses the reason for SLC's efficient road system and the magic that inspired it. He also takes a look at the Deseret Alphabet that was intended to replace the l...

Sponsored by the Utah Humanities Book Festival and Under the Umbrella Press! Elle takes control for this bonus episode on the relationship between magic and queerness. She uses the book Queer Magic by Tomas Prower for research, and takes the time to cover some of the things he left out involving queer femmes and and gender nonbinary narratives and their connections to magic and mythology. Elle exp...

Join the Mancy Podcast on October 2nd for a special Live episode of the show! We're going to be covering the Magic that influenced the creation and culture of Salt Lake City. Sponsored by Utah Humanities, the event is totally free to attend at the Utah Arts Hub at 7pm Mountain Time. We'll also being going live on TikTok if you're unable to make it to Salt Lake for the episode! Suppo...

CW FOOD NOISES RJ and Elle continue their coverage of Food Magic. RJ discusses the cryptid known as Alphito, the flour witch. RJ also goes over the ritual of Corsned, or The Sacred Morsel. RJ Eats 10oz of bread while Elle recites the magic words to find out if his soul is pure. RJ also discusses the practice of The Corn Mother, along with Kitchen Witch poppets. RJ attempts a Kitchen Witchery recip...

RJ and Elle had a busy week and were in need of a vacation. RJ procrastinated writing Kitchen Witchery Part 2, so the podcast will Be Right Back. For Vacation, RJ and Elle visited the haunted Lava Hot Springs Inn which once served as a post world war sanatorium. RJ asks Elle how haunted these holistic bathing pools were and if the rumors of ghosts were true. Support the show

TW: Food Noises! RJ and Elle discuss food magic. First RJ discusses the neo-pagan concept of kitchen witchery, and then discusses the cultural significance of food. RJ begins covering the individual ingredients of food, starting with Ovamancy, egg magic. The extra spell is about the Evil Eye, and how it relates to eggs. Then, RJ moves on to Flour divination, possibly the oldest form of food divina...

After discussing mediums materializing spirits, RJ and Elle discuss Tulpas. These beings are thoughtforms brought into existence by psychic power or spiritual energy. They discuss the origins of Tulpas in tibetan buddhism, then they discuss Tulpas as cryptids or rather, cryptids as Tulpas. The phenomenon of Tulpas in Pop Culture may have given rise to the modern day practice of Tulpamancy, the pra...

RJ and Elle dive back into the world of Necromancy and discuss victorian and turn of the century mediums. Materialization is the psychic or paranormal ability to give spirits and entities physical form. Ectoplasm was a theoretical substance that would physicalize psychic power or energy. Psychics were rumored to excrete this substance whenever they were manifesting spirits. Mediums have used this...

RJ and Elle continue their coverage of Cybermancy, Divination by computer. RJ discusses some of the odd and bizarre things people have done with AI neural networks, particularly experiments done by Janelle Shane on her AI Weirdness blog. Then RJ feeds an AI one of his poems and the AI attempts to recreate it with an image. Elle does an interpretation of this abstract image. Afterward, RJ discusses...

Cybermancy, Divination by Computer and AI. So much of our daily existence is determined by Predictive Analytics and algorithms. These algorithms and analytics are the closest humanity has come to true pre-cognition and AI is getting more effective every day. RJ discusses the existing implications of algorithm based prediction, especially the ways in which it is used to control people. RJ also dive...

Elle continues the bonus episode coverage of Baba Vanga, the blind bulgarian clairvoyant that made waves all through the 20th century. Elle concludes the bonus episode by performing readings using Baba  Vanga's methods involving a sugar cube and a wristwatch. Support the show

RJ Needed a break so Elle took over for this special Bonus episode of Mancy all about Baba Vanga, the mysterious Bulgarian soothsayer that made waves with her bizzare and accurate predictions.  Support the show

RJ and Elle continue their coverage of Crystallomancy: Divination by gazing into a crystal. RJ discusses the Crystal Ball's history in stage magic and some notable stage magicians who have used it. The Extra Spell is all about the mysterious history of Crystal Skulls, including some famous examples of "magic" crystal skulls. RJ then goes into a short biography of John Dee, Queen Eli...

RJ and Elle dive into Crystallomancy, Divination by scrying a crystal. The most famous example of this is the Crystal Ball. RJ discusses the earliest written accounts of crystal gazing, the Druid's Beryl Ball, and Lord of the Rings. RJ discusses the science of how crystal balls might work and why people might believe they are magic. In the Extra Spell RJ discusses the very real dangers crysta...

RJ and Elle continue their coverage on the history of Alcohol and Magic. RJ dives deeper into the history of alcoholism and it's connection to demonic and spiritual possession. The history of alcohol as a magic tool in other cultures around the world, and in the introduction of Alcohol to America. RJ discusses the tragic history of Alcohol as a tool of colonialism and genocide used against Na...

Oinomancy and Tyromancy. Divination by wine and divination by cheese. RJ and Elle discuss the history of Alcohol as a tool for magic. The consumption of Alcohol goes well into pre-history, with the earliest records existing in ancient mesopotamia. RJ Gags remembering alcohol poisoning patients he treated as an EMT.  They also discuss the Maenads, ancient greek priestesses of Dionysus who used alco...

Part two of our coverage of Alchemy, the blurry line between magic and science. In this Episode, RJ discusses notable alchemists and their scientific achievements. Zosimos of Panopolis, Mary the Hewbrew, Ge Hong in ancient China, Jabir the Alchemist, Henning Brand, Paracelsus, Johan Faustus, and John Dee. Each of these alchemists contributed to scientific discovery in ways that would affect humani...