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Author: Risa Dickens + Amy Torok

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Missing Witches is a research-based, feminist, occult storytelling project. We go looking for the witches we've been missing.
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www.missingwitches.com/samhain-2025-trust-fall-into-mystery-with-pam-grossman About Missing WitchesAmy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and craft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported, and getting to know the members of our Coven has been the most fun, electrifying, unexpectedly radical part of the project.  These days the Missing Witches Coven gathers in our private, online coven circle to offer each other collaborative courses in ritual, weaving, divination, and more; we organize writing groups and witchy book clubs; and we gather on the Full and New Moon from all over the world.  Our coven includes solitary practitioners, community leaders, techno pagans, crones, baby witches, neuroqueers, and folks who hug trees and have just been looking for their people.  Our coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of love. If that sounds like your people, come find out more. Please know that we've been missing YOU.  https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/ 
www.missingwitches.com/ep-283-judika-illes-magic-spells-oracle-deck-launch-party About Missing WitchesAmy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and craft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported, and getting to know the members of our Coven has been the most fun, electrifying, unexpectedly radical part of the project.  These days the Missing Witches Coven gathers in our private, online coven circle to offer each other collaborative courses in ritual, weaving, divination, and more; we organize writing groups and witchy book clubs; and we gather on the Full and New Moon from all over the world.  Our coven includes solitary practitioners, community leaders, techno pagans, crones, baby witches, neuroqueers, and folks who hug trees and have just been looking for their people.  Our coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of love. If that sounds like your people, come find out more. Please know that we've been missing YOU.  https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/ 
Deren, Maya. An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film. Alicat Book Shop Press, 1946.———. Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti. Vanguard Press, 1953.———. “Religion and Magic.” Tomorrow: Vol. 3, No. 1 (Autumn 1954): 29–35.———. Essential Deren: Collected Writings on Film. Edited by Bruce R. McPherson. New York: Documentext, 2005.———. “A Statement of Principles.” e-flux Notes. Accessed 2024. https://www.e-flux.com/notes/621433/a-statement-of-principlesDeren, Maya. Witch’s Cradle. 1943. With Marcel Duchamp.———. Meshes of the Afternoon. 1943.———. At Land. 1944.———. Ritual in Transfigured Time. 1946.———. Meditation on Violence. 1948.———. Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti. Filmed 1947–1951, completed posthumously by Teiji Ito and Cherel Ito, 1985.Barrett, Del. “Maya Deren.” Hundred Heroines. Accessed 2024. https://hundredheroines.org/weekendread/maya-derenDurant, Mark Alice. “Sometimes I Am What I Really Am: On Mark Alice Durant’s Maya Deren.” LA Review of Books. Accessed 2024. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/sometimes-i-am-what-i-really-am-on-mark-alice-durants-maya-derenThe Marginalian (Maria Popova). “Legendary Filmmaker Maya Deren on Cinema, Life, and Her Advice to Aspiring Filmmakers.” January 23, 2015. https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/01/23/maya-deren-advice-on-film-letterOgawa, Michiko. Searching for The Cosmic Principle: Transcribing and Performing the Film Music of Teiji Ito. Doctor of Musical Arts Dissertation, University of California, San Diego, 2016.Filmschoolrejects. “12 Filmmaking Tips from Maya Deren.” Accessed 2024. https://filmschoolrejects.com/filmmaking-tips-maya-deren-a6ddb39a6442Wikipedia Contributors. “Ritual in Transfigured Time.” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Accessed 2024. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual_in_Transfigured_TimeInverted Audio. “The Cosmic Music of Teiji Ito.” Accessed 2024. https://inverted-audio.com/feature/the-cosmic-music-of-teiji-itoRisa Dickens (personal notes, 2025). About Missing WitchesAmy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and craft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported, and getting to know the members of our Coven has been the most fun, electrifying, unexpectedly radical part of the project.  These days the Missing Witches Coven gathers in our private, online coven circle to offer each other collaborative courses in ritual, weaving, divination, and more; we organize writing groups and witchy book clubs; and we gather on the Full and New Moon from all over the world.  Our coven includes solitary practitioners, community leaders, techno pagans, crones, baby witches, neuroqueers, and folks who hug trees and have just been looking for their people.  Our coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of love. If that sounds like your people, come find out more. Please know that we've been missing YOU.  https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/ 
www.missingwitches.com/ep-281-wf-gb-jones-sacred-rebellion About Missing WitchesAmy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and craft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported, and getting to know the members of our Coven has been the most fun, electrifying, unexpectedly radical part of the project.  These days the Missing Witches Coven gathers in our private, online coven circle to offer each other collaborative courses in ritual, weaving, divination, and more; we organize writing groups and witchy book clubs; and we gather on the Full and New Moon from all over the world.  Our coven includes solitary practitioners, community leaders, techno pagans, crones, baby witches, neuroqueers, and folks who hug trees and have just been looking for their people.  Our coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of love. If that sounds like your people, come find out more. Please know that we've been missing YOU.  https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/ 
www.missingwitches.com/ep-280-mw-killing-joke-we-must-dream-of-promised-lands About Missing WitchesAmy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and craft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported, and getting to know the members of our Coven has been the most fun, electrifying, unexpectedly radical part of the project.  These days the Missing Witches Coven gathers in our private, online coven circle to offer each other collaborative courses in ritual, weaving, divination, and more; we organize writing groups and witchy book clubs; and we gather on the Full and New Moon from all over the world.  Our coven includes solitary practitioners, community leaders, techno pagans, crones, baby witches, neuroqueers, and folks who hug trees and have just been looking for their people.  Our coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of love. If that sounds like your people, come find out more. Please know that we've been missing YOU.  https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/ 
Let's Talk About Myths, Baby!  shares the most entertaining and enraging stories from 'Classical' mythology (and, often, ancient history of the wider Mediterranean!) casually, contemporarily, and (more often than not) sarcastically. Creator and host Liv Albert is author of Greek Mythology: the Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes Handbook, Nectar of the Gods, and an upcoming children's retelling of the Odyssey.Photo of Liv by Stef Martin. About Missing WitchesAmy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and craft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported, and getting to know the members of our Coven has been the most fun, electrifying, unexpectedly radical part of the project.  These days the Missing Witches Coven gathers in our private, online coven circle to offer each other collaborative courses in ritual, weaving, divination, and more; we organize writing groups and witchy book clubs; and we gather on the Full and New Moon from all over the world.  Our coven includes solitary practitioners, community leaders, techno pagans, crones, baby witches, neuroqueers, and folks who hug trees and have just been looking for their people.  Our coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of love. If that sounds like your people, come find out more. Please know that we've been missing YOU.  https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/ 
https://keepingherkeys.com/  About Missing WitchesAmy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and craft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported, and getting to know the members of our Coven has been the most fun, electrifying, unexpectedly radical part of the project.  These days the Missing Witches Coven gathers in our private, online coven circle to offer each other collaborative courses in ritual, weaving, divination, and more; we organize writing groups and witchy book clubs; and we gather on the Full and New Moon from all over the world.  Our coven includes solitary practitioners, community leaders, techno pagans, crones, baby witches, neuroqueers, and folks who hug trees and have just been looking for their people.  Our coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of love. If that sounds like your people, come find out more. Please know that we've been missing YOU.  https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/ 
The music in this episode comes from Cuba - Les Danses Des Dieux by Ocora.The photo is from the Cuba Heritage Foundation, via No Country Magazine. About Missing WitchesAmy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and craft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported, and getting to know the members of our Coven has been the most fun, electrifying, unexpectedly radical part of the project.  These days the Missing Witches Coven gathers in our private, online coven circle to offer each other collaborative courses in ritual, weaving, divination, and more; we organize writing groups and witchy book clubs; and we gather on the Full and New Moon from all over the world.  Our coven includes solitary practitioners, community leaders, techno pagans, crones, baby witches, neuroqueers, and folks who hug trees and have just been looking for their people.  Our coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of love. If that sounds like your people, come find out more. Please know that we've been missing YOU.  https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/ 
www.missingwitches.com/ep-276-wf-jessica-hundley-cathartic-messages-from-the-divine About Missing WitchesAmy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and craft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported, and getting to know the members of our Coven has been the most fun, electrifying, unexpectedly radical part of the project.  These days the Missing Witches Coven gathers in our private, online coven circle to offer each other collaborative courses in ritual, weaving, divination, and more; we organize writing groups and witchy book clubs; and we gather on the Full and New Moon from all over the world.  Our coven includes solitary practitioners, community leaders, techno pagans, crones, baby witches, neuroqueers, and folks who hug trees and have just been looking for their people.  Our coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of love. If that sounds like your people, come find out more. Please know that we've been missing YOU.  https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/ 
www.missingwitches.com/ep-275-mw-yoko-ono-smash-your-preconceptions About Missing WitchesAmy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and craft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported, and getting to know the members of our Coven has been the most fun, electrifying, unexpectedly radical part of the project.  These days the Missing Witches Coven gathers in our private, online coven circle to offer each other collaborative courses in ritual, weaving, divination, and more; we organize writing groups and witchy book clubs; and we gather on the Full and New Moon from all over the world.  Our coven includes solitary practitioners, community leaders, techno pagans, crones, baby witches, neuroqueers, and folks who hug trees and have just been looking for their people.  Our coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of love. If that sounds like your people, come find out more. Please know that we've been missing YOU.  https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/ 
https://www.theredread.com/about  About Missing WitchesAmy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and craft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported, and getting to know the members of our Coven has been the most fun, electrifying, unexpectedly radical part of the project.  These days the Missing Witches Coven gathers in our private, online coven circle to offer each other collaborative courses in ritual, weaving, divination, and more; we organize writing groups and witchy book clubs; and we gather on the Full and New Moon from all over the world.  Our coven includes solitary practitioners, community leaders, techno pagans, crones, baby witches, neuroqueers, and folks who hug trees and have just been looking for their people.  Our coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of love. If that sounds like your people, come find out more. Please know that we've been missing YOU.  https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/ 
Episode art is from PM Press via Them.us.www.missingwitches.com/mw-ep-rachel-pollack-the-future-is-as-real-as-the-present/  About Missing WitchesAmy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and craft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported, and getting to know the members of our Coven has been the most fun, electrifying, unexpectedly radical part of the project.  These days the Missing Witches Coven gathers in our private, online coven circle to offer each other collaborative courses in ritual, weaving, divination, and more; we organize writing groups and witchy book clubs; and we gather on the Full and New Moon from all over the world.  Our coven includes solitary practitioners, community leaders, techno pagans, crones, baby witches, neuroqueers, and folks who hug trees and have just been looking for their people.  Our coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of love. If that sounds like your people, come find out more. Please know that we've been missing YOU.  https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/ 
www.missingwitches.com/mabon-2025-word-witches-with-charlie-burgess-kate-belew-and-sanyu-estelleSanyu EstelleKate BelewCharlie Claire Burgess  About Missing WitchesAmy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and craft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported, and getting to know the members of our Coven has been the most fun, electrifying, unexpectedly radical part of the project.  These days the Missing Witches Coven gathers in our private, online coven circle to offer each other collaborative courses in ritual, weaving, divination, and more; we organize writing groups and witchy book clubs; and we gather on the Full and New Moon from all over the world.  Our coven includes solitary practitioners, community leaders, techno pagans, crones, baby witches, neuroqueers, and folks who hug trees and have just been looking for their people.  Our coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of love. If that sounds like your people, come find out more. Please know that we've been missing YOU.  https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/ 
www.missingwitches.com/lammas-2025etsy.com/shop/LightningStruckGdnsamymiranda.combooksbydiandra.com About Missing WitchesAmy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and craft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported, and getting to know the members of our Coven has been the most fun, electrifying, unexpectedly radical part of the project.  These days the Missing Witches Coven gathers in our private, online coven circle to offer each other collaborative courses in ritual, weaving, divination, and more; we organize writing groups and witchy book clubs; and we gather on the Full and New Moon from all over the world.  Our coven includes solitary practitioners, community leaders, techno pagans, crones, baby witches, neuroqueers, and folks who hug trees and have just been looking for their people.  Our coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of love. If that sounds like your people, come find out more. Please know that we've been missing YOU.  https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/ 
https://jackofwandstarot.wordpress.com/ About Missing WitchesAmy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and craft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported, and getting to know the members of our Coven has been the most fun, electrifying, unexpectedly radical part of the project.  These days the Missing Witches Coven gathers in our private, online coven circle to offer each other collaborative courses in ritual, weaving, divination, and more; we organize writing groups and witchy book clubs; and we gather on the Full and New Moon from all over the world.  Our coven includes solitary practitioners, community leaders, techno pagans, crones, baby witches, neuroqueers, and folks who hug trees and have just been looking for their people.  Our coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of love. If that sounds like your people, come find out more. Please know that we've been missing YOU.  https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/ 
www.missingwitches.com/missing-witches-deck-of-oracles-divination-birthday-party-with-zoe-flowers-and-amy-miranda About Missing WitchesAmy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and craft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported, and getting to know the members of our Coven has been the most fun, electrifying, unexpectedly radical part of the project.  These days the Missing Witches Coven gathers in our private, online coven circle to offer each other collaborative courses in ritual, weaving, divination, and more; we organize writing groups and witchy book clubs; and we gather on the Full and New Moon from all over the world.  Our coven includes solitary practitioners, community leaders, techno pagans, crones, baby witches, neuroqueers, and folks who hug trees and have just been looking for their people.  Our coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of love. If that sounds like your people, come find out more. Please know that we've been missing YOU.  https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/ 
https://www.liseloensmann.com/  About Missing WitchesAmy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and craft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported, and getting to know the members of our Coven has been the most fun, electrifying, unexpectedly radical part of the project.  These days the Missing Witches Coven gathers in our private, online coven circle to offer each other collaborative courses in ritual, weaving, divination, and more; we organize writing groups and witchy book clubs; and we gather on the Full and New Moon from all over the world.  Our coven includes solitary practitioners, community leaders, techno pagans, crones, baby witches, neuroqueers, and folks who hug trees and have just been looking for their people.  Our coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of love. If that sounds like your people, come find out more. Please know that we've been missing YOU.  https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/ 
www.missingwitches.com/litha-2025houseofgahd.com About Missing WitchesAmy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and craft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported, and getting to know the members of our Coven has been the most fun, electrifying, unexpectedly radical part of the project.  These days the Missing Witches Coven gathers in our private, online coven circle to offer each other collaborative courses in ritual, weaving, divination, and more; we organize writing groups and witchy book clubs; and we gather on the Full and New Moon from all over the world.  Our coven includes solitary practitioners, community leaders, techno pagans, crones, baby witches, neuroqueers, and folks who hug trees and have just been looking for their people.  Our coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of love. If that sounds like your people, come find out more. Please know that we've been missing YOU.  https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/ 
https://danielledulsky.com/ About Missing WitchesAmy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and craft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported, and getting to know the members of our Coven has been the most fun, electrifying, unexpectedly radical part of the project.  These days the Missing Witches Coven gathers in our private, online coven circle to offer each other collaborative courses in ritual, weaving, divination, and more; we organize writing groups and witchy book clubs; and we gather on the Full and New Moon from all over the world.  Our coven includes solitary practitioners, community leaders, techno pagans, crones, baby witches, neuroqueers, and folks who hug trees and have just been looking for their people.  Our coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of love. If that sounds like your people, come find out more. Please know that we've been missing YOU.  https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/ 
www.missingwitches.com/ep-266-mwrf-part-4-origin-stories-with-amy-and-risawww.missingwitches.com/reparations-fundraiser-2025/ About Missing WitchesAmy Torok and Risa Dickens produce the Missing Witches Podcast. We do every aspect from research to recording, it is a DIY labour of love and craft. Missing Witches is entirely member-supported, and getting to know the members of our Coven has been the most fun, electrifying, unexpectedly radical part of the project.  These days the Missing Witches Coven gathers in our private, online coven circle to offer each other collaborative courses in ritual, weaving, divination, and more; we organize writing groups and witchy book clubs; and we gather on the Full and New Moon from all over the world.  Our coven includes solitary practitioners, community leaders, techno pagans, crones, baby witches, neuroqueers, and folks who hug trees and have just been looking for their people.  Our coven is trans-inclusive, anti-racist, feminist, pro-science, anti-ableist, and full of love. If that sounds like your people, come find out more. Please know that we've been missing YOU.  https://www.missingwitches.com/join-the-coven/ 
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Ruby Agarano

probably one of the absolute best podcasts of its kind! story telling, historical findings, reference and education on witches most of us have been looking for but can't quite find a source to trust. These women are amazing and this podcast has helped enrich my craft and education on others like us. <3

Aug 12th
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Crystal Gypsy

Freaking awesome!!

Feb 16th
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Crystal Gypsy

Another Excellent Podcast!! Love your show so much!!

Jan 30th
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Crystal Gypsy

Oh my Goddess!! Love this music!! Where can I get this?? Excellent podcast!!

Jan 29th
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Crystal Gypsy

I just Love your show. In-depth, honest, informative. You bring to life what we women have thought was dead or not even accessable. Rising women to what lies deep within, yearning to burn instead of being burned. Thank you!!

Jan 29th
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Jade Morem

Great podcast!

Jan 25th
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Jessie Giles

so glad to have found this podcast!!! and this episode is one of my favourites. raw and honest and fun.

Jan 4th
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Melissa Knox

excellent episode!! never knew about Pixie but will be looking into her more!!!!!

Sep 24th
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