Oct 11, 2018
Because there are no rules and everything is chaos, this episode is a grab bag! Amanda talks about the real-life strength ministry Power Team and scarecrow lore. Sarah gets behind osculum infame (or the Kiss of Shame), a supposed ritual where people greeted the Devil by kissing his butt. Other subjects covered include justifiably blaming stuff on your period, a funny spousal dream, and dirty fighting with Amazon purchases.
Recommendations:
Sarah recommends the very academic but very rewarding book "Caliban and the Witch: Women, The Body And Primitive Accumulation" by Silvia Federici and "The Kiss in History" by Karen Harvey.
Amanda does not recommend watching the new Netflix film, Hold the Dark.
Sources:
Vice (The Power Team Was the Bloody, Evangelical Freakshow That Ruled the 80s)
ThoughtCo (Scarecrow Folklore and Magic)
"Caliban and the Witch: Women, The Body And Primitive Accumulation" by Silvia Federici
"The Osculum Infame: Heresy, Secular Culture and the Image of the Witches’ Sabbath" by Jonathan Durrant
"The Kiss in History" by Karen Harvey