White People JuJu | WAWTAR

Magic. Juju. Voodoo. It's Old World and for us new worlders, incomprehensible, nonsensical, and quite often frightening. Using magic as our springboard, we are going to explore how we went from a time of mystery to quantity. From magic to data and beyond.
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Documentary on Appalachia Magic: • Signs, Cures, & Witchery
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"Why Are We Talking About Rabbits?" takes you beyond rhetorical "rabbits" and the shallow approach that the media and most thinkers today take to examine contemporary cultural phenomena. Using theology, history, philosophy and years of travel in Mali, the Republic of Georgia, Haiti, and beyond, John Heers offers a refreshing take to how we got to where we are now. WAWTAR is all about talking about those heavy things… lightly.
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[@joshw3010]

This gave Aubrey Plaza's "wood milk" commercial a whole new meaning.

[@rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr1]

My Arkie grandma would tell the story from when she was a young woman of watching a neighbor bewitch an axe, drive it into the ground, and the approaching tornado split in half and pass around their little town on either side, and come back together on the other side.

[@carissavisscher9648]

Thanks for bringing your fun personality to this important discussion! I’m interested in the “how” we got here, definitely interesting. I think of Matthieu Pageau’s book The Language of Creation ….. the fall essentially is about gaining material knowledge at the expense of spiritual insight. If the bible is in indeed true and this theory of the fall explains what we are experiencing I’m more curious in the “how” does it end! Perhaps “how” we got here will inform “how” it ends?

[@stephaniejoy3633]

Looking forward to the next episode!

[@hmkzosimaskrampis3185]

I'm watching these out of order, but this is a great series John

[@iliya3110]

I love this show. It’s the best. Brings me peace of mind in an upside world. ☦️

[@joshw3010]

I wonder if another witch cursed her, turning her milk into blood, so she retaliated by burning her?

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[@xaviorjimenez2227]

This is unbelievably important. More so than most would imagine

[@jeffreywaynehurt]

I'm listening while working on the computer, I generate a spreadsheet; and immediately I hear "I've manufactured a spreadsheet here" (@16:56). #WhitePeopleJuju

[@panoramicprism]

I've been into Appalachian culture lately and I am incredibly intrigued by granny witches and the primitive Baptist churches. American juju is wild.

[@parkermize]

LOL! You crack me up.

[@Yallquietendown]

Generations back rural southern/Appalachian people would see if the moon phase and stars/signs were right for putting up fence posts, slaughtering animals, planting etc. this is how the world was believed to work. they were also people of prayer too and relied on God as best they knew how to do it

[@brianbob7514]

Well, we have demons on the street now so why not black magic?

[@alephzahir5608]

Log Milk!!!

[@adambowman6401]

Folk tales

[@patrickghayes2830]

Milk.. That's pretty freaky. Science protects you from freaking things.

[@xaviorjimenez2227]

You ain't been here long huh

[@iliya3110]

I love this show. It’s the best. Brings me peace of mind in an upside world. ☦️