Hex Education!

Join your hosts Salem Warlock Christian Day and Salem Witch Lori Bruno as they welcome their guest, author Judika Illes, to talk about her new book, The Encyclopedia of Mystics, Saints & Sages: A Guide to Asking for Protection, Wealth, Happiness, and Everything Else! that will be published this November. Judika will offer a sneak peek on how the dead can help the living and how the living may venerate the helpful dead. An expert in many forms of divination, she will share her thoughts and experiences with you for better communication with those who have passed on, but are still able to positively influence your life! Judika Illes is an accomplished author of several books including the Encyclopedia of 5,000 Spells, Encyclopedia of Spirits: The Ultimate Guide to the Magic of Fairies, Genies, Demons, Ghosts, Gods & Goddesses,The Element Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Complete A-Z for the Entire Magical World,Weiser Field Guide to Witches, The: From Hexes to Hermione Granger, From Salem to the Land of Oz (The Weiser Field Guide), and The Encyclopedia of Mystics, Saints & Sages: A Guide to Asking for Protection, Wealth, Happiness, and Everything Else! available this November.

Join Salem Warlock Christian Day and Salem Witch Lori Bruno as they welcome author Celeste Heldstab to discuss the powers of magical oils and incense. The author of Llewellyn's Complete Formulary of Magical Oils: Over 1200 Recipes, Potions & Tinctures for Everyday Use, Celeste is a Caddo Indian, Witch, and Magical Incense and Oil Maker from the bayous of Louisiana. She will discuss the ingredients and magical properties found in oils for various purposes including love, protection and financial wealth. Hex customers have found her blends, used in the HEX brand stick incense, to be effective in manifesting their desires. Find out how and why oils and incenses work and how to face future challenges with the power of magical scents! Celeste Heldstab, author of Llewellyn's Complete Formulary of Magical Oils: Over 1200 Recipes, Potions & Tinctures for Everyday Use. She owns Bayou Witch Incense, a metaphysical store offering the best in Southern magic. She creates incenses, oils for commercial and personal uses. Her lines are featured at Hex in Salem. She is a Kitchen Witch who knows how to cook up solutions for every need.  

Join Salem Warlock Christian Day and Salem Witch Lori Bruno as they welcome Warlock Storm Faerywolf to talk about the magic of the Feri tradition of Witchcraft. An author, artist, and teacher, Storm Faerywolf is owner of The Mystic Dream, a metaphysical shop in Walnut Creek, California. An expert in Feri and queer spirituality, Storm will discuss the use of magic, spiritual purification, soul alignment, and healing. Learn about Witchcraft theory and practice within the the Feri tradition and discover how this unique path can increase your magical awareness. Storm Faerywolf is the owner and operator of The Mystic Dream, a shop that offers Witchcraft, metaphysical, religious and paranormal services, books and art in Walnut Creek, CA. An author, poet, teacher and initiate of the Feri tradition of Witchcraft, he has been practicing the Craft for over 25 years. He was given the Black Wand, signifying mastery of the Craft in all its forms from Feri Grandmaster Cora Anderson. Author of The Stars Within the Earth and editor of Witch Eye: A Journal of Feri Uprising., Storm offers readings, conjure magic, spiritual alignment Reiki and other services at his store. He also teaches classes and workshops in California and throughout the country.  

Join hosts Salem Warlock Christian Day and Salem Witch Lori Bruno as they welcome Clint Marsh, author of The Mentalist's Handbook: An Explorer's Guide to Astral, Spirit, and Psychic Worlds, and an expert in psychic powers and mentalism. Together, we’ll learn visualization techniques that will help you harness your power and increase your magical effectiveness. Mentalists are able to access information on other planes to increase psychic ability such as gleaning information from objects and places, as in psychometry, seeing accurate and clear visions of the past, present, and future, sending and receiving psychic messages and traveling on the astral plane. Marsh suggests that the skills of time travel, levitation, invisibility, and telekinesis can all be cultivated by Witches and others through these simple technqiues. Learn how to harness these powers and use them to manipulate reality and become more successful. Clint Marsh is an accomplished mentalist and author. He has spent his life writing on esoteric subjects and editing occult works. In 2008, his book, The Mentalist's Handbook: An Explorer's Guide to Astral, Spirit, and Psychic Worlds was published by Weiser. Clint is a frequent guest on radio shows, and has been a guest on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory.  

Join Salem Warlock Christian Day and Salem Witch Lori Bruno as they welcome author and paranormal expert Jeff Belanger to talk about his new book Picture Yourself Legend Tripping: Your Complete Guide to Finding UFOs, Monsters, Ghosts, and Urban Legends in Your Own Backyard. What is legend tripping? There's a good chance you've already done it. Remember sneaking off into that cemetery at night as a kid to see if there were any ghosts? What about hearing there was a monster lurking in that old abandoned building and wanting to check it out? Or reading about a UFO landing site and wanting to plan your next vacation in the area so you could stand where the craft was said to have left its mark? That's legend tripping! Jeff will share with our listeners how you can find UFOs, Monsters, Ghosts, and Urban Legends in your own backyard as you learn how to discover, explore, and document your amazing, and often paranormal,occurrences. Get ready for legend tripping! About Jeff Belanger Jeff Belanger is the author of a dozen books such as Picture Yourself Legend Tripping: Your Complete Guide to Finding UFOs, Monsters, Ghosts, and Urban Legends in Your Own Backyard and Our Haunted Lives: True Life Ghost Encounters. Jeff is the writer and researcher for “Ghost Adventures,” the #1 show on The Travel Channel. He also hosts the widely popular Web and cable talk show 30 Odd Minutes and founded GhostVillage.com

Join your hosts Christian Day and Lori Bruno as they welcome their guest, Fire Lyte, host of the popular podcast Inciting a Riot, to talk about Project Pagan Enough, his national movement to encourage Pagans to react with kindness, intelligence, mutual respect, and poise. Fire Lyte is concerned with the growing trend of attempting to isolate those who are not considered “Pagan enough,” and that, instead of attacking one another, we need to find common ground among our emerging differences to create the beautiful tapestry that is modern Paganism. Lori and Christian have both found themselves accused of being “not Pagan enough,” so this should be a fascinating and engaging discussion! Learn more about Fire Lyte at www.IncitingARiot.com

Join your hosts Christian Day and Lori Bruno as they welcome their guest Devin Hunter, a High Priest of Dianic Witchcraft and host of the popular Modern Witch Podcast. While a popular tradition of feminine empowerment, what you might not know is that the Dianic Witchcraft tradition has never been strictly female. There are many historical sources that reveal priests of both Diana and Artemis, her Greek counterpart. Whether sacred prostitutes in drag, castrata, or simply those gender-bending devotees who flocked from across the known world to the temple of Diana at Ephesus, this great huntress has inspired and empowered both women and men alike in their rites! About Devin Hunter Devin Hunter is a High Priest of Dianic Witchcraft, a teacher of magic, psychic and reader, and hosts the popular Modern Witch Podcast. Learn more about Devin Hunter at: www.devinhunter.net

Join your hosts Christian Day and Lori Bruno as we welcome our guest, author Ellen Dugan, to talk about her new book, Practical Protection Magick. Ellen teaches you how to embrace your innate warrior skills—knowledge, balance, and wisdom—and amp up your personal power. Her helpful handbook is chock-full of protection witchery and psychic self-defense techniques you can use to keep yourself and your home strong, secure, and protected. We’ll also talk about precise and potent spells, rituals, and warding techniques to defend against psychic attacks, emotional and psychic vampires, hexes, unwanted ghosts, and other forms of negativity threatening your home and your well-being. About Ellen Dugan Ellen Dugan, the "Garden Witch," is an award-winning author, a psychic-clairvoyant and a regular contributor to Llewellyn's almanacs, datebooks, and calendars. A practicing Witch for over twenty-five years, she is also a certified Master Gardener. Ellen has written several books, including Garden Witchery, Elements of Witchcraft, Natural Magick for Teens, Cottage Witchery, Autumn Equinox, The Enchanted Cat, Herb Magic for Beginners, Natural Witchery, How to Enchant a Man, Garden Witch's Herbal, and The Book of Witchery.

Join your hosts Christian Day and Lori Bruno as they welcome author Edain McCoy to talk about the arts of advanced Witchcraft. Go beyond "Wicca 101" to discover advanced techniques for those wishing to take their magic to the next level. Topics for the evening will include meeting your shadow, advanced warding and psychic self-defense, spirit familiars, spirits and lost souls, banishing and closing portals, and the healing arts. Living as a Witch is knowing that you are the magick! About Edain McCoy Edain became a self-initiated Witch in 1981 and has been an active part of the Pagan community since her formal initiation into a large San Antonio coven in 1983. Edain has researched alternative spiritualities since her teens, when she was first introduced to Kaballah, or Jewish mysticism. Since that time, she has studied a variety of magickal paths including Celtic, Appalachian folk magick, and Curanderismo, a Mexican-American folk tradition. Today, Edain is part of the Wittan Irish Pagan tradition, where she is a priestess of Brighid and an elder. Edain is the author of fifteen books, including Bewitchments; Enchantments; and her most recent release, Ostara: Customs, Spells & Rituals for the Rites of Spring.

Join Salem Warlock Christian Day and Salem Witch Lori Bruno with guest Christopher Penczak as they discuss his latest book, The Plant Spirit Familiar and some of the unorthodox ideas within it. While most witches, magician and shamans know their totem animal spirit, few have given any though to their totem plant spirit? Just as the animal world has lessons, blessings and challenges, so too does the Green World of flowers, herbs and trees. Specifically Christopher be discussing plant spirits in three categories - healing herbs, poisonous herbs and tree teachers and share his own experiences with the plants. He'll even talk about his ritual of the Green Devil, exploring the dark side of the Green Man through facing the concepts found in the Seven Deadly Sins of Christianity and how to break the social and moral conditioning of mainstream society through plant spirit healing. Look at your own healing and evolution from a green perspective and explore the idea of your own plant spirit familiar. You can find Christopher at http://www.christopherpenczak.com .  

Join Warlock Christian Day and Witch Lori Bruno as they discuss what its like to live a life as a Vampyre. We will indulge in the culture, traditions, movement and philosophies, which are intended to challenge and inspire your views. Father Sebastiaan Todd; most commonly referred to simply as “Father,” is one of the central personalities of the Vampyre/vampire subculture.He is an avid student of chaos magick, esotericism, ancient cultures and a lover of travel.  Currently living in Paris, Father Sebastiaan is pursuing his writing career . Sebastiaan is a New York Vamprye and Owner of a fangsmithing company called "SABRETOOTH". He also hosts Endless Night, a Vampyre Ball in New Orleans, Louisiana. We will peek into the up coming novels Vampyre Sanguinomicon “Lexicon of the Living Vampire” (Weiser Sept 2011) and Vampyre Magick “Grimoire of the Living Vampire” (Weiser Feb. 2012). You can find Father Sebastiaan online at: http://www.fathersebastiaan.com

Join Salem Warlock Christian Day and Salem Witch Lori Bruno as they discuss the demonic spirits of the Goetia with notes Salem astrologer and magician Michael Pendragon! Long feared, the spirits of the Goetia, also known as The Lesser Key of Solomon, can help us to tap into the hidden powers of the subconscious mind. Are these spirits demons from hell? Are they disincarnate entities from another dimension? Or, are they simply aspects of human consciousness accessed by symbolic codes. Listen in tonight and learn for yourself! Michael Pendragon is a psychic reader and astrologer at OMEN, 184 Essex Street in Salem. To make an appointment, call OMEN at (978) 666-0765

Leanne Marrama, Salem's sexiest sorceress, joins Christian and Lori to talk about hexing, cursing, and revenge magic. Are you tired of being a good witch? Have people crossed you and you just want to make your powerful presence known? Are you always turning the other cheek and then regretting it? Are you sick of taking other people's crap? Then it's time for some magical justice! It is time for for you to learn the power of revenge to protect yourself and those you love! Call into the show at (347) 308-8731 to ask questions or even to debate us ... if you dare!   Leanne Marrama, star of TLC's What Not to Wear, will teach you the theory of revenge magic. She will talk about justice and when it is the time to pull out the voodoo doll. She will talk about the difference between karma, the three fold law, and justice. Leanne will help you learn spell work and the importance of protection magic and getting rid of those people in your life that just plain suck.   And, if you want to go more in-depth and hands-on, Leanne is teaching a class in "Revenge Magic," this Saturday, April 23, 2011, at 3pm at OMEN: 184 Essex Street, Salem, MA. Click here to get tickets or call (978) 666-0763 to get them over the phone!

Join Warlock Christian Day and Witch Lori Bruno as they welcome famed paranormal investigator, Ron Kolek of the New England Ghost Project. Together, we will discuss our experiences in dealing with wayward spirits who roam the earth and the equipment and methods used to verify and communicate with them. Can science and magic work together to unveil the realm of the dead? Tune in and find out! Ron Kolek has investigated over 1,000 hauntings including his Emmy winning investigation of New London Ledge Lighthouse. He also is the host of Ghost Chronicles, the #1 ghost show on iTunes. He has penned two books. For more information visit Ron's web site New England Ghost Project!

Join Warlock Christian Day and Witch Lori Bruno as we welcome our guest Kristin Lee! Kristin will be discussing her recently released non-fiction book “1699 Belmont Street, Portal to Hell," based on true events of terrifying paranormal investigations into a true haunted house! We'll also discuss her paranormal documentary and future paranormal movie with Mercenary Media and Ohio Valley Paranormal Research Investigations. For the first time on air Kristin Lee will provide a conclusion as to what is inside the portal to hell! New evidence and never before seen footage links. Kristin Lee Wittenbrook is the author of “1699 Belmont Street, Portal to Hell.” She is also the children’s author of “Crabapple Hill” She is a singer/songwriter; releasing “Crabapple Moon” album in August 2009. She is owner of Crabapple Photography as well as a master level Forensic Psychologist; she is currently working with Ohio Valley Paranormal Research Investigations as a part-time psychic, medium, witch and paranormal investigator.