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🌲 EPISODE NINE — INTO THE WOODS 🌲

If you go down to the woods today… you might find a witch.

From fairy tales whispered for generations to some of the most memorable witches on screen, the forest has long been one of the witch’s favourite places to hide. But why do we keep sending her there?

In Episode Nine of HEXPOSITION: Witches on Screen, we’re venturing beyond the safety of the village and into the woods to explore the relationship between witches, forests and the wild.

We’ll follow the witch through folklore, fairy tales, history and popular culture, looking at the forest as a place of fear and danger, but also freedom, knowledge and power. It is somewhere beyond the rules of ordinary society — exactly where storytellers have so often decided the witch belongs.

From the dark woods of the Brothers Grimm to the forests of The Witch, Into the Woods, Hansel & Gretel and beyond, we’ll explore what happens when our characters cross the treeline — and why audiences already know that something magical, dangerous or wonderfully witchy might be waiting on the other side.

Because perhaps the witch isn’t hiding in the forest at all.

Perhaps that’s simply where she is free.

✨ It’s time for Fact, Fiction or Folklore. ✨

And keep your eyes on the path… there’s another Hidden Hex hiding amongst the trees. 👀🌲

🎙️ Episode Nine: Into the Woods
🎧 HEXPOSITION: Witches on Screen

🌙 New episodes every Witchy Wednesday!

🎵 Theme: “Huldufolk (Hidden Folk)” by Jamie Sims
🐾 A Familiar Footsteps Production

Love and light x

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😈 EPISODE EIGHT — BETTER THE DEVIL YOU KNOW 😈

What does the Devil have to do with witches?

For centuries, the witch and the Devil have been tangled together in the Western imagination. Pacts signed in blood, midnight meetings, forbidden power and women supposedly surrendering themselves to Satan became some of the most enduring accusations surrounding witchcraft.

But where did that connection actually come from?

In Episode Eight of HEXPOSITION: Witches on Screen, we’re following the Devil through the history of witchcraft — from Christian ideas about heresy and demonic magic to witch-trial testimony, the supposed witches’ sabbath and the belief that a witch’s power must ultimately come from Satan.

Then we turn to the screen, where the Devil has remained remarkably difficult for the witch to shake. From the seductive promise of power to outright demonic horror, we explore how film and television continue to draw on centuries-old ideas about what happens when a witch makes a deal with the Devil.

And importantly, we separate witchcraft, Paganism and Satanism — traditions and practices that popular culture has repeatedly pushed together despite them not being interchangeable.

So did historical witches really worship the Devil? Where did the idea of the Satanic witch come from? And why does cinema keep bringing them back together?

✨ It’s time for Fact, Fiction or Folklore. ✨

And somewhere in the darkness, another Hidden Hex is waiting… 👀

🎙️ Episode Eight: Better the Devil You Know
🎧 HEXPOSITION: Witches on Screen

🌙 New episodes every Witchy Wednesday!

🎵 Theme: “Huldufolk (Hidden Folk)” by Jamie Sims
🐾 A Familiar Footsteps Production

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⭐️ EPISODE SEVEN — SEEING STARS ⭐️

Five points. Five lines. One symbol that can tell an audience witchcraft before a single spell has been cast.

But has the pentagram always belonged to witches?

In Episode Seven of HEXPOSITION: Witches on Screen, we’re tracing the surprisingly complicated history of one of the most recognisable symbols associated with witchcraft — from its ancient uses and changing meanings to modern Pagan practice, Satanic imagery and the way film and television have turned five simple lines into instant supernatural shorthand.

We’ll look at how the pentagram appears across popular culture, why turning it upside down can completely change what audiences think they’re seeing, and how horror in particular has helped blur the boundaries between witchcraft, Paganism, occultism and Satanism.

As a practising witch who wears and has pentagrams tattooed on her body, I’ll also talk about what the symbol means within my own practice — and what it’s like carrying a symbol that other people sometimes think they already understand.

Because the pentagram has spent thousands of years gathering meanings. Witchcraft is only one chapter of its story.

✨ It’s time for Fact, Fiction or Folklore. ✨

And, of course, there’s another Hidden Hex hiding somewhere amongst the stars… 👀

🎙️ Episode Seven: Seeing Stars
🎧 HEXPOSITION: Witches on Screen

🌙 New episodes every Witchy Wednesday!

🎵 Theme: “Huldufolk (Hidden Folk)” by Jamie Sims
🐾 A Familiar Footsteps Production

Love and light x

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