“Tell me about the time you visited the City of Jinn, Darragh…”

What Magic is This? Podcast will be entering some unfamiliar territory. For the Islamicate world, a whole other group of beings share this reality with us. They are the Jinn, beings made from smokeless fire that share many attributes with us mortals. Yet before we acquaint ourselves with the Jinn fully, it would be good […]

The History of Fairies feat. Francis Young

It always felt somewhat incomplete; the Fistful of Fairies series here on What Magic is This? Podcast was in need of a revisitation. While the series went in many major and important directions, an overarching History of the supernatural entities which we call fairies just wasn’t there. And so, for the 7th anniversary of the […]

Past Lives & Reincarnation

One of the longest enduring afterlife beliefs that we have is reincarnation. The thought goes that once we pass away, some part of us is reborn into a new person; a new body, and that life continues again and again and again. Many cultures throughout the world and throughout time have held this belief to […]

And Another Guest Appearance on Spirit Box Podcast!

Lo! My first guest appearance since becoming a Dad on another Podcast was of course going to be a no-brainer. Darragh from Spirit Box asked me to hop aboard and seeing as how he too came to fatherhood later on in life, I absolutely had to have a chat. Despite being one of the most […]

Ghosts?

As far as we can look back into our past, humanity has both interacted with and been haunted by the spirits of the dead. The tales of apparitions and hauntings pervade not only our most popular art but also our psyche; seemingly everyone has a ghost story to tell. While modern skepticism waves away ghosts […]