Advertise on podcast: C3: Crystals, Cauldrons & Cocktails

Let's Chat!! Can lending your neighbor salt send your luck walking out the door? Why would borrowing fire on Monday morning cause concern—and how did one inconsiderate borrower ruin the fairy lending library for everybody? This week on C3: Crystals, Cauldrons, & Cocktails, we’re exploring borrowing and lending folklore, from Irish household superstitions to a cauldron that supposedly gave birth—and then died. We’re also talking about modern witchy boundaries: sharing tarot decks, lending ritual tools, protecting private grimoires, and helping someone without accidentally donating your entire damn furnace. Pour The Borrowed Spirit cocktail and join us for practical spells for generosity, boundaries, and gratitude, plus a few strong opinions about returning casserole dishes. You can share your salt, keep enough for your own dinner, and put a return date on your good cauldron. Support the show We'll be back! Until then, Stay Witchy!! River's Etsy Store:  www.batsandbaublesinc.etsy.com Website: www.c3witchypodcast.com Merch: www.c3witchypodcastmerch.com Our wonderful logo is done by:  www.nellamarinadraws.etsy.com Intro and Outro Audio: podcast intro & outro music: Góða Nótt by Alexander Nakarada Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4754-g-a-n-tt License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-lice Sound from Zapsplat.com – Witches Cauldrons bubbling

Let's Chat!! Boo Bitches! Can your dinner ingredient double as a witchy reminder to protect your peace? Boo, bitches—we’re talking garlic magick! Join River for a deliciously sassy exploration of garlic folklore, vampire legends, kitchen witchery, and boundaries that don’t require a forty-minute explanation. From protective customs and Bram Stoker’s Dracula to garlic’s surprisingly dramatic chemistry, we’re separating recorded traditions from modern magick—and giving this little bulb plenty of room to shine. Mix up our savory Fang Off cocktail, try a simple doorway protection charm, and make garlic bread with boundaries. We’re also talking roasted garlic, comfort as protection, and practical precautions for your food and familiars. Expect ridiculous vampire preparedness, River and Wren’s competing garlic philosophies, and one very important question: before you invite that handsome vampire inside, does he do dishes? Find the Coven at c3witchypodcast.com. Support the show We'll be back! Until then, Stay Witchy!! River's Etsy Store:  www.batsandbaublesinc.etsy.com Website: www.c3witchypodcast.com Merch: www.c3witchypodcastmerch.com Our wonderful logo is done by:  www.nellamarinadraws.etsy.com Intro and Outro Audio: podcast intro & outro music: Góða Nótt by Alexander Nakarada Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4754-g-a-n-tt License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-lice Sound from Zapsplat.com – Witches Cauldrons bubbling

Let's Chat!! Has your one-card tarot reading become an entire committee meeting? River is calling that meeting to order—and then shutting it down. In this sassy mini episode of Cauldrons of Chaos, we’re talking about pulling “just one more” clarifying card, switching decks for a more agreeable answer, and asking the same question in a different spiritual hat. Plus, try a simple one-card practice to turn reflection into action and trust your own judgment. Your tarot deck can offer food for thought. You don’t need the Emperor’s written approval to take a damn nap. Support the show We'll be back! Until then, Stay Witchy!! River's Etsy Store:  www.batsandbaublesinc.etsy.com Website: www.c3witchypodcast.com Merch: www.c3witchypodcastmerch.com Our wonderful logo is done by:  www.nellamarinadraws.etsy.com Intro and Outro Audio: podcast intro & outro music: Góða Nótt by Alexander Nakarada Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4754-g-a-n-tt License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-lice Sound from Zapsplat.com – Witches Cauldrons bubbling

Let's Chat!! An apple a day keeps… absolutely nobody from asking what’s for dinner.  Join River for apple magick, autumn folklore, and kitchen witchery—because apparently, we can’t just buy groceries. Explore the star inside an apple, old Halloween love-divination customs, and orchard wassailing with its surprisingly considerate tree snacks. Then bring the magick home with apple wish spells, prosperity practices, cinnamon simmer pots, love blessings, and remembrance rituals. We’re also mixing Sweet with a Bite, an apple cider bourbon cocktail with an alcohol-free option, and making baked apples with intention. Expect fascinating “did you knows,” River-and-Wren humor, and a reminder that welcoming sweetness doesn’t mean putting up with b******t. Grab your drink, bring an apple, and let’s give your snack a little more purpose. Find C3: Crystals, Cauldrons, & Cocktails at c3witchypodcast.com. Planning your Samhain season? River’s Samhain Sabbat Planner is available through Bats & Baubles and free for C3 patrons. Support the show We'll be back! Until then, Stay Witchy!! River's Etsy Store:  www.batsandbaublesinc.etsy.com Website: www.c3witchypodcast.com Merch: www.c3witchypodcastmerch.com Our wonderful logo is done by:  www.nellamarinadraws.etsy.com Intro and Outro Audio: podcast intro & outro music: Góða Nótt by Alexander Nakarada Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4754-g-a-n-tt License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-lice Sound from Zapsplat.com – Witches Cauldrons bubbling

Let's Chat!! Some antiques come with history. Others allegedly come with an entity and a complete disregard for your peace. While River recovers, we’re reopening the After Dark vault for a rerun all about cursed objects! From the Hope Diamond and Annabelle to the Dybbuk Box, the Crying Boy paintings, the Basano Vase, and the Myrtles Plantation mirror, we explore the eerie legends, alleged misfortunes, and reasons to approach these stories with a curious—but skeptical—mind. Grab your favorite drink and join C3: Crystals, Cauldrons & Cocktails for spooky stories, witchy banter, and a reminder that “haunted” should really be disclosed before checkout. Support the show We'll be back! Until then, Stay Witchy!! River's Etsy Store:  www.batsandbaublesinc.etsy.com Website: www.c3witchypodcast.com Merch: www.c3witchypodcastmerch.com Our wonderful logo is done by:  www.nellamarinadraws.etsy.com Intro and Outro Audio: podcast intro & outro music: Góða Nótt by Alexander Nakarada Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4754-g-a-n-tt License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-lice Sound from Zapsplat.com – Witches Cauldrons bubbling

Let's Chat!! Boo, Bitches!  Autumn is here, and we’re releasing our bullshit—but keeping our cardigans.  In this Cauldrons of Chaos mini episode, River explores simple autumn witchcraft for messy, busy, very human lives: release rituals, celebrating your personal harvest, protecting your peace, and cozy magick that doesn’t require eleven chopped vegetables.  Grab your favorite mug and join us for practical witchy wisdom, seasonal sass, and a reminder that a leaf cannot manage your calendar. Support the show We'll be back! Until then, Stay Witchy!! River's Etsy Store:  www.batsandbaublesinc.etsy.com Website: www.c3witchypodcast.com Merch: www.c3witchypodcastmerch.com Our wonderful logo is done by:  www.nellamarinadraws.etsy.com Intro and Outro Audio: podcast intro & outro music: Góða Nótt by Alexander Nakarada Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4754-g-a-n-tt License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-lice Sound from Zapsplat.com – Witches Cauldrons bubbling

Let's Chat!! Boo, Bitches!  River is back from DragonCon and Alaska, but her voice is still recovering—so this week, she’s opening the coven vault. This After Dark episode was previously available only to paying members. What is graveyard magick, and why do witches work with cemeteries? River explores ancestor work, spirit communication, the folklore of graveyard dirt, cemetery guardians, and spells tied to protection, transformation, and closure. She also tackles the rule that matters most: respect the dead and their resting places. Come for the spooky folklore. Stay for the supernatural bouncer. Support the show We'll be back! Until then, Stay Witchy!! River's Etsy Store:  www.batsandbaublesinc.etsy.com Website: www.c3witchypodcast.com Merch: www.c3witchypodcastmerch.com Our wonderful logo is done by:  www.nellamarinadraws.etsy.com Intro and Outro Audio: podcast intro & outro music: Góða Nótt by Alexander Nakarada Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4754-g-a-n-tt License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-lice Sound from Zapsplat.com – Witches Cauldrons bubbling

Let's Chat!! No new episode? No problem. While we’re off surviving DragonCon, enjoy this After Dark replay all about alcohol magick. We’re talking correspondences for vodka, rum, tequila, wine, beer, whiskey, gin, brandy, and mead—plus libations, divination with drinks, and how to respectfully share your spirits with deities, ancestors, and the fae. Support the show We'll be back! Until then, Stay Witchy!! River's Etsy Store:  www.batsandbaublesinc.etsy.com Website: www.c3witchypodcast.com Merch: www.c3witchypodcastmerch.com Our wonderful logo is done by:  www.nellamarinadraws.etsy.com Intro and Outro Audio: podcast intro & outro music: Góða Nótt by Alexander Nakarada Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4754-g-a-n-tt License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-lice Sound from Zapsplat.com – Witches Cauldrons bubbling

Let's Chat!! What happens when you stare into a mirror long enough and ask it to spill your business? This week on C3: Crystals, Cauldrons, & Cocktails, River is diving into the strange, ancient, occasionally creepy world of reflection divination and scrying. We're traveling from an ancient Greek mirror oracle to John Dee's mysterious obsidian mirror, digging into old Halloween rituals for spotting your future spouse, exploring the folklore behind Bloody Mary, and discovering why humans have apparently spent thousands of years staring into shiny objects and demanding answers. We'll talk mirror scrying, water scrying, obsidian, intuition, the subconscious, spiritual interpretations, and what may actually be happening when faces and shapes seem to shift in low light. Plus, there's a possibly haunted thrift-store mirror, practical scrying techniques, divination for the low-spoon witch, the Scry & Dry cocktail, and several reminders that your mirror does NOT get to be the boss of you. Whether you believe you're receiving messages from Spirit, tapping into your intuition, giving your subconscious five uninterrupted minutes to finally get a word in, or some combination of the above, grab something reflective. We're staring into the shiny void. And hopefully nothing stares back. Support the show We'll be back! Until then, Stay Witchy!! River's Etsy Store:  www.batsandbaublesinc.etsy.com Website: www.c3witchypodcast.com Merch: www.c3witchypodcastmerch.com Our wonderful logo is done by:  www.nellamarinadraws.etsy.com Intro and Outro Audio: podcast intro & outro music: Góða Nótt by Alexander Nakarada Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4754-g-a-n-tt License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-lice Sound from Zapsplat.com – Witches Cauldrons bubbling

Let's Chat!! You open a witchcraft book and apparently you're supposed to own an engraved athame, an elaborate chalice, a crystal wand, seventeen specialized bowls and an altar that looks like the magical section of Pottery Barn. Meanwhile, you're standing in the kitchen holding a butter knife and thinking, “Pointy enough.” Welcome to Cauldrons of Chaos. This week, River is talking about the reality of witchy tools: what we're supposedly meant to use versus what actually ends up becoming part of our practice. We're talking athame vs. butter knife, chalice vs. chipped coffee mug, crystal wand vs. random pen, and all those ordinary objects that somehow become deeply personal magical tools along the way. Because beautiful witchy tools are wonderful—but they aren't the admission price for witchcraft. We'll talk about intention, building relationships with your tools, the trap of waiting until you have the “right” supplies to begin, and why the weird little object you've been using for years may mean more to your practice than anything you could order online. Plus, your Chaos Assignment: officially promote one completely ordinary object to Sacred Witchy Tool status and give it an unnecessarily dramatic title. Grab your Sacred Spoon of Caffeinated Intentions. We've got magick to do. Support the show We'll be back! Until then, Stay Witchy!! River's Etsy Store:  www.batsandbaublesinc.etsy.com Website: www.c3witchypodcast.com Merch: www.c3witchypodcastmerch.com Our wonderful logo is done by:  www.nellamarinadraws.etsy.com Intro and Outro Audio: podcast intro & outro music: Góða Nótt by Alexander Nakarada Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4754-g-a-n-tt License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-lice Sound from Zapsplat.com – Witches Cauldrons bubbling

Let's Chat!! This week on C3: Crystals, Cauldrons & Cocktails, River is heading into the weeds—literally—to investigate one of witchcraft's most recognizable and surprisingly complicated figures: the Green Man. You know him. The mysterious leafy face carved into medieval churches, lurking in garden centers, and staring back from enough witchy décor to make you wonder exactly when the forest got a spokesperson. But who—or what—is the Green Man? We're digging into the strange history behind those leafy faces, why they appear on medieval churches and cathedrals, how the Green Man became associated with nature, renewal and the turning seasons, and why modern witches have enthusiastically adopted him as everyone's favorite mysterious forest dude. Then we're getting practical with Green Man magick: renewal charms, simple everyday practices, working with growth and opportunity, connecting with the green world when you don't actually have a forest handy, and the part nobody puts on the cottagecore Pinterest board—decay, endings, boundaries and knowing when something needs to be composted. There will also be murdered houseplants, an opportunistic squirrel, questionable gardening decisions, something called a leaf burrito of witchcraft, and several deeply unnecessary Green Man nicknames. And because this is C3, we're mixing The Forest Face, a botanical cocktail for anyone who likes their nature spirituality served over ice. So grab your drink, find something green, and come meet the ancient-looking leafy bastard who's been photobombing history for centuries. 🌿 Growth. Renewal. Wildness. Decay. And maybe just a little Leaf Daddy energy. Support the show We'll be back! Until then, Stay Witchy!! River's Etsy Store:  www.batsandbaublesinc.etsy.com Website: www.c3witchypodcast.com Merch: www.c3witchypodcastmerch.com Our wonderful logo is done by:  www.nellamarinadraws.etsy.com Intro and Outro Audio: podcast intro & outro music: Góða Nótt by Alexander Nakarada Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4754-g-a-n-tt License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-lice Sound from Zapsplat.com – Witches Cauldrons bubbling

Let's Chat!! Not everyone gets a key, witches. This week, we're digging into Lock & Key Magick—the witchcraft of protection, boundaries, access, opportunity, and knowing when you're standing in front of the wrong f*****g door. We're looking at the surprisingly weird history of keys, from Viking Age graves and divine gatekeepers to church keys used in folk healing and love magick. Then we're bringing it into modern witchcraft with protection keys, boundary charms, locking-away spells, goal magick, and a Path-Opening Key Spell for those moments when you desperately need something in your life to MOVE. Because sometimes you need to lock the Forces of F*****y outside. And sometimes? You need to stop aggressively jingling a key at a brick wall. Grab your Skeleton Key cocktail and join River for keys, chaos, questionable folklore, practical spellwork, and one very important reminder: Not everyone gets access to you. Support the show We'll be back! Until then, Stay Witchy!! River's Etsy Store:  www.batsandbaublesinc.etsy.com Website: www.c3witchypodcast.com Merch: www.c3witchypodcastmerch.com Our wonderful logo is done by:  www.nellamarinadraws.etsy.com Intro and Outro Audio: podcast intro & outro music: Góða Nótt by Alexander Nakarada Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4754-g-a-n-tt License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-lice Sound from Zapsplat.com – Witches Cauldrons bubbling

Let's Chat!! Boo, Bitches!  'In this mini episode, we’re hitting the road, the runway, and that one deeply haunted rest stop bathroom.  This one’s for my beautiful disasters and little chaos gremlins whose altar is a carry-on, whose offerings are gas station snacks, and whose hotel rooms definitely need warding.  We’ll talk roadside offerings (yes, the spirits will accept Doritos), rest stop cleansing rituals, airport sigils, hotel room protection using nothing but towels and a Gideon Bible, and a suitcase spell so your luggage doesn’t go on its own spiritual journey to Denver.  Magick doesn’t stop just because you’re in motion—if anything, travel is one big, chaotic ritual. Buckle up and embrace the chaos. Support the show We'll be back! Until then, Stay Witchy!! River's Etsy Store:  www.batsandbaublesinc.etsy.com Website: www.c3witchypodcast.com Merch: www.c3witchypodcastmerch.com Our wonderful logo is done by:  www.nellamarinadraws.etsy.com Intro and Outro Audio: podcast intro & outro music: Góða Nótt by Alexander Nakarada Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4754-g-a-n-tt License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-lice Sound from Zapsplat.com – Witches Cauldrons bubbling

Let's Chat!!  Don't knock. Don't invite him in. And whatever you do... don't let the candle go out. This week we're opening the vault and revisiting one of our favorite After Dark episodes: The Midnight Man. Is it just another internet creepypasta... or is it based on something much older? We dig into the strange history of the Midnight Man ritual, the terrifying rules of the game, why it became one of the internet's most infamous paranormal challenges, and the chilling stories from people who swear they played... and weren't alone afterward. Whether you believe it's psychological, paranormal, or just a very bad idea, one thing is certain... Some games aren't meant to be played. Support the show We'll be back! Until then, Stay Witchy!! River's Etsy Store:  www.batsandbaublesinc.etsy.com Website: www.c3witchypodcast.com Merch: www.c3witchypodcastmerch.com Our wonderful logo is done by:  www.nellamarinadraws.etsy.com Intro and Outro Audio: podcast intro & outro music: Góða Nótt by Alexander Nakarada Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4754-g-a-n-tt License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-lice Sound from Zapsplat.com – Witches Cauldrons bubbling

Let's Chat!! Ever wondered who looked at a cinnamon stick and decided it could fix their finances? Same. This week we're investigating the surprisingly weird history of food magick. We're digging into garlic, salt, cinnamon, honey, apples, bread, and all the magical pantry staples that witches have been using for centuries. But are these correspondences actually ancient... or did somebody on the internet make them up with a really convincing font? Along the way we'll uncover fascinating history, real science, hilarious kitchen crimes, ridiculously practical spells, and enough witchy food facts to make you side-eye your spice cabinet forever. So grab a cocktail, smack that rosemary, and join me as we discover whether food is truly magical... or if humans have simply been assigning mystical powers to soup for the last 14,000 years. Because honestly... either answer is pretty delicious. Support the show We'll be back! Until then, Stay Witchy!! River's Etsy Store:  www.batsandbaublesinc.etsy.com Website: www.c3witchypodcast.com Merch: www.c3witchypodcastmerch.com Our wonderful logo is done by:  www.nellamarinadraws.etsy.com Intro and Outro Audio: podcast intro & outro music: Góða Nótt by Alexander Nakarada Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4754-g-a-n-tt License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-lice Sound from Zapsplat.com – Witches Cauldrons bubbling