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Witches in the Stacks: Charmed Chatter

Witches in the Stacks: Charmed Chatter

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 Lex and T both have a deep fascination and respect for worlds of fantasy, different mythologies, and different practices of faith. They're also librarians and have the skills and willingness to do ALL of the research! While this may not be a "Charmed" re-watch podcast; and, while their comments will include plenty of opinion, they’ll also be sharing researched facts, background, and support as they explore the different facets of the show. Buckle in and join them as they explore the world of the Charmed Ones!Lex&T Arte
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  • She’s Gone Mad, I Tell You: Witches, Work, and Hysterical Strength

    She’s Gone Mad, I Tell You: Witches, Work, and Hysterical Strength
    Nov 5 2026
    In this episode, we use Season 4’s “Brain Drain,” “Lost and Bound,” and “Marry-Go-Round” to ask some big feminist questions: what happens when women’s power is gaslit into madness, domesticity is sold as destiny, and motherhood is treated as inevitable rather than optional. From Piper’s manipulated stay in a fake sanitarium to Phoebe’s Stepford-wife enchantment and her Bewitched-inspired identity crisis, we trace the history of witch hunts, housewives, and “hysterical” women through everything from Nellie Bly’s asylum exposé to modern debates about unpaid labor, childfree lives, medical gaslighting, and the myth of superhuman moms. Along the way, we dig into witchcraft as a symbol of female autonomy, talk about how hysterical strength and emotional intensity are pathologized in women but celebrated as heroism elsewhere, and explore how Charmed both reflects and resists the scripts that have kept women on trial—from the stake to the sanitarium to the suburban living room.Trigger Warning: This episode discusses gendered violence in medicine and history, including asylums, gaslighting, and social pressure around motherhood and domestic roles.Learn More:Baylor College of Medicine. (2023, November 14). Navigating the pressure of having kids. BCM Blogs. https://blogs.bcm.edu/2023/11/14/navigating-the-pressure-of-having-kids/ Chollet, M. (2022). In defense of witches: The legacy of the witch hunts and why women are still on trial (C. M. Machado, Trans.). St. Martin’s Griffin.Droogsma, Jessica Daine, "Female hysteria across cultures and periods in American literature" (2008). Honors Program Theses. 56. https://scholarworks.uni.edu/hpt/56 Hoffmann, Diane E. and Tarzian, Anita J., "The Girl Who Cried Pain: A Bias Against Women in the Treatment of Pain" (2001). Faculty Scholarship. 145. https://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/fac_pubs/145 Katz Institute for Women’s Health. (n.d.). Gaslighting in women’s health. Northwell Health. https://www.northwell.edu/katz-institute-for-womens-health/articles/gaslighting-in-womens-health Marquette, H. (2018). Why working moms fall behind. Psychology Today: The Baby Scientist. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-baby-scientist/201810/why-working-moms-fall-behind Mayo, S. M. (2016). Unchanged gender expectations: Women in the workplace. University of South Florida. https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1211&context=honorsthesesMedicine@Yale. (2023, October 18). From hysteria to empowerment. Yale Medicine Magazine. https://medicine.yale.edu/news/yale-medicine-magazine/article/from-hysteria-to-empowerment/ Noblinbt (2024). Gender & social change interview [Oral history transcript]. James Madison University. https://sites.lib.jmu.edu/sc-interviews/2024/03/24/gender-social-change-interview/ PBS NewsHour. (2021, May 9). Overwhelmed and stressed: Mothers open up about worrying decline in mental health [TV broadcast transcript]. PBS. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/overwhelmed-and-stressed-mothers-open-up-about-worrying-decline-in-mental-health Pheasant-Kelly, F. (2024). Sorcery in the suburbs: Bewitched, resistance and gender transgression. In D. Brode & L. Deyneka (Eds.), Something wicked: Witchcraft in movies, television, and popular culture (pp. 59–70). Bloomsbury. http://hdl.handle.net/2436/625471 Pomona College Magazine. (2025, Fall). When the baby boom went bust. Pomona College Magazine. https://magazine.pomona.edu/2025/fall/when-the-baby-boom-went-bust/ PSU Science Outreach. (2015, October 2). Do we seem to have superpowers in life or death situations? Pennsylvania State University. https://sites.psu.edu/siowfa15/2015/10/02/do-we-seem-to-have-superpowers-in-life-or-death-situations/ Additional Resources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZgIhFtBL0vkaZLQVhCZg6za6HdOlJpgs2hymuJtnPjQ/edit?usp=sharing
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    1 ora e 13 min
  • Once Upon a Charmed Time

    Once Upon a Charmed Time
    Oct 29 2026

    In this episode, we crack open Charmed’s fairy‑tale spellbook and dive into three Season 4 standouts—“A Knight to Remember,” “The Three Faces of Phoebe,” and “We’re Off to See the Wizard”—to see how the show plays with knights, enchantresses, wizards, queens, and prophecy like a modern Grimm collection. We’ll trace how Paige, Phoebe, and Cole slip into archetypal roles of maiden, mother, crone, prince, and witch, unpack “once upon a time” as a ritual doorway into story, and explore how these episodes twist classic motifs like princess‑and‑dragon, triple goddesses, and seductive sorcerers into something darker and more complicated than “happily ever after.” Drawing on feminist and archetypal readings of fairy tales, plus scholarship on witches, wizards, and character types, we’ll ask what these enchanted narratives reveal about women’s power, temptation, and the dangerous appeal of a villain you almost want to save.

    Trigger Warning: Discussion of violence, emotional abuse, coercive relationships, and dark or twisted fairy‑tale themes (including possession, manipulation, and moral corruption in romantic partnerships).

    Learn More:

    Anthology editor unknown. (2020). Witches, wizards, seers, and healers: Myths and tales, anthology of classic tales. Flame Tree Publishing.

    Conway, D. J. (2023). Mother, maiden, crone: The myth and reality of the triple goddess. Llewellyn Publications.

    Keithley, J. L., (2013). Once upon a time: fairytales past and present. EWU Masters Thesis Collection. 238. https://dc.ewu.edu/theses/238

    Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. (n.d.). Feminism and fairy tales. GSAS. https://gsas.harvard.edu/news/feminism-and-fairy-tales

    Marist College. (n.d.). Character archetypes in Disney/Pixar animated films: Course overview notes [Course handout]. Marist College. https://www.marist.edu/documents/d/guest/24f-character-archetypes-in-disney-pixar-animated-films-course-overview-notes

    Salve Regina University. (n.d.). [Undergraduate thesis on fairy tales and villain complexity] [Undergraduate honors thesis]. Salve Regina University. https://digitalcommons.salve.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1102&context=pell_theses

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library. (2019, May 16). Once upon a time: Fairy tales from around the world. University of Illinois Library. https://www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/2019/05/16/once-upon-a-time-fairy-tales-from-around-the-world/

    University of Oregon. (n.d.). Archetypes & anarchy: Fairy tales [Blog series]. Archetypes & Anarchy. https://blogs.uoregon.edu/archetypesanarchy/tag/fairytale/

    Wikipedia contributors. (2025, December 24). Once upon a time. In Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved January 14, 2026, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Once_upon_a_time&oldid=1329197368

    Wikipedia contributors. (2025, May 21). Witch (archetype). In Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved January 14, 2026, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Witch_(archetype)&oldid=1291465133

    Wikipedia contributors. (2026, January 1). Princess and dragon. In Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved January 14, 2026, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Princess_and_dragon&oldid=1330628932

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    1 ora e 12 min
  • GOOOOOOLEMS!! And the Red Flags of Dating

    GOOOOOOLEMS!! And the Red Flags of Dating
    Oct 8 2026

    In this episode, we zoom into Season 4’s “Size Matters” to talk less about one very gross collector demon and more about the clay guy he built to lure women home: Finn, our golem-adjacent himbo bait. Using Gammil’s shrunken‑and‑baked figurine collection as a springboard, we dig into global clay‑creation stories—from humans molded from earth in Mesopotamian, Greek, and Chinese myths to the Jewish golem tradition—and ask what it means to build a body versus be born into one. Along the way, we track Paige’s intuition and growing powers, the sisters’ clashing ideas about work, identity, and trust, and how “making a man” out of clay exposes anxieties about agency, consent, and who gets to shape whom in both lore and the Charmed‑verse.

    Trigger Warning: Abduction, stalking, implied sexual coercion, and violence against women, including women being shrunk, immobilized, and killed.

    Learn More:

    Atsma, A. (n.d.). Prometheus. Theoi Greek Mythology. https://www.theoi.com/Titan/TitanPrometheus.html

    DC Universe Online Wiki. (n.d.). Clay of the Gods. Fandom. https://dcuniverseonline.fandom.com/wiki/Clay_of_the_Gods

    Mythopedia. (n.d.). Nuwa. Mythopedia. https://mythopedia.com/topics/nuwa/

    Sullivan, L. E. (n.d.). Reading the Inca creation myth [PDF]. University of Arizona, Department of Classics. https://clas.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/Peru_Culture_Reading%20the%20Inca%20Creation%20Myth.pdf

    The Art History Project. (n.d.). Gilgamesh I: The coming of Enkidu. The Art History Project. https://www.arthistoryproject.com/timeline/the-ancient-world/mesopotamia/the-epic-of-gilgamesh/gilgamesh-1-the-coming-of-enkidu/

    Wikipedia contributors. (n.d.). Creation of life from clay. In Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved Month Day, Year, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_of_life_from_clay

    Wikipedia contributors. (n.d.). Pygmalion (mythology). In Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved Month Day, Year, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_(mythology)

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