Mancy
Mancy is a podcast about how magic has shaped human history and our culture, including pop culture. It features spoken word poet RJ Walker and psychic Elle Alder. They explore different "-mancies" which are different methods of divination. Each episode features stories of magic and Elle attempts to replicate the method researched by RJ. They also attempt to use these mancies in a more contemporary way to reflect the struggles of our time.
Episodes
83 episodes
Ep 72: Mechanomancy Part 2
RJ and Elle explore the life and inventions of Wolfgang Von Kempelen. His speech making machine, the great great great great great great great grandfather of Hatsune Miku, and his wondrous "Mechanical Turk" A chess playing automaton that stunne...
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Season 7
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Episode 72
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53:41
Ep 71 Mechanomancy Part 1
Elle and RJ begin their coverage of Mechanomancy, divination by Machine. RJ discusses the life of John Murray Spear and his transition from the Unitarian faith into Spiritualism. RJ goes into detail about Spear's attempts to build a Mechanical ...
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Season 7
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Episode 71
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1:13:34
Ep 70 Entomancy
RJ and Elle continue their coverage of bug magic. RJ discusses maggot therapy and its historical uses. RJ then discusses the demon known as Beelzebub aka The Lord of the Flies. After a quick diversion into the origins of Pokemon, RJ brings up t...
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Season 6
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Episode 70
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37:26
Ep 69 Arachnomancy
RJ and Elle recount their experiences with spiders and RJ discusses the history of spiders in mythology. RJ recounts Ovid's story of Arachne and reads an anthropologists recorded Anansi story. RJ and Elle then discuss the arachnomancy rea...
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Season 6
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Episode 69
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56:16
Ep 68: Healing Magic - Zars and Ecstatic Dance
This is an episode written by Elle Alder and presented to RJ Walker. Elle leads the audience through a guided meditation or astro-travel ceremony of a Zar - a healing magic ceremony that comes from the geographical region of the ho...
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Season 6
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Episode 68
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1:26:36
Ep 67 Geomancy Part 2
RJ and Elle continue their coverage of Geomancy, earth magic. RJ describes the Harmonic Convergence event that took place in 1987 around the world. RJ also describes the history of Sedona's magical "vortexes" that are rumored to amplify spiritu...
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Season 6
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Episode 67
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1:20:03
Ep 66 Geomancy Part 1
RJ and Elle begin their coverage of Geomancy, divination using the Earth. RJ goes into the history of Ley Lines and how these debunked theories have continued to this day. RJ describes the Earth Mysteries movement and the beginnings of the New ...
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Season 6
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Episode 66
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48:08
Ep 65 Hexes Part 2
RJ and Elle continue their coverage of hexes. RJ discusses the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn's supposed hexing of the Nazis during WW2. Elle weighs in on hexes as liberation. RJ discusses the recent history of Hexes for political action. RJ...
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Season 6
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Episode 65
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1:30:35
Ep 64 Hexes Part 1
Mancy returns to kick off a new season! Hexes, magic intended to do harm. RJ dives into the Powow magic of the Pennsylvania Dutch and explains the disambiguation between their brand of hex magic what is commonly accepted as a hex or curse. Elle...
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Season 6
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Episode 64
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1:32:15
Ep 63 Seance part 2
RJ and Elle continue their discussion of Seances live at the UAA Art Castle. RJ goes over the biography of Cora Scott, a medium and notable organizer in the spiritualist movement. He discusses fraud psychics, and the debunkers. RJ goes over the...
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Season 5
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Episode 63
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1:22:37
Ep 62 Seance Part 1
A special live episode of Mancy recorded from the UAA art castle, a historic church built in the 1800s. This live episode is made possible by the Utah Arts Alliance offering this venue. RJ discusses the history of Seances in Americ...
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Season 5
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Episode 62
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1:12:58
Mancy Season 5 Annoucement
A special announcement! We're kicking off Season 5 on October 26th 2022 with a special live show! We're going to be covering Seances and you can be in the audience while Elle performs a Live Seance at the UAA Art Castle. Tickets available here:...
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Season 5
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Episode 0
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4:26
Ep 61 Akashic Records Part 2
Elle continues her coverage of the Akashic Records, her specific area of expertise. She brings Jennifer Martin into the studio, another professional psychic who received similar training on the akashic records. Elle begins by answering question...
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Season 4
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Episode 61
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1:47:23
Ep 60 CHARMS! pt 3
RJ and Elle finish their coverage of charms by looking at the remaining charms present in Lucky Charms Cereal. RJ and Elle give their backgrounds with breakfast cereal. RJ opens by describing what a blue moon is, and why we call it that. He the...
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Season 4
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Episode 60
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55:31
Ep 59 Charms! Pt 2
Elle and RJ continue their coverage of charms. RJ looks into the egyptian ankh and Elle provides context with her experience from Egypt. RJ then continues his coverage of each lucky charm in lucky charms cereal. Starting with clovers, then hear...
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Season 4
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Episode 59
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1:00:05
Ep 58 CHARMS! pt 1
RJ and Elle kick off Season 2 with coverage of charms. Lucky or otherwise. RJ and Elle discuss lucky or sentimental objects that serve as charms for them. RJ starts the episode with the lore behind the Lucky Rabbit's Foot and the ways it has be...
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Season 4
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Episode 58
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56:32
Ep 57 Dice! Astragalomancy pt 2
RJ and Elle continue their coverage of Astragalomancy. RJ discusses the history of loaded dice and cheating dice. RJ also comes clean about using loaded dice in games of Dungeons and Dragons. RJ then dives into some of the history of DnD, the g...
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Season 3
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Episode 57
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1:04:00
Ep 56: Dice! Astragalomancy pt 1
RJ and Elle begin their coverage of Astragalomancy, divination with Dice. RJ begins by describing his father's passion for Craps and Elle describes a dice tarot variant that used to be available in her store. RJ then begins the long, complex hi...
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Season 3
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Episode 56
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1:00:44
Ep 55 Augury pt 3
RJ and Elle conclude their coverage of Augury by looking at research conducted on birds. RJ establishes the intelligence of Corvids, and then discusses the sad relationship humans have with pigeons. He brings up the domestication of the p...
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Season 3
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Episode 55
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48:35
Ep 54 Augury pt 2
Continuing coverage of Augury, RJ discusses the folkloric significance of birds as they relate to psychopomps. RJ and Elle discuss the practice of sky burials and maritime lore about birds. RJ retells the Rime of the Ancient Mariner and then fo...
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Season 3
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Episode 54
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1:21:30
Ep 53 Augury pt 1
In this series RJ and Elle discuss Augury which is the practice of divining with birds, and a few other methods, but mostly birds. RJ tells the story of the Owl in his yard named Novartis, and Elle discusses her general aversion to birds, as we...
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Season 3
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Episode 53
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59:03
Ep 52 Akashic Records pt 1
Elle takes the reigns and has written an episode about the Akashic Records. Elle is an expert on this subject on this esoteric and obscure topic. Elle does a brief history of the Akashic records, with promises for more in future episodes on it....
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1:56:38
Ep 51 Myomancy pt 2
RJ and Elle continue their coverage of rodent magic. RJ discusses pop culture mice and explains the haunted history of Mickey Mouse. He then tells the tale of Suicidemouse.avi. After that RJ does background information on the bubonic plague and...
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Season 3
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Episode 51
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1:44:25
Ep 50 Myomancy pt 1
RJ and Elle discuss myomancy, divination and magic with rodents. RJ and Elle discuss their relationships with mice and rats, with RJ sharing a story of an infestation. RJ then goes on to give an RIP to Mr. Goxx, and then he discusses the histor...
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Season 3
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Episode 50
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1:23:47
Ep 49 Dendromancy pt 2
RJ and Elle continue their coverage of Dendromancy. First, RJ discusses monster trees, starting with the Joboko of japanese folklore. Then he discusses other tales of Man Eating Trees concluding with the mystery of Who Put Bella in the Witch El...
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Season 3
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Episode 49
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1:08:15