Papa Gee's Folkloreum

07/31/2026

The Feral Folklorist returns this Monday, August 3, and I’m so glad to be starting a brand-new season with you.

We’re opening with the Bell Witch of Tennessee, but there’s plenty more coming—including Baba Yaga’s house on chicken legs, witches’ familiars, dangerous mermaids, screaming mandrake roots, the Amityville haunting, fairy roads, death bells, supernatural doubles, and Lizzie Borden.

Season Three has been revamped just a little, with more history, more strange details, and a deeper look at the folklore behind every story.

It all begins Monday with "The Bell Witch Speaks: Tennessee’s Talking Haunting."

07/09/2026

Early Monday morning, firefighters had to enter the building where our aromaG’s production studio and offices are located.

Thankfully, this was **not our retail store**. The shop is fine and is located three doors down from that address.

A fire broke out a couple of units down from us, and while the firefighters were able to contain it and keep it from spreading, our upstairs production space took heavy smoke and water damage in the process.

This is the space where we make our oils, bath salts, soaps, and other handmade products. Right now, we’re in the middle of sorting through everything, clearing out the damaged space, and moving what we can so repairs can begin.

We’ve had to completely rearrange parts of the retail store so our studio staff can keep making products while repairs are underway. The tarot reading room and bath and body room are now being used as temporary work areas.

Because of that, there will be **no tarot readings at all this week**. We are trying to see if we can set up a temporary reading area in the Spirit Room, but we’re not sure yet if that will be possible. We’ll keep everyone posted as soon as we know more.

We’ve been told repairs could take several months, so we’re asking for a little patience and understanding as we work through orders, inventory, product availability, and changes inside the store.

Because of the space limitations, we also won’t be able to hold events for the time being. That means we have to cancel this month’s Nashville Tarot Society, the monthly Divination Share, as well as any trunk shows for now, and we’ll see how things are looking next month. Sadly, we also have to cancel our annual Tennessee Folk Magic Festival planned for early September.

This has been a lot to take in, but we’re grateful that the retail store is okay, grateful no one was hurt, and grateful for everyone who continues to support us while we figure out the next steps.

We’ll keep you updated as we know more.
- Roy and Greg and all of us at aromaG's thank you. Please keep supporting the store during this time. We appreciate you.

07/01/2026

Re-Recording! A quick note about Feral by Night, my second podcast.

I’ve been listening back to the early episodes, and I’ve decided the show needs a remaster before it goes any further.

When I started Feral by Night, I was experimenting with a different vocal treatment and audio style because I thought it might make the stories feel darker and stranger. But listening back now, I think it made my voice fall flat.

These are scary stories and strange tales. They need to sound like they’re being told by me, not pushed through special effects that get in the way and strip away my personality. Live and learn.

So I’m going through the early episodes, nearly 30 of them, tightening the scripts where they need it, improving the sound, and recording them in a way that feels more natural to the show.

I’ve also ordered a professional sound booth for my office, so the audio quality should be much better moving forward.

Once the remastered episodes are finished, Feral by Night will continue with brand new scary stories and strange tales.

The show isn’t ending. I’m taking the time to make it stronger, cleaner, and closer to what I wanted it to be from the beginning.

And while Feral by Night is being remastered, my main podcast, The Feral Folklorist, returns in August with season 3.

Thanks for listening, and thanks for giving the show room to grow.

05/25/2026

Everybody’s a life coach now.

And I’m just going to say it plainly: some of the people branding themselves as guides, healers, coaches, and spiritual mentors are the same people who can’t manage their own lives, their own emotions, or their own relationships.

Struggle doesn’t disqualify anybody. A hard life can teach you plenty. But being a mess isn’t the same thing as being wise.

If you’re still using other people’s pain to feel powerful, needed, or important, you’re not coaching anybody. You’re just dragging clients into your own unfinished crap.....and charging them for it.

05/24/2026

Felt like a good day to make spirit dolls.

05/20/2026

Feral by Night is my original horror storytelling series, filled with haunted houses, strange folklore, ghostly trouble, old warnings, and eerie stories best heard after dark.

There are already 19 free episodes out now, and you can listen wherever you get your podcasts, or over on YouTube.

Starting tomorrow, May 20, the first subscriber-only episode drops: The Secret in the Attic.

The public feed will still get two free stories every week. Subscribers through Patreon or Buzzsprout will get two extra Feral by Night stories every week, along with access to the growing subscriber archive.

Two stories stay free. Two more are waiting behind the door.

05/18/2026

Disrespect for Spiritual Elders is real. Something I keep seeing with younger TikTok witches is this habit of correcting spiritual elders before they’ve even learned how to listen.

There’s nothing wrong with being young. There’s nothing wrong with being new. Everybody starts somewhere. But walking into somebody’s comments with six months of practice, a few viral videos, and a whole lot of confidence, then trying to lecture people who’ve been doing this work for twenty-five or thirty years, is not wisdom. It’s arrogance.

My husband and I have owned one of the largest metaphysical shops in the South for 27 years now. I’ve written 19 books on folk magic and spiritual practice. I’ve studied metaphysical subjects from all sorts of paths for more than 30 years, and I still take classes from other people. I took one this weekend. I still listen. I still learn. That’s how this works when you take the work seriously.

Time in practice matters. Not pretend time. Not “I took a weekend tarot course online, and now I’m charging top-dollar like the experts” time. Real time. Years of showing up, making mistakes, learning what works, watching candles burn, readings land, spirits answer, clients return, patterns repeat, and consequences show up at the front door.

Respecting elders doesn’t mean worshiping them. It doesn’t mean older practitioners are always right. But there’s a difference between asking a question and telling someone to “educate themselves” when they’ve been doing the work longer than you’ve been alive.

If you’re new, be new. Read. Practice. Listen. Take classes. Make mistakes. Get corrected. Grow.

Respect is part of the work. Humility is part of the work. Knowing when you’re not the teacher in the room is part of the work. And if that offends you, then bless your heart, that may be the first lesson you actually need.

(i wrote a more indepth version of this on my Patreon and made it free to the public to read)

05/06/2026

The Broom Turned Bristles Up is a narrated scary story about a man who mocks his grandmother’s old broom rule, only to wake up to a town full of brooms pointing toward his house. What starts as an ordinary household superstition turns into something much stranger when every broom, from shop floors to church closets, begins acting like a warning.

What begins as a joke about old folk magic becomes a slow-building horror story about thresholds, family rules, sweeping taboos, and the dangerous things people dismiss until it’s too late. This episode is for listeners who enjoy folk horror, haunted object stories, supernatural suspense, witchcraft horror, old house horror, rural horror, haunted family stories, cursed object stories, and scary stories rooted in old superstitions.

And don’t forget, be careful what you sweep away after dark.

The Broom Turned Bristles Up is a narrated scary story about a man who mocks his grandmother’s old broom rule, only to wake up to a town full of brooms point...