Papa Gee's Folkloreum

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...

05/06/2026

tell me in the comments what the strangest thing is you have ever dug up.

The Spoon Buried in the Garden is a narrated scary story about a gardener who digs up an old silver spoon buried in the soil behind her house. At first, it s...

05/04/2026

Feral by Night is here — the sister podcast to The Feral Folklorist, narrated by Papa Gee. This new series is all about dark storytelling: eerie fiction, strange encounters, haunted places, and suspenseful tales made for late-night listening. The first 7 episodes are ready now, with new stories uploaded throughout the week. Find Feral by Night wherever you get your podcasts.

05/04/2026

Monday’s episode of The Feral Folklorist podcast is a big one: Grimoires, Family Bibles, and Magical Spell Books.

This topic was so packed with folklore, magic, household religion, handwritten charms, inherited books, and the strange power people placed in the written word that it turned into a full 45-minute episode.

We’ll look at the difference between grimoires and family spell books, why Bibles were used as magical objects in folk traditions, how charms and prayers were preserved, and why some books were treated almost like living things in the home.

New episode drops Monday morning, May 4th. Wherever you get your podcasts.

05/02/2026

Nadine always thought her mother’s rule about never sweeping after sunset was just another old household superstition. Salt by the stove, locked doors before dark, shoes never left upside down, and the broom kept in the pantry once daylight was gone. But after her mother dies and Nadine begins cleaning out the old house, she breaks the rule.

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