Hey guys, I hope you all had a wonderful Spooky Season as we at IYHGYHE did! I have been working on a number of books including the 2027 Practical Distillers Almanac and have become quite taken with writing fairytales and poems expressing the Majik of this place where I live. I decided to narrate a few of these for you this evening. To be quite honest this is by far my most personal episode to date and I think represents the purist expression of my thoughts as of yet to be represented to the public.

We all have limits and boundaries to overcome in life and I think I may have found a way to overcome mine and bring the various disperate pieces together into a cohesive whole in coming years. I do hope you will enjoy them and please, please share them. They will all see some published form in the near future. Here you will hear a folk tale about a hidden fountain that produces ardent spirits with the help of a Clurichon. Folk Majik I leaned from my grandparents. A poem about a folk distiller on the edge of town. How the highway meets the sky in the Black Forest, and my personal favorite, Felix, the maybe friendly feral, feline, familiar!

A huge thank you to my friend Stephen Smith for inspiring me to pursue this path.

1. The Forbidden Kind

2. A Step At A Time

3. Where The Highway Meets The Sky

4. The Sovereign Man

5. Felix; the maybe friendly, feral, feline, familiar.

Keep an eye on The Alchemist Cabinet

in the coming days for an order link for the brand new 2025 Practical Distillers and Alchemists Almanac!!!

Kim is joined this week by YeOldGothWitch Jamie Walker who coined the phrase "Anybody else's mountain witch granny..." from Tik Tok. Follow Jamie under the same handle across all platforms

What if a Faustian deal backfires on ol' Scratch himself, at least initially? A little folklore from Ireland.

On tonight's Spooky Season Bonus Episode we skim the depths of Djinn folklore as an introduction to a much deeper dive planned for later this season.

Keep your eyes peeled on www.thealchemistcabinet.com as the brand new 2026 Practical Distillers Almanac will be dropping very soon!

It isn't often I just talk candidly about my form of Majik on the show, but this one just fits. We explore the Majik (SIC) of using an old Skeleton Key as a talisman and pendulum in the Vevay Indiana Cemetary to find the grave and access the knowledge of the spirit of an Absinthe Distiller in the 1830's!

A fun narrative reading of "The Well At Worlds End" , The Frog King, and The Frog prince. As always we enjoy reading a few Fairytales for Spooky Season because no one reads anyone enough Fairy Tales now days!

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Happy Spooky Season!

It seems to us like it is about time we got around to the topic of the Trickster on some deeper historic level here at IYHGYHE, considering the events surrounding the experiences that spurred this podcast in the first place detailed in episodes 2 and 3 of Season 1.

We decided we would dedicate a couple of episodes to exposition thereof as well as a telling of some mythology (Greek and Navajo here) related to Trickster type entities; of course, a little Orphic hymn to Hekate never hurt anything either.

Join us as we dive into this invaluable 'Spiritual Intelligence' that who cannot be ignored.

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Spooky Season starts here! Tonight we present some field recordings of the Washington County Actors Theatre Crown Hill Cemetery Walk from some field recordings we did at the recent event! Featuring Bradie Shrum, Lee Sinclair, Nancy McCoy, and Mattie Gladden!