December opens with a threshold.
A shift.
A remembering.

This episode marks the beginning of The Forgotten Familiar’s new long-form structure—moving from weekly releases to one richly crafted episode each month. (Two for December as we transition.) This slower, deeper format allows the stories to breathe, the research to expand, and the history to land the way it was always meant to.

In this episode, we return to the earliest roots of the witch—before the word existed, before the fear, long before the archetype was twisted into something monstrous or marketable. We explore the ancient healers, diviners, midwives, and memory-keepers whose lives formed the first threads of the witchcraft timeline. The ones trusted. Revered. Essential. The ones history tried to forget.

This is the beginning of The Season of Becoming—a month-long journey through the evolution of the witch, from her ancient origins to the modern reclamation rising around us.

If you want deeper notes, sources, and extended historical context, the companion guide for this episode is available in Whispers Beneath on Patreon.

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Let the old ways rise again.

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