{"id":83560,"date":"2026-06-11T08:42:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T12:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83560"},"modified":"2026-06-11T08:42:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T12:42:29","slug":"demonized-called-hysterical-the-rise-of-witchcraft-retreats-where-us-women-go-to-defy-man-and-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/demonized-called-hysterical-the-rise-of-witchcraft-retreats-where-us-women-go-to-defy-man-and-church\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Demonized, Called Hysterical\u2019: The Rise Of Witchcraft Retreats Where US Women Go To Defy Man And Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>The Guardian:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dcr-15rw6c2\">O<\/span>n the floor of a sun-drenched room in a 200-year-old Irish estate, a group of 15 witches gather to commune with the spirits. Everyone has someone they want to talk to \u2013 dead ancestors, forest fairies, the witches who came before them \u2013 and the room has the same expectant charge as the first day of school. Some of the witches wear long black capes and bandannas. Some wear Columbia fleeces, spaghetti-strap tank tops and Adidas sneakers.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the first full day of Green Veil, a sold-out witchcraft retreat Ferrari regularly\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pennythewitch.com\/witchretreatireland\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">hosts<\/a>\u00a0to teach women from around the world how to conduct their own spellcraft sessions and broader somatic healing work. They make candles together. They confront their ancestral trauma. They form a tight community though the retreat is only two \u2013 and \u2013 a \u2013 half days long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Guardian: On the floor of a sun-drenched room in a 200-year-old Irish estate, a group of 15 witches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83561,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83560\/revisions\/83561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}