{"podcast":{"title":"Our Husbands Let Us Speak Podcast","slug":"our-husbands-let-us-speak-podcast-7821592","podcast_index_feed_id":7821592,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/8100538.rss","website_url":"https://ourhusbandsletusspeak.substack.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/8100538/4d1b986ae3162370e064c88b6ad00673.jpg","author":"Our Husbands Let Us Speak","episode_count":19,"summary":"Your new favorite feminist podcast","last_synced_at":"2026-06-21T18:17:35.415515+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/our-husbands-let-us-speak-podcast-7821592"},"episode":{"title":"Witchcraft, Misogyny, and Feeding Oats to our Pet Penises","slug":"witchcraft-misogyny-and-feeding-oats-to-our-pet-penises","published_at":"2026-04-19T00:21:13+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/our-husbands-let-us-speak-podcast-7821592/witchcraft-misogyny-and-feeding-oats-to-our-pet-penises","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/our-husbands-let-us-speak-podcast-7821592","url":"https://ourhusbandsletusspeak.substack.com/p/witchcraft-misogyny-and-feeding-oats","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/194650997/4d71e65f9eb866982bdb0112aa7322dd.mp3","summary":"This week, Annie takes the gals on a tour of the history of Western witchcraft and Christianity’s (obviously) negative impact on how witches have been viewed for hundreds of years. Come along for a bit of Biblical scholarship worthy of JD Vance, some light etymology, and a discussion of why women were accused of feeding oats to stolen penises (really!). Sources: https://www.metmuseum.org/essays/mesopotamian-magic-in-the-first-millennium-bc https://www.etymonline.com/word/witch https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/a-brief-history-of-medieval-magic/ https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/iatl/research/reinvention/archive/volume6issue1/oleary/#notes https://vocal.media/futurism/did-the-pope-support-malleus-maleficarum https://medium.com/fourth-wave/witches-were-accused-of-keeping-disembodied-penises-as-pets-f715a5f5b3af https://oercommons.org/courseware/lesson/87864/student/?section=3 https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/they-werent-witches-they-were-women-the-witch-hunts-and-their-repercussions/181902/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ourhusbandsletusspeak.substack.com","meta_description":"This week, Annie takes the gals on a tour of the history of Western witchcraft and Christianity’s (obviously) negative impact on how witches have been vie…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4148,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/our-husbands-let-us-speak-podcast-7821592/episodes/witchcraft-misogyny-and-feeding-oats-to-our-pet-penises/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/our-husbands-let-us-speak-podcast-7821592/witchcraft-misogyny-and-feeding-oats-to-our-pet-penises.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}